Your Guide to Miami Art Week 2024: Spotlight on Latin American Women Artists

Dec 6 / Jane Soliman
Are you in town for Miami Art Week? The artistic and creative energy in Miami is electric, and the art world’s biggest names - as well as emerging ones - have taken over! Whether you’re a seasoned collector, a passionate enthusiast, or someone looking to soak in the magic of it all, this week continues to inspire and surprise.

In this guide, we bring you:
  • A curated guide of Latin American Women Artists to watch out for at Art Basel Miami Beach
  • Our insider recommendations of other art fairs and events taking place across town.
  • A way to bring some Latin American art home with you - in time for gifting season! ;-)

Latin American Women Artists

to watch out for at

Art Basel Miami Beach 2024

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Zilia Sánchez. Concepto II, 2019, conceived c. 1998

Zilia Sánchez (b. 1926), Cuba

Galerie Lelong & Co Kabinett, F6

With a career spanning 60 years, Zilia Sánchez stands as a monumental figure in the art world. At 98 years old, she is the oldest artist participating in this year's fair. Her work seamlessly integrates the principles of Latin American modernism with geometric abstraction and minimalism. Primarily recognised for her shaped canvases, first created in Havana in the 1960s and further developed while living in Havana, New York, and San Juan, Sánchez's work is characterised by a distinctive approach to formal abstraction through use of a sensual formal vocabulary.
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Marta Minujín (b. 1943), Argentina

Kurimanzutto, D23
Kurimanzutto presents a selection of informalist paintings from the earliest moments of her career alongside more recent examples of her collages and sculptures made from multicoloured mattresses. ⁠Minujín produced her first Informalist paintings in Buenos Aires in the late 1950s, embracing the international art movement that rejected traditional artistic conventions in favour of abstraction and spontaneity. 
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Marta Minujín. ⁠Escultura blanda, 2012-2013⁠
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Nina Surel. Greta Chamotta, 2024,

Nina Surel (b.1971), Argentina

Spinello Projects Nova Sector, N11

Nina Surel's work investigates the relationship between earthly matter and the human body. She is inspired by rites of passage and themes related to fertility. Her practice covers various mediums, including video, photography, painting, sculpture, performance, and installation. The centrepiece is a monumental ceramic wall relief titled Greta Chamotta, meticulously crafted from over 1000 pounds of stoneware ceramic with grog. This kiln-fired mural captures an assemblage of female figures, pagan deities, and gynoids in dynamic movement, drawing from both private and popular memories.
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Jimena Croceri (b.1981), Argentina

Piedras Galería Positions Sector, P5
Argentine artist Jimena Croceri showcases her latest project, Impossible Jewel. The installation features a series of photographs and solid bronze sculptures created from the cavities formed by individual human bodies or the connections between them. This work reinterprets pre-Columbian aesthetic traditions, such as the use of metals as adornments for the body, to address contemporary issues surrounding human relationships and identity.
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Jimena Croceri. Serie Joya Imposible, 2024.
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Miriam Inez da Silva, Sem título [Untitled], 1982

Miriam Inez da Silva (1937-1996), Brazil

Gomide & Co Kabinett, F6

Often reviewed by critics as naïve, intuitive, simple, and primitive, Miriam Inez da Silva's work boasts a complex repertoire that does not conform to the bounds of what "popular art" is presumed to be. In fact, her body of work highlights her intentions, her malice, and her transgressions, making it clear that she was a keen observer of people, Brazilian society and the micropolitics of the urban social fabric. This display brings together a set of more than 25 paintings from the 1970s to the 1990s.
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Paula Nicho Cúmez (b. 1955), Guatemala

Proyectos Ultravioleta, Positions, P12
Paula Nicho Cúmez’s women are embodiments of nature: at once sensitive and resilient, grounded and divine. A member of the Kaqchikel people, the painter and weaver draws inspiration from her own dreams, infused with millennia-old traditions handed down by her ancestors and the sacred Mayan book of creation, the Popol Vuh. Nicho Cumez participated in the 2024 Venice Biennale di Arte.
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Paula Nicho Cúmez, Seno de la naturaleza / Womb of Nature, 2024
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Maria Martins, Comme une liane [Like a Vine] (c. 1946)

Maria Martins (1894–1973), Brazil

Almeida & Dale, F3

Comme une liane [Like a Vine] (c. 1946) exemplifies Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins’ mesmerising figures, merging attributes of sprawling vegetation with human flesh. Declaring herself a sculptor “from the tropics,” Martins frequently drew upon Amazonian mythologies and the flora and fauna of the region, carrying out symbolic explorations of physical and erotic desire which challenged the moral codes of her time. 
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Cristina Camacho (b.1987), Colombia

Instituto de Visión, Kabinett, C18
Inspired by 18th-century medical textbooks depicting anatomical dissections, Cristina Camacho takes a scalpel to her own paintings, slicing into the painted skin of the canvas. While the aggressive method could result in perverse or violent works, Camacho weaves and reshapes the canvas strips into delicate geometric patterns as an expression of resistance. The precise sculptural paintings that result are beautiful, and there is an ambiguity in their earthen colours and motifs evoking musculature, floral patterns, and female anatomy. Camacho views the surface of her paintings as a direct extension of her own body, and in opening it up, she transforms the three-dimensional canvas into a portal into her world.

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Cristina Camacho, Punto de quiebre (Breaking point), 2024
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Rosario López Parra (b 1970), Colombia

Espacio Continuo, Positions Sector, P10

Back to Monsú showcases artwork rooted in embroidery, ceramics, tapestry, and pictograms, forming the foundation of López’s artistic exploration. The pieces raise thought-provoking questions about the cultural origins and external influences of Monsú’s lowlands, spanning the Caribbean Coast to the Amazon. Embroidered maps trace cartographic routes, guiding viewers on a journey through Colombian territory and culture.
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Art Basel Miami Beach

Opening hours
Friday, December 6, 2024, 11am-6pm
Saturday, December 7, 2024, 11am-6pm
Sunday, December 8, 2024, 11am-6pm

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

Where to enjoy more art

across Miami

December 2024

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Pinta Miami is the only art fair dedicated exclusively to Ibero-Latin American art during Miami Art Week. Since its founding in New York in 2007, Pinta has strengthened its commitment to showcasing artistic diversity through curated sections and a dynamic contemporary interdisciplinary program.

Highlighted artists include Donna Conlon, along with a film series titled "Sara Facio: Being There," a compelling documentary about the life and legacy of this pioneering Argentine photographer.
Opening hours
Friday, December 6, 2024, 12pm-8pm
Saturday, December 7, 2024, 12pm-8pm
Sunday, December 8, 2024, 12pm-6pm
Venue
The Hangar,
3385 Pan American Drive,
Coconut Grove, FL
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Founded in 2012, Untitled Art is a leading contemporary art fair taking place annually on the sands of Miami Beach. Guided by a mission to support the wider art ecosystem, Untitled Art offers an inclusive platform for discovering contemporary art that prioritizes collaboration within each aspect of the fair. Untitled Art 2024 hosts 176 exhibitors in its largest presentation to date. Led by an ongoing dedication to increasing diversity and representation across the contemporary art market, Untitled Art’s 2024 program is shaped by a curatorial focus of “East Meets West."
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Opening hours
Friday, December 6, 2024, 11am-7pm
Saturday, December 7, 2024, 11am-7pm
Sunday, December 8, 2024, 11am-5pm
Venue
Ocean Drive and 12th Street, 
Miami Beach, Florida
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Perez Art Museum

As well as an extensive permanent collection, PAMM is hosting ‘Homecoming’, a solo show by José Parlá, the 51-year-old, Miami-born artist of Cuban descent; Quipu Gut by Cecilia Vicuña; and Como Semillas en el Viento, an augmented reality sculpture by Alfredo Salazar-Caro 
Opening hours
Friday, December 6, 2024, 11am-6pm
Saturday, December 7, 2024, 11am-6pm
Sunday, December 8, 2024, 11am-6pm
Venue
1103 Biscayne Blvd., Miami, FL 33132
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Celebrating 21 years in Miami, the New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) is known for elevating the voices of underexposed but rising artists around the world by showcasing their works and the young gallerists who represent them. This year's show at Ice Palace Studios includes over 150 galleries, art spaces and nonprofit organizations spanning 66 cities, from Lagos to Pittsburgh. Ice Palace Studios, 1400 North Miami Ave; Dec 3–7
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Opening hours
Friday, December 6, 2024, 11am-7pm
Saturday, December 7, 2024, 11am-7pm
Venue
Ice Palace Studios
1400 North Miami Avenue
Miami, FL 33136
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El Espacio 23 is a contemporary art space founded by collector and philanthropist Jorge M. Pérez. Mirror of the Mind explores the entangled, inseparable relationship between the physical and emotional aspects of the body. This exhibition brings together more than 120 artists who use figuration and portraiture to examine the complexities of the human condition: the power of perception, the weight of trauma, the possibilities for healing, the space for introspection, the sense of belonging, and the impact on the flesh. 
Opening hours
Friday, December 6, 2024, 10am-5pm
Saturday, December 7, 2024, 10am-5pm
Venue
2270 NW 23rd St.Miami,
Florida, 33142

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