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Liliana Porter produces prints, drawings, paintings, photography, video works, and installations that dabble in the absurd. Porter juxtaposes figurines of popular cultural icons, children’s toys, and other kitsch objects in surreal compositions, so that unlikely relationships emerge—to unsettling or fantastical effect.

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Carrie Secrist Gallery was established 1992 as Gallery A, then later renamed and relocated in 2003. At first, they only showcased local artists, but after renovations they were equipped to deal with larger scale artworks and expand their artists connections. Their goal is to reinvent visual literacy through the incorporation of conceptual and academic ideas.

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Pedro Pablo Oliva (born 1949) is one of Cuba's most famous and influential living artists. Known as a chronicler of his time, Oliva's fantastical and provocative paintings, drawings and sculptures reflect Cuba's social, cultural and political life during the last half-century.

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When established in 2001, Pan American Art Projects’ mission is to showcase artwork from The Central, North, and South Americas to create connections between artists. By providing historical context along with their pieces, they are able to create programming that allows for comprehension and reflection on their collection.

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Claudio Bravo was eulogized by the New York Times as a painter whose adeptness with realism made his paintings verge on trompe l’oeil. Though Bravo originally won acclaim as a portrait painter, he became particularly known for his still lifes featuring crumpled paper, animal skulls, and exotically dressed figures. These, Bravo said, were heavily influenced by Spanish old masters like Francisco de Zurbarán, Juan Sanchez Cotán, and Diego Velázquez.

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The Forum Gallery has been located in New York city since 1961 and is a founding member of the Art Dealers Association of America. The gallery focuses on humanism by maintaining exhibits and art fairs that showcase contemporary pieces for viewers and critics to experience.

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Sandra Vásquez de la Horra studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Valparaiso from a very young age, before moving to Santiago, where she joined Chile Crea, an artist and student movement in favour of democracy. S. Vásquez de la Horra is known for her humorous and unique body of work, both prolific and extremely original. She traces her drawings on sheets of paper, which she then dips in wax, covering them with a delicate patina that softens the lines; this process makes the lines more palpable, and increases the paper’s material dimension. These works are highly personal and imbued with multiple cultural and artistic references, and conjure up a magical and grotesque world populated by strange creatures.

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Opened in 2012 in South Korea, the Wooson Gallery was specially built to show off contemporary artwork to the mass and introduce famous artists within the movement. The contemporary collections are chosen with a high standard of knowledge of international art production to educated art lovers, professionals, and critics alike.

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In films, multimedia works, and photographs, Cao Guimarães evocatively captures everyday events and quiet actions in urban and rural settings. He emphasizes the interplay between sounds and images, demanding that his audience listen to and view his films with equal concentration. “Image and audio are like flour and eggs for the cake batter that goes in the oven,” he says. “Each work has a measure in which mystery is fermented.” His works are poetic interventions into human experience, including video explorations of billowing tarps, marching ants, and soap bubbles.

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Nara Roesler is a leading international art gallery that represents Brazillian and other foriegn artists who emerged in the 1950s, along with artists who were influenced by them. They pride themselves for their select and rigorous exhibitions program and quality of art production.

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Marco Maggi makes small-scale drawings and delicate etchings on household products, everyday commercial goods, room-sized installations, and objects resembling architectural models and maquettes. “Fast viewers see, from far away, a drawing as a blank sheet,” he says. “Slow viewers can read the same drawing ten times, switching perspectives and conclusions. […] I am interested in the particular protocol of manners and pace in the viewing process.”

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Galería Del Paseo was founded in 1998 in Uruguay. They are dedicated to showing artwork from Uruguay, Peruvian and Latin American artists

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One of Brazil’s most internationally renowned contemporary artists, Jac Leirner is best known for the sculptures and installations she creates from mundane objects and ephemera, including devalued bank notes, airline tickets, cigarette packets, and shopping bags. Leirner collects and categorizes objects and cultural detritus—including ephemera relating to the machinery of the art world and objects that bear a personal relationship to the artist—before reconfiguring them into meticulously constructed works that both draw attention to and negate their function. 

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Fortes D'Aloia & Gabriel features both young and experienced Brazilian artists. It’s unique program allows for 12 programs a year, workshops, book launches, and screening along with its involvement with international art fairs and exhibitions.

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One of Brazil’s most internationally renowned contemporary artists, Jac Leirner is best known for the sculptures and installations she creates from mundane objects and ephemera, including devalued bank notes, airline tickets, cigarette packets, and shopping bags. Leirner collects and categorizes objects and cultural detritus—including ephemera relating to the machinery of the art world and objects that bear a personal relationship to the artist—before reconfiguring them into meticulously constructed works that both draw attention to and negate their function. 

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Bergamin & Gomide doesn’t follow a strict roster allowing them to work with multiple artists and exhibition themes. Additionally, they participate in multiple international art fairs and exhibitions throughout Brazil.

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Valeska Soares was born in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, in 1957. Her sculptures and installations utilize a wide range of materials—including reflective mirrors, antique books and furniture, chiseled marble, bottles of perfume—and draw on both her training in architecture and the tools of Minimalism and Conceptualism. Contrasting polished, industrial materials with more ephemeral ones, Soares’s work invites viewers to engage all five senses, evoking the poetic and elusive themes of desire, intimacy, language, loss, personal memory, and collective history.

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Fortes D'Aloia & Gabriel features both young and experienced Brazilian artists. It’s unique program allows for 12 programs a year, workshops, book launches, and screening along with its involvement with international art fairs and exhibitions.

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Doris Salcedo creates sculptures and installations whose understated appearance belies complex themes. Her works commonly have themes and subjects related to historical incidences of mass violence, trauma, racism, and colonialism; she believes that her art represents a social conscience and sees her own role as that of a witness.

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The Pérez Art Museum Miami is a contemporary art museum that relocated in 2013 to the Museum Park in Downtown Miami, Florida.