Two professional wrestlers are showing their paintings in the Miami Design District this month, and the combination makes more sense than it might sound.

Sunset Flip, a new exhibition on view March 19 through 29, features work by Lee Moriarty and Thekla Kaischauri, two athletes who have built careers in professional wrestling and, separately, in visual art. Moriarty currently holds the Ring of Honor Pure Championship. Kaischauri is the reigning All Elite Wrestling Women's World Champion. Both are also emerging artists with enough of a body of work to fill a ten-piece exhibition in one of Miami's most design-forward neighborhoods.

The Show

The exhibition includes ten works total, with three of them making their public debut here. Those three are tennis paintings by Moriarty, created specifically for this moment in Miami, timed to coincide with the Miami Open. The choice to make tennis the subject while showing in a wrestling context says something about how these artists think about sport, spectacle, and the line between athletic performance and something more formal.

The exhibition was organized with the Miami Design District as its venue, and the timing was deliberate. Sunset Flip opens during one of the city's most active cultural stretches, running alongside Get in the Game: Sports, Art, Culture at the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), which is drawing its own audience around the intersection of athletics and contemporary art.

The Opening

The reception is Friday, March 20 at 7 p.m. in the Miami Design District, but the evening actually starts earlier across town. Before the opening, there's a panel discussion at PAMM as part of GAME TIME Session 1, a new programming series the museum is launching around art and sports. Attending both gives you a fuller picture of what's being built around this conversation in Miami right now.

What Comes Next for Kaischauri

The Sunset Flip run wraps on March 29, but it's also a preview of something larger for Kaischauri. Following the exhibition, she'll participate in House Show: Power, Spectacle, and Pro Wrestling at the Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg, co-curated by Abdalla. That show takes a broader look at professional wrestling as a cultural form, which makes Kaischauri's dual identity as champion and artist particularly relevant to its thesis.

Why It Works in Miami

Miami has spent years building credibility as a city where different worlds collide productively. Art Basel made that case at the highest level, but it plays out year-round in smaller exhibitions and pop-ups that find unexpected angles. Sunset Flip fits that pattern. It's not trying to make wrestling more respectable or art more accessible. It's just presenting two people who happen to do both, and trusting the work to speak for itself.

The Miami Design District is open to the public. Sunset Flip runs through March 29.

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