Wish You Were Here (All Year)
Dimensions Variable presents Wish You Were Here (All Year) at Hotel Croydon. Join us for the opening reception on December 3, 2026, 3—6 pm. Hors d’oeuvres and Prosecco will be served. Featuring the work of Salua Ares, Anna Biondo, Liene Bosquê, Nicole Burko, Felice Grodin, Moira Holohan, Karla Kantorovich, Andrés Michelena, Devora Perez, Leyden Rodríguez-Casanova, Carrie Sieh, Karen Starosta-Gilinski, Marisa Telleria, Alfredo Travieso, Frances Trombly, and Claudia Vieira. The event will take place off-site at Hotel Croydon, located at 3720 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach, FL 33140. On view from November 16, 2026—January 20, 2027.
The postcard is a message sent home by someone who is away. Its familiar sign-off belongs to the traveler, written from the beach to the people left behind. Miami Beach has long been shaped around that sentence. Its hotels, promenades, and sunlit facades were made to be seen briefly and remembered from elsewhere. Each December, the art world arrives to repeat the ritual before it leaves again. Wish You Were Here (All Year) turns the message around, so that the sentence is written by those who stay.
A hotel is a building of temporary residents. Siegfried Kracauer saw the hotel lobby as a gathering of people who share a space without belonging to it, each one a guest with no one in particular as host.¹ Marc Augé later described such places of transit as “non-places,” defined by passage rather than by relation, history, or identity.² The sunroom at the entrance of the Hotel Croydon is that kind of threshold, one every guest crosses on the way somewhere else. Filled wall to wall with work by artists who live and work in this city, it becomes a room that is inhabited and crowded with presence. It is held by people who are not leaving.
Jacques Derrida observed that the French word hôte names both host and guest, so hospitality always carries the possibility of reversal.³ The exhibition rests on that reversal. In a building made for visitors, the artists are the residents and the visitor is the one passing through. The density of the installation is deliberate. No single work is given the isolation of the white cube. Instead, practices lean on one another the way neighbors do, forming the image of a community that persists not because of the season but in spite of it.
Lucy Lippard asked what it would mean for art and tourism to reckon honestly with the places they consume, and who holds the deeper knowledge of a place once the visitors have gone.⁴ Wish You Were Here (All Year) is written from that deeper knowledge. It offers the traveler an invitation rather than a souvenir: to recognize that the city they are visiting is someone’s home, and that its culture is made in the months after the crowds depart.
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Notes
- Siegfried Kracauer, “The Hotel Lobby,” in The Mass Ornament: Weimar Essays, trans. and ed. Thomas Y. Levin (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995), 173–185.
- Marc Augé, Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity, trans. John Howe (London: Verso, 1995), 77–78.
- Jacques Derrida and Anne Dufourmantelle, Of Hospitality, trans. Rachel Bowlby (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000).
- Lucy R. Lippard, On the Beaten Track: Tourism, Art, and Place (New York: The New Press, 1999).
Salua Ares
Born in São Paulo, Brazil, and recently based in Miami, Salua Ares has been developing her artistic practice through hybrid approaches that move between photography, video, installation, text, and object. Her work focuses on what fades as much as on what is revealed within the dynamics of the contemporary world, exploring frictions between past and present, memory and invention, the visible and the latent.
Words have become increasingly present, as she investigates the dialogue between text and image, or text and matter. And she often explores monochromy and the restraint of composition as a counterpoint to the many forms of excess we are daily exposed to.
In 2023, she held her first solo exhibition at the Museum of Image and Sound of São Paulo (MIS-SP), after being selected for the museum’s “Nova Fotografia” open call. The exhibited works have since become part of the museum’s permanent collection.
Salua holds a degree in Economics from INSPER (São Paulo, 2007) and in Photography from Escola Panamericana de Arte (São Paulo, 2017).
Anna Biondo
Anna Biondo (b. 1975, São Paulo, Brazil) lives and works between São Paulo and Miami. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Drawing and Design from Faculdade de Belas Artes de São Paulo (2002) and a postgraduate degree in Visual Arts from Universidade Santa Marcelina (2004), where she studied under Leda Catunda. In 2022, she completed a postgraduate program in Analytical Psychology at the Freedom Institute and is currently pursuing advanced studies in mental health practices inspired by the work of Nise da Silveira.
Her artistic practice investigates symbolism, affective experimentation, and relational processes through installations and textile-based works. Working with pure wool felt and recycled, between embroidery and cut-out forms, Biondo creates malleable structures that engage transformation, memory, and shared narratives.
From 2004 to 2007, she worked as a curatorial assistant at the Museu de Arte Moderna (MAM) São Paulo, collaborating on the curatorship and production of exhibitions. Since 2020, she has been Director of Special Projects at The55Project in Miami, where she coordinates artistic programs, residencies, workshops, and art fairs, fostering connections between Brazilian artists and the North American art scene. She was part of the Red Thread Studio collective for two years and is currently based at Dimensions Variable.
Selected exhibitions include Remorph: Unending (Doral Contemporary Art Museum), Visions from Inside the Walls (Coral Gables Museum), What Does Miami Mean to You? (Vizcaya Museum & Gardens), The Things We Carried (Emporium B Gallery, Miami), Cargo (Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro), Just Breathe (The55Project, Miami Art Week), Lumen Art (Miami Art Week), among others.
Liene Bosquê
Liene Bosquê is a visual artist and art educator based in Miami. Bosquê’s installations, sculptures, site-specific projects, as well as social engaged practice works have been exhibited in museums and galleries in the United States at MoMA PS1 in New York, Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, Frost Art Museum in Miami, among other places. Her artworks were also included in international exhibitions in Brazil, Portugal, Italy, Turkey, and South Korea; at places such as Museu de História Natural in Lisbon, Museu de Arte de Ribeirão Preto and Sesc São Paulo. Her work is in major collections, such as the Perez Art Museum of Miami (PAMM), Miami-Dade Art in Public Places, Soho House and private collections internationally.
In 2023, Liene received the South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship. Bosquê received the Ellies Creator Award, Miami’s Visual Arts Awards, and a WaveMaker Grant to present HamacaS Project. First iteration of this socially engaged project was shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art of North Miami (MOCA NoMi) during February 2020.
Bosquê was artist in residence at Oolite Arts 2023-24 in Miami Beach. In 2019 she was at residencies in New York such as Wave Hill, Bronx and Queens Museum’s ArtBuilt. In 2016, she received the Emerging Artist Fellowship from the Socrates Sculpture Park in Queens, where she presented her first public sculpture.
Liene Bosquê holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, a BFA from the São Paulo State University, and a BA in Architecture and Urbanism from Mackenzie University in Brazil, where she is from. Bosquê is professor at University of Miami.
Moira Holohan
Moira Holohan (b.1976, New York, NY; lives and works, Miami, FL).
Raised in Manhattan, Holohan studied at iconic New York art schools such as the Arts Students League of New York, Cooper Union, New York Studio School, or the National Academy of Design School of Fine Art. Holohan was greatly influenced by some of her earlier training including her high school teacher Marc Schlesinger who assisted Lee Krasner, a renowned artist from the New York School. Holohan was an artist assistant to John Coplans (1995) and to Fred Tomaselli (1998). Holohan received a Masters of Fine Arts Degree at Hunter College, NY and a Bachelor Degree at Bard College, NY.
Holohan lives and works in Miami, FL. She was an artist in residence at Annex Arts in Castine, ME with a final exhibition, Subsurface(2019) and had a solo exhibition Green, at the Miami Beach Botanical Garden(2019) Holohan was one of the cofounders of meetinghouse, an exhibition space merging disciplines of art, design and architecture. She served as the Director of Art from (2015-2018). Since 2020 Holohan has been an associate artist at the Bakehouse, Miami, Fl.
Select group exhibitions include; A Thread of Execution, Dimensions Variable, Miami, Fl , (2017) Aesthetics & Values, FIU Frost Art Museum, Miami, Fl , Screen Dance Miami, Perez Art Museum, Miami, Fl (2016 ) Flow State: Thisishappening, Emerson Dorsch Gallery, Miami, Fl (2014 ) Pattern State: Fringe Project, Miami, Fl (curated by Amanda Sanfilippo) (2014) Miami Light and Texture, Miami, Fl (curated by Kathryn Mikesell) (2014) Cortaditos, MDC Museum of Art & Design, Miami, Fl (2013 ) New Work Miami 2013, Perez Art Museum Miami, Miami, Fl (2013), co-curated by PAMM associate curators René Morales and Diana Nawi. Practices Remain, Regina Rex, Queens, NY (2012), DCG 2012, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, Fl , (2012); Practices Remain, Norwegian Wood Building, Miami Fl (2012); Split, General Practice, Miami, Fl, curated by Carlos Rigau (2011); Re-Framing the Feminine, Girls Club Web Project, Fort Lauderdale, Fl (2010); and Sky/water…Reproduction, de la Cruz Collection Contemporary Art Space, Miami, Fl, curated by Carlos Rigau (2009 ).
Felice Grodin
Felice Grodin lives and works in Miami Beach, Florida. Grodin received a Bachelor of Architecture from Tulane University (1992) and a Master of Architecture with Distinction from Harvard University (1997). Her work highlights the transformative and unstable state of our ecosystems. She depicts speculative futures and abstract landscapes that invite the viewer to mediate on their space and environment. Solo exhibitions include “Yellowjacket_2524” at Dimensions Variable (2024) in Miami, “IM/Movable Assets” at the Miami International Airport (2019-20), “Felice Grodin: Invasive Species”at the Pérez Art Museum Miami (2017-2019), and “Mezzbug (Offspring 3.0)” for Special Projects through Untitled Art Fair (2018) in Miami. Selected group exhibitions include: “Natured Studies” at Void_Melbourne (2024), “Draw: Point to Point” at the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum (2023) in Miami, “Elemental – Terra, Tide & Time” at The Frank Gallery in Pembroke Pines (2022), and “Tension in 3 Dimensions” at the Deering Estate (2019) in Miami.
Grodin was recently an artist-in-residence at the Oolite Arts Studio Residency (2019-22). Other residencies include the AIRIE Residency (Artists in Residence in Everglades) with her collaborative A.S.T. (2021). Grodin is a founding member of A.S.T. (Alliance of the Southern Triangle) which is an initiative speculating on interconnections between climate change, real-estate development, contemporary art, geopolitics, infrastructure, and technology. Additionally, Grodin was awarded a Wavemaker Grant through Cannonball (2015), for her group exhibition “Residential Properties” that took place at The Fountainhead Residency in Miami. Her work is included in The Joann Gonzalez Hickey Collection in New York, Girls’ Club Collection in Ft. Lauderdale, as well as the Pérez Art Museum Miami.
Frances Trombly
Frances Trombly (b. 1976) is a Miami-based artist whose work considers the relationship between textiles and painting, exposing history and labor by deconstructing and liberating the canvas. Through this process, Trombly challenges the historical hierarchies between painting and textile practices, asserting fiber as both material and structure within contemporary art.
Trombly received her BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 1998. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at institutions including El Espacio 23, the Québec City Biennale (Manif d’art), Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans, Pérez Art Museum Miami, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, The Bass, Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, and Socrates Sculpture Park. Recent exhibitions include What Holds, a solo exhibition at Shoshana Wayne Gallery in Los Angeles (2026).
Trombly has received numerous grants, awards, and residencies. Residencies include TEXERE in Oaxaca (2026); Artpace (2022); the Hambidge Center (2019); Oolite Arts (2019); and the Vermont Studio Center (2007). Awards and recognitions include The Ellies (2024, 2019); Knight Arts Champion (2017); nominated for a United States Artists Fellowship (2017); and recipient of the South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship (2009). Her work is held in public and private collections including Pérez Art Museum Miami, Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, NSU Art Museum, and the Jorge M. Pérez Collection.
In addition to her studio practice, Trombly is Co-Founding Director of Dimensions Variable (DV), the Miami-based nonprofit contemporary art space she established with artist Leyden Rodríguez-Casanova in 2009 to support experimental practices, artists, exhibitions, studios, and public dialogue.
Nicole Burko
Nicole Burko (b. 1987, Toronto, Canada; lives and works in Miami, FL) earned her BFA in painting from the New World School of the Arts in 2011 and her MFA from Columbia University in 2019. Alongside her studio practice she has maintained a parallel career in teaching, working as an assistant professor at Columbia University and, currently, as a visual art instructor at Miami Arts Charter School. Burko’s oil paintings draw from her own explorations of the ocean through freediving—the act of taking a single breath and descending as far as humanly possible—to produce psychological landscapes that investigate the vastness of the natural world through an intimate lens. She is an Artist Resident at Dimensions Variable, and in 2025 she presented Sinking Feeling, her first solo exhibition with Andrew Reed Gallery, Miami. Her work has also been exhibited in museums and institutions in New York and Miami, including the Frost Art Museum. Select group exhibitions include Still, Moving, Spinello Projects (2026); Verdure, Dimensions Variable (2026); Fairyland 2: Deeper, Darker, Mindy Solomon Gallery, curated by Valerie Hegarty (2025); Untitled Art, Miami Beach, with Dimensions Variable (2025); and Painting Now Forever, Edge Zones, curated by Charo Oquet (2024).
Andrés Michelena
Born in 1963, Caracas-Venezuela. Studied architecture at the Universidad Central de Venezuela from 1981 to 1986. In 1992 received a Bachelor in Fine Arts at Federico Brandt Institute of Fine Arts in Caracas. In 2000 he moved to Miami, Florida and in 2006 he won the 4th Prize at the MoLAA Awards, an Honorable Mention at the Rozas-Botrán Awards in 2015 and in 2025 received the DC Foundation Acquisition Award. His works are present in many private and public collections like Estrellita Brodsky’s Collection, Brillembourg-Capriles Collection, Arturo Filio, Arturo Mosquera, Lothar Muller, Rozas-Botran Collection, Miami Dade College’s Collection, JCMC, DC Foundation, and MoLAA’s Permanent Collection among others.
Devora Perez
Devora Perez is a visual artist who works across three Miami-based art nonprofit organizations, contributing her skills in project management, operations, and digital archiving. Devora received her BFA from New World School of the Arts in 2016, and her MFA from Florida International University in 2020. Devora’s practice centers on the exploration of abstraction, materiality, and perception, enabling a deliberate blurring of dimensional boundaries. Her work exists in the spaces between painting, sculpture, and installation, resisting singular categorization. Minimal and subtle in form, her two- and three-dimensional pieces disrupt conventional notions of structure, utility, and definition.
Solo exhibitions include “In My Mind’s Eye” (2018) at Miami Beach Urban Studios and “In Transparent Color” (2023) at Visual Gallery, Miami Beach. Select exhibitions include: “Inter|Sectionality: Diaspora Art from the Creole City”, (2019), Corcoran Museum, Washington, D.C; “A.I.M Biennial”, (2020), Miami, FL; “It Feels Too Familiar 2021 Redux”, (2021), Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL; “Color + Light + Space”, (2021), Coral Springs Museum of Art, Coral Springs, FL; “At the Edge”,(2022) Oolite Arts, Miami Beach, FL; “Chroma in Situ (Wall-hung Series)”, (2022), Walgreens Windows with the Bass Art Museum; “Depth of Identity 2”, (2023), Adrienne Arsht Center & Knight Concert Hall, Miami, FL. “The Whole World is Churning: Then and Now and Now and Beyond”, (2024), DVCAI at Barry University. Perez was a recipient of the Betty Laird Perry Award from the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum (2020) and the Ellies Creator Award from Oolite (2023). Perez’s work was acquired by the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum and is in private collections.
Karla Kantorovich
Karla Kantorovich is a mixed media artist from Mexico City-based in Miami, FL. She works with paintings, textiles, hand-made paper, and assemblages, leaning into the importance of texture and dimensionality to explore renewal. Karla’s art is a testament to the transformative power of nature. She brings the outside world into our realms, allowing us to explore the profound togetherness that binds us to the natural environment. By deconstructing and reassembling sustainably sourced materials, Karla creates a visual language that speaks to the ephemeral nature of life, the beauty of decay, and the intricate layers that compose our collective story.
Kantorovich received the Ellies Creator Award 2021 from Oolite Arts, leading to her immersive art installation “AMATE” at Piero Atchugarry Gallery in 2022. She also received an Honorable Mention at the XIX Bienal Rufino Tamayo in Mexico City, exhibiting at the Museo Rufino Tamayo and the MACO Museum of Arte Contemporaneo in Oaxaca, Mexico. She has showcased her work nationally and internationally, including at the XIX International Biennial of Contemporary Art in Florence, the MFA Exhibition at the Frost Art Museum, the Mexican Consulate in Miami, and the Society of the Four Arts in Palm Beach.
Kantorovich holds a Master of Fine Arts from Florida International University. Actively engaging with the community is of utmost importance to her; she works as a teaching artist aiming to inspire, connect, and provoke meaningful dialogues, embodying the potential for regeneration and growth.
Leyden Rodríguez-Casanova
Leyden Rodríguez-Casanova (b. 1973 in Havana, Cuba) is an artist, curator, and co-founding director of Dimensions Variable (DV), operating between Miami and Lyndhurst. He attended the Ringling School of Art and Design and the New World School of the Arts. Rodríguez-Casanova has received several prestigious awards, including the Cintas Foundation Fellowship in Visual Arts, two South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowships, the Felix Gonzalez-Torres Visiting Artist Grant at FIU, and Ville de Paris-Culturesfrance in Paris. He has also been nominated for the Joan Mitchell and United States Artists Fellowships. His projects have garnered support from organizations such as the National Endowment for the Arts, the Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Miami-Dade County, and the State of Florida. He has been recognized multiple times as a Knight Foundation award winner, honored as a Knight Arts Champion, and received an Ellies Creator Award.
His work has been exhibited widely at prestigious venues, including the Sculpture Center, Socrates Sculpture Park, Abrons Arts Center, Anina Nosie Gallery, and White Box, all in New York. Internationally, his work has been displayed at the Museo de Bellas Artes and Factoria Habana in Havana, Cuba; ZONA MACO Arte Contemporaneo in Mexico City, Mexico; Capri Palace and Villa Lena in Italy; and Prosjektrom Normanns in Stavanger, Norway. Additionally, he has exhibited at Shoshana Wayne Gallery in Los Angeles, Casa Riegner in Bogotá, Colombia, as well as several renowned spaces in Miami, such as PAMM, Frost Museum FIU, The Bass, MOCA, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, David Castillo Gallery, Emerson Dorsch, Locust Projects, Untitled Art, and Dimensions Variable.
Carrie Sieh
Carrie Sieh (b.1978, Los Angeles CA) is an artist and librarian living and working in Miami, Florida. Her work engages with histories and intersections of ecology, economics, gender, memory, and technology. She received a BA in painting and photography from University of California at Santa Cruz (2001), and a Master’s degree in Library and Information Science from San Jose State University in California (2008). She is also a cofounder of the Miami Artist Census.
Sieh has participated in residencies at Atlantic Center for the Arts, Oolite Arts, Bakehouse Art Complex, and the Deering Estate. Selected exhibitions include Artis-Naples Museum, Ruth Funk Center for Textile Arts, Coral Gables Museum, Art & Culture Center of Hollywood, and Miami International Airport. Collections include 21c Hotels; James Hotel; United Way; Francie Bishop Good & David Horvitz (Girl’s Club); Kathryn Grody & Mandy Patinkin, and private collections nationally and internationally. Sieh is a member of W.A.G.E., and is represented by Bernice Steinbaum Gallery in Miami, FL.
Karen Starosta-Gilinski
Karen Starosta-Gilinski (b. 1982, Minnesota, USA; lives and works in Miami, FL) was raised in Caracas, Venezuela. She studied at the Accademia del Giglio in Florence and earned her BFA, cum laude, from the Miami International University of Art & Design. Her practice gathers found objects, altered materials, and comforting things—clay on canvas, plush toys, recycled objects—into assemblages and sculptures that are humorous, tactile, and heartfelt. Solo exhibitions include the Melin and Moore Buildings in the Miami Design District, the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood (curated by Jane Hart), and the Frost Art Museum (curated by Klaudio Rodriguez), which holds a commissioned sculpture in its permanent collection. A former pioneer artist at Fountainhead Studios, she now works from a studio at Dimensions Variable in Little River, Miami. Select group exhibitions include David Castillo Gallery, the Bass Museum, the Coral Gables Museum, the Freedom Tower (curated by Sonia Becce), Bakehouse (curated by Bonnie Clearwater), and Primary, Los Angeles, with further showings in London, Venezuela, and Shanghai. Her work is held in public and private collections, including the FIU Frost Art Museum and the Bass Museum.
Marisa Telleria
Born in Nicaragua, Telleria moved to the United States in 1978. In 1993, she earned a BFA from Florida International University in Miami and in 1996, a MFA at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia, both magna cum laude, after receiving several awards and distinguished fellowships. She has lived and worked as a professional artist in Washington DC, New York City, Managua and Miami. Her work has been shown in solo as well as group exhibitions in museums and galleries in the US, Latin America and Europe. Selected museum shows are The Brooklyn Museum, El Museo del Barrio, the Albright Knox Gallery, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, The Frost Museum of Art, The Perez Art Museum and Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico. Her work is represented in several private collections and in the permanent collection of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, the National Museum of Women in the Arts both in Washington DC, the Frost Museum of Art in Miami, Fl, and the Weatherspoon Museum, Greensboro, NC. Her work has also been included in biennials at the Museo del Barrio, New York, NY, the Contemporary Museum, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic and Fundación OrtizGurdian, Managua, Nicaragua. She currently lives and works in Miami.
Alfredo Travieso
Born July 1, 1973 in Bogota, Colombia, and raised in Caracas, Venezuela. Alfredo was trained in film and arts in New York City. His studies include a Bachelor’s degree in Communication Arts from Marymount Manhattan College; film directing and production, at Parsons New School University; and numerous production collaborations with New York University’s TISCH School of the Arts film program. He currently resides and works out of the city of Miami, Florida. He has obtained his MFA at the School of Visual Arts: Arts Practice Program in New York in 2014. Alfredo has had group exhibitions in Miami, New York and Philadelphia.
Claudia Vieira
Claudia Vieira is a multimedia artist based in New York City, expanding her practice in Miami, FL. Born in Porto Alegre, Brazil, she earned a BA in Social Communications before shifting to Fine Arts, obtaining a BFA in Studio Art, a certificate from the New York Studio School, and an MFA in Sculpture and New Forms. For over two decades, Vieira has explored the transformative potential of continuous lines through large-scale drawings, site-specific installations, and live performances. Her work, rooted in the performative act of drawing, meditates on movement, time, and presence. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Queens Museum of Art, El Museo del Barrio, the Museum of Modern Art in Brazil, Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin, and the Kyoto Arts Center in Japan. A solo exhibition at Praxis, New York, featured her large-scale drawings and immersive live performances. Vieira has been recognized with numerous awards, including the XIV Salão da Bahia from the Museum of Modern Art in Brazil, the Projectiles Contemporary Art Prize from FUNARTE/the Brazilian Ministry of Culture, and the Urban Artists Initiative from NYFA/New York Foundation for the Arts.