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Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) has announced the recipients of the sixth cycle of the Caribbean Cultural Institute (CCI) Fellowship Program, a program aimed at advancing the study of Caribbean art while providing opportunities for exchange and collaboration across the region and its diasporic communities.
The 2025 CCI Fellowship recipients are M. Florine Démosthène, Rianna Jade Parker, and Celia Irina González.
Taking place between September and December, the 2025 iteration of the program features three individual and self-directed fellowships: CCI Artist Fellowship, CCI Research Fellowship, and CCI + Women Photographers International Archive (WOPHA) Fellowship.
The sixth cycle of CCI Fellows were selected through an open call by Iberia Pérez González, PAMM’s Andrew W. Mellon Caribbean Cultural Institute curatorial associate; Marie Vickles, PAMM’s senior director of education, and Franklin Sirmans, Sandra and Tony Tamer director at PAMM.
External collaborators included Aldeide Delgado, founder and director of WOPHA; Krys Ortega, curatorial and public programs manager at Bakehouse Art Complex; Tatiana Flores, Jefferson Scholars Foundation Edgar F. Shannon professor of art history at the University of Virginia, and Yina Jiménez Suriel, independent curator and researcher.
“This year’s cohort of CCI Fellows is united by their deep research orientation and an investment in alternative forms of knowledge,” Iberia Pérez González said. “From explorations into human-non-human relationships and ancestral memory to under-recognized artistic legacies, these fellows bring distinct methodologies and perspectives that reflect the richness and complexity of the Caribbean.”
CCI strives to provide visibility to Caribbean art in Miami through partnerships with local art organizations and institutions. Through research and production-based art fellowships, the program cultivates new ideas that challenge traditional conceptions of Caribbean art, generates innovative study of the region, and reflects upon the contemporary state of Caribbean art and thought.
M. Florine Démosthène
2025 CCI Artist Fellow
M. Florine Démosthène was born in the United States and raised between Port-au-Prince, Haiti and New York. Démosthène earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Parsons School for Design in New York and her Master of Fine Arts from Hunter College-City University of New York.
She has exhibited extensively through solo and selected exhibitions in the United States, Caribbean, UK, Europe, and Africa, with recent solo shows including, “What The Body Carries” at Frist Art Museum Nashville, “Mastering The Dream” at SCAD Museum of Art Savannah, and “In The Realm Of Love” at Mariane Ibrahim Gallery in Paris, France.
She is a recipient of a New York Foundation of the Arts Artist Fellowship, Wachtmeister Award, Tulsa Artist Fellowship, Arts Moves Africa Grant, Black Star Award, and a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant. She has participated in artist residencies in the United States, Caribbean, UK, Slovakia, South Africa, Ghana, and Tanzania.
Her works are on view at National Museum for African American History and Culture, Africa First Collection, University of South Africa (UNISA), Lowe Museum of Art, Hessler Museum of Art, PFF Collection of African American Art, the City of Seattle Washington, and in various private collections worldwide.
Rianna Jade Parker
2025 CCI Research Fellow
Rianna Jade Parker is a writer, critic, historian, and curator. Her criticism and essays have appeared in ARTnews, Artforum, BOMB, Frieze, and The Guardian. She has contributed to numerous catalogue and gallery publications for Stephen Friedman Gallery, Thadeous Ropac, The Royal Academy, Hayward Gallery, Tate Etc, Camden Art Centre, Thames & Hudson, Phaidon Press, MoMA, and ICA Boston.
She is a contributing writer at Frieze Magazine and a contributing editor for Tate Publishing. She is the author of A Brief History of Black British Art (Tate Publishing) and her second book is forthcoming (Frances Lincoln). Parker has programmed talks and screenings and has taught classes internationally at Cambridge University, Tate Britain, ICA London, Royal College of Art, South London Gallery, Black Cultural Archives, and Somerset House.
Celia Irina González
2025 CCI + WOPHA Fellow
Celia Irina González lives and works in Mexico City. She holds a PhD in social anthropology from the Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, and a master’s degree in visual anthropology from FLACSO, Ecuador.
She has participated in the exhibitions Emergent/cy, Entre Vienna, Austria; Cuba Dispersa, Cranbrook Art Museum, Detroit; Arte Latinoamericano, Colección MEIAC, Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo, Badajoz; Sin Authorización: Contemporary Cuban Art, Wallach Art Gallery, NY; Ojos de hueso, Angeles Baños Gallery, Spain; Esok, Jakarta Biennial, Indonesia; Kochi-Muziris Biennial, India; Cuban Pavilion, Venice Biennial, and Rendez-Vous, Lyon Biennial.
She has received the Botín Foundation Grant for Visual Arts and the Grants & Commissions Program from The Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation. She has been in residence at Reinbeckhallen Residency Program, Berlin; El Ranchito Residency, Matadero Center, Madrid in collaboration with Artista x Artista; Residency Program KulturKontakt, Vienna, Austria, and Skills Biennial, Gray’s School of Art, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen City.
About the Caribbean Cultural Institute
The Caribbean Cultural Institute (CCI) is a curatorial and research platform at Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) dedicated to promoting and supporting the artistic and cultural production of the Caribbean and its diasporas through exhibitions, research, fellowships, public programs, and collection development.
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