Julio Criado of Alarcón Criado Gallery exhibiting at the fair in booth B38, and DJ Hellerman, curator for SCAD Museum of Art, who join us today to discuss the work of artist Ira Lombardía.

Episode 33 : Julio Criado and DJ Hellerman discussing the work of artist Ira Lombardía

Omar López-Chahoud, the Artistic Director and Curator of Untitled Art, in conversation with leading New York gallery directors exhibiting with Untitled Art, Miami Beach 2022: Henrique Faria of Henrique Faria, C. Sean Horton of Sean Horton (Presents) and Jennifer Carvalho of CARVALHO PARK. This panel discussion is a sneak preview of the fair’s 11th edition in Miami Beach this December during the iconic Miami Art Week and part of a programming collaboration between Untitled Art and Soho House.

Episode 43: Untitled Talks x Dumbo House: A Conversation with Leading New York Galleries

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.

Episode 47: SWAMP ARCHEOLOGIES - Part 3, Brook Dorsch. Presented by [NAME]

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.

Episode 49: WHOSE HISTORY? The Real And The Ideal. Presented By Her Clique

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.

Episode 50: MYTH INTO MONUMENT: PUBLIC ART AND ITS LEGACY. Presented By Her Clique

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

Episode 52: Extending Opportunities Beyond the Fair - Establishing Art Fair Prizes

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.

Episode 53: Devan Shimoyama and the Tarot Series. Presented by De Buck Gallery

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.

Episode 54: Highlighting and Archiving Blackness in the Americas and Caribbean

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.

Episode 55: Beyond Art Week: Miami Beach's Public Art and Artistic Community

Presented by Laney Contemporary.

Join us for a conversation with Atlanta-based sculptor Curtis Patterson (b., Shreveport, LA, 1944) and Aaron Levi Garvey, the inaugural Janet L. Nolan Director of Curatorial Affairs at the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Arts at Auburn University. The talk will touch on Patterson's legendary impact as a professor—including on painters Radcliffe Bailey, Fahamu Pecou, and illustrator Thomas Blackshear—and the development of his artistic philosophies and influences since the mid-1970s. The discussion will also highlight Patterson's numerous public sculptures, including those in Atlanta, Dallas, Columbus, Shreveport, and St. Paul, and invite his thoughts on historic and contemporary monuments. Finally, as an important platform of visibility, this program will position Patterson in the pantheon of black sculptors including Richard Hunt, Melvin Edwards, and Martin Puryear, and serve as an introduction to his prolific studio practice highlighting recent sculptural series which have captured the attention of museums, collectors, and a new generation of artists for whom he is a formidable example of professional tenacity and boundless creativity.

Curtis Patterson: Born in Shreveport, LA, Curtis Patterson’s upbringing fostered a deep affinity for working with his hands and instilled a strong sense of discipline, balance, and spirituality. Patterson earned his BA in Art Education from Grambling State University, an HBCU listed on the African American Heritage Trail, and his MFA from Georgia State University and was the first African American to receive an MFA in Sculpture from GSU in 1976. His practice has moved from painting, wood, and ceramics to cast iron and large-scale, bronze and fabricated corten steel sculpture. Patterson was a faculty member at The Atlanta College of Art from 1976 to 2007. His work entered the realm of large-scale, public sculpture with Cometh the Sun commissioned by the City of Atlanta’s Bureau of Cultural Affairs in 1977. Since, Patterson has been commissioned for permanent public installations in prominent cities throughout the United States. His recent solo exhibition, A Notable Journey, at Laney Contemporary, Savannah, GA, was pivotal to bringing Patterson's sculpture to a broader audience. His work is currently the subject of a solo exhibition at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond, VA, on view through January 8, 2023.

Aaron Levi Garvey is a Jewish-American curator working in contemporary arts and culture and is the inaugural Janet L. Nolan Director of Curatorial Affairs at the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Arts at Auburn University. Recent exhibitions and projects include: The Hudson Eye a 10-day and 27-venue arts and humanities focused program in Hudson, New York, which has featured the work and performances of notable artists such as David Hammons, Allora and Calzadilla, Terence Koh, Marina Abramović, Shikeith, Rachel Libeskind, Jeffrey Gibson, Jonah Bokaer and Emily Ritz; the co-founding and directing of Long Road Projects Foundation an organization which focuses on supporting artists with residency, edition publishing and exhibition opportunities; Flashing the Leather at Alabama Contemporary in Mobile, Alabama; Ephemera Obscura at the Contemporary Art Center of New Orleans and Manon Bellet's MEMO and Shikeith’s notes towards becoming a spill, both at Atlanta Contemporary, and Invisible Thread at The Baker Museum – Artist Naples.

Episode 56: "A Notable Journey." A Conversation With Curtis Patterson

Presented by Library Street Collective.

Alongside Jason REVOK’s current exhibition at MOCAD (Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit) (November 5, 2022 - March 25, 2023), this Untitled Art podcast features a conversation between the artist and independent curator Pedro Alonzo, who is currently the Adjunct Curator at Dallas Contemporary. The conversation addresses the notion of automation in industry and how factory-based or hard labor is experienced across the United States, suggesting that mechanization informs artistic practice. Considering the relationship between humans and technology, REVOK has created a unique series of instruments that act as an extension of his body, utilizing these apparatuses and complex tools in concert with his hands to conceive his distinctive compositions. REVOK and Alonzo call the contemporary value system of traditional paintings into question as REVOK creates a new frontier on how an artist might practice in the age of machines.

Jason REVOK: b. 1977, Riverside, CA, lives and works in Detroit, MI.

Entirely self-taught, Jason REVOK is known for pushing creative boundaries that began in the street. Although his story begins with graffiti, the artist has spent the last decade focusing on his studio practice and the evolution of process and concept. Refusing to be limited by his early recognition, REVOK allows only certain elements from graffiti culture to transition to his contemporary work — modest materials and industrial tools, ingenuity, his name — but his proclivity towards minimalism and post-painterly abstraction has become the driving force behind his practice. Examining the question of authorship from start to finish, REVOK has developed systematic yet imperfect tools to carry out his vision and has created a number of unmistakable bodies of work. His bold, balanced geometry is heightened by the personal and imperfect slight of the human hand. REVOK has a solo exhibition currently on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. His works have been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles as well as the Pasadena Museum of Contemporary Art; in galleries and special projects in New York, Los Angeles, Detroit, and Dubai; and is in important private collections worldwide. 

Pedro Alonzo

Pedro is an independent curator and art advisor who specializes in producing exhibitions that transcend the boundaries of museum walls. He has worked extensively with a variety of organizations to develop complex public art projects and helped build several notable collections of contemporary art. Pedro is currently an adjunct curator at Dallas Contemporary, and was formerly an adjunct curator at the ICA, Boston.

Episode 57: Exhibiting Artist Jason REVOK In Conversation With Curator Pedro Alonzo

Angela Fraleigh and Maritza Lacayo will discuss reproductive Justice, art history and witchcraft in the context of Fraleigh's monumental painting installation The Raving Ones, on view as a special project at the Untitled Art Fair. Fraleigh’s lush and layered paintings harness the magic of making the invisible, visible. Illuminating erased or forgotten female figures, her paintings unsettle familiar narratives to help shift perspectives and upend contemporary power dynamics. Traversing topics from the medieval witch-hunts and the rise of capitalism to Reagan era politics and the devastating overturning of Roe V. Wade, Lacayo and Fraleigh will locate some of the historical cultural markers that have led to the subjugation of women and the current political attack on bodily autonomy while offering practical political action and a little practical magic to boot.

Angela Fraleigh earned her MFA from Yale University School of Art and her BFA from Boston University. Selected solo exhibitions include Hirschl and Adler Modern and PPOW Gallery in New York, Inman Gallery in Houston, TX and Peters Projects in Santa Fe, NM. Her work can be found in museum collections such as the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and she has been the recipient of several awards and residencies including the Yale University Alice Kimball English grant, The Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program Brooklyn, NY, The CORE program in Houston, TX and the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, NE among others. Fraleigh has created site-specific solo projects for the Edward Hopper House Museum, the Vanderbilt Mansion Museum, the Everson Museum of Art, the Delaware Art Museum and the Weatherspoon Art Museum. Her work is included in “Gilded: Contemporary Artists Explore Value & Worth” at the Weatherspoon Art museum; traveling to The Hood Art Museum and Hunter Art Museum. She currently lives and works in Allentown, PA, where she is Full Professor at Moravian University.

Maritza Lacayo is Assistant Curator at Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM). At PAMM she has curated numerous exhibition projects, including: The Artist as Poet: Selections from PAMM’s Collection, Marco Brambilla: Heaven’s Gate, George Segal: Abraham’s Farewell to Ishmael, Polyphonic: Celebrating PAMM’s Fund for African American Art, Jedd Novatt: Monotypes and More, among others. Lacayo has various exhibition projects forthcoming, including Jason Seife: Coming to Fruition, and monographic exhibitions featuring Calida Garcia Rawles and José Parlá. Lacayo has organized traveling exhibitions on behalf of PAMM, including Marisol and Warhol Take New York, Leandro Erlich: Liminal, and Joan Didion: What She Means (forthcoming)—all co-organized with PAMM’s Director, Franklin Sirmans. Lacayo regularly works with the YoungArts Foundation as a Master Teacher, also curating both the Regional and National exhibitions in 2019 and 2020, respectively. Lacayo frequently contributes writing to arts platforms and exhibition catalogues including monographs for artists Tomokazu Matsuyama, Richard Dupont, Carlos Estévez, and Vaughn Spann. She has managed the production of several publications and exhibition catalogues for PAMM including Dara Friedman: Perfect Stranger, On the Horizon: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection, Ebony G. Patterson…while the dew is still on the roses…, The Other Side of Now: Foresight in Contemporary Caribbean Art, and Beatriz González: A Retrospective (Named one of The New York Times’s Best Art Books of 2019). She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Art History from the American University of Paris and a Master of Letters in Modern and Contemporary Art and Art World Practice from the University of Glasgow, Scotland.

Episode 59: Reproductive Justice, Art History, and Witchcraft in Angela Fraleigh’s "The Raving Ones"

A conversation with R.I.C.O.R.O.B.O, presented by Terremoto.

How is Latinamerican history and identity archived, stored and enunciated? Terremoto engages in conversation with R.I.C.O. R.O.B.O. (The Research Institute On Cannibal Opportunism & Repository Of Obsessive Bobo-lutionary Obsolescence) to explore notions of decommodification of Latinamerican identity, the dissemination of transgressive knowledge exchange and cross-border research. This podcast is presented by Terremoto, and moderated by Terremoto’s Executive Director and curator Helena Lugo.

ABOUT R.I.C.O. R.O.B.O. (RESEARCH INSTITUTE ON CANNIBAL OPPORTUNISM  REPOSITORY OF OBSESSIVE BOBO-LUTIONARY OBSOLESCENCE)

R.I.C.O. R.O.B.O. is a cultural production bureau¹ specialized in scratching, remixing and hacking the corporate and institutional consumption of Latin(x)(o)(a)(a)(+)² narratives in the Americas³. Roleplaying with commercial and academic business models, R.I.C.O. R.O.B.O harvest a counter-manipulation agenda through transgressive knowledge exchange⁴, site-specific interventions and cross-border research.

A commercial agency that serves as an intermediary especially for exchanging information or coordinating activities. 

Latin(x)(o)(a)(a)(+): an expansive neologism to acknowledge the fragmented and diverse historical frameworks of individuals that identify within the ethnic construct of latinidad. 

The countries of North and South America, considered together.

Transgressive teaching by Bell Hooks

R.I.C.O. R.O.B.O is conformed by  Adrian Edgard Rivera, Daniel Arturo Almeida, Itzel Basualdo, Rodrigo Carazas Portal and Olenka Macassi.


ABOUT TERREMOTO

Based in Mexico City since 2013, Terremoto is the leading bilingual independent media for contemporary arts in the Americas. With an extensive network of collaborators and a critical focus on decolonial, queer and antipatriarchal practices, Terremoto will pause its print magazine and refocus its gaze on digital content and an upcoming program of curatorial and artistic residencies connecting the Americas.

Episode 60: Scratching, Remixing and Hacking the Consumption of Latin (x)(o)(a)e)(+) Narratives

A lively panel discussion highlighting exhibiting artists at Untitled Art, Miami Beach 2022. Hosted and moderated by Omar López Chahoud, Artistic Director and Curator of Untitled Art, in conversation with Piluca Baquero representing The Estate of Val del Omar (Special Project presented by Max Estrella), and participating artist Margarita Cabrera (presented by Jane Lombard Gallery).

About Piluca Baquero

Piluca Baquero started producing films at 19. Her first feature film, Ojala Val del Omar, was presented at the Venice Film festival. Since then, she has produced more than twenty fiction films and documentaries, such as Lena by Gonzalo de Tapia, Lo que sé de Lola by Javier Rebollo or El coche de pedales, by Ramón Barea. In 2017 she made her directional debut with animation short film El silencio roto, which premiered in SEMINCI. From 1997, Piluca manages and directs Archivo Val del Omar, an archive of José Val del Omar’s work with the purpose of its promotion, conservation and recovery, hand by hand with Gonzalo Sáenz de Buruaga, president of the institution. Val del Omar’s work is kept in the Museo Nacional e Arte Reina Sofía, where it is permanently shown to the public.

About Margarita Cabrera

Margarita Cabrera received an MFA from Hunter College in New York, NY. Cabrera is an assistant professor at the Arizona State University Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts.  Some of her most recent exhibitions include a solo show entitled Margarita Cabrera: What Art  Can Do” at the Art League Houston, Houston, TX. Cabrera’s work was featured in the exhibit  State of Mind: Art and American Democracy at the Moody Center, Rice University. Along with  80 artists in protest of Immigrant Incarceration in Nationwide skywriting campaign Cabrera  participated in: In Plain Sight. At the Wellin Art Museum, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY  Cabrera presented Margarita Cabrera: Space in Between; and PERILOUS BODIES, Ford Foundation Gallery, New York, NY. In New Orleans Margarita Cabrera presented by the Center  of Southern Craft and Design at the Ogden Art Museum, as well as “The Lotus in Spite of the  Swamp” at the New Orleans “Prospect 4”. Cabrera also was featured in “The U.S.-Mexico  Border: Place, Imagination, and Possibility” at the Craft & Folk Art Museum and SITE LINES:  much wider than a line in Santa Fe, NM. 

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.

Episode 61: The Estate of Val del Omar and Margarita Cabrera in conversation with Omar López Chahoud

The vibrant art talks series continues into its second year, as part of Untitled Art’s collaboration with Soho House Miami Beach’s Art Club. This September features a conversation revolving around one of Untitled Art’s curatorial focuses this year, “Curating in the Digital Age,” featuring a powerhouse panel of Miami-based experts welcoming: Pablo Rodríguez-Fraile, founder of the RFC Art Collection; Karen Grimson, Curator of the Craig Robins Collection in the Miami Design District; and Stephanie Seidel, Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (ICA Miami). The discussion is moderated by Ana Clara Silva, Soho House’s Art Club Director.

Episode 62: Art Club x Untitled Art: Curating in the Digital Age

Vortic is the 2023 Digital Partner, and Prize Partner, of Untitled Art, Miami Beach 2023. Expanding on our partnership, we are delighted to welcome the digital exhibition platform’s founder, Oliver Miro, in conversation with Untitled Art Ambassador and Dallas-based art advisor Adam Green. This discussion aims to shed light on new technologies and tools for both collecting and exhibiting art with these leading experts. Adam Green has over 15 years of experience in the art industry working with new and experienced collectors on contemporary art acquisitions and strategies. In conversation with Oliver Miro, we look forward to learning more about Vortic’s commitment to using new technologies to forge novel and accessible methods of engaging galleries and collectors alike.

Episode 63: Vortic Founder Oliver Miro in conversation with Untitled Art Ambassador, Adam Green

Join Curator Kaitlin Garcia-Maestas and Artistic Director Neville Wakefield in conversation with Zoe Lukov as they discuss the concepts and pressing socio-cultural concerns that frame Desert X 2025, the fifth edition of the renowned international contemporary art biennial in the Coachella Valley, California. Get to know the curators and their conceptual process as they reflect on previous projects, the current conditions of our desert environments, the state of gender equality, and the pervasive use of technology as connected to artists’ creative practices and our everyday lives.

Episode 64: Meet the Curators of Desert X 2025. Presented by Desert X.

Presented as a cornerstone of the 12th edition’s curatorial focus, Gender Equality in the Arts, Untitled Art is proud to host a panel discussion with leading industry experts who are driving this conversation forward: Julia Halperin, cofounder of the Burns Halperin Report - an annual report investigating the representation of Black American artists, female-identifying artists, and Black female-identifying artists since 2018 which is now the largest database of its kind; and Casey Lesser, Director of Content at Artsy and co-author of the 2023 Women Artists Market Report – a series of three articles delving into the current state of the market for women artists via data gathered data from independent research, auction results from the Artsy auctions database, and other Artsy data. The panel is moderated by Allison Thorpe, Vice President of Sutton.

Episode 65: Gender Equality in the Arts - Women Art Market Reports

A conversation discussing artists and art workers who pursue a career in a so-called fly over state such as Oklahoma. Although many art world institutions tend to be conservative, the majority of the art world itself tends to lean liberal. How do liberal artists and art workers in a socially conservative so-called fly over state such as Oklahoma attract support, capture the attention, and thrive in their local, regional, national, and international art communities while simultaneously facing rejection and pushback? 

Antonio Andrews will open with the hip-hop rap performance, "Everyday," and the panel will conclude with a spoken word performance by Kalup Linzy titled "Equality Beam," meditating on equality, assurance, and confidence in a space where the odds seem stacked against you.

Moderator: Kalup Linzy, Tulsa Artist Fellow and founder and director of Queen Rose Art House

Panelists: Carolyn Sickles, Executive Director of Tulsa Artist Fellowship; Kate Green, Ph.D., Chief Curator &amp; Nancy E. Meinig Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art, Philbrook Museum of Art; Trueson Daugherty, Tulsa-based artist; Antonio Andrews, Tulsa-based artist and founder of No Parking Studios; and Ashanti Chaplin, Tulsa based cultural producer and multiform conceptual artist.

Episode 66: Fly Over Passed Over

Artists Hanna Ali, Leo Castaneda, Lee Pivnik and James Allister Sprang discuss intersections of their practices concerning technology, architecture, virtual space, archiving, Diaspora storytelling, and positioning towards speculative futurism. Moderated by Heike Dempster, Director of Engagement and Outreach at YoungArts.

Episode 68: Between Architecture and the Body - Inclusive Futurism in Art. Presented by YoungArts

Join us for a conversation with first-time Exhibitors: Emmelie Koster, founder and co-director of No Man’s Art Gallery (Amsterdam, Netherlands); Gisela Guieros, founder of her eponymous space Gisela Projects (Brooklyn, NY); and Laura González Palacios, founder of Chiquita Room (Barcelona, Spain) for a discussion diving into their program initiatives that go beyond the physical space.

Gisela Projects (founded in 2021, New York, NY) has participated in art fairs in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and Miami and has organized pop-ups in New York, London and in important galleries such as Galeria Estação and Pablo’s Birthday. Their first project was done in collaboration with the NY Summerfest, where videos by their artists were projected onto the sides of the Brooklyn Bridge. 

Based in Barcelona, Spain, Chiquita Room works simultaneously as a gallery, a residence for artists, an artist book publisher, and a soft collecting membership. Dedicated to accompanying artists along their projects, Chiquita Room aims to reflect relevant issues to society through a critical, innovative, and collective approach while exploring the poetics of artistic expression from the interaction between art and other disciplines. 

Over the past decade, No Man's Art Gallery has actively promoted emerging artists from diverse backgrounds through innovative channels, particularly its international pop-up galleries. Yearly, the gallery team, under the leadership of Emellie Koster and Lih-Lan Wong, travels to a new destination to set up a temporary gallery space. Previously, the pop-up gallery has opened in Mexico City, Tehran, Cape Town, Shanghai, Mumbai and various European cities.

Episode 69: Alternative gallery platforms to the brick-and-mortar space

The market for female artists has been dramatically changing in recent years. What does this look like now, and where is it headed? Moderated by Ann-Marie Richard in conversation with Ágnes Berecz, Sotheby’s Institute of Art, Faculty, MA Contemporary Art; Jenna Ferrey, Owner/Director, Trotter&Sholer; and Madison Estey of Cheim & Reid Gallery.

Episode 70: The Market for Female Artists. Hosted by Sotheby's Institute

Hosted by For Freedoms on the role of artists in shaping society and politics.

Moderated by Michelle Woo in conversation with multidisciplinary artist Autumn Breon, artist and curator Jesse Krimes, and curator Jasmine Wahi. 

This panel was generously supported plancpills.org.

Episode 75: Imagining A Culture of Listening, Healing, Awakening, and Justice

Join Jeffrey Meris, Alyssa Klauer, and Marissa Del Toro for a dynamic dialogue as they share their creative journeys since completing their respective NXTHVN Fellowships in 2021 and 2022. Learn about their post-fellowship experiences and how they navigate the vibrant art ecosystem, as well as their ever-evolving expressions of artistic liberation.

Episode 76: Art Unveiled - Navigating the Ecosystem of Creativity. Presented by NXTHVN

Underscoring this year’s curatorial focus, Curating in the Digital Age, we are thrilled to welcome longstanding exhibitor, Steven Sacks, owner and director of the New York-based gallery, bitforms, in conversation with exhibiting artist, Manfred Mohr. Mohr utilizes algorithms to engage rational aesthetics, inviting logic to produce visual outcomes. Not only exhibiting within the booth, the artist and bitforms will present the Special Project of his Early Plotter Drawings, highlighting a selection of Mohr’s earliest computer-generated plotter drawings.

Episode 77: Curating in the Digital Age - Steven Sacks in conversation with Manfred Mohr

Presented in association with Her Clique, and moderated by writer Dan Duray, this panel will feature a conversation between LaKela Brown, a trailblazing artist, and her dynamic gallerist Ellie Rines. Together they will share their tactics for navigating the masculine power structures of the art world, and their theories for why these still exist in 2023.

Episode 78: How To Shatter a Ceiling - A Talk on Gender Equality in the Art World

A conversation between Curator, Rachel Delphia and Artist, Sharif Bey to discuss his work since his major 2021 solo exhibition at the Carnegie Museum of Art, in which the artist exhibited a survey of his studio practice alongside pieces created onsite in response to the museum’s collection.This conversation will focus specifically on the artist’s newest series, the Guardians, to consider how Bey uses sculpture as autoethnography, exploring individual and collective identity through the recontextualization of forms that have historically been used to represent status or power.

The Guardians series furthers Bey’s enduring exploration of Nkisi nkondi figures, expressing questions of legacy, ornamentation, and matriarchal power. Commenting on these works, Curator Rachel Delphia writes, “It is no surprise that Bey’s Guardians are women. Each sculpture carries literal and figurative baggage, in their attributes and in the symbolic weight that generations of African American mothers bear.” This conversation will also delve into the importance of relationships shared between artists and curators extending beyond specific institutional projects, and the ways these dialogues can enrich and expand an artist’s studio practice.

Episode 79: Sharif Bey in conversation with Rachel Delphia. Presented by albertz benda

This year’s curatorial theme, “Gender Equality in the Arts,” and the topic of “Making and Claiming Space” is an opportunity to construct a diverse group of panelists who are often unheard and unseen in the art world. While we are seeing an uptick in artists of color, queer artists and women; what about the underrepresented individuals behind the scenes? What does diversity look like as far as gallery owners, gallery directors, curators, and institutional leaders? We want to know more about the lens in which they are all operating from, how their unique points of view will impact the contemporary landscape, and what we can expect from them in addition to more.<br><br>Join us for a conversation organized and moderated by 2023 Exhibitor, Jonathan Carver Moore, founder and director of his eponymous gallery in San Francisco with panelists: Natasha Becker, curator for the Arts of Africa at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; Storm Anthony Griffith, San Francisco-based collector, investor, entrepreneur and technologist specializing in collecting emerging artists with a focus on Bay Area art; Kacy Jung, exhibiting photo-based mixed-media sculptor; and Mari Robles, an arts educator, leader and organizer guided by a mission to connect people to quality arts education.

Episode 80: Making and Claiming Space. Presented by Jonathan Carver Moore

In an industry that can seem daunting to try to navigate on your own, Hannah Gottlieb-Graham, Jordan Huelskamp, Charlie Jarvis, and Maria Vogel have each forged their own, unique paths independent of any preexisting entity. Recognized mavericks in their respective lanes, each speaker will share insight from their years navigating the complexities of the art world and how they brought their singular visions to life.

Episode 81: Forging New Paths in an Evolving Art World

The panel will present their art gallery journeys vis-à-vis working in the digital age, and how each has developed concepts, overcome challenges, and shaped innovative pathways to entrepreneurial growth. The panel will discuss how each has measured success and/or how they advantage online tools to develop decision making.<br><br>This panel features women with diverse backgrounds, with almost 100 years of collective experience in the art gallery/ art museum field, each with significant understanding of the Caribbean mid-Atlantic region and its diasporas. As a result, the panel will develop audience understanding of an under-represented region in the art world that boasts significant art talent.

Episode 82: Digital Empowerment & Art Gallery Innovation. Presented by Atlantic Arthouse

Three galleries exhibiting at Untitled Art, Miami Beach 2023 from Southern Africa: Ebony/Curated; Southern Guild and Kalashnikovv Gallery, come together to discuss the role of the gallery and the curator- in an evolving cultural landscape that champions the consumption of the image in what is globally understood as the digital age.

These established institutions will reflect on their respective individual presentations for this year’s edition of Untitled Art in relation to the intricate overlap between art, audience, internet, and the nuance of ‘curating for the digital age’.

The normalised omnipresence of our devices has rapidly brought about change in the way we understand, communicate and consume physical art. The contemporary gallery space is not immune to the impact of these unprecedented advancements, and the complex ‘technological gaze’ that accompanies them.

Facilitating a discussion surrounding the prevailing power, and responsibility, of the gallery to support artists in creating a presence that is not only locally relevant, but globally significant- each gallery has their own interpretation of the theme, creating a nuanced and interesting overarching conversation.

Episode 83: '.co.za' Presented by EBONY/CURATED

GeoVanna Gonzalez, multidisciplinary artist
Leilani Lynch, MCA Denver Associate Curator
Moderated by Komal Kehar, architect/designer, owner of Common Things

To be seen and occupy space can be a radical act of political resistance. Drawing inspiration from the thought-provoking performance installation PLAY, LAY, AYE: ACT 6 by GeoVanna Gonzalez, the conversation “Taking up Space” explores the profound implications of movement as a powerful form of engagement. In this discussion, multidisciplinary artist Gonzalez, Museum of Contemporary Art Denver Associate Curator Leilani Lynch, and architect/designer Komal Kehar will examine the intricate dynamics of both private and public spaces, scrutinizing them through the nuanced perspectives of gender, race, status, or other marginalized dimensions. The conversation is poised to dissect the codified norms governing accessibility, delving into the implications of these norms and their impact on the perception and utilization of space.

Presented by Commissioner, in partnership with Chief.

Episode 84: Performance Architecture - Taking Up Space. Presented by Commissioner

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