Body of Knowledge with Antonia Wright

Antonia Wright is a Cuban-American artist born in Miami, Florida. 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 her work.

Antonia 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 Faena Arts Center (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Luis de Jesus Gallery (Los Angeles, CA), San Francisco Arts Commission Galleries (SF, CA), The National Gallery of Art (Nassau, Bahamas), 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 won the 2023 Corral & Cathers Artist Award, the 2023 School of Visual Arts (SVA) Alumni Scholarship Award, the South Florida Cultural Consortium Award (2019-2020), and the CINTAS Foundation finalist awarded to artists with Cuban heritage (2019, 2021, 2024). In April 2012, she became and founded the first artist-in-residence at the Lotus House Shelter for women and children in Overtown, Miami.

Antonia is the first commissioned artist of Season Seven. Her piece State of Labor—a generative sound art composition that applies data sonification to protest the changing laws around access to safe and legal abortion—was acquired by Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) for their permanent collection. It is on view through February 9, 2025.

Filmed by Jorge Gonzalez-Graupera