hormiga caribe

Patricia Encarnación (she/they) is an Afro-Dominican interdisciplinary artitvist and scholar. Her work explores Caribbean culture by challenging tropical aesthetics with an anti-colonial lens.

Encarnación participated in multiple residencies such as Smack Mellon as a Van Lier fellow, MuseumsQuartier Vienna, Kovent Catalonia, and Silver Arts Project residency at the World Trade Center. Her work has been selected twice in The Centro Leon Jiménez Biennial, obtaining the prize bestowed by the city of Cádiz (Spain) for cultural immersion and a fellowship in Martinique as part of a Tropiques Atrium Caribbean art program. Encarnación has exhibited in places such as Documenta 15th, Afro Syncretic at NYU, I am New Afro Latinx at MOLAA, CA, and Tribeca Artist Program Award. Besides being an actively exhibiting artist, Encarnación has also delved into curatorial practices in spaces such as ChaShama and alternative gallery spaces in NYC and Miami, and the Dominican Republic.

Jonathan Carela, born in 1991, is an interdisciplinary artist & filmmaker born and based in the Dominican Republic, his work is primarily on mixed media, painting and video art. Carela received three Associates degrees at Altos de Chavón, the school of design, D. R.: Graphic design (2013), Fine Arts (2014), and Filmmaking (2020); in 2016, he received a scholarship to study filmmaking at CCA California College of the Arts.

His work seeks to reimagine Dominican culture, the human condition and social behavior in the Caribbean, informed by language, images, music, personal and shared experiences in the quotidian Dominican landscapes, with a discursive focus on racial and identity issues of our days.

During the Design Week in Santo Domingo 2023, he was a panelist in Meca Art Fair talks “Ruralizades”, simultaneously showing his work in CODAP (Sto. Dgo.) and Casa Mella Russo (Sto. Dgo.). Recently he was artist in residency at Edge Zones (Miami, FL), where he continued his last body of work. His work has also been shown in: Museo Cándido Bidó, (Bonao, D. R.), Casa Quien Gallery (Sto. Dgo.), JVS Project Art Space (NY, NY), Centro de la Imagen, (Sto. Dgo.) and Centro León (Santiago. D. R.). In 2018 he attended the “Programa de Formación para artistas” workshop by Centro León (Stgo. D. R.) where he received training from various curators and accompaniment, closing with a collective exhibition.

Nara Winston Betancourt, born in 1998, is a Dominican-American multidisciplinary artist. As a child, she was raised in countries throughout Latin America and Asia until 2010, when she returned to her mother’s native country, the Dominican Republic.

After graduating from the Chavon School of Design in the Dominican Republic (2018), she transferred to the Netherlands and finished her Bachelors in Fine Arts from The Royal Academy of Art in The Hague.

She currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California.

Fidel López, born in Santo Domingo in 1998, is a multidisciplinary visual artist. His means of expression include drawing in its broadest spectrum, printmaking, and video installation.

He graduated from Chavón La Escuela de Diseño in the Fine Arts and Illustration program in 2019. He has presented his works and collaborated with other artists in collective exhibitions in the Dominican Republic and Mexico. His work has been reviewed in local media such as Hola Pardo magazine and the contemporary art magazine C& América Latina. When referring to his work, Fidel says, "I am interested in highlighting the accumulation of marks and the different processes to which the images I generate have been exposed."

Manuela Corji, born in Medellín in 2000, is an emerging Dominican-Colombian artist. She has participated in various group exhibitions such as "Last Summer" at the Lyle O. Reitzel gallery, as well as "Digo Bueno Día Digo Buena Noche," in collaboration with the Lyle O. Reitzel gallery and the Fernando Peña Defilló Museum.

In 2023, she was selected for the Visual Arts Biennial of Santo Domingo. At the age of 16, she enrolled in the National School of Visual Arts (ENAV), successfully completing the preparatory stage and completing one year of academic life. From 2018 to 2022, she pursued her degree in Advertising Communication at the Universidad Iberoamericana (UNIBE).

Since 2019, alongside her university studies, Manuela has adopted a routine that promotes her artistic development, dedicating herself entirely to the creation of her personal work.

Julián Chams is a visual artist from the Caribbean Colombian city of Barranquilla. He is currently based in Brooklyn, NY. Through his photography, Julián captures breathtaking images of nature and man-made objects. He later gives them an unexpected twist as he prints and combines them with textiles to make soft sculptural forms and stunning assemblages.



His work has been shown individually and in group exhibitions at Wave Hill and AC Institute in New York; the XVI and XV Salon Regional de Artistas Caribe in Colombia, and La Esquina and 50/50 in Kansas City, MO,
among others. He has participated in residencies at BRIC and Wave Hill in New York.


Andrea Alfaro Rizek, also known as Holmiga, has been illustrating and painting for around 12 years. In the last 3 years she has incorporated tattooing into her practice.

Her work is a visual diary of what attracts and surrounds her. She portrays the essence of the what she perceives in each stage of her life.

She studied photography at the Universidad del Sagrado Corazón in Puerto Rico, subsequently transferring to fine art, illustration, and fashion at La Escuela de Altos de Chavon in the Dominican Republic. With exposure to a wide range of techniques and artists over the years, her style has evolved into a vibrant collage of contrast, incorporating elements of painting and fashion illustration.

Of Puerto Rican descent, Andrew was born in the Bronx, New York in 1994 and is currently living and working in Miami, an artist, designer, and an innate creative, Andrew is renowned for his raw abstract paintings. His style of visual arts encompasses a fulfilling yet culturally rich aesthetic, taking viewers on a profound mental voyage across the vast seas of the Earth with impassioned fervor. Drawing inspiration from the ocean and his travels, Andrew's canvases are adorned with expressive and concise symbols, which dominate his latest body of work in the form of epic gestural abstractions.

Cuban-American multidisciplinary artist born in Philadelphia, Richard Vergez is a visual and sound artist with a background in graphic design and audio-visual composition. Before relocating to South Florida, he lived and worked in New York, where he was a member of the Brooklyn Collage Collective. His work has been shown in New York, London, Chicago, Los Angeles, and with homework at a solo-show titled ‘Trains of Thought',’ during Miami Art Week 2022 and in ‘Summer School’ in the summer of 2023.

Join us to celebrate homework’s two year anniversary, along with the grand opening of Hormiga Caribe, a group exhibition of Caribbean art featuring works by Nara Winston, Jonathan Carela, Patricia Encarnación, Julián Chams, Andrea Alfaro, Fidel López, Manuela Corji, Andrew Arocho and Richard Vergez.

Caribbean artists in this polyrhythmic mosaic of resilience are a testament to the vibrant and irrepressible spirit of the region and its artistic community.

An evening dedicated to celebrating a collective of video artists hailing from various corners of the Caribbean. These artists and filmmakers skillfully capture the essence of the region through a lens that is both critical and culturally sensitive.

The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Patricia Encarnacion and homework.

Rum & Coke Miami will be weaving a captivating musical score throughout the night, encapsulating the auditory essence of the Caribbean, much like the visual capture achieved by the filmmakers featured in Ojos Caribe.

Unwind and close out Miami Art Week with us.

Food by Moodbords and natural wine tasting by You Can’t Sip with Us (Gabriela Ospina [Boia de] + Joshua Gosline)

Music Car0zilla