ARTIST 001 SEASON 7

Antonia Wright

Antonia Wright is a Cuban-American artist born in Miami, Florida. Antonia received an MFA in Poetry from The New School in New York City in 2005 and trained at the International Center of Photography for photo and video in 2008. Through a multimedia practice of video, performance, photography, sound, light, and sculpture, she responds to extremes of emotion, control, and violence in relation to systems of power. The body is a principal element in Antonia’s work.

She has exhibited in the U.S. and abroad and has been awarded artist’s residencies nationally and internationally. Exhibitions include shows at The Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington, D.C.), the Pérez Art Museum Miami (Miami), The Faena Hotel (Miami Beach), The Faena Arts Center (Buenos Aires, Argentina), The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Lowe Art Museum, Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, Spinello Projects (Miami, FL), Luis de Jesus Gallery (Los Angeles, CA), San Francisco Arts Commission Galleries (SF, CA), Aeroplastics (Brussels, Belgium), The National Gallery of Art (Nassau, Bahamas), OR Gallery (Vancouver, Canada), GOOD TO KNOW.FYI, Galerie Ernst Hilger (Vienna), The Frist Art Museum (Nashville), Contemporary Art Center (New Orleans, Louisiana), Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (Arizona), The Havana Biennial 2019, and Getty’s Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA (2017) among others.

Antonia recently won the 2023 Corral & Cathers Artist Award, the 2023 School of Visual Arts (SVA) Alumni Scholarship Award, No Vacancy 2022 Juror’s Choice Award, The Ellies Creator Award (2022, 2020), the South Florida Cultural Consortium Award (2019-2020), and the CINTAS Foundation finalist awarded to artists with Cuban heritage (2019, 2021, 2024). Residencies include The Pittsburgh Glass Center, PA, (2022); Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY (2015); Leipzig International Art Program, Germany, and Oolite Arts, Miami, FL. In April 2012, she became and founded the first artist-in-residence at the Lotus House Shelter for women and children in Overtown, Miami.

She is affiliated with Luis De Jesus Gallery Los Angeles, CA. Her work has been featured in publications such as The New York Times, Artforum, Art in America, Hyperallergic, i-D, New York Magazine, Gotham, Daily News, Miami Herald, El Nuevo Herald, and The Art Newspaper.

Learn more on her website here.