Miami Art Week is about more than just the fairs. In addition to making sure you’re at the previews for Art Basel Miami Beach, Untitled Art, NADA, and Design Miami, make sure you save for the many must-see Miami exhibitions on view this week. Below, find details on Rachel Feinstein at The Bass, Lucy Bull at the ICA Miami, Andrea Chung at MOCA North Miami, José Parlá at PAMM, Jaime Hayon at Mindy Solomon, and many more!
Jaime Hayon: Bestial
Mindy Solomon
December 1, 2024 – January 4, 2025
848 NW 22nd St, Miami, FL 33127
Courtesy of Jaime Hayon and Mindy Solomon.
The Spanish artist and designer Jaime Hayon explores the provocative term “bestial” in a kaleidoscopic exhibition of monumental paintings and complex sculptures. The skillful creative weaves a dreamlike, primal state of innocence, apprehension, and tenacity, probing the deepest forests of Mother Nature where humanity’s hand has left an undeniable mark.
What we love: The animals with human characteristics ingeniously wandering and prowling through Hayon’s artworks, which impart fantastical and vital stories with humor, wit, and charm.
Rachel Feinstein: The Miami Years
The Bass
September 2024–August 17, 2025
2100 Collins Ave., Miami Beach, FL 33139
The opening of Rachel Feinstein “The Miami Years” at the Bass, photo by Zaire Aranguren.
The esteemed Bass Museum of Art recently unveiled “Rachel Feinstein: The Miami Years,” a reflective and transformational exhibition currently on view through next summer. Probing almost 30 years of creative works by the New York–based multidisciplinary artist, the dynamic show offers radiant installations, paintings, sculptures, scenography, and films, which at their heart speak profoundly to Feinstein’s childhood stomping grounds of Miami.
What we love: The exceptional opportunity to travel back in time to the 1970s and ’80s in the Magic City, through the perceptive eyes of Feinstein, who has infused its dark and light nuances into the vibrant shapes, tones, and textures of all her artistic endeavors.
Carlos Betancourt: Miami Reef Star
The ReefLine
Courtesy of The Reef Line.
December 3–December 8
South Beach Shoreline
This week in Miami, the ReefLine debuts a large-scale installation by Carlos Betancourt, Miami Reef Star. The 60-foot sculpture is made up of 46 star-shaped modules of various sizes, serving as a working prototype for the ReefLine—a science-meets-art project from Ximena Caminos and OMA that aims to protect and promote biodiversity with a 15-acre underwater masterplan. The design will feature underwater functional artworks that act as hybrid coral reefs.
What we love: That the Reefline blends art, technology, and biology to protect the ocean habitat and engage the public.
Artist-in-Residence Vanessa Raw and More
Rubell Museum Miami
December 2, 2024–2025
1100 NW 23rd St., Miami, FL 33127
Vanessa Raw, “When I talk to the night,” 2024, oil on linen, 94.5 x 78.5 inches, courtesy of the artist and The Rubell Museum.
The illustrious Rubell Museum Miami will unveil the hypnotic works of Artist-in-Residence Vanessa Raw, whose On Earth we weren’t meant to stay (2023) and When I talk to the night (2024) are sumptuous works in oil on linen; in each melodic painting, a portal to unrestrained feminine love and freedom awaits. Coinciding with this presentation are recent acquisitions from visionaries like Murjoni Merriweather, Omari Douglin, La Monte Westmoreland, and Emmanuel Louisnord Desir.
What we love: Visitors will also have the opportunity to bask in immense installations and sculptures in a parade of Collection Highlights, including gems by globally acclaimed artists Kennedy Yanko, Rashid Johnson, Anselm Kiefer, Maurizio Cattelan, Harold Ancart, and many more.
Estefania Puerta: The Ghost in the Hallway
Nina Johnson Gallery, Exhibition Library
November 14, 2024–January 4, 2025
6315 NW 2nd Ave., Miami, FL 33150
Estefania Puerta, “Mother Tongue,” 2024, porcelain, candles, courtesy of the artist and Nina Johnson.
In a vibrant, inaugural presentation at Nina Johnson Gallery, artist Estefania Puerta juxtaposes mixed-media objects in order to confront the very notion of a “carrier.” Both natural and unnatural materials rise and fall through vitrines, candle holders, and various vessels, examining the intimate significance for human beings’ inside and out.
What we love: Notable, intricate pieces found their beginnings when the artist was attending the American Academy in Rome just this year, where research on the sarcophagus provided fertile inspiration.
Nina Osoria Ahmadi, Priscilla Aleman, Dani Amaro, and Alberto Checa
YoungArts Gallery
December 3-7, 2024
2100 Biscayne Blvd., Miami
Priscilla Aleman. “My Mother the Moon and all that is Home”, 2023, 8”x5”x 4”, Palm Leaves, Resin, Moon light; courtesy of YoungArts.
The visionary MoMA PS1 Director Connie Butler partnered with Young Arts in selecting leading-edge artists Nina Osoria Ahmadi, Priscilla Aleman, Dani Amaro, and Alberto Checa as part of the celebrated YoungArts’ Gallery Residency program.
What we love: On the spirited occasion of Miami Art Week, the South Florida-based creatives and YoungArts award winners graciously open their studios to guests, offering riveting explorations of the human body as a living and expressive time capsule.
Lucy Bull: “The Garden of Forking Paths”
ICA Miami
December 3, 2024–March 30, 2025
61 NE 41st St., Miami, FL 33137
Lucy Bull, 4:28, 2024. Oil on linen. 100 x 76 x 1 1/4 inches (254 x 193 x 3.2 cm) (LBU 24.008), photo by Elon Schoenholz, courtesy of David Kordansky Gallery.
“The Garden of Forking Paths” at the ICA Miami is Lucy Bull’s first museum show in the U.S. On view are 20 of the artist’s abstract paintings and works—described as dense, optical overloads—including two large-scale pieces that extend to 10 feet across the museum’s gallery walls, as well as new vertical works. Bull deftly uses color and texture and gesture to create psychedelic landscapes that feel like they are constantly in movement.
What we love: Don’t miss Lucy Bull’s new monumental work in the ICA Miami’s stairwell, on view through September 25.
“Andrea Chung: Between Too Late and Too Early”
Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami (MOCA)
November 6, 2024 – April 6, 2025
770 NE 125th St, North Miami, FL 33161
Andrea Chung, “VEX XI,” 2020, collage, ink and beads on handmade paper , 29 x 21.75 in.,
Davis Museum at Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, Museum purchase, Nancy Gray Sherrill, Class of 1954, Collection Acquisitions Fund.
The stirring solo presentation by masterful Andrea Chung juxtaposes over 80 mixed media works for a sweeping and experiential show. A gripping journey through her innovative sculptures, collages, works on paper—and must-see installation—employs meaningful materials to peel away the stain of colonial legacies to reveal their profound effect on island nations.
What we love: Chung’s thoughtful and bold experimentation with sugar and cyanotypes assist the artist in bringing the historical realities and sensorial memories of the transatlantic slave trade to haunting life.
“Lightfall”
Superblue
October 28, 2024 – January 31, 2025
1101 NW 23rd St, Miami, FL 33127
Studio Lemercier, Lightfall, 2024. Image courtesy of Superblue, ©David Jacowbski.
“Lightfall” is a new multisensory commission by the Brussels-based creative duo Studio Lemercier, in collaboration with ambient electronic musician Murcof. The installation immerses viewers in mist and wind, constructing layers of movement, sound, and texture. It is an ethereal celebration and interrogation of our relationship with nature.
What we love: Murcof’s compositions envelop viewers as they move through the installation, intensifying the artwork’s sensorial qualities.
“Homecoming”
PAMM
November 14, 2024 – July 6, 2025
1103 Biscayne Blvd, Miami, FL 33132
José Parlá. Aguanile, The Spiritual Cleansing of Home, 2024. Acrylic, oil, enamel, collage, and plaster on canvas.
96 x 72 x 3 inches. Courtesy the artist and Parlá Studios.
“Homecoming” is an elaborate, two-part exhibition by multidisciplinary artist José Parlá, comprising a series of never-before-seen works and a site-specific mural. Shaped by his upbringing between Puerto Rico and the mainland United States, each painting is an homage to Parlá’s native home of Miami and speaks to charged ideas of displacement. The artist transformed the gallery to look like his studio, bringing in paint-covered tables and decades of his archival memorabilia; the result is a process-focused exhibition which conscientiously engages with Cuban identity.
What we love: In “Homecoming,” Parlá layers ink, paint, plaster, and collaged posters that were once posted on Miami’s walls to create multidimensional works which carry the city’s history.
“Seletega (run, see if people are coming/corre a ver si viene gente)”
Faena Art
Rendering of Seletega, 2024 by Nicholas Galanin. Image courtesy of the artist and Faena Art.
December 3 – December 8, 2024
3201 Collins Ave, Miami Beach, FL 33140
As part of Miami Art Week, Faena Art presents a monumental site-specific installation by renowned cross-disciplinary artist Nicholas Galanin. Partially buried in the sands of Faena Beach, the work stands over thirty feet tall and takes the form of a Spanish galleon’s masts, sails, and rigging—tying the occupation of Indigenous land to the initial invasion of the “Americas.”
What we love: Spanish and English phrases are spray-painted in large swaths across the sails, forming salient questions about liberation and asking visitors to consider their roles and responsibilities in shaping the future.
