The Pérez Art Museum Miami has acquired a work for its permanent collection from the New Art Dealers Alliance’s (Nada) Miami fair. Jennifer Inacio, the associate curator, and Maritza Lacayo, the assistant curator, picked a photograph by the New York-based artist Camila Falquez, Samantha Siagama, Trans-Indigenous Leader (2023), from Hannah Traore Gallery’s stand. The work’s subject is a coffee picker and activist in Colombia who leads a group of trans women exiled from the Emberá Indigenous community because of their gender identities.
Pérez Art Museum Miami acquires Colombian trans activist’s portrait at Nada
Photograph by Camila Falquez shows coffee picker Samantha Siagama
7 December 2023
Samantha Siagama advocates for a group of trans women exiled from the Emberá Indigenous community Courtesy the artist and Hannah Traore Gallery
