Pérez Art Museum Miami has opened The Sacred Mangrove, the first solo presentation at a major international institution for the Bahamian-born artist Anina Major. On view from 1 October 2026 through 1 August 2027 and organised by curator Jennifer Inacio, the exhibition turns the museum's waterfront gallery into a walkable ecosystem of large-scale woven clay sculptures, folkloric bottle trees, crushed shells and materials drawn from the Caribbean landscape. Major's practice grows out of palm-leaf plaiting, the Bahamian weaving tradition passed down through generations of women, often as a vital source of income. Her grandmother, Saphora Newbold, was a straw weaver whose hats, dolls and bags helped support the family. After relearning the plaiting technique, Major began rebuilding woven forms strand by strand in clay, giving a familiar craft language a monumental presence and fixing its structures beyond the natural lifespan of palm. A centrepiece such as Water Tower (2024) climbs 45 inches in woven stoneware, its ombré glaze deepening from pale aqua to turquoise while melted sea glass glints across the surface; PAMM acquired the work in 2024. At the museum, towering ceramic forms rise like sentinels while a soundscape recorded on a Bahamian beach carries the acoustics of the artist's home country into the installation. Major has said she wants the work to command more space and prominence as she operates at a larger scale, drawing a line between Miami and the Bahamas and the historical currents that connect them. The exhibition crowns a rapid institutional ascent. Major holds an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, received a Joan Mitchell Fellowship in 2023 and a $50,000 USA Fellowship in 2026, and won the Pommery Prize at this year's Armory Show. The Sacred Mangrove is presented as her most significant American museum outing to date — and a test of how far woven clay can stretch.