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The City of Miami's bustling art fair scene has attracted leading international galleries to set up permanent homes in the city.
Read MoreZilberman opened their new gallery in the Miami Design District in October 2023 with the inaugurating duo exhibition by Carlos Aires and Omar Barquet. It is the Turkish gallery's first permanent space in the U.S., adding to their range of Istanbul and Berlin galleries and project spaces. Founded in 2008, Zilberman stages art exhibitions with emerging and established artists including Omar Barquet, Sim Chi Yin, and Jaffa Lam.
Goodman Gallery runs a seasonal Miami pop-up gallery each year. For its third iteration in 2023, the gallery presented a group show with artists including Kapwani Kiwanga, El Anatsui, William Kentridge, and Ghada Amer, among others, in the historic Buick Building in the Miami Design District. Since 1966, Goodman Gallery has expanded from its home in South Africa with multiple branches in London and New York in addition to Johannesburg and Cape Town.
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Read MoreMiami's bustling art fair scene draws international galleries, some of whom have set up a permanent base in the city such as recent arrival to the Miami Design District Zilberman Gallery. Zilberman is a Turkish gallery that represents an international selection of established and emerging artists.
Goodman Gallery also runs a seasonal pop-up gallery annually in the historic Buick building in the Design District.
Miami's public art museum and non-profit spaces host phenomenal art exhibitions year-round. Explore our selection of the best art museums and other institutions to visit in Miami.
Read MoreSet in the heart of Downtown Miami is Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), in a building designed by Swiss architectural firm Herzog & de Meuron. PAMM houses an extensive collection of modern and contemporary art and showcases regular rotating exhibitions, with an emphasis on works relevant to Miami's diverse communities.
In North Miami, the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami (MOCA North Miami) aspires to enrich the city's contemporary art scene, presenting art exhibitions of emerging and established artists. In 2021 MOCA inaugurated Art on the Plaza, a revolving rotation of temporary outdoor installations at MOCA's Plaza.
Other Miami institutions include the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (ICA Miami), which lies at the heart of the Miami Design District and presents exhibitions of international artists and various community initiatives; Nader Art Museum Latin America (NAMLA) in Wynwood which focuses on Latin American and Caribbean art and culture; and the Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum located on the Florida International University (FIU) campus.
Across the bay in Miami Beach, The Bass Museum of Art focuses on exhibitions of international contemporary art by mid-career and established artists, incorporating parallel creative disciplines such as fashion, design, and architecture.
Open-air art gallery Wynwood Walls, meanwhile, brings street art and murals by international artists to walls across the Wynwood neighbourhood.
Miami is also home to several private contemporary art museums, including the Rubell Museum in Allapattah, which houses part of the influential Miami collecting family's massive art collection, and the Margulies Collection at the Warehouse in Wynwood, which has presented works by the likes of Cindy Sherman, Anselm Kiefer, and Olafur Eliasson.
Miami is also home to a variety of long-established, non-profit organisations including Locust Projects in Little River, and South Beach-based Oolite Arts, who will open a sprawling arts complex in Little River in 2024.
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Read MoreSince it was launched in 2010, Ocula Magazine has interviewed some of the world's most significant artists who regularly exhibit in Miami galleries, including Rashid Johnson, Beatriz Milhazes, and Martin Creed, as well as Miami-based artists.
In Miami, you can view work by some of the world's most exciting artists. Here you will find a selection of artists whose works are currently on show in art exhibitions at Ocula's Member Galleries.
Miami is a vibrant and colourful sun-soaked city home to a diverse confluence of Latin, Caribbean and North American cultures. It is a thriving art scene comprising an active community of artists, designers, and collectors.
Read MoreFrom established galleries to up-and-coming institutions, and premier art events, there's no shortage of places to experience and appreciate contemporary art in Florida's second largest city.
A variety of young, established and international dealer galleries can be found clustered around the evolving Wynwood neighbourhood, the Miami Design District that emerged in the wake of Art Basel, and Miami Beach's South Beach area.
Newcomers like the International, Istanbul and Berlin based Zilberman Gallery and Miami space Jupiter Contemporary, sit alongside older established galleries like Emerson Dorsch Gallery, Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, David Castillo Gallery and Opera Gallery's Miami Space.
Miami is a prominent destination on the international art fair scene. Art Basel Miami Beach, which has run since 2002, which draws many dealers, collectors, and artists from across the globe, during the periphery art event and art-fair packed Art Week Miami in early December.
Visitors to Miami can experience the City's blend of Latin American, North American and Caribbean influences in its many contemporary art institutions. Public museums such as Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), The Bass, Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami (MOCA), and the Frost Art Museum on FIU's Campus present a variety of modern and contemporary art.
Miami is also home to large private collections comprising well-known international artists. The largest of these is the Rubell Family Collection which is shown publicly across the 40 galleries of the Rubell Museums large Allpattah campus, and a space in Washington D.C.
Alongside residencies and commissions run by private collectors like the Rubells, non-profit's such as Locust Projects, Oolite Arts, and Swampspace provide programmes and exhibition opportunities for emerging artist in Miami.
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