Angel Otero and Nyugen Smith in Group Exhibit at Perez Art Museum Miami

SAIC alums Angel Otero (BFA 2007, MFA 2009) and Nyugen Smith (MFA 2016) are featured in The Other Side of Now: Foresight in Contemporary Caribbean Art, an exhibition at the Perez Art Museum Miami that runs through June 7, 2020. The exhibition answers the question “What might a Caribbean future look like?” with a series of newly commissioned works that “think beyond narratives of catastrophe that continue to frame the region in terms of then and now,” according to the museum’s website. In honor of the exhibition, Artsy published a list of “12 Artists of the Caribbean and Its Diaspora Who Are Shaping Contemporary Art,” which includes a slideshow of Smith’s work in the exhibition. The article notes, “Smith’s work Isle de Tribamartica (2017)…satirizes previous imperial impulses to label and organize the Caribbean.”