{"id":170129,"date":"2025-12-02T00:34:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T00:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/170129\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T00:34:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T00:34:14","slug":"jorge-perez-donates-more-than-80-photographs-to-the-perez-art-museum-miami-the-art-newspaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/170129\/","title":{"rendered":"Jorge P\u00e9rez donates more than 80 photographs to the P\u00e9rez Art Museum Miami – The Art Newspaper"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Miami collector Jorge M. P\u00e9rez<\/a> has donated more than 80 photographic works to the P\u00e9rez Art Museum Miami<\/a> (Pamm) by key Modern and contemporary artists such as Thomas Ruff, Ana Mendieta, Cindy Sherman and Isaac Julien. The works given are currently on show at the museum in the exhibition Language and Image: Conceptual and Performance-Based Photography from the Jorge M. P\u00e9rez Collection<\/a> (until 11 January).<\/p>\n

\u201cThe exhibition began in May. Although we had discussed the importance of the works, we didn\u2019t know that it was definitely going to be a gift; we were hopeful as we had discussed how to compliment the works we already had in the collection of photography and these specific artists,\u201d Franklin Sirmans, the museum\u2019s director tells The Art Newspaper. He adds that photography has been an integral part of the museum\u2019s collection since it became a collecting institution in 1996.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe D\u00fcsseldorf School of Photography is represented through artists like Thomas Ruff and Candida H\u00f6fer. We\u2019re adding another photograph by [UK artist] Isaac Julien to the collection, Emerald City\/Capital (Playtime), 2013, along with three works by Vik Muniz,\u201d Sirmans adds.<\/p>\n

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Isaac Julien, Emerald City \/ Capital (Playtime), 2013 Jorge M. P\u00e9rez Collection. \u00a9 Isaac Julien. Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro<\/p>\n

\u201cA good thing about the conceptual nature of much of this work is that it also allows us to think about photography as a medium that has so much life in terms of moving imagery and also how we consider the digital prospects within the museum. It\u2019ll be interesting to be able to add this [donation] to the conversation,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n

Other works donated include El Cuerpo del Silencio\u00a0(The Body of Silence), a photograph of a performance by the Cuban artist Tania Bruguera (1997-98), and Untitled (Barulho de fundo) (Untitled [Background Noise], 2005-06), a series of gelatin silver prints by Renata Lucas of Brazil. Other pieces that will enter the collection include candid portraits from the US artist Philip-Lorca diCorcia\u2019s Heads series and Tree Filling Window (2002) by Wolfgang Tillmans.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to be the best at presenting the work of Latin America and the Caribbean, looking towards the African diaspora. Jorge has provided the blueprint in many ways since he donated the first big gift of Latin American art in 2011,\u201d says Sirmans.<\/p>\n

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Juan Carlos Alom, Habana Solo (Havana Solo), 2000 Jorge M. P\u00e9rez Collection. \u00a9 Juan Carlos Alom<\/p>\n

Jorge P\u00e9rez and his wife Darlene are major players in the Miami art scene and have given at least $60m to the P\u00e9rez Art Museum Miami. The museum was controversially renamed following the gift in 2011, whereby Jorge P\u00e9rez donated $40m in both cash and works to the Miami institution. The couple donated\u00a0a further $25m in 2023<\/a>. In 2019, Jorge P\u00e9rez opened El Espacio 23<\/a>, a nonprofit art space in Miami\u2019s Allapattah neighbourhood to display works from the couple\u2019s collection. He founded the real estate development company, The Related Group, in 1979; Forbes<\/a>\u00a0estimates his current net worth to be $2.6bn.<\/p>\n

Asked about P\u00e9rez\u2019s influential role at the museum as a key patron, Sirmans says: \u201cI don\u2019t understand the criticism; Jorge has set an incredible example of generosity and patronage for hopefully others to exemplify. What he has done in partnership with his team and our curators is about what it means to lead. He\u2019s a leader in this [philanthropic] conversation and wants to be a leader in this conversation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last month\u00a0the P\u00e9rezes\u00a0donated 36 works<\/a> by 15 artists from Africa and the African diaspora to Tate as part of an ongoing partnership<\/a> between the Miami couple and the UK institution. The P\u00e9rezes have also funded a \u201cmulti-million dollar endowment\u201d to support Tate\u2019s curatorial research that will help to fund curatorial posts dedicated to work on African and Latin American art.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Miami collector Jorge M. P\u00e9rez has donated more than 80 photographic works to the P\u00e9rez Art Museum…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[21256,65887,307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60,3588,8541,21742,266],"class_list":{"0":"post-170129","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-acquisitions","9":"tag-art-basel-miami-beach-2025","10":"tag-arts","11":"tag-arts-and-design","12":"tag-artsanddesign","13":"tag-artsdesign","14":"tag-design","15":"tag-entertainment","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-miami","19":"tag-museums-heritage","20":"tag-perez-art-museum-miami","21":"tag-photography"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}