NICOLE COMBEAU AND SUE MONTOYA
CONCOURSE D | GATES D22 AND D25 | POST-SECURITY
NICOLE COMBEAU
NICOLE COMBEAU
Nicole Combeau is an artist, photographer and educator born and raised to Colombian migrants in Miami. She received a BFA from the School of Visual Arts in Photography and Video, and completed graduate level training in Expressive Art and Somatic Education from the Tamalpa Institute. She has exhibited nationally in New York City, Massachusetts, and Miami, and has created public photographic activations at the Pérez Art Museum of Miami, the Wolfsonian FIU, and Bakehouse Art Complex, among others. She was a ProjectArt resident artist, and completed a residency in ArteSumapaz, in Colombia in 2020.
(Left)
Untitled (thank you for letting me see myself in you) 2023 | Archival Inkjet Print | 13 x 20 in.
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(Right)
Untitled (I sat for two hours watching you fly, both uncomfortably and in awe)
2023 | Archival Inkjet Print | 8 x 12 in.
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(Front Cover)
“Mi hogar está en la sonrisa de mi abuela, en la forma en que los pájaros vuelan, en los sonidos rítmicos del viento – ahí, me encuentro a mi misma”
2024 | Archival Inkjet Print | 36 x 30 in.
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(Below)
XIV.I wanna relax and be tender (from series Letras Viajeras, Traveling Letters)
2024 | Archival Inkjet Print | 18 x 24 in.
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(Previous Page)
IV. era unahojaenblanco(fromseriesLetras Viajeras,TravelingLetters)
2022 | Archival Inkjet Print | 44 x 33 in.
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XXI.Historias que la gente no olvido (from series Letras Viajeras, Traveling Letters)
2024 | Archival Inkjet Print | 18 x 24 in.
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SUE MONTOYA
Sue Montoya was born in Los Angeles and raised between Tegucigalpa, Honduras and Miami. She received a BFA from New World School of the Arts, and her MFA from the University of Florida. She has exhibited internationally in Berlin, Mexico City, and Miami. She has completed artist
residencies at 4Most Gallery, Anderson Ranch, SOMA, Radio 28 and at Artpace. She was shortlisted for the Frankenthaler Climate Art Awards in 2022 for Change Atlas, a transmedia exhibition exploring climate change in Miami.
NICOLE
COMBEAU
AND SUE MONTOYA
CONCOURSE D | GATES D22 AND D25 | POST-SECURITY
ABOUT THE CURATOR
Amanda Bradley is WOPHA Associate Curator of Programming. She is a Belizean American artist, curator and arts professional. She received a BFA in Photography from New World School of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited in exhibitions internationally. Bradley is a recipient of the 2024 Catalyst Award from DVCAI and a two-time Suncoast Regional Emmy award winning producer.
ABOUT WOPHA
WOPHA researches, promotes, supports, and educates on the contributions of women and non-binary photographers to modern and contemporary art. Its most significant project, the WOPHA Congress is a four-day creative convening that brings together international women and non-binary photographers, art historians, and curators to discuss groundbreaking research on women in photography. Follow Us: @wophafoundation @wophacongress
In partnership with Women Photographers International Archive (WOPHA), MIA Galleries presents the exhibition In Between Sentiments, curated by Amanda Bradley. In Between Sentiments highlights the works of Nicole Combeau and Sue Montoya, who both use photography as a medium to delve into the intersections of place, memory, and the movement that comes with migration. Both artists use the camera as a tool to uncover the sentiments that exist between person and place in often fleeting moments.
Nicole Combeau employs deliberate techniques such as the manipulation of light and double exposures to weave layered and collaborative narratives into her work and ground herself in relationship to her surroundings. These processes, often unpredictable, merge body and landscape seamlessly–where the border of the body and the land it occupies become one plane–mirroring the notion that we both come from and become the places we move through. Often taking the form of portraits and selfportraits, Combeau builds her photographic narratives in collaboration with both her subjects and the medium of photography itself.
Sue Montoya documents the landscapes she moves through, layering memories and sentiments and pairing each with a song, which becomes an ongoing love letter to places left behind, people lost, and lived experiences.
This series, Letras Viajeras (Traveling Letters), culminates in an ongoing heartfelt love letter to all the places she once knew. Multidimensional in its format, this photographic essay is activated by the viewer - visitors are invited to scan a QR code to listen to the playlist or take a postcard to mail, creating an interactive and engaging experience.
Both artists, first-generation Americans, navigate their sense of place in the world with their cameras collecting and transforming moments, feelings, people and places into tangible sentiments and archives. The images become entry points that question relationships and histories.
This exhibition is part of the 2024 WOPHA Congress programming. The WOPHA Congress takes place from October 23-26, 2024, at Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) and various locations across South Florida.
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