Miami Art Week: Six to See

Miami’s December calendar fills quickly, but leave some room beyond the fairs. This year, a monumental disco ball will rise from the sand at Faena Beach, Carroll Dunham gets a long-awaited museum survey, and Sarah Zapata transforms The Bass with woven colour. We also have an early glimpse of what’s coming to Lincoln Road, where Marcel Dzama’s lunar world is on our radar. Here are five stops to build your week around.

Marcel Dzama, To Live on the Moon (For Lorca), 2023. Performance presented as part of Performa Biennial 2023, New York.

1. Marcel Dzama: Who Loves the Moon?

434 Lincoln Road | Coming soon

An early glimpse of what we’re bringing to Miami this December: Capital One and The Cultivist present Marcel Dzama: Who Loves the Moon? The Canadian artist’s strange, theatrical universe brings together masked dancers, fantastical creatures and celestial characters, drawing on Dada, Surrealism, theater and cinema. The moon has long held a place in his imagination, lending his work a dreamlike atmosphere in which playfulness and unease sit close together. Keep an eye out for more information as Miami Art Week approaches.

Sarah Zapata, detail of textile work featured in Blue in the Hands of Prospect. Courtesy of the artist.

2. Sarah Zapata: Against a State of Malevolence

The Bass | 30 July 2026–28 February 2027

Sarah Zapata’s woven environments unfold as you move through them, turning thread into architecture in fields of blue, red and green. Drawing on her Peruvian heritage and queer identity, she brings the intimacy of handwork to a monumental scale. The Bass pairs Blue in the Hands of Prospect (2025) with A Famine of Hearing (2019), showing the two installations together for the first time. Their shifts in colour and texture carry questions about labour, belief and how we gather.

During Miami Art Week, Cultivist members will enjoy a breakfast and before-hours access at The Bass, in partnership with VistaJet. Members, check your app for event details.

Christopher Joshua Benton, A Lore Supreme, 2026. Digital rendering of the installation at Faena Beach.

3. Christopher Joshua Benton: A Lore Supreme

Faena Beach | 1–6 December 2026

Miami has no shortage of dance floors. This one comes with an ocean view and a monumental mirrored sphere. For A Lore Supreme, Christopher Joshua Benton draws on conversations with the city’s musicians, DJs and cultural communities to explore the diasporic roots of dance music. Thousands of mirrored facets will catch the beach, sky and passing visitors, while embedded speakers carry fragments of music and local voices. Beneath the spectacle is a portrait of a city shaped by the people and rhythms that move through it.

Hernan Bas, On the Jagged Shores, 2017. Courtesy the artist and Rubell Museum, Miami.

4. Hernan Bas

The Rubell Museum | Opens 1 December 2026

Make the trip to Allapattah for a Miami artist with a gift for making the familiar feel quietly peculiar. Hernan Bas’s paintings are populated by young men caught in richly imagined worlds, where literary references, eccentric pursuits and ambiguous encounters leave plenty unresolved. The Rubell Museum’s new presentation, A gray foundation paired with rich walnut wood and vibrant pops of color, adds another chapter to the institution’s longstanding engagement with his work. A fitting stop in the city where Bas grew up, and a reason to spend an afternoon beyond Miami Beach.

Carroll Dunham, Flood (Deep Blue), 1995–1996. Courtesy the artist and Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami.

5. Carroll Dunham

ICA Miami | 1 December 2026–14 March 2027

For sheer painterly unruliness, head to ICA Miami. Carroll Dunham’s first museum survey of paintings in more than 25 years traces his move from forms emerging out of wood grain to the bathers, wrestlers and unruly landscapes that became his signature. Cartoon colour and exaggerated bodies pull you in; the uneasy relationships between desire, violence and masculinity hold your attention. Spanning work from 1983 to the present, the exhibition gives these recurring characters room to reveal their connections, alongside recent paintings that turn towards the artist’s studio itself.

Zoë Buckman, Show Me Your Bruises, Then, 2021–22. Courtesy the artist and Pippy Houldsworth Gallery.

6. John Baldessari & Zoë Buckman

Pérez Art Museum Miami

Words do much of the work in two very different exhibitions at PAMM. John Baldessari: The End of the Line gathers forty works across painting, photography, video and installation, drawn largely from Craig Robins’s collection. The survey traces the conceptual artist’s questioning of how images acquire meaning, from his early combinations of photographs and text to the radical decision to burn much of his own painted work. His irreverence remains a good reason to look twice. 20 August 2026–9 May 2027.

In Zoë Buckman’s Show Me Your Bruises, Then, language becomes a means of confronting experiences too often silenced. Across three screens, Buckman, Cush Jumbo and Sienna Miller recite the artist’s poem, addressing sexual assault and the shame imposed on survivors. Presented in its entirety for the first time, the work is accompanied by an antique textile embroidered with an excerpt. Allow time for the voices, and the words, to settle. 5 November 2026–23 May 2027.