"Jorge and his wife Darlene are major players in the Miami art scene and have given at least $60m to the Pérez Art Museum Miami. In 2019, Jorge opened El Espacio 23, a non-profit art space in Miami's Allapattah neighbourhood to display works from the couple's collection. He founded the real estate development company, The Related Group, in 1979; Forbes estimates his current net worth to be $2.6bn."
"The Miami-based collectors Jorge and Darlene Pérez are backing a new artist residency programme for Latin American and Caribbean artists launching at the Delfina Foundation in London. In addition to Delfina's established residency programme, artists will benefit from mentoring and exchange with curators and colleagues connected to the Jorge M. Pérez Collection and El Espacio 23," the project statement adds."
""By partnering with Delfina Foundation, we are investing not only in individual artistic development, but in meaningful, sustained cultural exchange between the UK, the Americas and the diaspora," Jorge adds in a statement. The couple have also established close links with Tate; last year the Pérezes donated 36 works by 15 artists from Africa and the African diaspora to the institution along with a major work by the blue-chip Abstract Expressionist artist Joan Mitchell ( Iva, 1973)."
Jorge and Darlene Pérez are funding a new residency programme at the Delfina Foundation in London to support Latin American and Caribbean artists. The programme will provide four fully funded residencies over two years at the foundation near Victoria station, which has hosted over 550 residencies for artists and arts professionals from 95 countries. Applications for the first two residencies, scheduled for autumn 2026 and winter 2027, are open. The residencies will prioritise artists from underrepresented Latin American and Caribbean countries and related US diaspora communities. Participating artists will receive mentoring and exchanges linked to the Jorge M. Pérez Collection and El Espacio 23.
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