Art week in Miami is always a scene, with collectors, artists, and gallerists descending on the city for a few days. But, there is a wealth of art to see beyond the tents. Here are 11 institutional shows you don’t want to miss.
1. “Leandro Erlich: Liminal” at the Pérez Art Museum Miami
Leandro Erlich, Swimming Pool (1999). Installation view: 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan, 2004. Photo: © Noriko Inomoto.
Leandro Erlich—the artist who made a big pre-pandemic splash at Art Basel in 2019 with his sand-covered sculptures of 66 cars and trucks, depicting a Miami traffic jam and installed on an actual beach—is back in Miami with a show that marks the first monographic survey of his work in North America. The exhibition was selected and arranged by New York-based guest curator Dan Cameron, and will present 16 works that span more than two decades of Erlich’s production. The Buenos Aires-born artist has represented Argentina in the Venice Biennale and appeared in the Whitney Biennial.
2. “Alexandre Diop: 2022 Artist-in-Residence” at the Rubell Museum
Alexandre Diop, Honi soit qui mal y pense (Shame be (tohim) who thinks evil of it) (2022). Courtesy of the Rubell Museum.
It’s no secret that Don and Mera Rubell have the Midas touch. The residency program at the couple’s Miami-based museum is a serious coup for any young artist, and it’s no exception for Alexandre Diop. The Senegalese-Franco artist uses everyday found materials in the spirit of Arte Povera to lend his portraits a textural complexity.
3. “In the Mind’s Eye: Landscapes of Cuba” at the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum
This wide-ranging exhibition examines how both U.S. and Cuban artists engaged with the landscape of Cuba, and reflected its social, economic, political, and ideological shifts in their artwork. Works by contemporary artists such as María Magdalena Campos Pons and Juana Valdés are shown alongside those by American artists including Winslow Homer and William Glackens.
4. “Didier William: Nou Kite Tout Sa Dèyè” at the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami
Didier William, Mosaic Pool, Miami (2021). Courtesy of the artist and MOCA North Miami.
The Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami is hosting a retrospective of one of the area’s most prolific artists, Didier William. The Haitian artist creates drawings, paintings, and prints based on immigrant narratives both autobiographical and shared. The show will also include William’s first sculpture—a 12-foot tall wooden totem, built to inspire spirituality and religious faith in those who engage with it.
5. “Flesh & Water” at the Haitian Heritage Museum
A work by Markenzy Julius Cesar in “Flesh & Water.” Courtesy of the Haitian Heritage Museum.
Climate change and disappearing beaches will be on the mind of many at Art Basel Miami Beach. At the Haitian Heritage Museum in Little Haiti, “Flesh and Water” will present paintings by Markenzy Julius Cesar specifically explore the beaches in Black countries, and their rapid disappearance.
6. “Together, at the Same Time” at the De la Cruz Collection
Installation view, “Together, at the Same Time” at the De la Cruz Collection.
As the to-the-point title suggests, the show brings together paintings, sculpture, and site-specific works from Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz’s private collection. More than four dozen artists are represented ranging from Salvador Dalí to Isa Genzken.
7. “You Know Who You Are” at El Espacio 23
Raúl Cordero, You Know Who You Are And You Know What You Want. Courtesy of the artist and El Espacio 23.
This show presents recently acquired Cuban art from the collection of PAMM founder Jorge M. Pérez. El Espacio 23 is Perez’s contemporary art space, located within a repurposed 28,000-square-foot warehouse in Miami’s Allapattah neighborhood.
8. “The Bitter Years Photography: Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans” at the Margulies Collection at the Warehouse
Walker Evans, Detail of Roadside Advertisement for The Back Porch Restaurant, Destin, Florida. August 6, 1974 (1974). Courtesy of the Margulies Collection at the Warehouse.
This exhibition features nearly 100 photographs from the New Deal government-sponsored Farm Security Administration, which resulted in thousands of images documenting life during the Great Depression. Look for works by Lange and Evans as well as Russell Lee, Carl Mydans, and Ben Shahn.
9. “Kathia St. Hilaire: Immaterial Being” at The Wolfsonian-Florida International University
Kathia St. Hilaire, Eclaircisant Lait (2020).Courtesy of Jorge M. Pérez Collection, Miami. © Kathia St. Hilaire.
In South Florida native Kathia St. Hilaire’s first solo museum exhibition, intricately woven pieces of linoleum panels provide the physical canvas for detailed images of daily family and spiritual life, created using the colors and textures of Haitian iconography.
10. “Lady Liberty: A Bonnie Lautenberg Retrospective” at the Jewish Museum of Florida
A work included in “Lady Liberty.” Courtesy of Bonnie Lautenberg.
This career retrospective features more than 20 conceptual and politically charged artworks created by Lautenberg, including photographs the artist shot in Antarctica, Cuba, and New York. Earlier this year, she was appointed to the President’s Advisory Committee on the Arts by the White House.
11. “Michel Majerus: Progressive Aesthetics” at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami
Michel Majerus, yet sometimes what is read successfully, stops us with its meaning no. I (1998). © Michel Majerus Estate, 2022. Private Collection. Courtesy neugerriemschneider, Berlin. Photo: Jens Ziehe, Berlin.
ICA Miami’s debut presentation of Michel Majerus’s oeuvre brings together works that defined the late abstract expressionist painter’s explorations into the pop and power dynamics of modernism. Central to the show is a series of six screenprints that brought him to fame, in which the artist appropriates the 1980s collaboration between Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol, inserting himself into their creative dialogue.
Source: Exhibition - news.artnet.com
