Miami's art fairs in 2026: which ones matter during Art Basel week, and why

The Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau lists 21 art fairs for Miami Art Week, which runs from November 30 to December 6, 2026 (CVB). Eight years ago The Art Newspaper counted at least 19 satellite fairs and about 1,000 dealers around Art Basel, and asked when satellites become space junk (The Art Newspaper). The question still stands. Nobody can see them all, and most visitors should not try.

Our argument is that four fairs besides Art Basel are worth planning a day around, each for a different reason: NADA for discovery, UNTITLED for range, Design Miami for objects and Art Miami for established names. Three more serve particular collectors well. The rest you can leave unless you know why you are going. We judge them on who chooses the galleries, who covers the fair seriously, and what you can find there that you cannot find at the convention center.

Dates, hours and prices come from each fair's own site, checked on October 23, 2026, and each fair has its own page in our Art section. New to the week? Start with what Miami Art Week is.

NADA Miami: the dealers' own fair

If you see one fair besides Art Basel, make it NADA. It has been here since 2003, almost as long as Art Basel, it is run by dealers for dealers, and it is the fair where you can watch a museum buy.

The New Art Dealers Alliance was founded in 2002 by a small group of New York galleries as a nonprofit, and it now has more than 500 members (NADA). Its first Miami fair, in 2003, had 35 exhibitors; by 2004 The Art Newspaper was calling it Art Basel's most successful satellite. Galleries apply and are chosen by peer review, and the result is a fair of young and mid-sized galleries at prices well below the convention center's. The Observer put NADA and UNTITLED together as the week's mid-level and emerging tier and called them a more accessible entry point than Art Basel (Observer).

This year's 24th edition has more than 130 galleries and art spaces from 63 cities and 27 countries, 45 of them new to the fair, at Ice Palace Studios on North Miami Avenue, about 4 miles from the convention center (NADA). NADA names seven solo presentations, and one tells you how the fair works. Last year PAMM spent its NADA acquisition fund, paid for from ticket sales and doubled to $20,000 with the Knight Foundation, on three works, among them one by Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe, the Yanomami artist from Venezuela, from the Caracas gallery ABRA: the museum's first purchase from an international gallery at NADA (PAMM). This year ABRA brings a Hakihiiwe solo booth, and ICA Miami opens his first US museum show. The other solos are Antonio Darden at Burnaway, Antone Könst at CASTLE, Lisu Vega at Gladwell Projects, Vincent Larouche at Eli Kerr and M. LeBlanc, Paul-Sebastian Japaz at Kevin Kramer and Jessica Palermo at Tyler Park Presents.

When and how: a VIP preview by invitation on Tuesday, December 1, from 10 am to 4 pm, then a public opening from 4 to 7 pm; Wednesday to Friday, 11 am to 7 pm; Saturday, December 5, 11 am to 6 pm. It closes a day before Art Basel, so do not leave it for the weekend. Early-bird tickets are $45 for a day, $65 for several, and $150 for the vernissage; NADA sells only a limited number at the door. Details on our NADA Miami page.

UNTITLED Art: curators choose, on the sand

UNTITLED is the fair with a view, but the reason to go is how it is chosen. Most fairs pick their galleries through a committee of other dealers; UNTITLED's exhibitors are selected by its curatorial team (UNTITLED), and it has kept that model since Jeffrey Lawson founded it in 2012. The first edition had 43 exhibitors in a light-filled tent on the beach that the critic Paddy Johnson compared to Frieze's, at a smaller scale (Art F City). It has stood on the sand at Ocean Drive and 12th Street ever since, about a mile from the convention center.

The 15th edition is the largest yet, with more than 170 galleries and nonprofits from 36 countries, 53 of them new (UNTITLED). There is no single artistic director now; the fair is led by its executive director, Clara Andrade Pereira, with a guest curator for each section, and each has a thesis. Agustina Ferreyra, director of OMR in Mexico City, curates 18 solo shows in Artist Spotlight on the idea of futures; Willem Molesworth, co-founder of PHD Group in Hong Kong, curates Nest, 28 invited galleries on subsidised booths, with a focus on collaboration and East Asia; and Damîen Dakota of Super Dakota in Brussels curates the Special Projects around cognitive dissonance, with artists still to be named (UNTITLED). Nest is the section to watch: five of its past galleries, among them Bolanle Contemporary of London and PerezPuig of San Juan, have moved up to the main floor this year.

Among the artists UNTITLED highlights are Michael Joo, in this year's Venice Biennale, at Kavi Gupta, and Lucia Hierro at Marc Straus, with a thread of photography (Joana Choumali at albertz benda, Hoda Afshar at Danziger) and of Indigenous practice. Miami nonprofits including Oolite Arts and Dimensions Variable show in the Non-Profit section.

When and how: a VIP and press preview on Tuesday, December 1; open to the public Wednesday to Saturday, 11 am to 7 pm, and Sunday, December 6, 11 am to 5 pm. Tickets are on sale on the fair's site; prices were not shown when we checked. Details on our UNTITLED page.

Design Miami: the one fair for objects

Design Miami is a different fair with a different buyer: collectible design, meaning furniture, lighting and objects from the 20th and 21st centuries, made in small numbers and sold like art. It is across Convention Center Drive from Art Basel, and Art Basel sells a $132 ticket that covers a day at each, so it is the easiest fair to add.

Craig Robins, the developer behind the revival of the Miami Design District, founded it in 2005 (Design Miami), and in 2010 it moved from the Design District into a temporary pavilion beside the convention center, next to Art Basel, as its Basel edition had done in Switzerland (BizBash). In October 2023 it was bought by Basic.Space, a digital marketplace; Jen Roberts, CEO since 2015, still runs it (Wallpaper).

It is also the fair with the most to prove. Last December ARTnews counted 15 previous exhibitors who did not return, citing tariffs and collectors' preference for the newer Paris edition in October; the fair answered with younger dealers and more Curio, its smaller presentations. Its curatorial director that year, Glenn Adamson, put the case simply: "The whole point of Miami is discovering things" (ARTnews). This year's theme is Unveiling, under a new curatorial director, Charlene Prempeh. Seventeen galleries are listed so far, among them Carpenters Workshop, R & Company, David Gill, Cristina Grajales and the Miami gallery Mindy Solomon, with nine Curio presentations (Design Miami). Last year's fair had more than 70, so expect the list to grow.

When and how: previews for members and collectors on Tuesday, December 1; a VIP preview from 11 am to 1 pm on Wednesday, December 2, then public from 1 to 7 pm; Thursday to Saturday, 11 am to 7 pm; Sunday, 11 am to 6 pm. A standalone ticket price was not posted when we checked. Details on our Design Miami page.

Art Miami and CONTEXT: the big commercial fair

Art Miami is the fair that was here first. It began in 1990, a dozen years before Art Basel, and calls itself Miami's original and longest-running contemporary art fair; since 2017 it has filled two pavilions on the bay at One Herald Plaza in Downtown Miami with its sister fair, CONTEXT, founded in 2012 for emerging and mid-career artists (Art Miami). Together they list 155 and 63 galleries for 2026, more than any fair but Art Basel. Its Tuesday previews benefit PAMM, and this year it gives its Lifetime Visionary Award to Shepard Fairey.

Our view: Art Miami is where to buy established names and secondary-market work in a calmer room than the convention center, and CONTEXT is where to look for younger artists at lower prices. The serious art press covers it far less than NADA or UNTITLED, and we would not plan a week around it for discovery. But it is the biggest fair on the mainland, a short ride from NADA, and one ticket covers both halves.

When and how: previews on Tuesday, December 1 (by invitation from 11 am, for $330 VIP passholders from 1 pm), then a public opening from 4 pm, with CONTEXT open until 9:30 pm; Wednesday to Saturday, 11 am to 7 pm; Sunday, 11 am to 6 pm. A day ticket is $71 and covers both fairs; tickets are sold online only. Details on our Art Miami and CONTEXT page.

For particular collectors: Pinta, Prizm and Aqua

Pinta is the week's fair for Latin American art, founded in New York in 2007 and in Miami since 2014, now at The Hangar in Coconut Grove, about 12 miles south of the convention center (Pinta). Its 2026 gallery list was not posted when we checked, and its own pages give two different opening days (December 2 and December 3), so check before you go. Prizm, in its 14th year, is a fair for artists from Africa and its diaspora; it says it will be on Ocean Drive on Miami Beach, at a site still to be announced (Prizm). Aqua Art Miami, run by the same company as Art Miami, shows young and mid-career artists in rooms around the courtyard of a South Beach hotel, December 2 to 6; Art Miami's multi-day ticket includes a day there (Aqua).

Too early to tell: InScope

InScope is new this year, from the team behind the SCOPE fair; SCOPE's web address now leads to InScope (InScope). It is on the sand at Ocean Drive and 8th Street, a few blocks south of UNTITLED, from December 2 to 6, with a preview on December 1. Its gallery list was not published when we checked, and its founding partners lean toward finance and lifestyle brands. Early-bird day tickets are $60 until November 23. If you are at UNTITLED anyway, walk down and judge for yourself; we will say more when we have seen the list. Details on our InScope page.

The rest

The CVB list also includes Red Dot and Spectrum, Art Beat, Fridge, INK Miami, the Satellite Art Show and several more. We found no serious coverage of any of them in 2025 or 2026. Some are worth it for the right buyer, but none is a reason to plan a day.

How we would plan the fairs

Most of the fairs open on Tuesday, before Art Basel's private days, and NADA closes on Saturday. Plan from the start of the week.

Two routes that work. On the mainland, Tuesday or Wednesday: NADA when it opens, then Art Miami and CONTEXT in the afternoon, both in Downtown and a short ride apart. On the beach, Wednesday or Thursday: UNTITLED in the morning, InScope a few blocks south, then Design Miami in the afternoon by the convention center.

Crossing the bay is the hardest part of the week; see getting around. For the main fair, see inside Art Basel Miami Beach 2026; for the museums the fairs send you to, Miami museums during Art Basel.