Artist Category: Represented

James Perkins (b. 1978) is an American sculptor who creates a contemporary discourse for the nonsite—a term originated by Robert Smithson in 1968. Perkins collaborates with nature to make a mark, rather than presenting raw earth as an art object. His “post-totem structures”, silk canvases stretched on wooden frames, are buried in the earth for up to two years and are shaped and painted by the bleaching sun, salt spray, sand, soil, and hurricane force winds. His unique practice merges the philosophies of Land Artists like Michael Heizer, Robert Irwin, and James Turrell, with the sensibilities of minimalist painters like Ad Reinhardt, Barnett Newman, and Mark Rothko. The performance elements of his work hearken the bodily action painting of Jackson Pollock or Helen Frankenthaler. His work activates these histories to contemplate how abstraction and land can invoke a society to consider a more harmonic, sustainable and shared vision of the future.

He has exhibited with Metro Pictures, the New York University Institute of Fine Arts, County Gallery, Hannah Traore Gallery, Ace Gallery, Mana Contemporary, Dallas Contemporary, and the School of Visual Arts. Most recently, during a one-week residency for the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (SMoCA), Perkins installed his sculptures in the Sonoran Desert. Those nonsites will be installed in his Fall 2025 solo show at SMoCA.

Perkins’ work has been featured in Domino, Wallpaper*, Artsy, Hodinkee, Robb Report, LUXE Interiors & Design amongst others. His brand collaborations include Stetson, West Elm, J. Crew, Huckberry, Sleepy Jones, Lulu & Georgia, Faust Wines, UBS and The Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA). Perkins received a BA from Yale University in Chemistry and a Master’s from the School of Visual Arts in Photography. He lives and works in New York City and Fire Island, NY.

Camila Falquez is a New York-based photographer and visual artist of Colombian heritage, born in Mexico City and raised in Spain. Working across portraiture, fine art, performance and fashion, her practice draws on surrealist potentiality and a bold chromatic language to explore minoritarian subjects’ modes of survival, joy, beauty and collective organizing. Having grown up in Europe from Latin American roots, Falquez examines the social and political tensions, histories, and possibilities that emerge at the intersection of diasporic aesthetics and Western Art histories centering queer, immigrant and indigenous stories. Falquez’ fashion photography practice becomes an extension of her broader inquiry, using color, gesture, and staging to challenge normative constructions of beauty, identity, and power, while continuing to expand the possibilities of what fashion imagery can hold.Throughout her editorial and fashion career, she has collaborated with leading publications and international magazines.

Alongside her editorial and  fashion work, Falquez has  developed long-term artistic projects such as Compañerx(2023–2024) and Being (2018–2023), The Orishas (2018- Ongoing), Arewa ( 2021-ongoing),  which center trans, non-binary, and communities at the margins of power in different capacities. 

Falquez has presented her work internationally through solo and group exhibitions, including Compañerx at Capture Photo Fest, Vancouver (2026); On The Flip Side with Public Art Fund across New York, Boston, and Chicago (2026); Past as Prologue: A Historical Acknowledgment, Part II at the National Academy of Design, New York (2025); a field of bloom and hum at the Tang Museum, Saratoga (2025); and Narratives in Focus at Pérez Art Museum,, Miami (2025). Earlier projects include The Voice Does Go Up, a sound and video installation co-created with Luis Rincón Alba at Hannah Traore Gallery (2023), and her solo exhibition Gods That Walk Among Us at Hannah Traore, New York (2022).

Her work is included in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Pérez Art Museum Miami; The Montclair Art Museum; and The Dean Collection, among others, marking a growing institutional recognition of her practice. In 2023, she received the Pérez Art Museum Miami Sixth Annual Acquisition Selection, was named Photographer of the Year at the Latin American Fashion Awards, and was awarded the TD Bank and NADA Curated Spotlight. ‘She will complete her M.A. in Performance Studies from NYU Tisch in Spring 2027.

Falquez has been invited to speak and present her work at institutions including the International Center of Photography (2026); the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York University (2026); The Museum of Modern Art (2025); the Fashion Institute of Technology(2024); Parsons School of Design (2022); NYU Tisch School of the Arts (2020); and the School of Visual Arts (2019).

Misha Japanwala is a Pakistani artist and fashion designer, whose work is rooted in the rejection and deconstruction of shame attached to one’s body, and discussion of themes such as bodily autonomy, gender based violence, moral policing, sexuality and censorship. Speaking to the objectification, commodification and control exerted on marginalized bodies by societies and systems enveloped in patriarchy, Misha’s work aims to create a new historical record and documentation of people — one that is on our own terms, and rooted in honesty, resistance and hope. Through molding the body to create casts that are worn as sculptural garments, Misha’s artistic practice blurs the lines between fashion and fine art, clothing and nudity, and asks viewers to see the body exactly as it is. Her practice is an insistence for bodies to occupy physical space, emphasizing the notion that our bodies shouldn’t need to prove anything other than being allowed to simply exist.

Misha’s calligraphic work takes the form of silhouettes of the body intertwined with Urdu script — often in an effort to reclaim words and ideas that are used as weapons of shame and control. Misha has exhibited work in Pakistan and the US. Her work has been photographed for and written about in numerous international publications including The New York Times, Vogue, The Guardian, Vice, and Document Journal. Misha’s pieces have been worn by people such as Cardi B, Lupita Nyong’o, Lil Nas X, and Joy Crookes. She was an honoree on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in 2021. Her work continues to be an explorative, radical, and shameless celebration of people and their bodies. Misha Japanwala was raised in Karachi, Pakistan. She has a BFA in Fashion Design from Parsons School of Design, and is currently based between Karachi and New Jersey, where she lives with her husband, and puppy Snug The Joiner.