From December 5 to 7 (with preview days on December 3 and 4), Art Basel returns to Miami Beach for its 23rd year
Art Basel Miami Beach
The arrival of the “fall season” for anyone in Miami— or truly in the art world— means that Art Basel Miami Beach is here. From Friday, December 5 to 7 to Sunday, December 8 (by-invitation private viewings are held on Wednesday, December 3 and Thursday, December 4), the Miami Beach Convention Center will be home to 283 galleries (including 49 first-time participants) from 43 countries, centering the voices, histories and innovations that define the American art scene today within the global landscape.
This year’s 23rd edition highlights Latinx, Indigenous, and diasporic practices and re-examines Modernism through a trans-hemispheric lens, from mid-century masters to contemporary voices. “The 2025 edition foregrounds the multiplicity of American art— not as a single narrative but as a constellation of perspectives,” Vincenzo de Bellis, Chief Artistic Officer and Global Director of Fairs, Art Basel said in a statement. “From Indigenous modernisms to emergent diasporic practices and digital forms, the fair traces how artists throughout the Americas continue to reshape global artistic imagination.”
In addition to its core sectors (more on them below), this year’s fair also sees the debut of Art Basel’s Zero 10, a new platform for art of the digital era (which will expand to select Art Basel fairs in 2026.) Curated by Eli Scheinman, the initiative connects leading and next-generation artists, studios, galleries, and digital innovators with Art Basel’s global curatorial and market ecosystem. For its inaugural edition, it will feature 12 international exhibitors.
The edition also marks the U.S. premiere of the Art Basel Awards, and the unveiling of the inaugural Gold Awards on Thursday, December 4. Honoring 11 outstanding practitioners and institutions across visual art and adjacent creative fields, the Awards celebrate excellence, innovation, and collaboration within the global contemporary art ecosystem. Conceived as a platform for creative achievement and cross-disciplinary dialogue, the initiative reflects Art Basel’s commitment to championing visionary figures shaping the future of art and culture.
In addition, the official “Talks” of Art Basel, Conversations brings artists, collectors, and thinkers together for three days of live debate and exchange— opening with a full day devoted to art and sport.
Here’s what to expect at the main fair’s sectors this year:
Galleries
The the main sector of the show consisting of established international galleries showing modern, post-war, and contemporary artworks, will see 226 leading dealers from around the world this year (including 19 newcomers) presenting the full breadth of their programs— from the highest quality paintings, sculptures, drawings, installations, photography and videos.
Miami-based Nina Johnson makes its Art Basel Miami Beach debut with new paintings by Patrick Dean Hubbell, which weave Diné cosmology, language, and textile traditions into abstract compositions that bridge Indigenous epistemologies and contemporary form. In photo, “You Guided Our Prayers For Generations, We Will Continue To Persevere, 2025.”
Art Basel Miami Beach/ Patrick Dean Hubbell/ Nina Johnson Gallery
Hong Kong and New York-based Alisan Fine Arts joins Art Basel Miami Beach for the first time with a historical showcase of three Chinese-American artists—Chinyee, Walasse Ting, and Ming Fay— whose pioneering yet under-recognized contributions bridge Eastern and Western abstraction through lyrical color, gesture, and philosophy. In Photo, Chinyee’s “Untitled, 1967.”
Art Basel Miami Beach/ Alisan Fine Arts
Meridians
This sector showcases large-scale sculptures, paintings and installations that go beyond the traditional art fair booth layout. Curated by Yasmil Raymond—former director of Portikus, rector of the Hochschule für Bildende Künste-Städelschule in Frankfurt, and previous curator of The Museum of Modern Art in New York— the sixth edition, titled “The Shape of Time,” brings together a multigenerational and international group of artists whose practices examine how art can embody, distort, or suspend time itself.
Filipino-American artist Stephanie Syjuco’s “Neutral Calibration Studies (Ornament + Crime), 2016” constructs an installation that interrogates the politics of representation through photography and display, presented by Catharine Clark Gallery (San Francisco) and Ryan Lee (New York)
Art Basel Miami Beach/ Stephanie Syjuco/ Catharine Clark Gallery/ Ryan Lee Gallery
In “The Last Library IV: Written in Water (2020–25),” New. York-based artist Ward Shelley constructs a walk-in paper-and-wood installation filled with fabricated banned books and pseudo-documents. Fusing sculpture, fiction, and social critique, Shelley explores the erosion of shared facts in an age of misinformation, asking whether truth itself can survive the collapse of consensus; presented by Freight+Volume (New York)
Art Basel Miami Beach/ Ward Shelley/ Freight+Volume
Nova
Established in 2003, Nova has become a platform for discovering fresh and experimental work created within the last three years. This year, 23 galleries present 22 thematically focused booths, with eight galleries join the sector for the first time.
Tijuana-born artist Hugo Crosthwaite’s “Ex-Voto” series reinterprets devotional painting as storytelling at the U.S.–Mexico border. Each acrylic and colored pencil vignette chronicles acts of survival and grace drawn from the artist’s decades-long observation of the Tijuana crossing. The presentation extends Crosthwaite’s narrative realism into a meditation on migration, resilience, and faith; presented by Luis De Jesus Los Angeles (Los Angeles)
Art Basel Miami Beach/ Hugo Crosthwaite/ Luis De Jesus Los Angeles/Jorge Grau
London-based Filipino artist Nicole Coson uses vessels from the global commercial system as printing tools, creating “accidental woodcuts” that explore labor, identity, and circulation. Her newest series, “Untitled, 2025″is her most ambitious yet, made from shipping container doors inked in her East London studio and pressed with her body onto monumental raw canvases; presented by Silverlens Gallery (Manila, New York)
Art Basel Miami Beach/ Nicole Coson/ Silverlens Gallery
Positions
This sector features solo projects by emerging artists and young galleries. This year, 16 galleries, including 10 newcomers, participate— presenting works that probe materiality, perception, and the post-human condition.
“Inmortalistas “by Argentine-born, Mexico-based artist Carolina Fusilier explores the material afterlife of technology and its entanglement with organic life. Using industrial debris, biological remnants, and mechatronic activations, Fusilier constructs interconnected sculpture-paintings where images appear to capture the intangible silence of technology; presented by Margot Samel (New York, United States). In photo, “Anahuacalli, Jardin biocosmitas 1, 2025.”
Art Basel Miami Beach/ Carolina Fusilier/ Margot Samel
French artist Josèfa Ntjam presents a new freestanding triptych of photomontages set within a movable pine larch structure. The installation continues Ntjam’s exploration of colonial legacies, mythology, and Afro-diasporic cosmologies through layered compositions that merge archival imagery, speculative fiction, and biomorphic forms; presented by Nicoletti (London).
Art Basel Miami Beach/ Josèfa Ntjam/ Nicoletti
Survey
The sector showcases rediscovered or lesser-known artists and artwork in a new light, tracing the lineage of those whose work continues to shape the language of contemporary art. This year, 18 galleries, 12 of them new participants, present projects that illuminate cross-generational influence and the evolving contexts through which artistic legacies are re-examined today.
Ukrainian-American artist Janet Sobel returns to focus through a presentation of wartime portraits from the 1940s. Created after emigrating to the United States, these depictions of women and children draw from her memories of Ukraine and the displacements of World War II, presented by Voloshyn Gallery (Kyiv, Miami). In photo, “Disappointment, 1943.”
Art Basel Miami Beach/ Voloshyn Gallery
Lee Myung Mi, one of the leading figures in Korean contemporary art, highlights her uncompromisingly free and intuitive practice, showcasing how her sense of the everyday and her formal instinct have shaped an original painterly world; presented by Wooson Gallery (Seoul). In photo, “Landscape, 1994.”
Art Basel Miami Beach/ Lee Myung Mi/ Wooson Gallery
Kabinett
Kabinett is a show within a show, providing galleries tightly curated presentations within their main booths to highlight specific themes, artists, or historical contexts.
