Can't-Miss Miami Art Week 2023 Events

Museums, private collections, arts organizations, galleries, and artist studios open their doors once again for Miami Art Week, presenting special installations, exhibitions, workshops, talks, and creative programming. Art Basel may be the star of the week, but countless satellite shows and parties blanket the city alongside the international art fair every December. Here’s a quick guide to get you ready for Miami Art Week 2023, taking place Dec. 4 - 10.

Miami Art Week Parties

Kick off the most thrilling week of the year with The Sagamore Hotel. The Sagamore’s ambitious and innovative art program always launches Miami into Art Week with a stacked lineup of exciting programming.

Nolcha Shows presents an immersive, full day experience on Dec. 7 on The Sagamore’s Garden Deck. The premier event for Bitcoin builders, artists, collectors, and enthusiasts during Art Basel brings together leading voices from the digital art ecosystem. There’s keynotes and panels featuring leading Bitcoin Ordinals industry experts, an opportunity to connect with powerful communities, founders, VCs, artists, and collectors, and an epic afterparty planned with rare and exotic acts, live music, and entertainment. Get your tickets to this important event and stay just steps from the party when you book your South Beach stay with us here at The Sagamore.

Then there’s the 22nd Iconic Sagamore Brunch, with this year’s theme The Digital Canvas: Unleashing AI in Art. The garden deck, poolside brunch runs from 9 a.m - 1 p.m. on Dec. 9, with live art painting, mixology stations, mural reveals, live industry panelists, and musical performances by the South Florida Symphony. This event always sells out, so secure your Sagamore Brunch tickets today.

Stay up to date with our Events Calendar and watch for The Sagamore’s official Art Week schedule, coming soon.

Art Basel Miami

The world’s premier art show returns to the Miami Beach Convention Center for three days of public viewing (Dec. 8 - 10). Galleries from around the world showcase paintings, sculptures, installations, photographs, films, and editioned works from over 4,000 art masters and emerging stars at Art Basel Miami. Here’s everything you need to know about Art Basel 2023 as well as a helpful art fair survival guide so you don’t miss a beat.

Design Miami

If you like your art “functional” (art designed to serve a purpose, with an aesthetic in mind) check out Design Miami. Adjacent to the Miami Beach Convention Center and only a short walk from Art Basel, the design fair showcases museum-quality exhibitions of twentieth and twenty-first century furniture, lighting, and ‘objets d’art’ from the world’s top emerging and established designers and architects. Public dates run Dec. 6 - 10.

More Miami Art Week Art Fairs We Love: UNTITLED, Art Fair, Scope Art Fair, Aqua Art Miami, INK Miami Art Fair, Art Miami, CONTEXT Art Miami, Fridge Art Fair, NADA Miami, Pinta Miami, Red Dot Miami, SPECTRUM Miami, Art Beat Miami

In Miami Beach, UNTITLED, ART Fair (Dec. 6 - 10), Scope Art Fair (Dec. 5 - 10), and Aqua Art Miami (Dec. 6 - 10) are back, while INK Miami Art Fair (Dec. 6 - 10) also returns for its 16th year to showcase contemporary and modern prints and works on paper (plus, this one is free!).

Across the bay, Art Miami and its sister fair CONTEXT Art Miami will both be held Dec. 5 - 10, as well as Fridge Art Fair (Dec. 6 - 10), NADA Miami (Dec. 5 - 9), and the Latin American contemporary art show Pinta Miami (Dec. 6 - 10). Visit Miami’s colorful Wynwood neighborhood for Red Dot Miami (Dec. 6 - 10) and SPECTRUM Miami (Dec. 6 - 10). Lastly, don’t miss the 10th annual Art Beat Miami (Dec. 6 - 10) at select locations throughout Little Haiti. The lively art fair highlights emerging and renowned artists from Caribbean and African American Diaspora who showcase their rich culture through a multitude of creative mediums.

Miami Art Week Gallery Shows

This year, museums and galleries across the Greater Miami Area will display works and special exhibitions to complement the events surrounding Miami Art Week. See this running list of the top art galleries in Miami and check back closer to Art Week to see which of them are putting on shows of their own.

Miami Art Week Museum Special Exhibitions

Be sure to support your local museums during Art Week. Pérez Art Museum Miami has two anticipated exhibitions slated to open the first week of December: Perceptual Motion, an exploration of technological change, mass media, and the universality of moving images in contemporary art; and Gary Simmons: Public Enemy, the first comprehensive career survey of the work of the multidisciplinary Los Angeles-based artist, whose groundbreaking works have played a key role in situating questions of race, class, and gender identity at the center of contemporary art discourse.

In Miami Beach, The Bass is premiering four new exhibitions in time for Miami Art Week 2023: Hernan Bas: The Conceptualists, an exhibition of paintings from the Miami-based artist that explore conceptual art as a permissive realm for creative behavior and an inviting space for queerness; Anne Duk Hee Jordan: I Will Always Weather With You, a new large-scale multisensory exhibition from the Berlin-based artist that uses technology to examine the perseverance of life on Earth against the increasing challenges of climate change; Etel Adnan: Painting Into Space, a monumental wall mural set alongside additional works by the Lebanese-born artist; and Social Assembly: Welcome to the Museum, which invites you to rethink how we interact with and learn from art - and each other - with re-envisioned museum social spaces and activities that meld art, design and architecture.

Share a photo of what you get up to during Miami Art Week 2023 at #SagamoreIsArt and follow the Sagamore Instagram for artsy inspiration, our latest acquisitions, specials, and more Miami Art Week happenings at The Sagamore.

Choose from our best rates and special offers when you book direct with The Sagamore Hotel, an iconic Miami Beach beachfront destination known for its unique collection of contemporary art, spacious suites, and prime location only steps from Art Basel, Design Miami, and The Bass.

See what past guests have to say about their Miami Art Week stay:

“The Sagamore Hotel's Art Basel Brunch is a fabulous party we look forward to every year.” - Dena Stewart, Google

“The Sagamore was the perfect place to take in all of the goings on of Art Basel and all the satellite fairs. It was an oasis among the chaos. We totally relished coming back to the tranquility and serenity of the hotel to luxuriate by the pool, where all of our needs were taken care of by the amazing staff…The room was spacious and had everything we could want.” - eb29464, TripAdvisor

“Art Basel…was dope, the NFT, the staff, the party!!!...I will be back! Such an amazing team, they took great care of my team. The art was something special. What a way to bring in Basel.” - Jackie L, TripAdvisor

“We were lucky enough to snag a room for Art Basel, and this small, boutique hotel was indeed part of the show. The rooms are very large, the location couldn’t be better, and the price was unbeatable!...Fabulous pool bar, easy access to the beach, and a great staff.” - Starchgirl, TripAdvisor

“Great stay during Art Basel week! Perfect location, walking distance from all the best restaurants, bars, clubs, and main shopping street Lincoln Road…I went during Art Basel therefore they had added a ton of artwork which was really cool ! The pool was nice and warmed up, the food was delicious, must try the fish tacos…thank you Sagamore for the nice stay and we will probably see you next year!!!” - denisaantonescu, TripAdvisor