At Tulsa Artist Fellowship Studios, experience Miguel Braceli: Futuro Imperfecto, a multifaceted exhibition of performance, film, live sound, and installations that rethink political polarization, public space, and collective action through poetic, participatory gestures, on view from March 6, 2026, through June 5, 2026. 

Tulsa Art Fellowship and The Hulett Collection present Futuro Imperfecto, a show of recent works by Miguel Braceli. For over a decade, Braceli has created a range of performances, installations, photography, and videos that comment upon the polarized, sometimes disorienting conditions of today’s political climate in both his native Venezuela and the United States. Collaborative performances such as Área (2014) invite the public to examine and remake space, emphasizing collective unity in the face of partisan division. In this work, seventy participants occupy the Plaza de Caracas and outline the titular “area” with a long, textile band. As they move from a position of direct opposition into a single, linear row, the performers redefine this governmental district from a space of contention to one of social cohesion and cooperation. More recent works expand Braceli’s geographic and material repertoire by addressing political polarization in the United States, which echoes the Venezuelan experience. Geopolitical Games (2020) comments on the absurdity of horserace politics in an era of rising authoritarianism. It features a video of citizens and non-citizens playing an imaginary game with red balls and blue balls. The game ends in deflation—of both the balls themselves as well as of the nationalist gamesmanship that they represent. With a poetic, oblique sensibility that defamiliarizes everyday spaces and symbols of national pride and political tribalism, Braceli’s body of work gives tangible form to the intangible forces that define our own “imperfect future.”

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Miguel Braceli is an interdisciplinary artist working at the intersection of art, architecture, and social practices. His artistic practice centers on participatory projects in public spaces, exploring both geopolitical and local conflicts through large-scale works across Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, and the United States. Braceli has presented performances, exhibitions, and educational projects in collaboration with renowned institutions such as MoMA Ps1, Documenta Fifteen, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Hemispheric Institute NY with MUAC-UNAM, Matadero Madrid, Museo Moderno de Buenos Aires, Athr Foundation, the Untitled Art Fair, and Pace Gallery. His work has been highlighted in influential journals and magazines, including e-flux Criticism, Forbes, and Art Review.

He has participated in esteemed residencies and programs, including MacDowell (2023), Fountainhead (2023), Skowhegan School of Painting (2022), Art Omi (2021), and McColl Center for Art (2020). Additionally, he was an AIM Bronx Museum Fellow (2022) and Fine Arts Work Center Fellow (2024). Braceli’s recent recognitions include being a Fulbright Scholar (2019-2020), the Young Artist Award from the Principality of Asturias (2018), and the Tulsa Artist Fellowship Award (2024-2026). In 2021, he co-founded LA ESCUELA___ in collaboration with Siemens Stiftung International. In 2022, he received a commission from the Percent for Art program to create a permanent large-scale public artwork in New York City.