Miami may be best known for its beaches, palm trees, and nightlife, but its art scene thrives year-round—well beyond Art Basel. Across the city, collectors open their doors, transforming personal passions into public experiences. At The Wolfsonian–FIU, Marco Brambilla reimagines historic World Expositions through cutting-edge technology, while Kat Lyons at Marquez Art Projects offers a vibrant ode to nature and Miami’s biodiversity. At the Craig Robins Collection, a new show draws inspiration from Richard Tuttle’s 2009 Walking on Air. This winter, Whitewaller spotlights standout exhibitions from Miami’s leading collections.
The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse
“Pop Art: Johns, Lichtenstein, Warhol, Wesselmann, Rosenquist, Chamberlain, Segal,” “Records of the Past: Lewis Hine Child Labor Photographs,” and “Italian Art 1970–2024”
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Installation view, “Italian Art 1970 – 2024,” The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, November 12, 2025 – April 4, 2026, photo by Phillip Karp, courtesy of The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse.
This season, The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse unveils three exhibitions tracing key chapters in 20th- and 21st-century art. “Pop Art” features seminal works by Johns, Lichtenstein, Warhol, Wesselmann, Rosenquist, Chamberlain, and Segal, exploring the rise of mass culture through handmade and found objects. “Records of the Past” presents 60 photographs by Lewis Hine documenting child labor in early 20th-century America, offering a rare look at both image and annotation. “Italian Art 1970–2024” bridges Arte Povera and contemporary Italian practices, juxtaposing historic works by Kounellis, Pistoletto, and Calzolari with new pieces like Michelangelo Pistoletto’s Color and Light (2024). Together, these exhibitions highlight the Warehouse’s ongoing commitment to education, historical inquiry, and artistic dialogue.
What we love: Walking through feels like experiencing art history in motion—from the energy of Pop to Hine’s portraits and the innovation of Italian contemporary art—connecting past and present in one dynamic journey.
“Pop Art,” “Records of the Past,” and “Italian Art 1970-2024” at The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse
November 12, 2025–April 4, 2026
YoungArts Gallery
“2025–2026 YoungArts Artists in Residence”
Downtown Miami
Andres Gimenez, Still of “Impotent Desert,” 2024, short film, courtesy of the artist and YoungArts.
YoungArts announces the 2025–2026 Artists in Residence, featuring Andres Gimenez, Nadege Green, Qadir Parris, Nadia Wolff, Fharid LaTorre, Sue Helen Montoya, Destiny Moore, and Patty Suau. Selected from past YoungArts award winners, these multidisciplinary creatives—spanning film, writing, sculpture, photography, and design—will develop new work through dedicated studio residencies at the YoungArts Campus. The Fall/Winter residents will open their studios to the public during Miami Art Week, offering a glimpse into practices that explore identity, spirituality, heritage, and transformation.
“The program recognizes the urgent need for artists to access space to experiment and generate bold ideas,” said Clive Chang, YoungArts President and CEO, underscoring the foundation’s mission to nurture creativity throughout an artist’s career.
What we love: Experiencing artists across disciplines in their creative spaces offers a rare glimpse into process and practice—deepening the connection between viewer, maker, and the art itself.
“2025–2026 YoungArts Artists in Residence” at YoungArts
Fall/Winter: July–December 2025
Spring: March–June 2026
The Wolfsonian–FIU
Marco Brambilla: “After Utopia”
Miami Beach
“AFTER UTOPOA – Atomium-Frame,” Marco Brambilla, 2025. Courtesy of Marco Brambilla.
The Wolfsonian–FIU presents “After Utopia,” a monumental three-channel video installation by artist and filmmaker Marco Brambilla. Using a combination of computer graphics and generative AI, Marco Brambilla reimagines eighteen World Expositions—from Paris 1889 to Osaka 2025—transforming their iconic pavilions into fluid, computer-generated architectures that continuously evolve across a towering digital canvas. The work examines humanity’s enduring pursuit of progress and perfection, juxtaposing historical optimism with the algorithmic logic of the present. Populated by AI-generated crowds that echo the original visitor counts of each Expo, “After Utopia” resurrects the spectacle of innovation as a meditation on ambition, nostalgia, and the shifting boundaries between physical and virtual worlds.
What we love: Marco Brambilla turns memory into motion—inviting viewers to drift through dreamlike worlds where history shimmers, dissolves, and reforms. The result is a hypnotic meditation on progress and the human desire to imagine what comes next.
Marco Brambilla at The Wolfsonian–FIU
November 2025–April 2026
El Espacio 23
“A World Far Away, Nearby, and Invisible: Narratives of Territory in the Jorge M. Pérez Collection”
Allapattah, Miami
Violeta Maya, “Mi versión de el origen del mundo I-III,” 2024, pigments and acrylic on canvas; triptych, courtesy of artist and El Espacio 23.
El Espacio 23 presents “A World Far Away, Nearby, and Invisible: Narratives of Territory in the Jorge M. Pérez Collection,” a sweeping exhibition that reimagines the concept of territory through a poetic and philosophical lens. Featuring nearly 150 works by over 100 artists from the Americas, Europe, Africa, and beyond, the show unfolds across four chapters, tracing territory from its physical and historical dimensions to its spiritual, symbolic, and mythic resonances. Moving between tangible landscapes and dreamlike spaces, the exhibition highlights territory as a site of community, affection, and imagination. Drawing inspiration from Mazatec shaman María Sabina’s vision of a world “far away, nearby, and invisible,” the exhibition becomes a meditation on belonging, transformation, and the unseen forces that bind people to place.
What we love: Drifting through the exhibition feels like crossing borders both real and imagined. Each work expands the idea of territory—turning land into memory, distance into intimacy, and belonging into something beautifully fluid.
“A World Far Away, Nearby, and Invisible: Narratives of Territory in the Jorge M. Pérez Collection” at El Espacio 23
November 13, 2025–August 15, 2026
Marquez Art Projects (MAP)
Kat Lyons: “Full Earth”
Allapattah, Miami
Kat Lyons, Untitled, 2025, Oil on canvas, 48 x 72 inches. Photography courtesy the artist and Marquez Art Projects. Photographed by Nicholas Knight.
Marquez Art Projects presents “Full Earth,” the first U.S. institutional solo exhibition by Kentucky-born artist Kat Lyons. Curated by Alex Gartenfeld, Artistic Director of ICA Miami, the exhibition features a new suite of paintings inspired by the ecosystems of Florida and the Everglades. Combining scientific research, historical painting, and personal experience with regenerative agriculture, Lyons explores the intricate relationships between humans, animals, and the environment. Her compositions recall the naturalist illustrations of Aloys Zötl and Albertus Seba while reimagining how fables, myth, and material culture intertwine. Crocodiles, volcanoes, and invasive monkeys become allegories of time, survival, and transformation. Guided by the writings of conservationist Marjory Stoneman Douglas, “Full Earth” celebrates nature’s abundance and resilience amid the fragility of human progress.
What we love: Lyons’s lush paintings celebrate the beauty and resilience of the natural world, reminding us of our bond with the ecosystems we shape and depend on. Through vivid color and form, she transforms nature into both a warning and a celebration.
Kat Lyons at Marquez Art Projects
December 1, 2025–April 2026
Craig Robins Collection
“Walking on Air”
Miami Design District
John Baldessari, “Throwing Three Balls in the Air to Get a Straight Line (Best of Thirty-Six Attempts),” 1973, offset lithograph in colors on coated paper, courtesy of Craig Robins Collection.
The Craig Robins Collection unveils its 2025–2026 rehang, “Walking on Air,” an exhibition centered on the poetic materiality and spatial sensibility of Richard Tuttle—the artist most prominently represented in the collection. Spanning works from the mid-1960s to today, the show situates Tuttle’s delicate constructions alongside pieces by David Hammons, John Baldessari, and Marcel Duchamp, exploring the interplay of gravity and chance. Drawn from Tuttle’s 2009 work of the same name, the exhibition also features contemporary voices such as Jana Euler, Sasha Gordon, Xinyi Cheng, and Mario Ayala, as well as recent acquisitions by Lauren Halsey, Sam McKinnis, and Jill Mulleady. Presented within Dacra’s Miami Design District headquarters, “Walking on Air” bridges conceptual rigor and figuration across art and design.
What we love: Moving through this show reveals not only the artists’ visions but also the collector’s, offering an intimate look at the sensibilities and curiosities that shape a collection over time.
