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Antonia Wright

She // Her // Hers

Multidisciplinary Artist

Miami, FL

Antonia, a Cuban-American woman with long dark hair and a shock of silver in the front, stands with her hands folded at a worktable in front of a collection of large cyanotypes. She wears a navy top and bright coral lipstick.

Photo by Chantal Lawrie.

Advancing the lineage of performance art through technology in my multimedia work, I aim to expose and subvert existing power dynamics. Through a hybrid practice of feminism, activism, technology, and poetry, I glitch a reframing of the female physical experience through digital constructs.”

Antonia Wright is a Cuban-American artist born in Miami, Florida. Through a multimedia practice of video, coding, performance, photography, sound, light, and sculpture, Wright explores systems of power. The body is a principal element in her work. 

She received her MFA in Poetry from The New School in New York City in 2004; a postgraduate degree in photography from the International Center of Photography in 2008; and a second MFA in Art Practice from the School of Visual Arts in 2024. Her work has been shown at the Pérez Art Museum, Locust Projects, the Margulies Collection (Miami), Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington, DC), Frist Art Museum (Nashville), Contemporary Art Center (New Orleans), Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (Arizona), Havana Biennial 2019, and Getty’s Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA. She has participated in artistic residencies at Pioneer Works in New York and Leipzig International Art Program in Germany.

Her work has been presented in publications including The New York Times, Frieze, Artforum, Art in America, Hyperallergic, i-D, New York Magazine, Gotham, and the Miami Herald. She is the recipient of the South Florida Cultural Consortium Award, No Vacancy 2022 Juror’s Choice Award, Oolite Arts Ellies Creator Award, Locust Projects Wavemaker Grant, and a CINTAS Foundation finalist award to artists with Cuban heritage.

She gives voice to issues of bodily autonomy and social justice, and her art practice is linked to community involvement and activism. She has been on the board of the Lotus House Women’s Shelter for nearly ten years, and in 2012 she founded its artist residency program. Wright has also served on the board of directors of Locust Projects and Planned Parenthood.

Donor -The Knight Arts + Tech Fellowship is generously support by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

This artist page was last updated on: 05.28.2025

A woman wearing a black top, black pants, and black boots sits on a bench in the middle of an empty, dark room. She is lit from above by soft red light.

State of Labor by Antonia Wright, 2024. Multichannel immersive sound installation, generative dimensions. Installation image from Pérez Art Museum Miami.

Photo by Lazaro Llanes, courtesy Pérez Art Museum Miami.

A few people stand in a large, empty, dark space with their backs to the viewer. They are facing projections of colored laser lights.

And now you do what they tell you by Antonia Wright, 2024. 4 laser lights, original audio score, and speakers, 4 minutes. Installation image from The Caboose Hudson during Upstate Art Weekend.

Photo by Daniel Kukla.

A structure with a video projection on it sits atop a boat floating in a body of water. In the background, a beach and the skyline of a city are visible.

And so with ends comes beginnings by Antonia Wright, 2021. HD video playing on a digital boat. Installed outside of Untitled Art Fair in Miami.

Photo by Casey Kelbaugh.