Baker—Hall is pleased to partner with Oolite Arts on an exhibition entitled, Transit Memory, featuring a selection of artists from Oolite Arts’ 2025 Studio and Live.In.Arts Residencies. Co-curated by Baker—Hall & Gabi Di Giammarco “Transit Memory” brings together four artists—Sepideh Kalani, Diana Larrea, Ana Mosquera, and Zonia Zena—and is on view January 10—February 22, 2026.
Transit Memory considers how identity is constructed, negotiated, and reassembled across shifting cultural, political, and geographic terrains. Through photography, video, technical drawing, embroidery, ceramics, and porcelain sculpture, the exhibition approaches memory as an active process and transit as both condition and material. Each artist examines systems that shape selfhood—bureaucracy, migration, censorship, and inherited traditions—revealing how belonging and autonomy persist under conditions of displacement and uncertainty.
Anchored in Miami, a city defined by diasporic movement and layered histories, the exhibition reflects on the immigrant experience as a continual balancing act between resilience and surveillance, personal agency and institutional constraint. Across the works, lived experience intersects with larger governing frameworks, highlighting the tension between interior life and external structures that regulate visibility, legitimacy, and recognition.
Sepideh Kalani’s multidisciplinary practice draws from Persian visual traditions, neuroscience, and ceramics to explore embodied selfhood shaped by histories of censorship and communal negotiation. Diana Larrea’s lens turns inward, examining domestic space, family archives, and inherited memory to reflect on loss, return, and the fragile architecture of home. Ana Mosquera interrogates bureaucratic systems through technical drawing and mapping, reframing administrative spaces—waiting rooms, checkpoints, and documents—as sites where identity is suspended and remade. Zonia Zena’s photographic and embroidered works reconnect human presence to the natural world, tracing cultural memory through landscapes marked by care, continuity, and resilience.
Together, the artists in Transit Memory propose identity not as a fixed state, but as something continually formed through movement—across borders, systems, and time itself.
Sepideh Kalani
Sepideh Kalani is a Persian artist who immigrated to the United States in 2021. She earned her B.F.A. from the University of Guilan, Iran, in 2015 with a tuition waiver scholarship and later completed her M.F.A. in Fine Arts at the University of Miami in 2024 on a full scholarship. Her deep curiosity about the intersection of art and science led her to study neuroscience from 2016 to 2017. Since 2015, she has been self-taught in ceramics and glazing, continuously expanding her expertise.
In addition to her artistic practice, Sepideh has mastered traditional Persian techniques, including ancient glazing methods, miniature painting, character design, woodcraft, carpentry, plaster molding, and pottery. Her work has been exhibited in prominent museums and galleries, with pieces held in collections across Iran and the United States.
Now based in the U.S., Sepideh creates sculptures that serve as visual storytellers, exploring themes of identity, gender, religion, and political transition. Drawing from her experiences as an Iranian woman, her work bridges cultural heritage with contemporary expression, weaving narratives that transcend borders.
Diana Larrea
Diana Larrea is a Peruvian documentary filmmaker, photographer, and visual artist working in Miami and Cusco. Her directorial debut, “Monarcas,” a short documentary addressing the crisis of wage theft among undocumented day laborers in Homestead, FL, premiered at the Miami Film Festival and received official selections at LALIFF and the Trinidad & Tobago Film Festival. Her upcoming film, “Hatun Sonqo,” tells the story of language preservation through the experiences of Maya and Quechua families living in South Florida. It has been selected for the Knight Heroes Short Documentary Development Program, supported by IF/Then and the Knight Foundation, as well as Oolite Art’s 2023 The Ellies Creator Award. Diana has also lent her editing skills to various projects, including “Madame Pipi” (2021), “Birthright” (2021), and the Emmy-winning documentary “Six Degrees of Immigration” (2019). Throughout the past decade, Diana has collaborated with Miami artists, capturing their essence through intimate portraits while simultaneously documenting communities grappling with the effects of development and gentrification. She is currently working on “I Left Too Soon,” a multidisciplinary project and photobook that explores absence, identity, and memory through family archives, video, and textiles. Diana holds an Associate’s degree in Film Production from Miami-Dade College and began her career as an editor for broadcast networks and institutions. She aims to poetically portray and empower the immigrant experience through her work.
Ana Mosquera
Ana Mosquera (b. 1983, Caracas, Venezuela) is a media artist based in Miami. She received her MFA in Sculpture from Tyler School of Art and Architecture in 2020 and a BArch from Universidad Central de Venezuela in 2015. Through interactive installations and digital storytelling, her work engages with technology to explore how it shapes systems and reveals underlying social structures. Her most recent exhibitions include Carnet to Go at Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo, Montevideo (2023); Tierras Raras (solo) at Sala Mendoza, Caracas (2022); Familiar Distance at Edge Zones, Miami (2021); and ¿Por qué Islas? (solo) at Licencia de Reconocimiento, Tenerife (2021). In 2021, she received the Honorable Mention Carmen Cordovez Crespo by HFFA at the 16th edition of the Mendoza Awards in Venezuela. She was also awarded the 2016 National Prize for Young Artists by the Museum of Contemporary Art Zulia, Venezuela.
Zonia Zena
Zonia Zena is a visual artist and archivist born in Peru and based in Miami and Lima, Peru. She has a BFA in Visual Arts from New World School of the Arts/University of Florida and recently graduated with a MLIS with concentration in Archives from University of Alabama. A member of WOPHA and Women Photograph, Zena applies photography as a bridge to speak about personal journeys influenced by her migration experience. She was a Fulbright recipient in Spain and her work has been exhibited in Miami, Santiago de Chile and Madrid. Her visual narrative is reflected from biographical experiences and the curiosity to keep exploring, which enrich her consciousness and practice. Currently working with the Vasari Project archives at The Special Collections at the Miami-Dade Public Library and collaborating in other art related projects in Miami.
Baker—Hall is a contemporary art gallery founded by Amanda Baker—Hall in 2024. It is the successor to her previous project, Club Gallery. The gallery aims to promote emerging and mid-career artists through a fresh curatorial approach, while also offering comprehensive art advisory services. Baker—Hall specializes in painting and sculpture across narrative and non-objective styles, with a focus on collaborating with private collectors and prominent corporate institutions. The gallery boasts a robust exhibition schedule, featuring a minimum of eight rotating exhibitions each year.
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