Some of the sharpest stops at Miami Art Week 2026 have nothing to do with a fair booth. A hotel alley in South Beach, a restaurant back in its 1926 building in Wynwood and an XR theater in Dania Beach all sit on the program for the week, which runs November 30 through December 6 across Miami-Dade and Broward counties.
Art Basel Miami Beach still anchors the calendar. The fair runs December 4 to 6 at the Miami Beach Convention Center, with more than 250 galleries from 35 countries showing work by over 4,000 artists, according to the Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau. Miami Art Week’s satellite fairs include SCOPE Miami Beach, Design Miami, NADA Miami, Untitled Art, Art Miami, CONTEXT Art Miami, Aqua Art Miami, INK Miami Art Fair and Pinta Miami. Around them, museums, galleries and public art programs run through Wynwood, the Miami Design District and Downtown Miami.
Miami Art Week 2026 turns hotels, alleys and restaurants into galleries
At Dolly and Oz Presents, 715 Fifth St. in Miami Beach, eight emerging artists are on view, including fashion photography by Lyall Aston, acrylic portraits by Jeremy Turpin and sculptural masks by Anita Katz. The gallery opened in 2022 and pairs its shows with talks and performances. Elsewhere in South Beach, The Betsy is one of 12 hotels in the City of Miami Beach’s No Vacancy program, a juried public art competition, with installations on view through December 19. The hotel’s Orb is an egg-shaped bridge between its two buildings on 14th Place, designed by architect Allan T. Shulman with co-owner Jonathan Plutzik during a 2016 expansion. This year the hotel added a permanent projection system, and in December the Orb will carry a commissioned digital and acoustic piece. Details have not been released. In Wynwood, Kush Wynwood has returned to its 1926 building and, according to the restaurant, displays more than 25 pieces by 20 artists. Outside, Lalone painted a portrait of Walter Mercado and Krave painted a tribute to the neighborhood’s Puerto Rican roots. Inside the entrance, Camilo Rojas lined a corridor with the names of 180 artists tied to Wynwood’s rise.
Miami Art Week 2026 spreads to Lincoln Road, Hialeah roots and Dania Beach
On Lincoln Road, Nigerian-born, Arkansas-based artist Oluwatobi Adewumi, winner of the street’s 2026 call for temporary public art, debuts “The Stories We Carry” in November. It uses sculptural suitcases and suspended travel tags to address migration, memory and identity. Gillie and Marc follow in December with “A Wild Race Against Time,” 13 interactive sculptures of endangered animals tied to the Love the Last Wildlife Fund. “Deco Portals,” built by participants in Moonlighter FabLab’s NSF-funded Maker Cities program, reworks the street’s historic folly.
The local name to watch is painter KA$PER, a Hialeah native. According to his team, a Valentine’s Day painting he posted to Instagram during the pandemic brought five commissions in 24 hours, and he left his job as a mechanic soon after. His team says he has since worked with Bad Bunny, Maluma, Ozuna and Nicky Jam. In Broward, MAD Arts in Dania Beach hosts the U.S. premiere of BLUR from November 9 through January 4, 2027. The 45-minute, actor-led production uses motion capture, VR and AR, and the venue describes it as built around cloning, de-extinction and the human wish to overcome death. Tickets start at $49.99, according to MAD Arts.
The split is worth watching. The fairs still set the calendar and the price points, but this year’s neighborhood program leans on free public installations and independent venues, including a projection system at The Betsy that will outlast the week. Whether that draws foot traffic away from the Convention Center will become clearer once organizers report attendance after the fairs close.
