Art Basel Miami Beach returns to the Miami Beach Convention Center this December, once again spotlighting the most dynamic artistic currents from across the Americas and the wider world. Now in its 23rd edition, the fair brings together 283 galleries — including 49 newcomers — reaffirming its status as the leading forum for Modern and contemporary art in the Western Hemisphere. The fair runs December 4–7, with Preview Days on December 3–4. UBS continues as Global Lead Partner.

This year’s edition sharpens its focus on the forces shaping American art today, with particular emphasis on Latinx, Indigenous, and diasporic perspectives. Reflecting Miami’s unique position as a cultural bridge between North and South America, the fair offers a wide-angle view of the region’s artistic influence within a global context.

Bridget Finn, Director of Art Basel Miami Beach, notes: “The strength and caliber of this year’s exhibitors underscores the fair’s central role in the global art ecosystem. This edition reflects the vitality of artistic production across the Americas — and the fair’s importance as a gateway for introducing groundbreaking international voices to the U.S. market.”

Specialized sectors in the fair are:

• Galleries: The main sector, showcasing Modern, postwar, and contemporary art from leading international dealers.

• Nova: Presenting works made within the last three years by up to three artists.

• Positions: Solo presentations by emerging artists from young galleries.

• Survey: Focused on historically significant practices and overlooked figures.

• Meridians: Large-scale works including installations, sculpture, and multimedia projects.

• Kabinett: Curated “mini-exhibitions” inside gallery booths.

• Zero10: Art and digital innovation, including immersive experiences and next-generation technology.

Galleries

The Galleries sector assembles 226 premier dealers from the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa, mixing blue-chip heavyweights with rising programs. Modernist legacies and global dialogues take center stage, with booths revisiting women in Abstract Expressionism, Latin American geometric and kinetic pioneers, and Italian postwar innovation. Highlights include significant works by Lygia Clark, Lucio Fontana, Mary Ann Unger, Louisa Chase, and Andy Warhol, while newcomers bring fresh perspectives — from Indigenous abstraction (Patrick Dean Hubbell) to contemporary Iranian practices and South Asian feminist histories. The sector underscores a broadened, transcontinental view of Modern and contemporary art and marks the debut of several international galleries entering directly into the main sector.

Kabinett

Kabinett gathers a series of tightly focused “mini-exhibitions” embedded within gallery booths, offering concentrated looks at historical, experimental, or concept-driven practices. Highlights include: Gray’s presentation of Virtual Still Lifes (1995–97), a late series by Roger Brown blending oil painting and sculptural assemblage; and Canada’s installation of Marc Hundley’s hand-stenciled and screen-printed T-shirts spanning 1997 to today, forming an intimate archive of personal memory, lyric fragments, and queer cultural codes. The sector emphasizes depth over scale, foregrounding precise curatorial gestures and distinct artistic voices.

Meridians

Meridians — curated by Yasmil Raymond under the theme The Shape of Time — showcases large-scale, ambitious works that extend beyond the limits of the traditional booth, including immersive environments, monumental sculpture, and multimedia installations. Highlights include: Huang Yong Ping’s Double Wing (2016) with Tang Contemporary Art, an imposing fusion of organic and mechanical forms exploring cycles of transformation; Lyle Ashton Harris’s nine-panel photographic series The Watering Hole (1996) at Maruani Mercier, tracing a decade of American cultural and political shifts; and Peter Blum Gallery’s new painting by Luisa Rabbia, reimagining the iconic 1901 work The Fourth Estate as a metaphysical reflection on collective presence and social solidarity. The sector expands the fair into a more cinematic and contemplative arena, where scale, history, and embodied experience converge.

Nova

Nova features 23 galleries presenting innovative works made in the past three years, with many booths centered on single-artist statements. Key highlights include Akeem Smith’s archival scratch-off paintings exploring Dancehall culture; Renata Petersen’s ceramic-and-glass environment rooted in Latin American spiritual traditions; Liz Collins’s textile-driven investigations of queerness and gesture; and a cross-generational dialogue from Silverlens pairing Bernardo Pacquing with Nicole Coson on themes of migration and material memory. Hugo Crosthwaite’s border-focused Ex-Voto series offers a narrative reflection on survival and devotion.

Positions

Positions offers 16 solo presentations from emerging artists, many of them first-time exhibitors. Highlights include: Josèfa Ntjam’s sculptural triptych merging Afrodiasporic cosmology with archival and speculative imagery; Carolina Fusilier’s hybrid sculptural compositions envisioning a post-human landscape of decaying machines and organic remnants; Kelsey Isaacs’s cinematic, life-size paintings layered with embedded video; Yoshitaka Amano’s crossover between anime/fantasy visual worlds and painterly abstraction; and Cisco Merel’s performative architectural environment rooted in Panamanian communal building practices. The sector foregrounds experimentation with form, mythology, materiality, and world-building.

Survey

Survey focused on historically significant practices, with several strong single-artist presentations. Galerie Lelong highlighted Ana Mendieta’s early film and photographic works, emphasizing her experimentation with ritual and landscape during the 1970s. Alexander Gray Associates presented a concise selection of Hassan Sharif’s assemblages, underscoring his role in shaping conceptual art in the Gulf region. PKM Gallery devoted its booth to Kim Kulim, showing key pieces from the late 1960s that documented his early avant-garde interventions. Elvira Moreno Gallery featured Luis Fernando Zapata’s Stela II (1988), a key work that illustrated the artist’s engagement with geometric abstraction and material experimentation.

Zero10

Zero10 marks Art Basel’s new curated platform dedicated to digital-era art, debuting in Miami Beach with support from OpenSea. Named after Malevich’s groundbreaking “0,10” exhibition, the initiative aims to redefine how digital art is presented and collected within the contemporary market. Curated by Eli Scheinman, the inaugural edition includes major players in digital culture and blockchain-based creativity — among them AOTM, Art Blocks, Asprey Studio, Beeple Studios, bitforms, Fellowship, Heft, Visualize Value, Nguyen Wahed, Onkaos, Pace Gallery, and SOLOS — as well as a special presentation of Lu Yang from the UBS Art Collection. Zero10 establishes a new institutional anchor for digital practice within Art Basel’s global ecosystem.

Art Basel Miami Beach 2025 Visitor Information

Preview days (by invitation only): Wednesday, December 3, and Thursday, December 4, 2025

Public days: Friday, December 5 till Sunday 7, 2025, 11am–6pm

Venue: Miami Beach Convention Center, 1901 Convention Center Drive, Miami Beach, FL

Miami Art Week Satellite Fairs & Events

Design Miami

Dec 3–8, 2025 • Convention Center Drive & 19th St, Miami Beach
The premier global fair for collectible design, presenting top-tier furniture, lighting, and experimental design objects.

INK Miami Art Fair

Dec 3–7, 2025 • Suites of Dorchester, 1850 Collins Ave, Miami Beach
A focused fair dedicated to fine art on paper, featuring publishers, print studios, and galleries in an intimate hotel-suite setting.

Untitled Art, Miami Beach

Dec 3–8, 2025 • Ocean Drive & 12th Street, Miami Beach
A curated fair known for championing emerging and mid-career artists, with a strong emphasis on inclusivity and discovery.

SCOPE Miami Beach

Dec 2–7, 2025 • Ocean Drive & 8th–10th Streets, Miami Beach
A contemporary art fair known for experimental programming, large installations, and forward-looking emerging galleries.

NADA Miami

Dec 2–6, 2025 • Ice Palace Studios, 1400 North Miami Ave, Miami
New Art Dealers Alliance’s flagship fair, spotlighting independent, experimental galleries and new artist voices.

Art Miami (with CONTEXT Art Miami)

Dec 2–7, 2025 • One Herald Plaza, NE 14th St & Biscayne Bay
One of Miami’s longest-running fairs, presenting established, modern, and contemporary artists with strong market presence. CONTEXT Art Miami is the sister fair to Art Miami and is dedicated to the development and reinforcement of emerging and mid-career artists.

Red Dot Miami + Spectrum Miami

Dec 3–7, 2025 • Mana Wynwood, 2217 NW 5th Ave, Wynwood
Twin fairs offering a broad mix of contemporary art from independent galleries, emerging artists, and international exhibitors.

photoMiami

Dec 32–7, 2025 • 2300 N. Miami Avenue in the Wynwood Arts District

A curated survey of contemporary photography, presenting work by emerging and established artists who are expanding the possibilities of lens-based art.

While in Wynwood, do not miss:

Wynwood Walls – “ONLY HUMAN”

Nov 24 – Dec 1, 2025 • Wynwood Walls Museum, 2516 NW 2nd Ave, Miami
The street-art museum’s 2025 theme, ONLY HUMAN, debuts new murals and large-scale works exploring identity and emotional experience.

Faena Art

Dec 2–7, 2025 • Faena District, Miami Beach
Celebrating its 10th year with monumental public installations, including a major new immersive work by Es Devlin, free and open to the public.

Miami’s Museums & Collections Transform Art Week Beyond the Beach

Art Basel Miami Beach catalyzes a surge of cultural energy across Greater Miami, where museums, private collections, and public spaces unveil ambitious exhibitions that reflect the region’s global reach and cross-cultural dynamism. From pioneering contemporary voices to landmark historical surveys, these shows—spanning Miami Beach, Downtown Miami, and beyond—offer a vivid portrait of artistic experimentation, dialogue, and exchange that defines the city during Art Week.

The Bass Museum, Miami Beach

The Bass presents a trio of ambitious exhibitions that reimagine architecture, perception, and place:

• Lawrence Lek: NOX Pavilion — A site-specific digital environment blending speculative design and virtual simulation.

• Jack Pierson: The Miami Years — Revisiting the artist’s formative engagement with Miami’s queer and visual culture.

• Faire Foyer: Sarah Crowner in Dialogue with Etel Adnan — A poetic conversation between two modernist colorists across generations.

• Isaac Julien: Vagabondia — An early film installation reflecting on representation, class, and museology.

Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (ICA Miami)

A powerhouse program of international contemporary voices includes:

• Joyce Pensato — The late American painter celebrated for her anarchic reworking of cartoon icons.

• Richard Hunt: Pressure — Spotlighting the pioneering African American sculptor’s monumental and intimate works in metal.

• Igshaan Adams: Lulu, Zanele, Zandile, Savannah — A tapestry-based exploration of kinship and migration.

• Masaomi Yasunaga: Traces of Memory — A striking series of unglazed ceramic works exploring material memory.

• Andreas Schulz: Special — A conceptual survey bridging photography and object-making.

Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM)

PAMM anchors Miami’s institutional offerings with major exhibitions spanning sculpture, conceptual photography, and performance-based practice:

• Woody De Othello: coming forth by day — New ceramic and bronze sculptures exploring transformation and ritual.

• Language and Image: Conceptual and Performance-based Photography from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection — Showcases conceptual and performance-based photography practices.

• Mark Dion: The South Florida Wildlife Rescue Unit — A site-specific installation merging art and ecological inquiry.

• Elliot and Erick Jiménez: El Monte — A photographic homage to Afro-Cuban spirituality.

• Worlds Apart and One Becomes Many — Thematic exhibitions on global interconnectivity and collectivity.

Private Collections and Foundations

Rubell Museum

A cornerstone of Miami’s contemporary scene, the Rubell Museum presents a new thematic installation drawn from its acclaimed collection, spotlighting recent acquisitions alongside modern classics.

El Espacio 23

A World Far Away, Nearby and Invisible: Territory Narratives in the Jorge M. Pérez Collection explores geopolitics, landscape, and belonging through Latin American and global perspectives.

Margulies Collection at the Warehouse

The Margulies Collection opens three major presentations:

• Pop Art: Johns, Lichtenstein, Warhol, Wesselmann, Rosenquist, Chamberlain, Segal

• Records of the Past: Lewis Hine Child Labor Photographs

• Italian Art 1970–2024, a sweeping look at postwar and contemporary Italian practice.

Juan Carlos Maldonado Collection

Presenting a focused installation on postwar abstraction from Latin America, the collection reaffirms its reputation as a destination for geometric and kinetic art.

Frost Art Museum – FIU, Miami

Highlights include:

• Mosaico: Italian Code of a Timeless Art

• Augustín Fernández: The Alluring Power of Ambiguity

• Eduardo Nacarro: Cloud Museum

Each exhibition explores material transformation and cross-cultural legacy.

Lowe Art Museum – University of Miami

Presenting:

• El Pasado Mío / My Own Past: Afrodescendant Contributions to Cuban Art

• The Haas Brothers: S. Car, Go!

• Petah Coyne: How Much a Heart Can Hold

The Lowe’s program bridges historical depth with experimental contemporary practice.

NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale

Key presentations include:

• Robert Rauschenberg: Real Time — A focused exhibition on time and process.

• Shared Dreams — Celebrating the Stanley and Pearl Goodman Latin American Art Collection.

• Christo & Jeanne-Claude: “Surrounded Islands” — Revisiting the duo’s iconic Miami project of 1983.

Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach

A destination for visitors extending their stay north of Miami, the Norton presents:

• Shara Hughes: Inside Outside

• Leslie Hewitt: Achromatic Scales

• Art and Life in Rembrandt’s Time: Masterpieces from the Leiden Collection

• The Virtue of Vice: The Art of Social Commentary

The Wolfsonian – FIU, Miami Beach

Design and history intersect across:

• Marco Brambilla: After Utopia

• Modern Design Across Borders

• La Superba: Genoa and The Wolfsoniana

• World’s Fairs: Visions of Tomorrow — A sweeping look at design as a vehicle of ideology and imagination.

Cover Image: Art Basel Miami, Courtesy of Art Basel