Museum shows in Miami

Museum Ongoing

Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Surrounded Islands Documentation Exhibition

Until Dec 6, 2026

NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale · Fort Lauderdale

Preparatory drawings and collages by Christo, photographs, engineering surveys, permits, scale models and sections of the pink fabric documenting the Surrounded Islands project in Biscayne Bay, gifted to the museum by the Christo and Jeanne-Claude Foundation. On view through spring 2027.

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Gabriel Rico: IX Mural from the series–Reducción objetiva orquestada

Until Dec 6

The Bass Museum of Art · South Beach

A mural-installation by Mexican artist Gabriel Rico that combines natural and industrial cast-off objects in the form of an algebraic equation, contrasting geometric order with seemingly random materials. On view through August 2028.

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Bakehouse at Forty: Past, Present, Future

Until Jan 1, 2027

Bakehouse Art Complex · Wynwood

Multi-part installation marking Bakehouse's 40th anniversary and the centennial of its Art Deco bakery building, with a century-long timeline of Miami's development and a commissioned audio work by Archival Feedback.

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Beatriz Monteavaro: Marseille Drive (Oolite Arts Windows @ Walgreens)

Until Jan 10, 2027

Oolite Arts Windows @ Walgreens (74th St & Collins Ave) · North Beach

Paintings and sculptures by Beatriz Monteavaro recalling her Cuban family's first years in the US in North Beach, based on family photographs and seen 'through the lens of preschool me'; a reflection on migration, refuge and memory.

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Jillian Mayer: Mayer Objects (Oolite Arts Windows @ Walgreens)

Until Jan 10, 2027

Oolite Arts Windows @ Walgreens (67th St & Collins Ave) · North Beach

Storefront-window presentation by Oolite Arts of MAYER OBJECTS, Miami artist Jillian Mayer's limited-edition line of studio-crafted ceramic, glass and metal objects that sit between sculpture and design.

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La Superba: Genoa and The Wolfsoniana

Until Jan 10, 2027

The Wolfsonian–FIU · South Beach

Paintings, travel posters, books and decorative arts portraying Genoa, home of The Wolfsonian's Italian sister institution, as a mercantile and financial center in the first half of the 20th century. 6th floor.

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Modern Design Across Borders

Until Jan 10, 2027

The Wolfsonian–FIU · South Beach

Interwar design's global reach through five spotlights (transportation, the 1925 Paris Expo, tea and coffee, plywood and cocktail culture), with products by Norman Bel Geddes, Josef Hoffmann, Alvar Aalto and Charles and Ray Eames. Curated by Silvia Barisione; 6th floor.

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Louise Nevelson: Dawn to Dusk

Until Jan 17, 2027

Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum–FIU · University Park

One of the most comprehensive US exhibitions of Louise Nevelson, with more than fifty works from early figurative paintings to her abstract wood constructions, collages and jewelry. Organized by the Farnsworth Art Museum, Maine, with works from the Frost's own collection.

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Let the Picture Lead: Helen Frankenthaler and Her Circle

Until Feb 6, 2027

Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami (ArtLab @ the Lowe) · Coral Gables

ArtLab exhibition celebrating a gift of prints from the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, setting Frankenthaler's paintings and works on paper alongside artists in her circle, with loans from the Frankenthaler Foundation and the Jorge M. and Darlene Pérez Collection.

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A Backward Glance: Highlights from the William J. Glackens Collection

Until Feb 7, 2027

NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale · Fort Lauderdale

Highlights from the museum's William J. Glackens Collection and Research Center, which holds more than 1,900 objects by and related to the American painter.

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Held in Layers: Selections from PAMM's Collection

Until Feb 7, 2027

Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) · Downtown Miami

Contemporary paintings from PAMM's collection, all shown for the first time, by Lucy Bull, Tomm El-Saieh, Justine Hill, Paulo Nimer Pjota and Clara Varas. The show looks at how artists build, revise and resolve their works.

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Amalia Pica: Lecturas Posibles

Until Feb 12, 2027

The Bass – The Rotunda, Collins Park · South Beach

An immersive, interactive installation in The Bass's Rotunda that takes the form of an almost two-dimensional library, with walls, furniture and objects rendered in chalkboard paint so visitors can draw and write on every surface. It draws on the site's history as the Miami Beach Public Library.

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Joel Meyerowitz: Aftermath

Until Feb 14, 2027

NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale · Fort Lauderdale

Twenty-eight large-scale color photographs by Joel Meyerowitz of Ground Zero in the aftermath of the 11 September 2001 attacks, presented for the 25th anniversary.

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Material Matters: How Synthetics Shaped a New Era

Until Feb 21, 2027

The Wolfsonian–FIU · South Beach

Installation in Knight Lab 3 tracing how manmade plastics, rubbers and textiles reshaped design, manufacturing and modern living, with works from the Wolfsonian collection.

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Foot Notes: Shoes, Symbolism, and Society

Until Feb 28, 2027

The Wolfsonian–FIU · South Beach

Footwear from the first half of the 20th century from The Wolfsonian's collection, including rare shoes by Salvatore Ferragamo and Beth Levine, shown alongside histories of merchandising, innovation, propaganda and recreation. Curated by Danielle Charlap; 7th floor.

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Sarah Zapata: Against A State of Malevolence

Until Feb 28, 2027

The Bass Museum of Art · South Beach

Immersive textile environments by Sarah Zapata drawing on weaving traditions, architecture, queer identity and her Peruvian heritage, including her installation A Famine of Hearing, recently acquired by The Bass.

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Wifredo Lam's Legacy

Until Mar 14, 2027

NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale · Fort Lauderdale

Works by Wifredo Lam and the Cuban artists he influenced, tracing his adoption of Afro-Cuban ritual, tropical landscape, coded emblems of protest and hybrid personages.

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One Becomes Many

Until Mar 21, 2027

Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) · Downtown Miami

Work by eleven Black Brazilian artists, including Emanoel Araújo, Mestre Didi, Sonia Gomes, Antonio Obá and Rubem Valentim, drawing on traditional motifs, geometric abstraction and candomblé. The show addresses diaspora experiences of displacement, survival and continuity.

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Morel Doucet: The Things We Carry

Until Mar 27, 2027

Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami · Coral Gables

Ceramics, portraits and mixed-media works by Miami-raised Haitian-American artist Morel Doucet exploring migration, climate change, cultural memory and identity in the Caribbean diaspora.

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Records of the Past: Lewis Hine Child Labor Photographs

Until Apr 3, 2027

Margulies Collection at the Warehouse · Wynwood

Sixty early-20th-century working prints by Lewis Hine from his documentation of child labor for the National Child Labor Committee, shown to the public for the first time. Curated by Jeanie Ambrosio.

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Caught in the Eye: Remembering the 1926 Hurricane

Until Apr 11, 2027

Museum of Miami (formerly HistoryMiami Museum) · Downtown Miami

Centenary exhibition on the 1926 hurricane that ended Miami's first boom, drawn from the museum's archive of photo albums, newspapers, film and letters, with first-hand accounts and a look at how Greater Miami has prepared for storms since.

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John Baldessari: The End of the Line

Until May 9, 2027

Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) · Downtown Miami

The first major South Florida survey of conceptual artist John Baldessari, with about forty works in painting, photography, video and installation drawn mostly from the Craig Robins Collection. It covers his 1960s-70s work, including the 1970 Cremation Project, serial photography and his exploration of language and image.

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This Is America: Selections from PAMM's Collection

Until May 23, 2027

Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) · Downtown Miami

Marking the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, works from PAMM's collection by artists including Judy Chicago, Carrie Mae Weems, Howardena Pindell, Cildo Meireles and Rashid Johnson examine how American artists have responded to historical crises, from the Civil War to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Yuko Mohri: Unviolated Imperfection

Until May 30, 2027

The Bass Museum of Art · South Beach

Tokyo-based artist Yuko Mohri's first solo exhibition in a US museum, spanning three galleries of kinetic and sound installations built from everyday objects. The sections Decomposition, Moré Moré (Leaky) and Piano Solo explore nature and technology, improvisation and chance.

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Basquiat: Figures, Signs, Symbols

Until Jun 6, 2027

Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) · Downtown Miami

Ten works by Jean-Michel Basquiat from the Kenneth C. Griffin Collection, the largest showing of his art in Florida to date. The exhibition looks at the human figure, language and signs, and recurring symbols in his paintings.

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Abraham Cruzvillegas: Autocontusión

Until Jul 25, 2027

The Bass Museum of Art · South Beach

An installation of 80 painted wood pieces from The Bass's collection, an extension of Abraham Cruzvillegas's Autoconstrucción project reflecting on the life cycle of cities and objects and the displacement common among diasporic communities.

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Anina Major: The Sacred Mangrove

Until Aug 1, 2027

Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) · Downtown Miami

Bahamian-born artist Anina Major's installation of towering woven clay sculptures, bottle trees and a path of crushed conch shells, shown with her work Water Tower (2024) from PAMM's collection. Her fired-clay forms reinterpret traditional palm-leaf plaiting.

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Paris Expo 1925

Until Aug 1, 2027

The Wolfsonian–FIU · South Beach

A small display of postcards, sales catalogues and objects showing how Parisian department stores introduced Art Deco at the 1925 Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes.

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Dustin Yellin: Psychogeographies

Until Aug 7, 2027

Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami · Coral Gables

Three of Dustin Yellin's large multimedia glass sculptures from his Psychogeographies series, layered collage-and-paint figures drawing on natural history, Enlightenment taxonomies, Dada, Surrealism, Joseph Cornell and Hieronymus Bosch.

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Young, Gifted, and Black: The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art

Opening day · until Apr 24, 2027

Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami · Coral Gables

Fifty-two works by forty-nine contemporary artists from the Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection, from David Hammons, Glenn Ligon, Lorna Simpson, Henry Taylor, Kara Walker and Nari Ward to Jordan Casteel, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Paul Mpagi Sepuya and Vaughn Spann.

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Pedro y Juana: Aquí

Opening day · until Dec 6

The Bass Museum of Art · South Beach

A maximalist, site-specific environment by Mexico City architecture and design studio Pedro y Juana (Ana Paula Ruiz Galindo and Mecky Reuss), with custom wallpaper, a tufted carpet of South Florida flora and fauna, animal-like furniture and floral light fixtures inspired by Collins Park and a Malinalco cloister mural. On view through May 2028.

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Picasso–Klee–Matisse: Masterpieces from the Museum Berggruen

Opening day · until Feb 28, 2027

Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) · Downtown Miami

About 100 works by Picasso, Klee, Matisse, Giacometti and others from the collection of dealer Heinz Berggruen, now held by Berlin's Museum Berggruen, in its largest East Coast showing. The presentation is supplemented by Latin American modernist works from PAMM's holdings, including Diego Rivera, Joaquín Torres-García and Wifredo Lam.

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Beyond Time: Antonia Eiriz, Juan Sánchez, and Pedro Vizcaíno

Opening day · until Mar 14, 2027

Museum of Art and Design at Miami Dade College (MOAD), Freedom Tower · Downtown Miami

Paintings, works on paper and assemblages by Antonia Eiriz, Juan Sánchez and Pedro Vizcaíno that render human experience through allusions to the figure, in realms where time is conflated and space flattened. Wolfson Art Gallery, second floor.

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Kinetic Sculpture: Yuko Mohri

Opening day · until Apr 3, 2027

Margulies Collection at the Warehouse · Wynwood

Yuko Mohri's 2026 kinetic work Moré Moré (Leaky): Falling Water Given #8, a newly acquired self-contained ecosystem of found objects with pumps circulating water, inspired by improvised leak repairs in Tokyo's metro stations.

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Light Installations

Opening day · until Apr 3, 2027

Margulies Collection at the Warehouse · Wynwood

Works by 12 artists using fluorescent light, projections, LED tubes and circuitry, including Dan Flavin, Leo Villareal, Doug Aitken, Iván Navarro, Tony Oursler, Jennifer Steinkamp and Jason Rhoades.

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Project Room: Jordi Alcaraz and Mimmo Paladino

Opening day · until Apr 3, 2027

Margulies Collection at the Warehouse · Wynwood

Fifteen works of ink spreads, drips and stains by Spanish artist Jordi Alcaraz, paired with Italian painter and sculptor Mimmo Paladino, whom Martin Margulies has collected in depth over the last five years.

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Realism: Paintings and Sculptures

Opening day · until Apr 3, 2027

Margulies Collection at the Warehouse · Wynwood

First presentation of realist paintings and sculptures from the Margulies Collection, from the late 1960s through 2025, ranging from photorealist painting (Davis Cone, Randy Dudley, John Salt) to the surreal figures of Folkert de Jong and Gilles Barbier, with works by George Segal, Manuel Neri, Hugo McCloud and others.

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Zoë Buckman: Show Me Your Bruises, Then

Opening day · until May 23, 2027

Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) · Downtown Miami

A three-channel video installation in which Zoë Buckman, Cush Jumbo and Sienna Miller recite Buckman's poem about sexual assault and the shame and stigma survivors face, paired with an antique textile embroidered with an excerpt of the poem.

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Homegrown

Opening day · until Apr 16, 2027

Bakehouse Art Complex – Audrey Love Gallery · Wynwood

Group exhibition of about 32 Bakehouse resident, associate and alumni artists exploring home, comfort and belonging, staged as a lived-in domestic environment with commissioned wallpaper, furniture, installations, a listening room and performance. Curated by Krys Ortega and René Morales.

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Josh Aronson: Welcome to Wonder

Opening day · until May 25, 2027

Vizcaya Museum & Gardens · Coconut Grove

Vizcaya's Contemporary Arts Program presents a site-responsive photographic installation by Josh Aronson along the North and South Hammock Path and the Metrorail overpass ramp, exploring identity, belonging and being seen.

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Geoffrey Holder: Black Magic

Opening day · until Apr 5, 2027

Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami (MOCA) · North Miami

The first museum survey centered on the visual art of Geoffrey Holder, known for his work in dance, theater and film, with over 60 paintings, drawings, collages and sculptures, many never shown publicly. Guest curated by Erica Moiah James.

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Edison Peñafiel: Tides and Passages | Chapter I: MARE MAGNVM

Opening day · until Jan 9, 2027

Locust Projects · Little River

Miami premiere, at expanded scale, of Ecuadorian-born, Miami-based artist Edison Peñafiel's 360-degree video installation MARE MAGNVM, a monochrome sea of fourteen boats carrying eighty-one masked figures in a perpetual loop evoking migration across water. Produced in partnership with MAD Arts.

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What Takes Root

Opening day · until Apr 11, 2027

Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum–FIU · University Park

Launch of the Frost's Green Family Collection of work by South Florida artists, bringing new acquisitions into conversation with earlier purchases by José Bedia, Adler Guerrier, Yanira Collado, Rubén Torres-Llorca and others.

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Ofelia Rodríguez: Psychic Jungle

Opening day · until Jul 25, 2027

Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum–FIU · University Park

First major US solo exhibition of the late Colombian artist Ofelia Rodríguez (1946-2023), spanning four decades of painting, drawing, printmaking, assemblage and her signature 'magic boxes'.

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Frozen Gestures

Opening day · until Apr 11, 2027

NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale · Fort Lauderdale

Expressionistic sculpture from Abstract Expressionism to today, with works by Willem de Kooning, David Smith, Frank Stella, Lynda Benglis, Urs Fischer (including his melting wax sculpture Julian), Jeff Koons, Lorna Simpson, Rachel Whiteread, Kennedy Yanko and others. Curated by Bonnie Clearwater.

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Ragnar Kjartansson: Sunday Without Love

Opening day · until Apr 11, 2027

NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale · Fort Lauderdale

Room-size projection of Ragnar Kjartansson's single-channel video of a 2025 performance on Italy's Renon Plateau, in which the artist and nine performers in traditional costume repeatedly sing a chorus adapted from Rocko Schamoni's 'Ohne Liebe Leben Lernen'.

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The Wondering Jew: Chagall, the School of Paris and the Worlds They Inspired

Opening day · until Dec 6

Jewish Museum of Florida · South Beach

Nine works by Marc Chagall alongside paintings, drawings, sculpture and lithographs by Jewish artists of the School of Paris, with archival material on efforts to help Marc and Bella Chagall escape Nazi-occupied France, an interactive migration map, and contemporary contributions including Joseph's Machines and Dahlia Dreszer. On view through March 2027.

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Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe

Opening day · until Mar 28, 2027

Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (ICA Miami) · Miami Design District

First solo US museum exhibition of Yanomami artist Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe, co-produced with the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, with more than 100 works including drawings, paintings, prints, animation, murals and site-specific installations.

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Techno Firma

Opening day · until May 4, 2027

Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) · Downtown Miami

PAMM's first artist-driven AI exhibition: a monumental interactive sculpture by John Fitzgerald and Godfrey Reggio that reimagines Reggio's 1982 film Koyaanisqatsi using a machine-learning model trained on the Reggio Foundation Archive. Computer vision lets visitors shape the imagery across three screens.

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Languages of Migration

Opening day · until Dec 6

MOAD Kislak Center, Freedom Tower · Downtown Miami

Permanent exhibition in the Kislak Center drawing on books, maps, letters and artifacts from the Jay I. Kislak Collection to trace cultural exchange and migration, with works by contemporary artists Edouard Duval-Carrié, Pepe Mar, Judith Lowry, Rose B. Simpson and Jaune Quick-to-See Smith. Closing date not yet announced.

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Symbiosis: Brazilian Artists from the Marquez Family Collection

Opening day · until Dec 6

Marquez Art Projects (MAP Foundation) · Allapattah

Group exhibition of a dozen emerging Brazil-based artists from the Marquez Family Collection, working in painting and mixed media with a shared interest in materiality, landscape and Brazil's modernist traditions, curated by Alex Gartenfeld (MAP curatorial adviser and ICA Miami artistic director). Artists include Maxwell Alexandre, Laís Amaral, Rafael Baron, Vivian Caccuri, Márcia Falcão, Os Gemeos, Marina Perez Simão and Mika Takahashi. Closing date not yet announced.

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Michael Richards: Escape Plan

Opening day · until Feb 14, 2027

NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale · Fort Lauderdale

Exhibition marking 25 years since the death of Jamaican-American artist Michael Richards, who died in his World Trade Center studio on 11 September 2001, exploring the recurring imagery of airplanes, wings and pilots in his work and the plurality of Black experience. Curated by Ariella Wolens.

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Naudline Pierre (Stairwell Commission)

Opening day · until Nov 1, 2027

Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (ICA Miami) · Miami Design District

A new site-specific commission by Brooklyn-based painter Naudline Pierre for ICA Miami's three-story stairwell, her largest work to date: a sequence of monumental paintings of water, nymphs and bathing scenes.

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MOCA North Miami Art Week General Reception

8:30 PM

Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami (MOCA) · North Miami

MOCA's Miami Art Week reception celebrating Geoffrey Holder: Black Magic. Admission $10; free for MOCA members, residents of North Miami, Bal Harbour and SoLe Mia, and VIP pass holders from partner art fairs.

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Carroll Dunham

Opening day · until Mar 14, 2027

Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (ICA Miami) · Miami Design District

The painter's first museum survey of paintings in more than 25 years, with over 50 works from 1983 to the present tracing his move between abstraction and figuration. Curated by Alex Gartenfeld and Gean Moreno.

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Friedrich Kunath: I'll Romanticize This Later

Opening day · until Jan 22, 2027

ICA Miami Expansion · Miami Design District

Friedrich Kunath's first solo museum exhibition in the US, on the second floor of ICA Miami's Expansion building, with paintings, sculptures and installations alongside a new interactive digital environment. It explores his dialogue with Caspar David Friedrich and American pop culture.

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Diego Singh: Deeper and Deeper

Opening day · until Apr 11, 2027

Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (ICA Miami) · Miami Design District

First solo museum exhibition for Miami-based painter Diego Singh, across three ground-floor galleries organized by color (blue, red and bright yellow). It includes works from the last fifteen years and new large-scale canvases.

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Free Community Day at The Bass (Miami Art Week)

10:00 AM

The Bass Museum of Art · South Beach

Free museum admission all day on the final day of Art Week.