Exhibit Reception: Retorno by Miquel Salom

Sep 07 2025
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3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

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16701 SW 72nd Avenue
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Join us for a free artist reception and screening of the winner of three Telly Awards documentary Miquel Salom: Back to the Origin, followed by a conversation with the artist facilitated by Executive Producer, Marcelo Llobell and Director, Isaac Bencid on Sunday, September 7th from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.

The artist reception and cocktail hour is from 3 to 4 p.m. at the Richmond Cottage; the documentary screening and artist talk is from 4 to 5 p.m. at the Visitor Center Theatre.

Deering Estate presents the Contemporary Currents exhibition “Retorno” by Miquel Salom featuring a series of wet plate collodion photographs documenting the natural and built environments of the Deering Estate shown alongside an assortment of ephemera that illustrate the artist’s technical process and traces key moments in a dynamic career. The exhibition is on display daily from August 1st through October 31st in the Garden Room of the Richmond Cottage.

The Deering Estate ‘Contemporary Currents’ series is an annual program that integrates contemporary art with collections and historic houses. Artists are selected from the roster of past and current Artists-in-Residence at the Deering Estate to display their work on the second floor of the Richmond Cottage for a three to six-month period.

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About the Artist:

Miquel Salom was born in the Mediterranean island of Mallorca in 1951. At the age of 14, his father gave him a Kodak Brownie Fiesta camera, and this changed his life igniting his lifelong artistic dedication to photography. Salom was largely self-taught and continues to publish, teach and lecture on photography. His work connects his personal observations with romantic narratives he has uncovered through his years of travel and exploration. He identifies as a visual storyteller through his mastery of the wet-plate collodion technique, a photographic process he became acquainted with through the work of Sally Mann. Salom has developed a signature 23-step process that allows him to create unique ambrotypes and tintypes of various subjects including the south Florida and Mallorcan landscapes, cityscapes and coastlines. His work joins contemporary artists exploring the revival of this alternative process and its unique handcrafted signature.
With an established international presence, Miquel Salom’s work has been exhibited in New York, Washington DC, New Mexico, Spain, Germany, Hong Kong, Singapore and Mallorca. Locally, Salom has exhibited at the Coral Gables Museum, the University of Miami Art Gallery in Wynwood and the Miami Institute of Photography. Previously, Salom served as Visiting Artist of the Art & Art History Department at the University of Miami.

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Cultural Arts Programming at the Deering Estate is made possible with the support of the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners, and The Deering Estate Foundation, Inc.

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