New exhibit memorializes South Florida’s disappearing mobile home communities
Read the full article here: Sunset Colonies at the Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum Many thanks to Julia Cooper for the story and interview
DAWFebruary 14, 2025
Diego Alejandro Waisman: Sunset Colonies
Dear Friends, I'm very happy to invite you to the reception of Sunset Colonies at the Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum in Miami, Florida. The exhibition features works from the portfolio For I Shall Already Have Forgotten You, now part of the Frost Art Museum collection, alongside never-before-exhibited photographs from the project.Sunset Colonies is my first monograph—a 7-year documentary…
DAWJanuary 23, 2025
PhotoNOLA Photobook Fair
I'll be attending PhotoNOLA photo book fair, next Saturday, December 14th, 2024. For the first time, I'd have signed copies of Sunset Colonies, as well as 10x10 square prints for sale. The prints are limited edition of 30 (You can actually get issue for some of these prints). If you're attending PhotoNOLA, make sure you stop to say hi.
DAWDecember 11, 2024
Artist Talk at Books and Books, November 29 – 7PM
Join me this Friday, November 29 at 7 PM at Books and Books Coral Gables, for an insightful artist talk about Sunset Colonies . Sunset Colonies is a photo book that documents the disappearance and gentrification of South Florida Mobile Home Communities. https://www.booksandbooks.com/event/an-evening-with-diego-alejandro-waisman/
DAWNovember 27, 2024
Sunset Colonies Gallery Night at Books and Books
Please join me next Friday, November 1st, for the gallery opening of Sunset Colonies at Books and Books, 265 Aragon Ave, Coral Gables, FL, from 7 PM to 10 PM. https://www.booksandbooks.com/event/gallery-night-opening-sunset-colonies/ Join us this Friday, November 1st at 7 PM. Sunset Colonies is my first monograph—a seven-year project documenting the disappearance and gentrification of mobile home communities in South Florida.…
DAWOctober 28, 2024
Sunset Colonies and For I Shall Already Have Forgotten You enter the Collection of The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum ✨ I am deeply honored and humbled by the acquisition of 13 works from Sunset Colonies and For I Shall Already Have Forgotten You by the @frostartmuseum. Knowing that this body of work will join the Museum's permanent collection is…
DAWSeptember 26, 2024
Documenting South Florida’s Disappearing Mobile Communities
Sunset Colonies has officially launched a week ago. The people at the University Press of Florida asked me to write a small piece in regards to the project and its process. You can read the blog post below https://floridapress.blog/2024/09/11/documenting-south-floridas-disappearing-mobile-communities/
DAWSeptember 18, 2024
Sunset Colonies – WLRN Interview
Last month I visited the studios of WLRN and did an interview with Danny Rivero. Over the last couple of years, I have followed Danny's reporting about affordable housing as well as Tom Hudson's Sunshine Economy. Many of their stories became important parts of the research that permitted the creation of Sunset Colonies. It was great to talk to Danny…
DAWAugust 5, 2024
For I Shall Already Have Forgotten You – University of Miami Wynwood Gallery
I'm very excited to invite you to my first solo show at the UM Wynwood gallery. The opening reception is on July 20 from 6-9 PM.The show will be on view until August 30. The exhibition echoes my first monograph, Sunset Colonies, a 7-year project about the disappearance and gentrification of Mobile Home Communities in South Florida. The book is…
DAWJuly 17, 2024
Pathways at the Orlando Weekly
"The 2024 Carlos Malamud Prize winner, Tenee' Hart, will receive $10,000, as well as guidance and mentorship from the jurors. She will have a UCF Art Gallery solo exhibit in 2025 and be a member of next year's jury.Prize-giving can also be taste-making and trend-setting. The finalists this year were photographers, sculptors and installation artists. Hart's installations of fiber sculpture,…
DAWJune 19, 2024