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Contemporary art space founded by collector and philanthropist Jorge M. Pérez.
📍 2270 NW 23rd St, Miami Fl, 33142

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Welcome to El Espacio 23, Gonzalo Guzmán! @gzl.gzm

Gonzalo Guzmán (Madrid, 1991) is a sculptor whose work begins with images that emerge in dreams: reduced, enigmatic presences that seem to exist prior to language, often evoking archetypal structures such as menhirs or dolmens. Rather than reproducing these images, his practice explores the possibility of bringing them into the physical world without fully translating or fixing their meaning.

Central to his work is hydroforming, an industrial process in which water pressure expands welded sheets of stainless steel from within. Removed from its conventional function of precision and repetition, the technique becomes a process of indeterminacy in which form emerges through the interaction of pressure, resistance, and material limits. Water acts simultaneously as a shaping force and an uncontrollable element, leaving behind the trace of a transient event. Guzmán’s broader research focuses on ideas of co-authorship and collaboration with nature, developing processes in which natural forces are not simply tools for making, but active participants in determining the final form.

We’re excited to welcome Gonzalo to our Artist Residency Program. Stay tuned for details about his upcoming Open Studio at El Espacio 23. taken in El Espacio 23 by @elespacio23

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Welcome to El Espacio 23, Ulises Mazzucca!@ulises.mzc

Ulises Mazzucca, (b. Argentina, 1997), was born in Santa Fe, and currently lives and works in Buenos Aires. He studied Fine Arts at the National University of Rosario. In 2017, he participated in the Artists Program at Torcuato Di Tella University in Buenos Aires, and in 2015, in the work review program led by Claudia del Rio and Carlos Herrera at Plataforma Lavardén in Rosario. He previously trained in the workshop for the analysis and development of artistic projects led by Cintia Clara Romero and Maximiliano Peralta in Rincón, Santa Fe. In 2025, he was selected for the ISCP–FAARA residency in New York. In 2024, he was selected for the Collegium residency in Arévalo, Spain. Between 2018 and 2019, he was an artist-in-residence at Centro Munar in La Boca, Buenos Aires. His solo exhibitions include Aniversario de todas mis faltas at Ruth Benzacar Galería de Arte, Buenos Aires (2026); Gimnasia Espiritual at the Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires (2021); and Lágrima Impermeable at Diego Obligado Galería de Arte (2019).

Stay tuned for upcoming Open Studio at El Espacio 23. taken in El Espacio 23 by @elespacio23

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A few highlights from our time in Bogotá during ARTBO 🌟:

A conversation on art and real estate organized by Related Group at Casas Riegner, during Luz Lizarazo’s exhibition “Abraza mis bestias que voy de paso.” @related_group @casasriegner @luzalizarazo

Patricia Hanna with Daniel Correa Mejía at his exhibition “Cuando la noche era grana” at the Claustro de San Agustín, Universidad Nacional de Colombia. @daniel.correa.mejia

Beatriz Acevedo Duzán at her exhibition “La montaña araña camina” at the Claustro de San Agustín.

Carolina Fandiño at her exhibition “Las heridas del aliento,” also at the Claustro de San Agustín. @carolinafandinosalcedo

A visit to the home of Ana Mercedes Hoyos. @anamercedes_hoyos

With Glenda León at her exhibition “El tiempo es un sonido que no escuchamos” at Galería La Cometa. @glenda.leon @galerialacometa

Beatriz González’s “Auras Anónimas” at the Cementerio Central de Bogotá.

A visit to Doris Salcedo’s @fragmentosarteymemoria

María José Arjona performing as part of “Sedimentaciones” at Sala de Arte Bancolombia. @mariajarjona

Nick Pérez and Beatriz López at Instituto de Visión’s ARTBO stand, alongside a work by Gloria Sebastián Fierro Castro. @institutodevision @glosefica

Carlos Garaicoa’s “Ciudad Armero” at Mor Charpentier. @carlosgaraicoa_studio

“El Dorado” (1958), Eduardo Ramírez Villamizar’s monumental mural, recently restored and returned to view. @corporacionramirezvillamizar

Lester Rodríguez’s “Marea Alta” at Galería Nueveochenta.
@lesterodriguez_studio

At ARTBO, Bogotá’s International Art Fair. @programaartbo taken in Bogota, Colombia by @elespacio23

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What does giving look like when it’s rooted in curiosity, connection, and a belief in what’s possible?

For the Jorge M. Pérez Family Foundation, it’s about more than writing a check. It’s about investing in people, ideas, and organizations that help communities thrive.

After 11 years and more than $350 million in family giving, this impact report reflects on the artists, scholars, institutions, and community leaders who have helped shape that journey and the possibilities that emerge when resources and vision come together.

Read the full impact report to explore the story behind the giving at jmperezfamilyfoundation.org/report/. ✨ by @elespacio23

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SUMMER WORKSHOP HIGHLIGHT

Artist @fernandafroes led Mangrove Paint: Color and Place, in collaboration with @debora.rosental and @aida.tejada , introducing students to the relationship between color, place, and South Florida’s natural environment.

Students worked with pigments derived from mangrove leaves and bark, creating compositions on cotton while learning how plants and other natural materials can be used to produce and transform color. The workshop connected artistic experimentation with the mangrove ecosystem and invited students to consider their local environment as a source of material and knowledge. 🌿

Led by @fernandafroes
In collaboration with @debora.rosental, @aida.tejada & @thecollective62
With students from FIU Enlace @fiuinstagram
📸 Photos by Evelyn Sosa @evelyn._.sosa @neutralroomstudio taken in El Espacio 23 by @elespacio23

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17 days ago

Calling all YoungArts winners 📣 Whether you won in 1981 or 2026, these opportunities are for you 🫵 Discover more and apply at youngartspost.org, link in bio!

⭐️ Emerging Artist Microgrants
Deadline: September 23
$250-$1,000 microgrants, open to YoungArts winners 23 and under at early stages of their careers

⭐️ 2026 YoungArts Jorge M. Pérez Award
Deadline: September 23
A $25,000 unrestricted grant, open to artists 23 and older with an active practice in visual arts, design, film or photography, funded by @perezfamilyfoundation

⭐️ Sundance Film Festival
Deadline: September 30
An all-expenses-paid trip to Boulder, CO, open to YoungArts winners with an active practice in film between the ages of 21-25

⭐️ Spring 2027 YoungArts Residency
Deadline: September 30
Free workspace, artist honorariums, material stipends, and ongoing support, open to YoungArts winners 21 years and older working in Miami

⭐️ 2027 YoungArts Miami Gala Performers
Deadline: September 30
Perform at the annual YoungArts Miami Gala in January 2027, open to all YoungArts winners 18 years and older

⭐️ YoungArts Microgrants
Apply for small monetary awards supporting professional development, creative projects or emergency needs

⭐️ YoungArts Community Spotlight
Submit your upcoming events, projects and press to be featured in our monthly publication on social, email and on the YoungArts Blog taken in YoungArts by @elespacio23

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Meet Charo Oquet (@charooquet), a Dominican-born interdisciplinary artist and cultural leader whose four-decade practice spans performance, installation, photography, and film. Rooted in the recovery of Afro-Dominican and Taíno ritual and spiritual traditions, her work explores connections between culture, memory, identity, and collective experience.

Charo has also played an important role in Miami’s experimental and performance art community. She founded Edge Zones (@edgezones) in 1996 and has directed the organization for more than two decades. In 2012, she founded the Miami Performance International Festival, which she continues to direct today.

This Friday, Charo will moderate WOPHA’s Open Studio & Artists’ Conversation at El Espacio 23 (@elespacio23), bringing together 2026 CCI + WOPHA Fellow Noa Batlle (@noabatllem) and 2026 WOPHA Artists-in-Residence Kay Zevallos Villegas (@kay_zevallos_villegas) and Val Souza (@performervalsouza).

Details
🗓 Friday, September 18
⏰ 2:00 – 5:00 pm
📍 El Espacio 23

Registration is free! Learn more at the link in bio 🔗

#WOPHAFoundation #WomenPhotographers #MiamiArts #WhatsHappeningInMiami taken in El Espacio 23 by @elespacio23

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How can images challenge the ways Black women have been represented and remembered throughout history?

That is the question Val Souza (@performervalsouza) explores through her research-based artistic practice, using photography, images, and performance to investigate the historical representation of Black women and create new possibilities for seeing and imagining their lives.

Grounded in iconographic research, Val’s work brings self-portraiture into dialogue with Brazilian social imagery, contrasting historical representations with ideas of abundance, joy, and presence. During her residency at Bakehouse Art Complex (@bakehouseartcomplex), she is continuing this research through Venus, a project that challenges and reexamines historical archives and representations of Black women.

This Friday, hear directly from Val about her ongoing research during WOPHA’s Open Studio & Artists’ Conversation at El Espacio 23 (@elespacio23), alongside 2026 CCI + WOPHA Fellow Noa Batlle (@noabatllem) and 2026 WOPHA Artist-in-Residence Kay Zevallos Villegas (@kay_zevallos_villegas). The conversation will be moderated by Charo Oquet (@charooquet), artist and founder of Edge Zones Art Center (@edgezones) and the Miami Performance International Festival.

Val Souza was selected through a special partnership with Instituto Moreira Salles (@imoreirasalles), with support from The55Project Art Foundation (@the55project). The WOPHA Artists-in-Residence program is supported by the Pérez CreARTE grant program of The Jorge M. Pérez Family Foundation (@perezfamilyfoundation) at The Miami Foundation (@miamifoundation).

Details
🗓 Friday, September 18
⏰ 2:00 – 5:00 pm
📍 El Espacio 23

Registration is free! Learn more at the link in bio 🔗

Portrait of Val Souza by Rodrigo Baroni. Courtesy of WOPHA.

#WOPHAFoundation #WomenPhotographers #MiamiArts #WhatsHappeningInMiami taken in El Espacio 23 by @elespacio23

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How do memory, territory, and ritual shape the ways we understand our bodies and the places we call home?

That is the question Kay Zevallos Villegas (@kay_zevallos_villegas) explores through her transdisciplinary practice, drawing on oral memories, popular beliefs, legends, and rituals from the Peruvian Amazon to examine the relationships between matter, memory, territory, and violence.

Growing up in Iquitos and of Quechua heritage, Kay works across performance, sculpture, and other visual languages, incorporating materials connected to the Amazon and other tropical regions. Her practice traces the histories of materials as they move through processes of extraction, circulation, exchange, and stigmatization, while reflecting on the bodies, landscapes, and communities shaped by these histories.

This Friday, get a closer look at Kay’s ongoing work during WOPHA’s Open Studio & Artists’ Conversation at El Espacio 23 (@elespacio23), alongside 2026 CCI + WOPHA Fellow Noa Batlle (@noabatllem) and 2026 WOPHA Artist-in-Residence Val Souza (@performervalsouza). The conversation will be moderated by Charo Oquet (@charooquet), artist and founder of Edge Zones Art Center (@edgezones) and the Miami Performance International Festival.

The WOPHA Artists-in-Residence program is supported by the Pérez CreARTE grant program of The Jorge M. Pérez Family Foundation (@perezfamilyfoundation) at The Miami Foundation (@miamifoundation).

Details
🗓 Friday, September 18
⏰ 2:00 – 5:00 pm
📍 El Espacio 23

Registration is free! Learn more at the link in bio 🔗

#WOPHAFoundation #WomenPhotographers #MiamiArts #WhatsHappeningInMiami taken in El Espacio 23 by @elespacio23

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How do social and spatial conditions determine who can move freely through public space?

That is the question Noa Batlle (@noabatllem) explores through “Pendientes,” a multidisciplinary project developed as part of their 2026 CCI + WOPHA Fellowship, examining accessibility, mobility, and belonging between Santo Domingo and Miami.

Beginning with performance in Santo Domingo, “Pendientes” continues in Miami through photography, with Noa photographing brightly colored ramps across spaces shaped by tourism, luxury development, financial capital, and Caribbean diasporic communities.

This Friday, get a closer look at Noa’s ongoing research during WOPHA’s Open Studio & Artists’ Conversation at El Espacio 23 (@elespacio23), alongside 2026 WOPHA Artists-in-Residence Kay Zevallos Villegas (@kay_zevallos_villegas) and Val Souza (@performervalsouza). The conversation will be moderated by Charo Oquet (@charooquet), artist and founder of Edge Zones Art Center (@edgezones) and the Miami Performance International Festival.

The CCI + WOPHA Fellowship is presented by the Green Family Foundation Caribbean Cultural Institute and WOPHA, with support from El Espacio 23 (@elespacio23), the Pérez Art Museum Miami (@pamm) Caribbean Cultural Institute, Green Space Miami (@greenspacemiami), and FIU LACC (@fiulacc).

Details
🗓 Friday, September 18
⏰ 2:00 – 5:00 pm
📍 El Espacio 23

Registration is free! Learn more at the link in bio 🔗

Photographs by Noa Batlle, Valemisse Reyes and Mónica Santana. Courtesy of WOPHA.

#WOPHAFoundation #WomenPhotographers #MiamiArts #WhatsHappeningInMiami taken in El Espacio 23 by @elespacio23

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SUMMER WORKSHOP HIGHLIGHT
Artists @nataliepriede and @pilarflerda led a hands-on ceramic figure modeling workshop with students from @fiuenlace, as part of our Summer Youth Program in collaboration with @thecollective62.
Working with clay, students learned hand-building techniques including pinching, coiling, and joining. They applied these techniques to create their own figures while exploring form, structure, proportion, and texture.

Throughout the workshop, students experimented freely with the material and the possibilities of working in three dimensions. 🏺

Led by @nataliepriede & @pilarflerda
In collaboration with @thecollective62
With students from @fiuenlace
📸 Photos by Evelyn Sosa @evelyn._.sosa @neutralroomstudio taken in El Espacio 23 by @elespacio23

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Mark your calendars! 🎟️

This week at WOPHA, join us this Friday at El Espacio 23 (@elespacio23) for our Open Studio & Artists’ Conversation with 2026 CCI + WOPHA Fellow Noa Batlle (@noabatllem) and WOPHA Artists-in-Residence Kay Zevallos Villegas (@kay_zevallos_villegas) and Val Souza (@performervalsouza).

Come meet the artists, visit their studios, and get a closer look at what they’ve been creating during their time in Miami. 🌴

Details
🗓 Friday, September 18
⏰ 2:00 – 5:00 pm
📍 El Espacio 23

Registration is free! Learn more at the link in bio 🔗

The WOPHA Artists-in-Residence program is supported by the Pérez CreARTE grant program of The Jorge M. Pérez Family Foundation (@perezfamilyfoundation) at The Miami Foundation (@miamifoundation). This year, WOPHA selected Brazil-based artist Val Souza through a partnership with Instituto Moreira Salles (@imoreirasalles), with support from The55Project Art Foundation (@the55project).

#WOPHAFoundation #WomenPhotographers #MiamiArts #WhatsHappeningInMiami taken in El Espacio 23 by @elespacio23

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