Pan American Art Projects is pleased to present No More Heroes, a group exhibition that brings together sixteen artists whose works reflect on the disappearance of collective ideals and the fragile beauty that emerges in their wake. Borrowing its title from the 1977 song by The Stranglers, the exhibition becomes a meditation on a world without myths, where the notion of the “hero” dissolves into silence, memory, and power. The show will bring together works by represented artists and pieces from the gallery’s collection.
Through painting, sculpture, installation, and photography, No More Heroes explores the tension between presence and absence, faith and disillusion, light and void. The participating artists navigate the intersections between history and imagination, confronting the debris of grand narratives and reconstructing meaning through subtle transformations.
Rather than lamenting the loss of heroes, the exhibition embraces it as an opening, a space where vulnerability becomes strength and inspiration becomes an act of quiet resistance. In this landscape without dogma, beauty arises from collapse, and art assumes the role once reserved for legends: to question, to rebuild, and to illuminate what remains.
Hosted in the gallery’s Little River space, this exhibition marks a closing chapter for Pan American Art Projects in Little River. The specifics of the new chapter in Allapattah and possibly in a second location outside of Miami will be announced soon.
Participating artists: Pavel Acosta, Serlian Barreto, Ariamna Contino, Edouard Duval-Carrié, Carlos Estévez, Diana Fonseca, Jose Manuel Fors, Luis González Palma, Lorena Gutierrez Camejo, Jorge Lopez Pardo, Carlos Nicanor, Ivan Perera, Leticia Sánchez Toledo, Rusty Scruby, Rachel Valdes, and Chantae Elaine Wright.
Pan American Art Projects is pleased to present From Ashes to Light. A new show that brings together two series by Cuban artist Sandra Ramos, Golden Ruins: The Allegory of the Cave and Ashes & Diamonds, in a contemplative exhibition that explores the cycles of destruction and enlightenment, illusion and revelation, reality and transcendence.
Drawing inspiration from Plato’s Allegory of the Cave and from the Polish film Ashes and Diamonds (1958) by Andrzej Wajda, Ramos constructs a symbolic dialogue between philosophical and historical ruins. Through painting, installation, and collage, she reflects on the human condition as caught between darkness and illumination, between the residues of a collapsing world and the persistent search for answers.
In her 2025 series Golden Ruins, Ramos reimagines Plato’s cave as our contemporary reality: a space of digital isolation and existential confusion, where humanity mistakes technological reproductions for real. Using clay, charcoal, and gold pigment, she reclaims the materiality of the earth as both metaphor and antidote, grounding her philosophical inquiry in the tactile. Through the use of golden pigment, the artist refers to the pursuit of enlightenment. By blending ancient symbolism with modern allegories, the series aims to inspire deep self-reflection, encouraging viewers to examine their own realities, let go of harmful illusions, and seek a deeper connection with nature, and one another.
In the 2018 series Ashes & Diamonds, the artist extended this meditation to the ruins of modern civilization. Now, ashes, coal, and fragile forms evoke both loss and regeneration, addressing issues related to the ecological and socio-political crisis of our world today, and express the dystopian feeling of being on the verge of history.
Quoting the 19th-century Polish poet Cyprian Norwid, Ramos invokes the paradox of history’s circularity:
“Will only ashes and confusion remain, Leading us to the abyss? Or will there be, In the depths of the ashes, A diamond in the shape of a star — The dawn of eternal victory?”
Together, these bodies of work form a visual parable about rebirth, how new light is born from ruin, and how every revelation depends on the destruction of illusion. The exhibition resonates with a global moment of uncertainty, and of fractured belief systems, offering instead a vision of spiritual endurance.
Through her recurring female figure, an alter ego who traverses myth, philosophy, and contemporary collapse, Ramos embodies humanity’s revolving passage between shadow and enlightenment, between history’s ashes and the tentative gleam of new understanding. From Ashes to Light is a meditation on our collective ascent from illusion to awareness, reminding us that every spark of truth is born from the residue of what has burned before.
Hosted in the gallery’s Little River space, this exhibition marks a closing chapter for Pan American Art Projects in Little River. The specifics of the new chapter in Allapattah and possibly in a second location outside of Miami will be announced soon.
Pan American Art Projects was established in 2001 with the mission to exhibit and promote established and emerging artists from North, Central and South America, providing a context for dialogue between the various regions. We represent a strong roster of contemporary artists of the Americas and hold a collection of important works from Cuba, Argentina, the U.S. and the Caribbean. Our programming reflects these complementary arenas providing a comprehensive historical context for contemporary tendencies in the visual arts from these regions.
The gallery was born from the personal collection of our owner, Robert Borlenghi, who as a founding member of MOCA Los Angeles made his first trip to Haiti in 1990 and found many great artists that were relatively unknown to collectors in the U.S. He made it his mission to collect and exhibit underrepresented artists from Haiti, Jamaica and later Cuba. This mission then transferred to our gallery when we opened in Dallas in 2001, when we began adding actively represented artists from North and South America.
