Antonia Wright

Antonia Wright is a Cuban-American artist born in Miami, Florida. Wright received her MFA in Poetry from The New School in New York, New York and completed studies at the International Center of Photography in General Studies in Photography, New York, New York. Through video, performance, photography, and sculpture, Wright responds to extremes of emotion, control, and violence as it relates to systems of power in society. Wright often uses the human body as a principal element in her work. Select solo exhibitions include those at Illuminate Coral Gables, Spinello Projects, Locust Projects, Luis de Jesus Gallery Los Angeles, MoCA North Miami, and Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, and at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale, Arizona. Select group exhibitions include those at The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., the Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami, Florida, The Faena Arts Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Oolite Arts, The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse in Miami, Florida, and The National Gallery of Art in Nassau, Bahamas. Residencies include Pioneer Works in New York, Leipzig International Art Program in Germany and Oolite Arts, Miami, Florida. Wright recently won a 2019-2020 South Florida Cultural Consortium Award, the Ellies 2020 Creator Award, and was a CINTAS Foundation Fellowship finalist awarded to artists with Cuban heritage. Wright’s work has been presented in publications including The New York Times, Artforum’s “Critics’ Picks,” Art in America, Hyperallergic, i-D, New York Magazine, Daily News, Miami Herald, El Nuevo Herald, and The Art Newspaper.

Ruben Millares

Ruben Millares was born in Miami, Florida in 1980. As a visual artist he is medium agnostic as he attempts to define balance as a concept. Through the use of sculpture, drawing, performance, installation, print-making, painting, music and video he is able to capture the essence of an idea without limitation. For Millares time, more than an inspiration, is a powerful raw material. As an artist with a formal educational training as a Certified Public Accountant and Financial Planner, as well as in art and music, Millares is in a constant search for the fusion between practicality and imagination. Informed by two opposite worlds, his work gives an impression of great poetry with a serious yet playful airiness.

Recent and upcoming exhibitions include solo shows at Illuminate Coral Gables, Art Kiosk Redwood City, Untitled Art Fair/Art Basel Miami, Pan American Art Projects, Volta NY, National Art Gallery of the Bahamas, Art & Culture Center of Hollywood, The Central Bank of the Bahamas and Spinello Projects. Group shows include Oolite Arts, Ping Pong Art Basel Switzerland, The Tampa Museum of Art, Philadelphia City Hall, White Box Gallery, Hillside House Gallery Nassau, The Invisible Dog Art Space Brooklyn and Crane Art Space Philadelphia. Millares’ video/performance piece with collaborator Antonia Wright, Job Creation in a Bad Economy, was featured in the 2011- 2012 exhibition at the Margulies Collection at the Warehouse.

His work is included in the permanent collections of Martin Z. Margulies at the Warehouse, Dennis and Debra Scholl Collection, The Bass Museum of Art, Hadley Martin Fisher Collection and the Robert Borlenghi Collection. Millares has been presented in articles in the Miami Herald, Miami New Times, St. Petersburg Times and El Nuevo Herald among others and featured in the ArtNewspaper’s Basel edition on Miami artists. He has also participated in prestigious artist residencies including Pioneer Works, Red Hook, NY and Elsewhere, Greensboro, NC.