Notes related to Miami

As 2025 draws to a close, the long-anticipated recovery of the global art market has not yet truly taken shape. The cautious optimism that marked the end of 2024 quickly gave way to a more sobering reality.

By María Galarza

Isabella Lenzi (São Paulo, 1986) is a curator trained in architecture, museology, and art history. She lives in Madrid, where she works as Visual Arts Curator at the Círculo de Bellas Artes and as Artistic Director and Chief Curator of the Fundación Alberto Cruz, following a trajectory that includes institutions such as the Museo Reina Sofía, Fundación Mapfre, Videobrasil, the Cuenca Biennial, and the Whitechapel Gallery.

By Violeta Méndez

In its new edition, Pinta Miami reaffirms its role as a vital anchor of Miami Art Week. Curated by Irene Gelfman, the fair presents three projects that explore—through distinct approaches—the shifting relationships between landscape, identity, and collective experience.

With Special Projects, the Sculpture Garden, and the FORO program, the fair stands as the key meeting point for Latin American art during Miami Art Week.

By Violeta Méndez

In its 2025 edition, the fair unfolds a terrain of questions and encounters. Curated by Juan Canela, NEXT proposes pairings of artists and galleries that explore how we inhabit, name, and imagine the region, articulating new ways of thinking about the contemporary from Latin America and the Caribbean.

By Violeta Lozada

At this year’s Miami Art Week, a surge of Latin artistic energy is reshaping the city’s creative landscape. One standout exhibition is Oscar Martínez’s new sculptural installation on Lincoln Road demonstrating the depth, range, and confidence with which Latin artists are stepping into one of the world’s most influential art gatherings.

By Violeta Lozada

Art Week opens its doors next week and Miami begins to beat differently. There’s a pulse you can feel while walking through the fairs—a mix of curiosity, intuition, and discovery.

From the ancestral to the mythical, two parallel exhibitions explore how memory, identity, and nature shape the symbolic territories where migrant communities imagine —and reinvent— their roots.

The artist unfolds an all-encompassing installation that invites viewers to move through scenes in constant tension between allure and ruin.

The Bass presents an immersive expansion of the artist's fictional universe, where sentient vehicles confront questions of memory, purpose, and control inside a corporate system designed to repair—and restrain—them.

The museum invites visitors to immerse themselves in a field of pure, perceptual color.

By Violeta Lozada

In her solo exhibition ‘Scattered Pieces’, Miami-based artist Luna Palazzolo-Daboul transforms the act of scattering into a meditation on memory, labor, and belonging. Installed in Paradise Plaza (151 NE 41st Street, Suite 133), the site-specific work unfolds across the floor as an archive of fragments, each one a piece of the artist’s evolving journey.

By Violeta Lozada

In the heart of the Miami Design District, Argentine artist Ad Minoliti has transformed a stairwell into something unexpected: a living, breathing body. On Friday, September 26, 2025 at 6:30 PM, the Miami Design District will host the official unveiling of Pink Spatial Microbiota at Buick Building.

The curator returns to the city where he began his career to take on the role of Senior Director of Curatorial Affairs & Chief Curator at the Pérez Art Museum Miami, with a vision focused on accessibility and intercultural dialogue.

The exhibition brings together works by the Cuban master alongside eleven artists who have found in him inspiration, guidance, and a space for dialogue.

By Violeta Lozada

For the first time, twin brothers Elliot and Erick Jiménez step into a museum as an artistic duo, presenting a body of work that is both personal and deeply spiritual. Identical twins with identical passions, they work through photography to explore themes of memory, identity, and tradition, but with a profound layer of meaning rooted in their spiritual practice of Lucumí, a syncretic Afro-Caribbean religion born in late nineteenth-century Cuba. Emerging from the fusion of Yoruba, Catholicism, and Spiritism, Lucumí continues to shape lives across generations of the Cuban diaspora, and in the case of the Jiménez brothers, it has become both inspiration and guide.

By Violeta Lozada

For Miami-born artist Alex Nuñez, inspiration often springs from the familiar yet unsettling details of everyday life in South Florida. Her latest project, "There’s a Gator in the Pool", takes a symbol that outsiders often fear and transforms it into a playful, layered metaphor for life as a Floridian. The exhibition is on view at the Faena Art Project Room in Miami Beach through September 14th.

The new center promotes residencies and curatorial projects focused on visual research and artistic production, building an alternative archive on Miami’s urban transformation.

The inaugural program invites experimental digital works from the crossroads of the Americas. Deadline: July 31.

The Vigil Gonzales gallery announced that Peruvian artist Gonzalo Hernandez has been selected for MOAD’s artist residency at the Padrón Campus of Miami Dade College, which began on May 3 and will conclude on August 23, 2025.

The art fair invites galleries to submit their proposals for its new edition, taking place from December 4 to 7 at The Hangar, Coconut Grove. The application deadline is July 30.

The Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) presented Beyond Representation, an innovative exploration of Caribbean art that challenges traditional boundaries and creates new narratives. This ongoing digital research project and performance series is curated by Iberia Pérez González and hosted by the museum’s Caribbean Cultural Institute (CCI). It features an intergenerational group of artists who use the body and performative practices to critically engage with social, political, and cultural realities in the Caribbean and its diasporas.

As 2024 draws to a close, it’s time to assess the state-of-the-art market over the past year. After the post-pandemic boom of 2021 and 2022, the art market suffered a marked slowdown in 2023, which has continued through 2024. According to auction data, the market has accumulated a total decline of 51% since 2022.

Miami Art Week has just concluded, providing an excellent opportunity to reflect on Miami's evolution as a growing art center and a prominent player in the art market.

Pinta Miami celebrated its 2024 edition from December 5th to 8th, 2024 with more than 16,500 visitors, 45 galleries and 14 countries present. The fair at The Hangar, Coconut Grove led to good sales –where over 90% of the galleries reported sales– and enthusiastic overall attendance providing a true exchange between private, public spheres and opportunities for artists and galleries.

Georgina Valdez is the founder and director of the Argentine gallery The White Lodge, with locations in Córdoba and Buenos Aires. The space is part of the NEXT section of Pinta Miami 2024, with works by artists Sandro Pereira and Nushi Muntaabski. In an interview with Arte al Día, the gallerist reflected on the role of art as an engine of transformation and the place of The White Lodge in the contemporary art scene.

Arte al Día takes a look at the curatorial selection that highlights works by Ibero-American galleries in the NEXT, RADAR and Main sections of Pinta Miami. The curatorial team for the 2024 edition of the fair is integrated by Irene Gelfman -global curator of Pinta and co-curator of FORO and Special Project-, Giuliana Vidarte -curator of NEXT and co-curator of FORO and Special Project- and Angelica Arbelaez -curator of RADAR.

Pinta Miami brings together artists who explore the identity, memory and cultural diversity of Ibero-America. In this 2024 edition, several proposals seek to redefine the Latinx notion from unique and transformative perspectives.

In its third consecutive edition at The Hangar, in Coconut Grove, the Pinta Miami 2024 fair celebrates its eighteenth edition from December 5 to 8 with proposals that make visible the diverse artistic narratives of Latin America. An opportunity for gallerists, artists, curators, collectors and art lovers that seek to explore the region's contemporary discourses.