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• The 2025 edition of Art Basel Miami Beach — the second led by Director Bridget Finn — concluded today to enthusiastic acclaim from galleries, collectors, institutions, and visitors across the Americas and around the world.

• Bringing together 283 leading galleries from 43 countries and territories, including 48 first-time exhibitors, this year’s show attracted an attendance of more than 80,000 across its VIP and public days. The fair welcomed prominent private collectors and patrons from the Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, underscoring Art Basel Miami Beach's position as the premier market and discovery platform for Modern and contemporary art in the Western Hemisphere.

• Exhibitors reported dynamic sales across all sectors and market segments, with placement of works by postwar and Modern masters, leading contemporary artists, and rising talents into major public and private collections. Standout acquisitions included works by Ruth Asawa, Sam Gilliam, Alice Neel, Andy Warhol, and Martin Wong. Notable successes also came from rediscoveries by Emma Amos, Eva Olivetti, and Juliette Roche as well as emerging voices such as Kelsey Isaacs, Cisco Merel, and Adriel Visoto. The breadth of activity reflected the strength and diversity of gallery programs across the show floor.

• The fair welcomed representatives from more than 240 museums and foundations worldwide, including the Art Gallery of Ontario (Canada); Aspen Art Museum (CO); Brooklyn Museum (NY); Carnegie Museum of Art (PA); Centre Pompidou (France); Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (AR); Dallas Museum of Art (TX); El Museo del Barrio (NY); Fondation Beyeler (Switzerland); Fralin Museum of Art (VA); Getty Museum (CA); Guggenheim Museum (NY); Groeninghe (Belgium); Istanbul Museum of Modern Art (Turkey); LACMA (CA); Malba (Argentina); MALI – Museo de Arte de Lima (Peru); MCA Chicago (IL); The Metropolitan Museum of Art (NY); MFA Boston (MA); MFA Houston (TX); MOCA Los Angeles (CA); MoMA and MoMA PS1 (NY); Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo (MAM) (Brazil); Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal (Canada); Norton Museum of Art (FL); Palais de Tokyo (France); Seoul Museum of Art (Korea); Serpentine (UK); SFMOMA (CA); Städel Museum (Germany); Studio Museum in Harlem (NY); Tate (UK); Toledo Museum of Art (OH); Whitney Museum of American Art (NY); Zeitz MOCAA (South Africa), and more. Their presence reaffirmed the fair’s significance as a premier platform for institutional discovery, acquisition, and engagement across the Americas and beyond.

• Meridians, now in its sixth edition, returned as the fair's epicenter of curatorial ambition — a platform where artists and galleries from across the Americas and beyond push the limits of form. Curated by Yasmil Raymond, former Rector of the Städelschule and Director of Portikus, the 2025 edition — The Shape of Time — brought together 19 works by multigenerational and international artists whose practices probe how art can embody, distort, and suspend time. Ambitious large-scale installations, immersive media works, and monumental sculptures deepened this year's expanded narrative of the Americas, reinforcing Meridians as one of the fair's most anticipated and boundary-breaking sectors. Notable placements include Kye Christensen-Knowles' mural-scale Cycle of Additional (2025) and Silva Rivas' immersive video installation Buzzing (2009).

• The inaugural edition of Zero 10, Art Basel's new global initiative dedicated to art of the digital era, emerged as one of the defining successes of this year's show. A dynamic hub of experimentation and cross-media exchange, the initiative, curated by Eli Scheinman, drew strong interest from established collectors, new buyers, institutions, and the wider public — affirming the growing centrality of digital practice within contemporary art. Presentations by Beeple Studios, Heft, Nguyen Wahed, AOTM Gallery, Art Blocks, Asprey Studio, Fellowship x ARTXCODE, Pace Gallery, SOLOS, Visualize Value, and others registered exceptional momentum, with multiple works placing quickly across generative, computational, and hybrid physical-digital forms. Highlights included Beeple Studios’ sold-out editions of Regular Animals and significant engagement with leading digital artists such as Tyler Hobbs, Kim Asendorf, Joe Pease, and XCOPY, whose Coin Laundry attracted over 2.3 million NFT claims. Together, these results position Zero 10 as a breakout narrative of the 2025 edition and a vital platform for an expanded digital ecosystem ahead of its next iteration at Art Basel Hong Kong.

• Conversations, Art Basel’s flagship talks program, recorded exceptionally robust attendance in Miami Beach. Held in the Auditorium of the Miami Beach Convention Center from December 4–6 and free to the public, this year’s program opened with a day dedicated to the intersection of art and sport, featuring artists, athletes, and collectors including Malcolm Jenkins and Elliot Perry, who explored the shared dynamics of endurance, legacy, and representation. In parallel with the debut of Zero 10, this year’s Digital Dialogues brought together emerging Web3 communities with established collectors, artists, and curators to examine the rapidly evolving relationship between art and technology.

• The Art Basel Awards — presented in partnership with BOSS — marked a major highlight of show week with the inaugural Art Basel Awards Night, supported by the City of Miami Beach and the Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau. Hosted by Grammy Award–winning producer Kasseem "Swizz Beatz" Dean, the evening took place at the New World Center — the celebrated Frank Gehry–designed landmark — and brought together leading figures from the worlds of art, design, fashion, music, and entertainment. Selected by their peers through a unique voting system, the first class of Gold Awardees included Ibrahim Mahama, Nairy Baghramian, and Cecilia Vicuña, who received the Icon Artist Gold Award. The evening also introduced the inaugural BOSS Award for Outstanding Achievement, presented to Meriem Bennani, underscoring the initiative’s mission to honor the visionaries shaping the future of art and culture. For the full list of Gold Awardees and further details, click here. Event photography is available here.

• Reflecting its longstanding partnership with Art Basel, the City of Miami Beach continued its Legacy Purchase Program for a seventh year, acquiring Modulations – Sequence XXIX by Peruvian artist Ximena Garrido-Lecca, presented by Livia Benavides, for its public art collection. Selected through a public vote, the initiative invited participation from exhibitors in Nova and Positions, as well as newcomers and recent entrants to the Galleries sector presenting emerging or early-career artists. The program underscores the city's commitment to fostering the next generation of artists and galleries and to building a cultural legacy that affirms art's power to shape the future.

• The CPGA–Villa Albertine Étant donnés Prize — presented by the Comité Professionnel des Galeries d’Art (the French Professional Committee of Art Galleries) in collaboration with Villa Albertine — returned for its fifth edition, recognizing excellence in contemporary creation and highlighting the essential role of galleries in championing the French art scene internationally. At Art Basel Miami Beach 2025, Kelly Sinnapah Mary and James Cohan Gallery received this year's award, selected by a jury of international curators and collectors and supported by a $15,000 prize from the CPGA.

• The Art Basel Shop returned to the West Lobby of the MBCC with a new USM design, offering limited-edition collaborations, artist-designed products, and bespoke Art Basel pieces that bridge art, design, and contemporary culture. Highlights included the AB by Artist capsule by Sanford Biggers — featuring jewelry created with Dodo and a suite of exclusive objects — alongside new additions to the Art Basel Core Collection. Special collaborations drew significant attention, among them the limited-edition Art Basel Miami Beach Labubu; the Art Basel x Inter Miami Jersey, an authentic pink kit released in a hand-numbered edition of 305; the Marc Jacobs JOY capsule designed with Derrick Adams, David Shrigley, and Hattie Stewart; a print from Iconic Moments by Emily Xie; and two colorways of Takashi Murakami’s Ohana Full Bloom and Surripa slides. Additional exclusive items rounded out a vibrant offering that connected visitors with the creative spirit of the fair.

• Bridget Finn, Director of Art Basel Miami Beach, said: "Looking back on the 2025 edition, I am thrilled by the energy, ambition, and creativity that reverberated within and beyond our halls. With standout presentations, innovative projects, and record engagement, the fair reinforced its leadership in the Americas and its power to influence the global art market. Through the fair's core sectors, as well as initiatives like Zero 10 and the Art Basel Awards, and our revitalized Conversations program, we celebrated diverse artistic voices — from Latinx, Indigenous, and diasporic practices to emerging digital forms — creating moments of joy, discovery, and meaningful cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary exchange that will resonate well into the year ahead."

• John Mathews, Head of Private Wealth Management Americas at UBS, said: "This year's fair was another standout example of Art Basel's progressive commitment to artists and UBS's longstanding support for cultivating ideas and dialogue that deepen public engagement with contemporary art. UBS was proud to present Beyond Pop: Art of the Everyday, featuring works that bridge the gap between fine art and pop culture. They reflect the core of the UBS Art Collection's values that contemporary art can challenge us and inspire innovative thinking."

• Testimonials from participating exhibitors of this year's edition are available for the media here.

• Art Basel, whose Global Lead Partner is UBS, took place from December 5–7, 2025, with VIP Days on December 3–4 at the Miami Beach Convention Center. The 2026 edition of the show will take place December 4–6.

Read the full press release here.