Buckle up! It is that time of year again in Miami. Starting November 29th and running through the first week of December, Miami Art Week attracts millions of visitors from across the globe to Miami’s sunny beach’s and luxurious enclaves for a celebration of art, design, fashion, style and culture. Miami Art Week brings together some of the world’s best artists, galleries, art collectors, designers and cultural icons for a week of art shows, installations, events and lavish parties. PROFILEmiami is bringing our readers a series of in-depth Guides to Art Week with a curated list of must-attend art shows, installations and events throughout the week.
PROFILEmiami’s second edition of our Insiders Guide explores the high-energy art shows which pop-up across the city the first week of December each year. Art Collectors and visitors have the opportunity to explore the world’s leading art galleries all concentrated into select art shows which serve as pop-up museums and cultural hotspots. Each show has a different feel and vibe, bringing together different galleries of similar art styles including modern, contemporary, impressionism, pop art, cubism, surrealism, etc. Collectors and visitors alike have the opportunity to get up close and personal rare museum quality paintings and sculptures from legends such as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Willem de Kooning, Roy Lichtenstein, David Hockney, Wayne Thiebaud, Robert Indiana and Andy Warhol, as well as the newest works by Jaume Plensa, Jeff Koons, Banksy, Kaws, RETNA, Bradley Theodore, David Yarrow, Alec Monopoly and Damien Hirst, amongst many others. While perusing the galleries attendees sip champagne, pose for photos with their favorite pieces and rub shoulders with the Jetset with celebrity sightings not uncommon.
DoodlePutt - Image via Doodles
This year during Miami Art Week there will be several exciting and immersive activations across Miami. Matthew Chevallard’s THE OFFICE. Gallery and F2T Gallery will present I DONT NEED IT, BUT I WANT IT, Avery Andon’s ArtLife will present Isaac '“Drift” Wright Art Basel Experience, The Gateway: A Web3 Metropolis will return to Mana Wynwood as the sequel to last year’s famous activation that introduced NFTs to the masses and the widely popular Doodle NFT will build a 9-hole mini golf course in Wynwood dubbed DoodlePutt.
Whether your goal is to pick up some new art pieces for your home of just enjoy the energy of Miami Art Week, our Insiders Guide will help you plan your week so you don’t miss out on anything.
Art Shows:
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ArtMiami/ Context (Downtown Miami)
Dates:
November 29 (Private Day/ VIP Preview)
November 30 - December 45, 2021 (Public Days)
Hours: 11 AM - 7 PM
Location: One Herald Plaza (NE 14th Street & Biscayne Bay), Miami
Art Miami, America’s foremost contemporary and modern art fair, and its sister fair, CONTEXT Art Miami, will kick-off Miami Art Week 2022, opening on Tuesday, November 29th with an invitation-only VIP Preview evening with public days beginning Wednesday, November 30th and running through Sunday, December 4th.
Art Miami continually showcases the most significant artworks of the 20th and 21st centuries and is a “can’t miss” event for collectors, curators, museum professionals and art enthusiasts. Distinguished for its quality, depth, and diversity, Art Miami 2022 will feature investment quality paintings, drawings, design, sculpture, NFTs, video art, photography and prints from more than 160 leading galleries across 17 countries.
CONTEXT Art Miami, presented by Art Miami, continues to create and push boundaries on the conversation about contemporary art, The 2022 edition will showcase works from 75 innovative galleries from more than 20 countries, including Japan, Turkey, Australia, France, South Korea and Chile, among others. CONTEXT Art Miami will kick-off during Miami Art Week with an invitation-only VIP preview on Tuesday, November 29 and run through Sunday, December 4, 2022.
CONTEXT Art Miami’s 10th Edition offers an exceptionally strong platform for collectors to discover and acquire fresh and significant works in today’s primary art market.
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Art Basel (Miami Beach)
Dates:
November 29 (Private Day/ VIP Preview)
November 30 - December 45, 2021 (Public Days)
Hours: 11 AM - 7 PM
Location: 1901 Convention Center Drive, Miami Beach
Since its launch in 2002, Art Basel Miami Beach has served as a dynamic platform uniquely bridging the art scenes of North and South America, Europe, and beyond. The edition marking its 20th anniversary will be the largest to date, featuring 282 exhibitors from 38 countries and territories – more than half of which hail from the Americas. In addition to its Galleries, Positions, Nova, Survey, and Edition sectors, the fair will host 20 large-scale projects as part of the Meridians sector, 29 curated installations within exhibitors’ booths in the Kabinett sector, as well as nine panels with leading art world voices in its renowned Conversations series. Additionally, this year at Art Basel Louis Vuitton will exhibit selected works by a curated ensemble of the world’s most-renowned artists.
Art Basel began in the 1970’s in Basel, Switzerland as an art fair to cater to a new wave of art collectors. Art Basel expanded to the United States with its first sister fair, Art Basel Miami Beach, in 2002. The show attracts some of the highest-end art galleries and most discerning collectors to the Miami Beach Convention Center.
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SCOPE (Miami Beach)
Dates:
November 29 (Private Day/ VIP Preview)
November 30 - December 4, 2021 (Public Days)
Hours: 11 AM - 8 PM
Location: Ocean Drive between 8th and 10th Avenues at 801 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach
Celebrating its 21st edition, SCOPE Miami Beach returns to its bespoke pavilion on the sands of Ocean Drive and 8th Street. Honoring its mission to provide a platform for experiential innovation and discovery, Scope will welcome 150+ diverse contemporary exhibitors featuring the New Contemporary, a genre that stands as a critical contribution to both global politics and local community engagement.
With over 85 art shows spanning more than 20 years, SCOPE Art Show in Miami, New York, and Basel, Switzerland is celebrated as the premier showcase for international emerging contemporary art and multi-disciplinary creative programming. Renowned for its uncanny ability to forecast new visual trends that are embraced globally, SCOPE has garnered extensive critical acclaim with cumulative sales of billions and attendance of millions.
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Design Miami/ (Miami Beach)
Dates:
November 29 (Private Day/ VIP Preview)
November 30 - December 4, 2021 (Public Days)
Hours: 1 PM - 7 PM
Location: 1800 Convention Center Drive, Miami Beach
Design Miami/ returns to Miami Beach for its 18th edition, curated by Curatorial Director, Maria Cristina Didero. This year’s program will explore the theme of The Golden Age: Looking to the Future, celebrating a tomorrow of our own creation. The programming this year offers vibrant, diverse and thought-provoking responses to this thematic, which speculates how design and innovation might lead us to a better, more harmonious and more sustainable collective future. The fair takes place in Pride Park, opposite the Miami Beach Convention Center.
This year there will be a variety of activations throughout Design Miami/. For the first time Dolce & Gabbana has partnered with Design Miami/ to present the brand’s unique Alta Gioielleria Collection. Dolce&Gabbana Alta Gioielleria represents a universe of creativity where the invention of new forms is combined with the preservation of Italy’s renowned tradition of fine jewelry-making.
Audi x Andrés Reisinger will present a new immersive and experiential digital installation in cooperation with digital artist and designer Andrés Reisinger. FENDI will present Triclinium by Lukas Gschwandtner, which consists of wearable canvas sculptures referencing historical portraits of women reclining on furniture.
Kohler has revealed a partnership with global artist/designer, Nada Debs. Together, they present Trancendence, a custom hammam that will offer a three-room immersive experience for visitors to Design Miami/2022. The installation, along with various onsite and digital activations, pays homage to cultural inclusivity, environmental sustainability, and heritage through design and innovation.
Maison Perrier-Jouët collaborated with Paris based artist, architect and designer Garance Vallée to create Planted Air, an installation which conveys her vision of one nature, in which all life forms are united, to the point of forming a single entity. Planted Air offers a reinterpretation of the ecosystem of the Champagne vineyard, in which visitors are invited to follow a path through a series of sculpted vines, which appear to be rooted in the chalk-rich earth of Champagne, reaching upwards towards the sky.
Activations:
Pieces by Callum Eaton and Jonathon Casella at The Office
THE OFFICE. & F2T GALLERY | I DON’T NEED IT, BUT I WANT IT
Dates: Opening Night: November 27 from 5pm - 8pm (open to the public); November 28 - January 29
Hours: 11am - 7pm
Location: The Office, Miami Design District, 3930 NE 2nd Ave., Suite 202 (Miami Design District)
ABOUT: Matthew Chevallard’s THE OFFICE. Gallery and F2T Gallery present I DONT NEED IT, BUT I WANT IT, a group exhibition featuring artists Callum Eaton, Eduardo Sarabia, Jonathan Casella, Kristopher Raos, Saj Issa, Sam Keller, Stephanie H. Shih, and Tim Irani. The selected artists will bring forth a collective body of work highlighting the global culture crisis of mass production and capitalism, emphasizing the cliche or kitschy elements of our cultures, through the use of irony and pop art elements. THE OFFICE., founded by art patron and avid collector, Matthew Chevallard, educates the public on art collecting and presents exceptionally curated and co-curated exhibitions, within the contemporary art world. F2T Gallery from Milano, conceived in 2021 by acclaimed collectors Matteo Novarese and Francesco Bena, works with leading emerging artists, galleries and collectors in the contemporary art world.
Universe of Water Particles, Transcending Boundaries - Image via Superblue
Superblue Miami
Hours:
Monday–Thursday: 11am–7pm
Friday–Saturday: 10am–8pm
Sunday: 10am–7pm
Location: 1101 NW 23 Street, Miami, FL 33127 (Allapattah)
One of the hottest immersive art activations in Miami is on showcase for Miami Art Week. Wind your way through a mirrored labyrinth by Es Devlin, discover a transcendent digital environment by teamLab, and enter an enveloping light-based Ganzfeld work by James Turrell. Turrell’s objectless art of experiences, pioneering Light and Space, made him the natural choice for the first slate of exhibitions currently filling a huge former warehouse in Miami occupied by Superblue, the new commercial venture exclusively dedicated to immersive installations. Here visitors can have their depth perception dizzyingly dissolved by one of Turrell’s ‘Ganzfelds’, the colored light works he has been fine-tuning since 1976.
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Craig Robins Collection: Two Of The Same Kind
Dates: November 30 - onward
Hours: 10am - 12pm
Location: DACRA Headquarters, Miami Design District, 3841 NE 2nd Ave. (Miami Design District)
ABOUT: The Craig Robins Collection consists of contemporary art and innovative design, displaying within the Miami Design District headquarters of DACRA and rotating on a bi-annual basis. This year, “Two of The Same Kind” highlights the work of Marlene Dumas and Jana Euler, two artists whose painting and drawing practices are broadly represented in the Collection holdings. The theme of dualism threads through two portraits by pop icon Andy Warhol, both commissioned decades ago by Craig Robin’s mother and Jackie Soffer’s mother separately, acting as a spectacular coincidence. More than a hundred works on view present an expansive overview of figurative art from the last three decades. The multifaceted Collection also features design pieces by the recently acquired Sasha Gordon and by established favorites such as Zaha Hadid, Jean Prouvé, Marc Newson and Marteen Bass.
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Tesafaye Urgessa at Saatchi Yates Miami in Miami Design District
Dates: November 21 - December 21
Hours: 12pm - 6pm
Location: Saatchi Yates Miami, Miami Design District, 35 NE 40 St. (Miami Design District)
ABOUT: This November, Saatchi Yates Miami will temporarily open a solo exhibition of new work by Ethiopian Contemporary artist Tesfaye Urgessa to co-inside with his presentation at the Rubell Museum, opening December 2022. Saatchi Yates Miami is situated in the Miami Design District, next to the Institute of Contemporary Art and the de la Cruz Collection. Born in 1983 in Ethiopia, Tesfaye studied under master Tadesse Mesfin at Staatlichen Akademie in Stuttgart, and later emigrated to work in Germany. Through these experiences, Ugressa connected Ethiopian iconography and a deep fascination with traditional figurative painting to create a unique and striking language which portrays race and the politics of identity.
ArtLife Presents Isaac '“Drift” Wright Art Basel Experience
Dates: November 30th- December 18th
Hours: 11am - 7pm
Location: 307 NE 61st Street, Miami (Magic City/ Little Haiti)
Give a retired US Army Special Ops Paratrooper a camera, and he’ll scale the tallest skyscrapers in the world and reinvent modern photography. ArtLife presents US Army Special Ops Vet turned photographer Isaac “Drift” Wright @driftershoots debut Solo Exhibit “REBIRTH” where Wright uses his military skillset to capture surreal images from death-defying heights.
Immersed in the traditional Art World, ArtLife has set itself apart as an innovative and dynamic Gallery and Lifestyle Brand with an immense passion and understanding for this illustrious and flourishing market. Founded in 2015 by veteran art dealer and artist manager Avery Andon, ArtLife has quickly become a forward-thinking name in the industry. At a time when buying art over the internet seemed bizarre, ArtLife was one of the first truly online-only art gallery’s. Showcasing some of the most sought after blue-chip, established and emerging artists, in both virtual and in-person exhibition spaces, ArtLife pioneered a non-traditional approach welcoming both seasoned and aspiring collectors to immerse themselves in the seemingly elusive world of contemporary and modern art, from anywhere in the world.
DoodlePutt
Dates: December 2nd + 3rd
Hours: Noon - 10 PM
Location: 2534 N Miami Ave, Miami (Wynwood)
Doodles, one of the most influential and hottest NFT projects in existence featuring a collection of colorful line-drawn characters has, will come to life in Wynwood for Miami Art Week. Doodles will showcase how imaginative and dynamic the brand is through a 2-day immersive activation that will transport you to a world of color and magic. DoodlePutt features a 9-hole mini-putt course that brings to life the Doodles universe, combined with an outdoor lounge, entertainment, and more. Travel through 9 mini-golf holes, each representing a different part of the Doodles universe, on a course filled with new worlds to explore, characters to meet, and secrets to unlock. Doodles and Shopify will also bring URL and IRL together in a first-of-its-kind token gated NFT retail drop with Doodles
Limited tee-times and general admission passes will be available for the public on-site. To register or more information visit Doodles.
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Louis Vuitton Custom Curated Collection at Art Basel
Dates:
November 29 (Private Day/ VIP Preview)
November 30 - December 45, 2021 (Public Days)
Hours: 11 AM - 7 PM
Location: 1901 Convention Center Drive, Miami Beach
Louis Vuitton will exhibit selected works by a curated ensemble of the world’s most-renowned artists as part of Art Basel Miami Beach, held at the Convention Center in Miami Beach from November 29 - December 3. Standout artist collaborations on display in the Louis Vuitton lounge include two wax figures of Yayoi Kusama, created by the artist herself; a panda figure sculpture by Takashi Murakami on a vintage Louis Vuitton trunk; paintings by Richard Prince and Alex Katz; a photo by Jean Larivière, and the now iconic Artycapucines collection. As a celebration of the Maison’s relationship with Yayoi Kusama - and to mark the 10-year anniversary of the first collaboration - exclusive new pieces will be showcased for the first time as a teaser of the upcoming collaboration.
Riches Presents The Crown We Never Take Off Curated By Donnamarie Baptiste
Dates: December 2 and 3rd
Hours: Noon - 9pm
Location: SOHO Studio, 2136 NW 1st Ave. (Wynwood)
Prime Video and their upcoming Original series Riches will host of “The Crown We Never Take Off”, their larger-than-life immersive art activation taking place during Art Basel Miami Beach at Soho Studios in Wynwood. Inspired by the series, Riches, Prime video is bringing to life an experience that will celebrate elements from the show that exhibit the freedom of expression and identity in the Black diasporic experience, through several mediums including photography, sculpture, painting, music, video, and performance art. The event will feature Riches-themed diaspora inspired cocktails, passed hors d'oeuvres, live music, photo activations (Face of flair, S+R, Riches beauty installation, Crown Bust, Art work), and much more.
nft now and Mana Common Present ‘The Gateway: A Web3 Metropolis’
Dates: November 30 - December 3
Hours: 11am - 7pm
Location: Mana Common, 169 E Flagler St., Miami (Downtown Miami)
The Gateway: A Web3 Metropolis is the sequel to last year’s famous activation that introduced NFTs to the masses. Powered by MoonPay, the 5-day festiva is free to the registered general public and will transform Downtown Miami will feature leading artists, NFT communities, industry titans, influencers, and performers from brands like Christie’s, Instagram, Porsche, Alo Yoga, Art Blocks and more.
This year, the experience is moving beyond the screens and creating the first-ever web3 metropolis. Over the course of 5 days, the events will take over 12 buildings and 2 city blocks in Downtown Miami’s Flagler District to unite the web3 community for a landmark experience unlike any other.
This year will feature immersive activations by 9dcc by gmoney, Art Blocks, Adam Bomb Squad, Christie’s, FaZe Clan, Instagram, Porsche, RTFKT + CloneX, WME, and MetaMask. Artists include Beeple, Dave Krugman, FEWOCiOUS, PPL PLSR, Pussy Riot and Unicorn Dao. There will also be music performances by Adworld, Daniel Allan, DJ_Dave Latashá, Major League DJz, Venus X, The Whooligan.
The programming will feature leading artists, musicians, community partners, panels, speakers and performers. For more information on The Gateway, please visit nftnow.com/thegateway. To register for a free ticket, visit The Gateway: A Web3 Metropolis.
Nina Chanel Abney, R&R, 2022. Mural at Miami Worldcenter in Downtown Miami. Photo by Oriol Tarridas
Miami Worldcenter Launches $5M Public Art Program in Downtown Miami
Miami Worldcenter, a 27-acre $4 billion mixed use development transforming the heart of Downtown Miami, has brought on renowned international art dealer and curator Jeffrey Deitch and Miami-based curatorial collective PRIMARY to spearhead a $5 million public art initiative that will transform the streets and buildings of the ‘city within a city’ into a permanent outdoor art museum.
Now on display, the first work to be completed as part Miami Worldcenter’s new public art initiative is a massive colorful mural by contemporary artist Nina Chanel Abney, which graces the walls of a pedestrian tunnel and the exterior façade of a parking garage at the development. Other museum-worthy artists confirmed to exhibit pieces at Miami Worldcenter include Woody De Othello, Viktor El-Saieh, Nick Cave and Trenton Doyle Hancock, among others.