Art Basel Miami Beach 2025: Global Launch Announcement

Art Basel unveils gallery line-up and key highlights for its 2025 Miami Beach edition

Courtesy at Art Basel

• The 2025 edition of Art Basel Miami Beach will welcome 285 premier galleries from 44 countries and territories across the Americas, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa­ reasserting its position as the leading international art fair in the Americas.

• More than two-thirds of participating galleries operate spaces in the Americas, with a deep presence in the U.S., Latin America, and the Caribbean, underscoring the fair's unmatched engagement with the region's vibrant art scenes.

• Further expanding the fair's national footprint, galleries from New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Dallas, Philadelphia, and Greater Miami join a global roster of major blue-chip, established, and emerging exhibitors from the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, South Korea, Hong Kong, mainland China, Japan, and beyond.

• The show will activate Greater Miami with a week of museum-quality presentations, dynamic public programming, and institutional and partner collaborations of the highest caliber-convening artists, galleries, collectors, institutions, thought leaders from across the creative industries, and the broader public.

• Marking a major new chapter, Art Basel Awards-the first global honors celebrating excellence across the contemporary art industry-will debut in Miami Beach. The 2025 Gold Medalists will be revealed during the Official Night of the Art Basel Awards on December 4, presented in partnership with BOSS.

• Art Basel, whose Global Lead Partner is UBS, will take place from December 5-7, 2025, with VIP Preview Days on December 3 and 4, at the Miami Beach Convention Center (MBCC).

The Show at a Glance

Art Basel is pleased to announce the exhibitor list for its 2025 edition in Miami Beach, featuring 285 premier galleries-including41making their debut. Representing 44 countries and territories, the fair remains a vital platform for discovering exceptional works by Modern masters, postwar icons, leading contemporary practitioners, and emergent voices.

This year's edition will foreground the most urgent artistic currents shaping the American scene today, with a particular focus on Latinx, Indigenous, and diasporic positions. Reflecting Miami Beach's unique position at the crossroads of North and South America, the fair offers a panoramic view of the region's creative influence within a global context.

Bridget Finn, Director, Art Basel Miami Beach, said: 'The strength and caliber of this year's exhibitors reaffirms Art Basel Miami Beach's centrality within the global art ecosystem. This edition reflects the vitality of artistic production across the Americas-which continues to shape contemporary art practice, patronage, and discourse worldwide-and the fair's role as a critical gateway for introducing pioneering international artists and perspectives to the American market. It is bold, rigorous, and attuned to the moment."

Highlights by Region

Latin America and the Caribbean

Participating galleries this year hail from Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Guatemala, Peru, and Uruguay. Returning stalwarts in the region such as Raquel Arnaud (Sao Paulo), Galerfa Isabel Aninat (Vitacura), Ruth Benzacar Galerfa de Arte (Buenos Aires), OMR (Mexico City), and Galerfa Sur (Punta del Este) will present their acclaimed programs.

A rising generation of exhibitors that have swiftly gained recognition within their local contexts further expands the region's representation. El Apartamento-the first homegrown Cuban gallery to join the fair, with exhibition spaces in Havana and Madrid-makes its debut, alongside Crisis (Lima); Lodos (Mexico City); Galeria Mapa (Sao Paulo); Galeria Elvira Moreno (Bogota); Parallel Oaxaca (Oaxaca); Pasto Galerfa (Buenos Aires); Proyecto Nasal (Mexico City, Guayaquil); W-galerfa (Buenos Aires, Garzon); and Zielinsky (Barcelona, Sao Paulo).

United States and Regional Diversity

This year's edition welcomes a new wave of rising galleries from New York City's downtown scene, joining established Chelsea powerhouses and international mega-dealers including Gagosian, Hauser & Wirth, David Zwirner, Pace Gallery, and Paula Cooper Gallery. First-time participants from the city include David Peter Francis, Candice Madey, Margot Samel, Theta, Kate Werble Gallery, and YveYang. Alexander Gray Associates returns for the first time since 2016.

In addition, the West Coast scene is represented more expansively at Art Basel Miami Beach, with nearly 50 exhibitors operating spaces across California. San Francisco's Rebecca Camacho Presents and Catharine Clark Gallery, along with Los Angeles-based Diane Rosenstein Gallery and The Pit, join longstanding exhibitors such as Berggruen Gallery, David Kordansky Gallery, Gemini G.E.L., Regen Projects, Roberts Projects, and Vielmetter Los Angeles.

The fair continues to broaden its reach beyond coastal art hubs. From Dallas, Erin Cluley Gallery joins for the first time, while Locks Gallery (Philadelphia) returns after nearly two decades. Chicago maintains a strong showing with Document, GRAY, moniquemeloche, and Patron.

Underscoring Art Basel's deep, mutually generative relationship with South Florida's cultural community, the fair welcomes back Central Fine-now expanding with a second space in Salta, Argentina and relocating its principal gallery to Miami's Design District-alongside Piero Atchugarry (Miami, Garzon); David Castillo (Miami); Gavlak (West Palm Beach); Fredric Snitzer (Miami); and Acquavella Galleries (New York, Palm Beach). They are joined by debut exhibitors Nina Johnson (Miami) and Voloshyn Gallery (Kyiv, Miami Beach), the latter introducing the first-ever Ukrainian gallery presence at the fair.

International Presence

The fair continues to draw top-tier galleries from Europe, Asia, and Africa, with nearly 100 exhibitors with principal locations in these regions returning-and a notable representation from the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, South Korea, Hong Kong, mainland China, and Japan.

Major blue-chip and secondary market dealers including Cardi Gallery (Milan, London); Galerie Karsten Greve (Paris, St. Moritz, Cologne); and Vedovi Gallery (Brussels) return, alongside US fixtures such as Edward Tyler Nahem (New York); Helly Nahmad Gallery (New York); Van de Weghe (New York); Vares Art (New York, Beverly Hills, Santa Fe); and Tibor de Nagy (New York), which celebrates its 75^th anniversary this year.

Also returning are pioneering international galleries with influential contemporary programs, such as Edel Assanti (London); Gallery Baton (Seoul); galerie frank elbaz (Paris); Nanzuka (Tokyo, Shanghai); and Galerie Thomas Schulte (Berlin).

Several galleries with cross-continental footprints and programs that notably attend to artistic production in the Americas also return, including Galleria Continua (San Gimignano, Beijing, Les Moulins, Havana, Rome, Sao Paulo, Paris, Dubai); mar charpentier (Paris, Bogota); and Galerie Nordenhake (Berlin, Mexico City, Stockholm).

Exhibition Sectors

Art Basel Miami Beach is structured across several exhibition sectors, including:

• Galleries, the fair's main sector, in which leading Modern, postwar, and contemporary art dealers present the full breadth of their program

• Nova, for galleries presenting works created within the last three years by up to three artists

• Positions, for young galleries showcasing ambitious solo presentations by emerging artists

• Survey, dedicated to galleries highlighting artistic practices of historical relevance

The first major highlights from Galleries, Nova, Positions, and Survey are now available in the

Exhibitor Highlights Supplement.

Details on other sectors and additional gallery programming will be announced in the coming months.

YIP and Premium Experience Programming

As a primary engine of the global art trade, Art Basel Miami Beach provides an unparalleled platform for discovery and connoisseurship in the heart of the world's leading art market. Throughout the week, Art Basel Miami Beach VIPs enjoy access to exclusive events, curator-led visits, and private activations across the show and the wider Miami cultural landscape. These experiences are complemented by Art Basel's year-round program of intimate gatherings in major art capitals, with events hosted in cities such as New York, Palm Beach, Miami, Los Angeles, San Francisco, New Orleans, Toronto, Sao Paulo, and Mexico City.

In 2025, the fair unveils several elevated experiences designed to engage collectors across all levels-from emerging enthusiasts to seasoned patrons. A new Premium hospitality suite will debut, located on the showfloor, hosting a week-long series of guided tours, salon-style conversations, and invitation-only programming for young collectors and Premium Passholders. These programs will be led by Art Basel's global VIP team, whose expertise spans nearly 30 key art market regions.

Art Basel Awards

The Art Basel Awards 2025 Medalists-including leading artists Cecilia Vicuna, Nairy Baghramian, and Meriem Bennani, and cross-disciplinary luminaries Formafantasma and Grace Wales Bonner­ will vote among themselves to determine this year's Gold Medalists, to be announced on December 4 at the Official Night of the Art Basel Awards. The event will be held at the New World Center in Miami Beach, supported by the City of Miami Beach and the Greater Miami Convention and Visitors Bureau.

Launched in February 2025, Art Basel Awards-presented in partnership with BOSS-is the first global distinction of its kind, honoring exceptional achievement across the contemporary art ecosystem. Selected annually by an international jury of leading experts, Medalists span disciplines and geographies and are recognized for shaping the future of art through their demonstrated vision and innovation, skill and execution, community engagement, and global impact.

Beyond recognition, Art Basel Awards provides tangible, flexible support through honorariums, strategic collaborations, global visibility, and high-profile commissions designed to propel Medalists' work onto new platforms.

Public Programming

The fair anchors a week of cultural activity across South Florida, featuring premier institutional exhibitions, private collection viewings, and public programming. First highlights include:

• The Bass Museum, Miami Beach: Faire Foyer: Sarah Crowner in Dialogue with Etel Adnan, Jack Pierson: The Miami Years, Lawrence Lek: NOX Pavilion, and more

• Perez Art Museum Miami (PAMM): Language and Image: Conceptual and Performance­ based Photography from the Jorge M. Perez Collection, Elliot and Erick Jimenez: El Monte, Mark Dion: The South Florida Wildlife Rescue Unit, Woody De Othello: coming forth by day, and more

• ICA, Miami: Joyce Pensato

• Frost Art Museum-FILI, Miami: Augustin Fernandez: The Alluring Power of Ambiguity

• Lowe Art Museum-University of Miami: The Haas Brothers: S. Car, Go!

• Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach: Art and Life in Rembrandt's Time: Masterpieces from the Leiden Collection, The Virtue of Vice: The Art of Social Commentary

• NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale: A Backward Glance: Highlights from the William J. Glackens Collection, Christo and Jeanne-Claude "Surrounded Islands" Documentation Exhibition

• The Wolfsonian-FIU, Miami Beach: World's Fairs: Visions of Tomorrow

El Espacio 23, Juan Carlos Maldonado Collection, Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Marquez Art Projects, and Rubell Museum in Miami will also host major exhibitions during the show, to be announced in the coming months.

The programs for this year's Miami Beach editions of Conversations, Art Basel's renowned public talks program, and Digital Dialogues, the fair's conference series on digital innovation in the art world, will be released closer to the show.

Art Basel Miami Beach 2025 Visitor Information Opening Hours

Preview days (by invitation only)

Wednesday, December 3, and Thursday, December 4, 2025

Public days (access with a ticket or invitation) Friday, December 5, 2025, 11am-6pm

Saturday, December 6, 2025, 11am-6pm

Sunday, December 7, 2025, 11am-6pm

For further information on tickets and Premium Experiences, visit our Ticket Shop.

Venue

Miami Beach Convention Center 1901 Convention Center Drive Miami Beach, FL 33139

Upcoming Art Basel shows

Paris, October 24-26, 2025

Miami Beach, December 5-7, 2025

Qatar, February 5-7, 2026

Hong Kong, March 27-29, 2026

Basel, June 18-21, 2026