Shows to See During Miami Art Week
By Lillyana D’Amato
During the first week of December, as the art world descends upon Florida’s Magic City, fairs such as Art Basel Miami, Untitled Art, and NADA Miami tend to be the main attraction. But those fairs are hardly the only places to see art in the city this week. Below, we’ve compiled a list of the gallery shows our editors are most excited to see in Miami, and we’ve partnered with See Saw to create a map of our picks.
On the See Saw app, search #artnews in the Miami section to view our selected exhibitions as a list and add them to your own map.
“Acid Bath House” at Nina Johnson through February 7th, 2026
This show takes its inspiration from the grimy, sensuous limbo of a bathhouse—a place that is defined by masculinity and anonymity, according to the exhibition’s curator, critic Jarrett Earnest. “In my experience,” Earnest writes in a text accompanying the show, “in places where queer people come together—a sex club, dance floor, an art gallery, a camp out, —and in the things queer people make with and for each other, there is a specific energy that everyone needs if we are to survive on this planet together. The possibility of queer life is psychedelic erotica.” His group show encapsulates all this. It features artists such as Steven Arnold, a protégé of Salvador Dalí; homoerotic cartoonist Belasco; and Japanese graphic artist Sadao Hasegawa.