Untitled Podcast

Moderated by Brandi Redick, Cultural Affairs Manager for the City of Miami Beach, in conversation with artists involved in the City's No Vacancy initiative where artists from throughout the region are invited to create site-specific work in hotels throughout the area: Antonia Wright and Ruben Millares, Brookhart Jonquil, and Edouard Duval Carrie.

About Antonia Wright and Ruben Millares

Over the past ten years, Antonia Wright and Ruben Millares have developed an extensive and experimental body of work. Through a multidisciplinary practice of video, performance, sculpture, sound, and light, Wright Millares’ work physically embodies the mechanics of power dynamics to challenge the absurdity of the hegemonic world order. Their projects are uniquely informed by Wright’s background in poetry and Millares’ foundation in music. Antonia Wright and Ruben Millares are Cuban-American artists born in Miami, FL.

About Brookhart Jonquil

Brookhart Jonquil was born in Santa Cruz, California in 1984. He lives and works in Miami. Jonquil’s projects have been commissioned by the Bass Museum of Art, the De la Cruz Collection, MoCA Tucson, Vizcaya Museum, and the Cornell Art Museum. Jonquil received his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2010, where he was awarded a graduate fellowship. He earned both a BFA in studio art and a BA in art history from the University of Arizona.

About Edouard Duval Carrie

Born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Edouard Duval-Carrié fled François Duvalier’s regime with his family to reside in Puerto Rico, New York, Montreal and Paris before settling in Miami Beach. Duval-Carrié studied at the Université de Montréal and McGill University in Canada before graduating with a Bachelor of Arts from Loyola College, Montréal in 1978. He later attended the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris from 1988 to 1989. He resided in France for many years and currently lives in Miami Beach.

About Brandi Reddick

Brand Reddick is a recognized public art curator and arts administrator. With over 20 years of experience in the field, she has developed nationally recognized programs and launched policy-setting initiatives that have substantially increased funding and support for arts and culture throughout the municipalities for which she has served. Ms. Reddick is currently the Cultural Affairs Manager for the City of Miami Beach, a position she has held since 2016. Prior to her time at the City of Miami Beach, Ms. Reddick served for 13 years as the Curator for Art in Public Places in the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs.

Presented by Auttrianna Projects and The55Project.

With speakers Yelaine Rodriguez and Rafael Rg, moderated by Auttrianna Ward.

Auttrianna Ward is an independent curator, publisher, multilingual writer, cultural producer and co-founder of Mare Projects. Born and raised in San Francisco, Ward has lived in New York City Chicago and Salvador, Brazil. She is currently based between London and Baltimore, Maryland. She is a 2020 MFA Curatorial Practice graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). She received her BA in History from Manhattanville College in 2011. Ward is the founder of Mare Residency and now Auttrianna Projects, a multidisciplinary art firm that supports Latin American, African and Asian artistic production through publications, grants, residencies and special projects. Through MARE Projects, she also recently published The Guard, a publication featuring prose and poetry engaging themes around the value of the arts.

Rafael RG (1986) lives and works between Guarulhos and São Luís do Maranhão, Brazil. RG is a visual artist and writer. His practice focuses on sexual and affective relationships and their political implications as well as issues of racial identity. Working with institutional and personal archives, he presents his research through workshops, installations, performative texts, publications and objects. The materials he works with are often closely associated with narratives that involve himself or an alter ego in some way and the resulting projects that are close to or resemble fiction. He received, among other awards, the 1st Foco ArtRio Award, the Honor Award for Art and Heritage Merit/IPHAN, Centro cultural São Paulo Acquisition Award, Iberê Camargo Scholarship for residency at Künstlerhaus Bremen (Germany), Pampulha Scholarship for Residency at Arte da Pampulha (MG). Among his current residences, Gasworks in London (2018), Black Rock Senegal in Dakar (2019), Triangle France - Asterides in Marseile (2020), YBYTU (2021), and FAAP Artist Residency (2022), both in São Paulo.

Yelaine Rodriguez (b.1990) is an Afro-DominicanYork artistic scholar, curator, and writer. Rodriguez conceptualizes fiber art, sculptures, and site-specific installations drawing connections between Black cultures in the Caribbean & the United States. She received her BFA in Fashion Design from Parsons School of Design | The New School (2013) & her MA in Latin American & Caribbean Studies / Museum Studies from New York University (2021). She is currently an Adjunct Instructor at Parsons Textile (MFA) & NYU Department of Photography & Imaging (DPI). Rodriguez has exhibited in ESTAMOS BIEN: LA TRIENAL 20/21, El Museo del Barrio's (NY) first national large-scale survey of Latinx contemporary art, FotoFocus Biennial, Photoville, Mexic-Arte Museum, American Museum of Natural History, & Wave Hill in the United States, El Centro Cultural de España & Centro León Biennial XXVII in the Dominican Republic, SurGallery & Critical Distance Centre for Curators in Canada, Wereldmuseum in The Netherlands, & La Escocesa in Barcelona, Spain. Rodriguez's works appeared on CNN, Artsy, EnFoco, Hyperallergic, Vogue, Aperture, and Elle Magazine. Her writing has appeared in ARTnews and academic journals like Latin American & Latinx Visual Culture.

2022 programming by Auttrianna Projects is sponsored by: Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD), The55project, The Last Resort Artist Retreat, and Kalpa Art Advisory.

Join artist Devan Shimoyama in a timely conversation with Artistic Director and Curator of Untitled Art, Omar López Chahoud. The talk will cover Shimoyama’s current series, "The Tarot," paintings from which will be on view at De Buck Gallery. In Devan Shimoyama’s Tarot series, the artist takes inspiration from the centuries-old divination practice of card reading. For Shimoyama, the Tarot represents how we look to mystical practices to help sustain ourselves through difficult times.

About Devan Shimoyama

Devan Shimoyama is a Philadelphia-born visual artist whose works investigate the politics of queer culture using the male form. Inspired by mythology and allegory, Shimoyama depicts the Black queer male body as something that is both desirable and desirous while contemplating the relationship between celebration and silence in queer culture. His use of lustrous materials such as costume jewelry, glitter, rhinestones, and sequins masterly captures the beauty and alienation of these forms by defying and questioning Black masculinity. Shimoyama was born in 1989 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and graduated from Penn State University in 2011 with a BFA in Drawing/Painting. He received his MFA from Yale University School of Art in Painting/Printmaking in 2014. While there, in 2013, he was awarded the Al Held Fellowship. Devan Shimoyama’s work has been exhibited around the world. His solo exhibition Cry, Baby, at the Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, in 2018 placed his paintings in dialogue with a selection of Warhol’s portraits of drag queens, giving new agency to Warhol’s subjects and continuing the conversation on sexuality, race, and queer performance. Shimoyama’s works have also been included in the following exhibitions: Make-Believe, American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington, DC; All the Rage, Kunstpalais Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany; When We See Us, Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, Cape Town, South Africa; The Regional, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO; Garmenting: Costume as Contemporary Art, Curated by Alexandra Schwartz, Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY; Elegies: Still Lifes in Contemporary Art, Curated by Monique Long, Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA; Oh Gods of Dust and Rainbows, FRONT International Triennial, Cleveland, OH 2021; Futures, The Smithsonian Institution, Arts + Industries, Washington, D.C., VA; Fictions, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY.

About Omar López Chahoud

Omar López-Chahoud has been the Artistic Director and Curator of Untitled Art since its founding in 2012. As an independent curator, López-Chahoud has curated and co-curated numerous exhibitions in the United States and internationally. Most recently, he curated the Nicaraguan Biennial in March 2014. López-Chahoud has participated in curatorial panel discussions at Artists' Space, Art in General, MoMA PS1, and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. López-Chahoud earned MFAs from Yale University School of Art, and the Royal Academy of Art in London.

Join us in conversation with the esteemed representatives of selected Premier Prize Partners of Untitled Art this year: Alice Gray Stites, Chief Curator for the 21c Museum Hotels; Jackie Herbst, Coordinator and Art Manager of CCA Andratx; and Derrick Adams, Founder of the Last Resort Artist Retreat. Moderated by Sarah Arison, President of the Arison Arts Foundation and Chair of the Board of YoungArts. This dynamic panel discussion aims to shed light on the importance of generating support for exhibitors, artists, and the larger art ecosystem beyond the traditional fair model, and will discuss each of the panelist's individual missions and visions.

About Sarah Arison, Moderator

Born and raised in Miami, Arison is President of the Arison Arts Foundation, a private grant-making organization that supports emerging artists and the institutions that foster them. She was immersed in the arts from a young age by her grandparents, visionary philanthropists Ted and Lin Arison, who founded Arison Arts Foundation, YoungArts, and the New World Symphony, among their many philanthropic endeavors. Arison is active across a broad cross-section of national arts organizations. She is Chair of the Board of YoungArts, where she has developed strategic partnerships with the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA, Jacob’s Pillow, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sundance Film Festival and more to provide aspiring talent with presentation and mentorship opportunities. Arison is also the Chair of the board of MoMA PS1; a trustee of MoMA; Board President of American Ballet Theatre; a trustee of Lincoln Center; a trustee of the Brooklyn Museum and Chair of the Education Committee; a trustee at New World Symphony; a member of the Board of Directors of Americans for the Arts; and a trustee of the Americas Foundation of the Serpentine Galleries. Arison has also ventured into film producing, supporting projects that shed light on lesser known aspects of the arts. In 2015, she produced her first feature film, Desert Dancer, starring Freida Pinto. She later went on to co-produce The First Monday in May, a documentary film chronicling the creation of The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute blockbuster exhibition China: Through the Looking Glass. She co-produced The Price of Everything which was acquired by HBO and she most recently served as an executive producer for the film Aggie, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.

Untitled Art's 2022 Exhibitor Prizes are:

The Nest Prize by Vortic

21c Museum Hotels Acquisition Prize

Colección Solo Acquisition Prize

CCA Andratx Artist-in-Residence Prize

Fountainhead Arts Residency Prize

The Last Resort Artist Retreat Residency Prize

The Pébéo Production Prize

Oliver Miro, founder of Vortic Art, in conversation with artist Gretchen Andrew, discussing the impact of XR (extended reality) technologies on the art world and bringing their complementary perspectives to the table. Together, they will discuss how digital and VR exhibiting solutions can encourage new dialogues between artists, galleries and collectors in a sustainable and accessible way. As Untitled Art, Miami Beach 2022 digital partner and the leading sustainable digital platform for the arts, Vortic is committed to providing the highest quality virtual viewing experiences for galleries, collectors, and institutions. Gretchen Andrew hacks systems of power with art, code, and glitter. Through her merger of traditional painting and technology she reimagines reality with art and desire. In 2018 the V&A Museum released her book Search Engine Art. Starting in 2019 she became known for her vision boards and associated performative internet manipulations of art world institutions of Frieze Los Angeles, The Whitney Biennial, The Turner Prize, and The Cover of Artforum.

About Oliver Miro

Oliver Miro is co-Founder of Vortic, an art led platform that aims to create a connected, collaborative conversation around immersive 3D, augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) exhibitions from the world’s leading galleries and institutions.

The impetus behind the founding of Vortic was a moment where, after more than a decade spent in the sales team of a leading international gallery, Oliver Miro became acutely conscious that the art world lacked a truly high quality way of presenting artworks digitally that would be engaging enough to captivate collectors, inspire artists, and help move galleries and institutions towards a more sustainable future.

About Gretchen Andrew

Gretchen Andrew hacks systems of power with art, glitter and code. She is best known for her playful hacks on major art world and political institutions, including Frieze, The Whitney Biennial, Artforum, The Turner Prize, and 2020 American Presidential Results. Through her merger of traditional painting and technology she reimagines reality with art and desire. In response to her appropriation of Facebook and Instagram tracking technology, Fotomuseum Winterthur curator Marco De Mutiis said, "Her practice & approach is particularly significant because not only does she have a deep understanding of the logics and strategies of algorithmic systems of powers, she finds subversive ways to reclaim these tools and flip them against themselves." She trained in the studio of Billy Childish from 2013 - 2018.

Over the last several years, we have seen statues commemorating formerly venerated, now reviled, figures destroyed or removed from view, while the number of those honoring neglected (primarily Black and female figures) has increased. Must artists creating public monuments today think about their future as well as their significance to contemporary culture? Does advocacy have an aesthetic? How do the political beliefs of the commissioners and the artists intersect with their personal histories? Here are two artists whose work speaks volumes to these questions.

About Hank Willis Thomas

Hank Willis Thomas is a conceptual artist based in Brooklyn, NY. His work has been exhibited in galleries and museums across the country and abroad, including the International Center of Photography, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, the Musée du quai Branly, and the Witte de Witte Center for Contemporary Art. He is a cofounder of For Freedoms, now the largest community of citizen artists in America engaged in forging new paths to social justice “by any medium necessary.” In 2019, Unity, a public sculpture commissioned by New York City’s Department of Cultural Affairs, took up its permanent home in downtown Brooklyn. This January, on Boston Common, Thomas will unveil “The Embrace,” a monumental bronze he created as a permanent memorial for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King for the city of Boston, The Boston Foundation, and Embrace Boston. Thomas is the recipient of fellowships from the Gordon Parks Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation and the New York Foundation for the Arts. He is represented by Jack Shainman Gallery, New York; Pace Gallery, Los Angeles; Ben Brown Fine Arts, London; Goodman Gallery, South Africa; and Marauni Mercier, Belgium.

About Dara Friedman

Dara Friedman is a German born artist and filmmaker working in Miami. Reducing the materials of her chosen medium to its essentials, her films, which often portray ritual actions and sounds, are both sensual and serene. Last summer, she exhibited a new work, The Tyger’s Tale, in San Cremona, Italy, and in 2017, the Perez Art Museum in Miami staged a mid-career survey, “Dara Friedman: Perfect Stranger.” Her work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, the French National Collection and the Julia Stoschek Collection, Berlin. This year she went into production with ecologist Josh Smith on: River Hill, Silo City, University of Buffalo on a monumental garden and labyrinth transforming a quarter acre of post-industrial turf along the Buffalo River with hardy pollinators that will open to the public next spring. Among Friedman’s honors are a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Rome Prize, and residencies at the Hammer Museum and at Everglades National Park.

About Linda Yablonsky

Linda Yablonsky is a renowned critic and arts journalist based in New York. Over the last thirty years her byline has appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Times and T Magazine, Artforum, W Magazine, Art News, Bloomberg, and many more. In 2002 she helped to pioneer the streaming arts radio channel, WPS1 for MoMA PS1. She also founded and directed NightLight Readings (1991-1999), a monthly writers-in-performance series held at The Drawing Center and other art spaces in New York, and from 2002-2004 was literature curator for The Kitchen. Currently, she contributes the monthly column, New York Insider, to The Art Newspaper and is writing a major biography of the artist Jeff Koons.

Ostensibly based on factual events, the narrative of American history often depends on who is telling the story and in what medium. Take our flag -- please. Once an emblem of unity, it is now a symbol of division. Art may not have to function as anything other than art, but let’s see what happens when the nation’s social fabric is its canvas.

About Dread Scott

Dread Scott is an artist based in New York who has a history of social activism going back to 1989, when he joined a flag-burning ceremony on the steps of our nation’s Capitol that led to a landmark decision by the Supreme Court protecting free speech. His work in performance, photography and sculpture has been exhibited at MoMA/PS1, the Walker Art Center, CAM St. Louis, and street corners across the country. It is also in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Worcester Art Museum, and the Brooklyn Museum. In 2021, Scott was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship; in 2019, he was named an Open Society Soros Equality Fellow. He also has won fellowships from United States Artists and Creative Capital. In 2019, his restaging, in New Orleans, of this country’s largest slave rebellion won widespread attention, as did his NFT video, White Male for Sale, when it was successfully auctioned at Christie’s last year.

About Rujeko Hockley

Rujeko Hockley is a curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, where she co-curated its 2019 biennial and organized the acclaimed exhibition, “An Incomplete History of Protest (2017), as well as solo exhibitions by Jennifer Packer, Toyin Ojih Odutola and (with LACMA’s Christine Y. Kim) curated the Whitney’s 2021 Julie Mehretu retrospective. Previously, she was a curator at the Brooklyn Museum, where her credits include “We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85 (organized with Catherine Morris), and work on shows by LaToya Ruby Frazier and Kehinde Wiley. She also has served as a curatorial assistant at the Studio Museum in Harlem and is on the board of Art Matters. Born in Zimbabwe, Hockley grew up in Washington, D.C. and is married to the artist Hank Willis Thomas.

About Linda Yablonsky

Linda Yablonsky is a renowned critic and arts journalist based in New York. Over the last thirty years her byline has appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Times and T Magazine, Artforum, W Magazine, Art News, Bloomberg, and many more. In 2002 she helped to pioneer the streaming arts radio channel, WPS1 for MoMA PS1. She also founded and directed NightLight Readings (1991-1999), a monthly writers-in-performance series held at The Drawing Center and other art spaces in New York, and from 2002-2004 was literature curator for The Kitchen. Currently, she contributes the monthly column, New York Insider, to The Art Newspaper and is writing a major biography of the artist Jeff Koons.

The body may be a battleground but so is art. People fight over it. Always have. What if art fights back? Speaks its mind? What happens to artists -- and their public -- when an artwork ambushes their expectations? What subjects and materials are vulnerable to changing values? When standards of beauty accepted by one culture are repudiated by another, which becomes the “norm” and who gets to say? Can an artwork affect attitudes or behavior -- particularly in regard to women‘s bodies -- and still retain its integrity as art? What is art, anyway? Shall we discuss?

About Zoë Buckman

Zoë Buckman was born in London, where she is represented by the Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, and by Lyles & King in New York, where she lives now. Much of her transformative work, which involves embroidery (threads of trauma), textiles, video and photography, addresses domestic violence by highlighting women’s resilient capacity for tenderness. In addition to gallery exhibitions – she also has shown with Fort Gansevoort in New York and Gavlak in Los Angeles. Buckman has made several public artworks, including Champs, a lighted sign in Los Angeles commissioned by the Art Production Fund. Every night this month, just before midnight, her large-scale digital animation, MENDED, commissioned by Times Square Arts, is displaying her kaleidoscopic imagery – boxing gloves, mandalas, metal chains, flowers -- across twenty electronic billboards on Broadway at the crossroads of the world.

About Jasmin Wahi

Jasmine Wahi is a curator and social activist who cofounded the nonprofit Project for Empty Space in Newark, NJ and New York City. In addition, Wahi has organized independent projects across the world, including “Abortion Is Normal,” an ongoing series of exhibitions, and “American Truth.” She teaches at the Brooklyn College and is a core mentor of the Pratt School of Art’s Pratt Forward program. Previously, she was the inaugural Holly Block Social Justice Curator at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, and a member of the faculty at the Yale School of Art. She also delivered the TED talk, “All the women. In me. Are Tired.” Wahi lives in Brooklyn with her dog Momo.

About Genevieve Gaignard

Genevieve Gaignard is a multidisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles, where she is represented by the Susanne Vielmetter Gallery. Earlier this year, the gallery presented “Strange Fruit,” an ambitious exploration of the complex links between race, femininity and cultural identity. She was also included in “This Is Not America’s Flag” at the Broad Museum, a group exhibition detailing the fraught symbolism of our national emblem. Her work, including self-portraiture, collage, sculpture and installation, resides in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Perez Art Museum, and the Studio Museum in Harlem, among others. Recently, Gaignard partnered with Orange Barrel Media on “Look At Them Look At Us,” a site sp specific, permanent public art installation in downtown Atlanta, GA.

About Linda Yablonsky

Linda Yablonsky is a renowned critic and arts journalist based in New York. Over the last thirty years her byline has appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Times and T Magazine, Artforum, W Magazine, Art News, Bloomberg, and many more. In 2002 she helped to pioneer the streaming arts radio channel, WPS1 for MoMA PS1. She also founded and directed NightLight Readings (1991-1999), a monthly writers-in-performance series held at The Drawing Center and other art spaces in New York, and from 2002-2004 was literature curator for The Kitchen. Currently, she contributes the monthly column, New York Insider, to The Art Newspaper and is writing a major biography of the artist Jeff Koons.

As part of Untitled Art’s programming during the 11th edition of the fair, [NAME] Publications presents “SWAMP ARCHEOLOGIES,” a series of three podcasts that focus on the often overlooked and forgotten dimensions of Miami's cultural history. Each part aims to reactivate the memory of some of Miami’s vital art scenes from the past 40 years: Part One will feature Dr. Donette Francis and focus on the contributions of Black artists and intellectuals that don’t often figure in local art histories; Part Two will be a behind-the-scenes look at the lost stories of a 80s art scenes in Miami Beach; and Part Three will be an in-depth look at the history of galleries in Miami.

Part 3, Brook Dorsch is the founder of Emerson Dorsch Gallery. Founded in 1991, Emerson Dorsch has shaped the trajectory of the city’s contemporary art by championing artists at all stages of their careers both local and international—cultivating the dynamic exchanges between emerging and established practices.

As part of Untitled Art’s programming during the 11th edition of the fair, [NAME] Publications presents “SWAMP ARCHEOLOGIES,” a series of three podcasts that focus on the often overlooked and forgotten dimensions of Miami's cultural history. Each part aims to reactivate the memory of some of Miami’s vital art scenes from the past 40 years: Part One will feature Dr. Donette Francis and focus on the contributions of Black artists and intellectuals that don’t often figure in local art histories; Part Two will be a behind-the-scenes look at the lost stories of a 80s art scenes in Miami Beach; and Part Three will be an in-depth look at the history of galleries in Miami.

Part 2, Kevin Arrow is a multifaceted artist and cultural producer living and working in Miami, Florida. His work has been exhibited in South Florida since the mid-1980s and is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, (MOCA), the Perez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), the Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, and Miami Beach Art in Public Places.