Miami Art Week is the pinnacle of the U.S. art fair calendar, with much of the world’s collectors descending on Miami Beach for a whirlwind of fairs, gallery shows, museum exhibitions, public art installations, and much, much more. It’s an overwhelming sea of options, complicated by the very real limitations of time, geography, and, increasingly as the week goes on, traffic. So what’s actually worth seeing this year? Here’s our list of what we’re most excited about as the hectic conclusion to the 2025 art season ramps up. Cheers, Miami!

MUSEUMS

“Pop Art: Johns, Lichtenstein, Warhol, Wesselmann, Rosenquist, Chamberlain, Segal” at the Margulies Warehouse
November 12, 2025–April 4, 2026

Roy Lichtenstein, Hot Dog (1963). Courtesy of the Margulies Warehouse.

Noted private collection the Margulies is pulling out the big guns for this year’s presentation, with an all-star line-up of the Pop Art movement’s most famous men. What the display lacks in diversity, it makes up for with with the art historical importance of the works on view. Those include a John Chamberlain crushed car relief sculpture from 1976, a 1959 Jasper Johns numbers canvas, a Roy Lichtenstein painting of a hot dog rendered in Ben-Day dots, and Andy Warhol’s stacked sculpture Set of Five Boxes: Brillo Soap Pad; Campbell’s Tomato Juice; Del Monte Peach Halves; Heinz Tomato Ketchup; Kellogg’s Corn Flakes from 1964.

The Margulies Warehouse is located at 591 NW 27th Street, Miami, Florida.

“Thomas Houseago: First Light” at the Rubell Museum
December 1, 2025–September 27, 2026

Thomas Houseago, Antiamnesia I (2025). Courtesy of the Rubell Museum, Miami.

Taste-making collectors Mera and Don Rubell opened their private collection to the public in 1993 and launched their Allapattah museum to rave reviews in 2019. Known for spotting the next big thing, they are highlighting one of their past success stories this year with the museum’s first single-artist  survey show, featuring Thomas Houseago. It shows off eight plaster figures the Rubells commissioned for the 2006 exhibition “Red Eye,” as well as large-scale paintings the artist made this fall. Houseago’s career has been on the upsurge in recent years, following a return to painting after recovering from a mental breakdown. The new works suggest a preoccupation with death and end times, with art historical images of skulls and grim reapers collaged over colorful layers of acrylic and oil.

The Rubell Museum is located at 1100 NW 23rd Street, Miami.

“Igshaan Adams: Lulu, Zanele, Zandile, Savannah” at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami
December 2, 2025–November 1, 2026

Igshaan Adams, Savannah (2025), detail. Photo: by Mario Todeschini, courtesy of the artist and Thomas Dane Gallery, Casey Kaplan, and Blank Projects.

The ICA Miami commissioned South African artist Igshaan Adams to create an installation that cascades down its impressive three-story stairwell. It features four tapestries, densely woven with chains, beads, lace, twine, and rope, and his “dust clouds” of various suspended materials such as twisted wire. The artist intends these more sculptural works to reference dust clouds caused by gusts of wind, but he is also inspired by joyful African dances where rhythmic stomping literally sends vibrations into the air.

The ICA Miami is located at 61 NE 41st Street, Miami, Florida. 

“Jack Pierson: The Miami Years” at the Bass
September 24, 2025–August 16, 2026

Jack Pierson, John Todd (2015-23). Courtesy of the artist and Lisson Gallery.

It was the winter of 1984 when artist Jack Pierson first ventured south from New York to Miami, for what was to become the first of many visits. Now, the Bass is staging the first exhibition dedicated to the city’s influence on the artist, whose wide ranging practice includes photography, sculpture, drawing, painting, films, books, and installations. Renowned for his portrayals of everyday queer life, Pierson was immediately at home in Miami and its heady milieu of art, fashion, and celebrity. He has made a monumental new commission for the show, measuring 10 by 14 feet, titled ARRAY (MIAMI), that combines ephemeral posters and postcards with his own photographs and works on paper.

The Bass is located at 2100 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach, Florida. 

“Hiba Schahbaz: The Garden” at the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami

“Hiba Schahbaz: The Garden,” installation view. Photo: courtesy of the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami.

In her first major museum survey show, Pakistani American artist Hiba Schahbaz has brought her lush, feminine paintings together to create a jannat, or “Paradise Garden,” as written about in both Islamic tradition and Sufi poetry. Schahbaz, who studied Indo-Persian miniature painting, is known for her delicate depictions of women in nature, often drawn from mythological scenes. The exhibition, curated by Jasmine Wahi, looks to connect Schahbaz’s practice, and its embrace of elements of nature, to traditions of gardening here in Miami, as well as to the region’s rich community of immigrants of color.

The Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami is located at the Joan Lehman Building, 770 NE 125 Street, North Miami, Florida. 

“Mark Dion: The South Florida Wildlife Rescue Unit” at the Pérez Art Museum Miami

Mark Dion, South Florida Wildlife Rescue Unit: Mobile Laboratory (2006), installation view. Collection of the Pérez Art Museum Miami, gift of Lin Lougheed. Photo: by Oriol Tarridas, ©Mark Dion, courtesy of the artist and Tonya Bonakdar Gallery, New York/Los Angeles.

Mark Dion’s latest solo show marks the return to public view of a large-scale installation originally commissioned by the PAMM back in 2006, during its days as the Miami Art Museum. Inspired by the fragility of the wildlife of the Florida Everglades—and our flailing efforts at conservation—Dion imagined a mobile rescue operation, operating out of a bright yellow truck, that was dedicated to saving the state’s endangered species. The imagined South Florida Wildlife Rescue Unit, with its uniformed mannequin staff and various pieces of scientific equipment, is on display alongside the real history of the Everglades, from its early exploration to its exploitation to contemporary efforts to ensure its preservation.

The PAMM is located at 1103 Biscayne Boulevard, Miami, Florida. 

GALLERIES

“Changes: Reflections on Time and Space” at Spinello Projects
December 1, 2025–January 10, 2026

Bernadette Despujols, Perro y Manguera An Bajada (2024). Photo: courtesy of Spinello Projects, Miami.

Anthony Spinello is celebrating two decades as one of Miami’s leading galleries with a 20th anniversary show showcasing works from his personal collection—one that is loaded with the emerging and queer voices he’s become known for championing. There are 15 artists, many of whom are based here in Miami—such as Farley Aguilar, Nina Surel, and Agustina Woodgate—offering a fitting snapshot of the city’s local art scene since 2005, from the point of view of the man who helped shape it.

Spinello Projects is located at 2930 NW 7 Avenue, Miami, Florida.

“Acid Bath House” at Nina Johnson
December 1, 2025–February 7, 2026

Reuben Paterson, Avoiding Ordinary Boys (Constellation Pavo), 2024. Photo: by Henry Hargreaves, courtesy of Nina Johnson, Miami.

Nina Johnson is staging a wild group show, curated by Jarrett Earnest, featuring queer erotic psychedelia by the likes of Juliana Huxtable, TM Davy, and Genesis Breyer P-Orridge. It’s a big moment for the dealer, long a respected fixture of the local gallery scene, as she participates in the main fair at the convention center for the first time. Johnson’s Art Basel booth features two topiary lamps by sculptor Katie Stout, a monumental painting by Nathlie Provosty, and other works by Rochelle Feinstein, Dara Friedman, and George Nelson Preston, among others.

Nina Johnson is located at 6315 NW 2nd Avenue, Miami, Florida. 

“Zoë Buckman: Who By Fire” at Mindy Solomon
November 30, 2025–January 10, 2026

Zoë Buckman, clocks the exit (2025). Photo: courtesy of Mindy Solomon, Miami.

Zoë Buckman rode a wave of post-election feminism to prominence in 2016, attracting notice for her feminized boxing gloves, covered with lacy, beaded wedding dresses, and dainty, colorful tea towels. Going on a decade later, Buckman has continued working with vintage domestic textiles, but those fabrics now become canvases for deeply personal figurative paintings, executed in ink and acrylic and embellished with hand embroidery. These works not only reflect the artist’s growing skill as a draftsman, but also experiences of grief, joy, and struggle as Buckman grapples with her identity as a Jewish woman. The show’s title is drawn from the Leonard Cohen song adapting the Jewish prayer Unetaneh Tokef.

Mindy Solomon is located at 848 NW 22 Street, Miami, Florida. 

“Tara Long: La Esquinita” at Locust Projects, Miami
November 15, 2025 – January 17, 2026

Tara Long with her exhibition “La Esquinita” at Locust Projects. Photo: by Logan Fazio, courtesy of Locust Projects.

This beloved Miami alternative arts nonprofit is hosting one of the week’s most intriguing exhibitions, featuring local artist Tara Long (who has a studio at the Bakehouse Art Complex). Transforming the venue both inside and out, with colorful murals on the exterior leading to a large-scale installation, Long has drawn inspiration from Florida’s sugar industry, which sprang up in the 1920s and has long been an engine of the state’s economy. But with her frosted creations, Long points to sugar’s dark side, from the environmental impact of sugar cane farming, which reshaped the landscape of much of southern Florida, to its detrimental effects on our health. She describes the exhibition as “a sugar-glazed parable about power, pleasure, and decay” that draws parallels to the modern-day rise of the tech industry. The show’s centerpiece is a giant tiered cake sculpture that doubles as a stage for a performance work titled “Delight in the Mire,” taking place Saturday, December 6, at 7 p.m. And you can take a piece of the show home from the “Sweets & Souvenirs” gift shop, with over 500 quirky mini sculptures for sale.

Locust Projects is located at 297 NE 67th Street, Miami, Florida. 

PUBLIC ART

“Es Devlin: Library of Us,” Miami Beach

Es Devlin, Library of Us (2025), rendering. Photo: courtesy of Faena, Miami Beach.

In one of the week’s sure-to-be showstoppers, Es Devlin has erected a monumental kinetic sculpture on Faena Beach featuring 2,500 books that she has found most influential to her life and artistic practice. It’s 50 feet tall and looks like a giant sundial. The show looks to inspire visitors to take a pause amid the craziness that is Miami Art Week for a moment of reflection (and reading). Beyond the beach, Devlin has also created a site-specific reading room installation in the Faena Cathedral (aka the hotel’s lobby), and has drawings and paintings on glass, paper, and TVs on display in the Faena Project Room.

Es Devlin’s piece will be on view in the Faena District at Faena Beach, Faena Cathedral, and Faena Project Room, 3201 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach, Florida. 

Pilar Zeta, The Observer Effect, Miami Beach
December 2–7, 2025

Pilar Zeta, The Observer Effect (2025), rendering. Photo: courtesy of the artist.

South Beach’s recently renovated Shelborne Hotel is hosting an official Art Basel Miami Beach public artwork by Pilar Zeta on the ocean shore. The Argentinian artist, who was nominated for a Grammy for her album art and music video direction for Coldplay, created an installation on the desert sands in front of Egypt’s Giza Pyramids in 2023. Here, she’s erecting eight large-scale metallic structures that look to ancient temples for inspiration, finished with iridescent automotive paint that gives the forms a lustrous sheen. She hopes the sculpture functions like a portal to the sea, capturing the shifting light throughout the course of the day.

Pilar Zeta’s piece will be on view at the beach near the Shelborne Hotel, 1801 Collins Avenue (18th Street), Miami Beach, Florida. 

ART FAIRS

Art Basel Miami Beach
December 3–7, 2025

Ward Shelley with Douglas Paulson, The Last Library IV: Written in Water (2020–25). Photo: Courtesy of the artist and Freight and Volume.

The real reason for the season, this behemoth of an art fair is the sun around which all other events orbit. It boasts a truly intimidating 285 exhibitors—but amid the deluge of booth previews, a few have caught our eye. Perrotin, the French gallery that sold Maurizio Cattelan’s $120,000 banana—since auctioned for $6.2 million—is back with another provocative piece by the art collective MSCHF, who in 2022 brought an ATM that would display fairgoers’ bank account balances. This time, they are inviting visitors to break the cardinal rule of art museums with an interactive sculpture, Touch Me Sculpture One More Time, that tracks how many times people touch it.

And don’t miss the fair’s impressive Meridians section of monumental works. New York’s Dimin, a first-time exhibitor, is bringing a 12-piece painting of colorful shaped panels by Justine Hill, while Freight and Volume, also in New York, is installing a literal library with stacks of books by Ward Shelley with Douglas Paulson. There will also be major trophy works on view—Lévy Gorvy Dayan of New York and London is offering an $18 million Andy Warhol silkscreen of Muhammad Ali from 1977, and New York’s Alexandre Gallery is showing Head, a 1951 Willem de Kooning painting from the collection of Edith Halpert that hasn’t been on public view since 1960.

Art Basel Miami Beach is on view at the Miami Beach Convention Center, 1901 Convention Center Drive, Miami Beach, Florida, December 3–7, 2025.

Untitled Art Fair
December 2–7, 2025

Jessica Lichtenstein, Oread Mountain Nymph (2024). Photo: courtesy of Latch Key Gallery, New York.

Setting up shop in a light and airy tent on the sands of Miami Beach, Untitled Art Fair, with its Tuesday VIP preview, is always a great kickoff to the busy Miami Art Week. Presentations to look forward to include a selection of large-scale, fantastical landscape C-prints on acrylic by Jessica Lichtenstein, who had an incredible installation at New York’s Spring Break Art Show back in 2020. Her “Nymphtopia” series, on view here with New York’s Latch Key Gallery, imagines Mother Nature reclaiming manmade structures, framed in pointed arches like Gothic church windows. Untitled is also known for its busy slate of programming, including a performance by Nicole Cherubini with September Gallery of Kinderhook, New York. The artist, who is also showing with New York’s Friedman Benda at Design Miami, has worked with choreographer Julia K. Gleich on a roving dance piece that will activate the clay benches she’s created as seating for the fair. Cherubini has also designed the costumes for the hypnotic piece, which will take place Wednesday, December 3, at 3 p.m.

Untitled Art Fair is located at Ocean Drive and 12th Street, Miami Beach, Florida. 

NADA
December 2–6, 2025

Scott Csoke, Gay Puppy Running Away from Heterosexuality (2025). Photo: courtesy of Sargent’s Daughters, New York and Los Angeles.

A perennial Miami Art Week favorite staged by the New Art Dealer’s Alliance nonprofit, this year’s fair features nearly 140 galleries. Booths to look forward to include an animal-themed display from Sargent’s Daughters of New York and Los Angeles. The gallery is billing it as a “menagerie” featuring art-historically minded works by Wendy Red Star, Scott Csoke, and Debbie Lawson, set against a bold floral wallpaper by Colefax and Fowler. The fair has also partnered with Miami’s Knight Foundation, the Pérez Art Museum Miami, and Cultured to launch a new public programming and performance series called “Ecologies” diving into the most pressing issues facing artists and galleries in this challenging moment.

NADA is located at Ice Palace Studios, 1400 North Miami Avenue, Miami, Florida.

Satellite Art Show, Miami Beach
December 4–7, 2025

ICE T and DJ Afrika Islam. Photo: courtesy of Satellite Art Show, Miami Beach.

Miami Art Week’s most offbeat art fair—artist founder Brian Andrew Whiteley promotes it using a #notbasel hashtag, despite the occasional cease and desist letter—has a particularly intriguing lineup this year. The headliners are rapper and actor Ice T and producer DJ Afrika Islam, who are presenting a full-scale recreation of DJ Afrika Islam’s 1980s South Bronx apartment, which was a hub for the then-burgeoning hip hop movement. Another installation, from the nonprofit FEMINIST and artist Autumn Breon, who co-curated the inaugural group exhibition at the ICA San Francisco in 2023, will offer free naloxone, emergency contraceptives, and beauty products. On an art historical note, the fair claims it will have the public debut of “Randy Andy,” the original blow up doll from Andy Warhol’s Factory, allegedly once peed on by Lou Reed. After sometimes hard-to-get-to outings in abandoned hotels, vacant parking lots, and shipping containers, the fair has a new location right next to Aqua Art Miami on Collins Avenue, having transformed the lobby of the Geneva Hotel into a Damien Hirst-themed bar promising a shark in a tank and an “immersive dot room.” (Whiteley, who loves poking fun at the art world elite, is almost certainly the only art fair director promoting their event as “the ideal spot for getting wasted.”)

Satellite Art Show is located at the Geneva Hotel, 1520 Collins Avenue. Miami Beach, Florida.