Miami Art Week Fair Planner

Last reviewed: November 1, 2026. Sources for this page are listed in its fact sheet.

Short answer first. Miami Art Week runs Monday, November 30 to Sunday, December 6, 2026, and nobody sees all of it. The working method is comparison, then commitment: the eight fairs below are the ones with confirmed 2026 dates and venues, each listed in the same order of dates, venue, scale, and ticket note, so you can pick two or three, buy the right tickets, and walk one of the three day routes at the bottom of this page instead of improvising in traffic. Art Basel is the anchor and opens to the public last, on Friday, December 4; the satellites open from Tuesday, December 1, which is why the week rewards arriving before the main fair does.

A fair hall in full flow. This is a stock photo of a gallery interior, not a specific Miami fair. Photo: HONG SON, Pexels.

The fairs, compared

Every entry checked November 1, 2026 against the fair's own announcements. Prices are printed only where a source listed them; where a fair sells through its own shop without a listing we could verify, the entry says so.

Art Basel Miami Beach. Dates: public days Friday, December 4 to Sunday, December 6, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; VIP Preview Days December 2 and 3 are invitation only. Venue: Miami Beach Convention Center, 1901 Convention Center Drive. Scale: 272 exhibitors from more than 40 countries and territories, on a reconfigured single floor. Ticket note: day tickets from $92, reduced day tickets $68, a weekend ticket for December 5 and 6 at $170, and a combination ticket covering one day here and one day at Design Miami at $132, per the Greater Miami Convention and Visitors Bureau listing of the official shop. Buy only from artbasel.com. Our Art Basel guide explains the sectors inside.

Design Miami. Dates: December 1 to 6, opening with its preview day. Venue: Pride Park, Convention Center Drive and 19th Street, directly beside the convention center. Scale: more than 75 exhibitors of collectible design, furniture, lighting, and objects, under the 2026 theme Unveiling, led by curatorial director Charlene Prempeh, per the fair's own 2026 program announcement. Ticket note: sold through the fair's own site; the $132 Art Basel combination ticket is the value route if you are doing both.

Untitled Art. Dates: Wednesday, December 2 to Sunday, December 6, with a VIP and press preview on December 1. Venue: the tent on the sand at Ocean Drive and 12th Street. Scale: the 15th edition, with 166 galleries and non profit organizations from 36 countries and territories, per the fair's exhibitor announcement. Ticket note: sold through untitledartfairs.com; prices were not confirmed on a listing we could verify at check time.

NADA Miami. Dates: Tuesday, December 1 to Saturday, December 5; note it closes a day before the others. Venue: Ice Palace Studios, 1400 North Miami Avenue, on the mainland. Scale: the 24th edition, with more than 130 galleries and art spaces from 27 countries, the emerging gallery fair of the week. Ticket note: early bird day tickets were listed from $45 in October; check newartdealers.org for current pricing before you go.

Art Miami and CONTEXT Art Miami. Dates: Tuesday, December 1 to Sunday, December 6, with VIP previews on December 1 and public entry from 4 p.m. that day; listed public hours run 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Wednesday to Saturday and 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday. Venue: the shared pavilions at One Herald Plaza, NE 14th Street on Biscayne Bay, downtown. Scale: Art Miami's 36th edition brings more than 140 galleries from 25 countries, modern and contemporary; its sister fair CONTEXT, in its 14th edition, adds more than 50 galleries of emerging and mid career work, connected by a passageway. Ticket note: sold online only, through the fairs' own sites.

INK Miami. Dates: Wednesday, December 2 to Sunday, December 6. Venue: the Suites of Dorchester, 1850 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach. Scale: the week's specialist fair, works on paper only, in a hotel suites format a short walk north of the convention center. Ticket note: listed as free with online registration when checked; register on the fair's site before you go.

InScope. Dates: Tuesday, December 1 to Sunday, December 6. Venue: Ocean Drive at 8th Street, in beachfront pavilions on the sand. Scale: the debut edition from the team behind the former SCOPE fair, with more than 70 exhibitors from 12 countries announced, plus talks, performances, and installations through the day and into the evening. Ticket note: sold through the fair's own channels; as a first edition, check its site for the final program before you build a day around it.

Three routes that work

Route 1, the convention center day. Art Basel when the doors open, Design Miami across the street while your eyes are still fresh, then the free layer: the new outdoor James Turrell work presented by the Turrell Art Foundation and Art Basel with Pace Gallery, and Public Art Fund's Between Tides, artist designed ping pong tables in Collins Park that visitors are meant to play on. Both are free and outdoors, per Art Basel. Finish with INK Miami's suites on Collins Avenue if your feet allow. This route never leaves a six block box, which is the point.

Route 2, the sand day. Untitled Art on the sand at 12th Street in the morning, the beach itself for the middle of the day, then InScope's pavilions at 8th Street as the light goes, when its performance program wakes up. Add Ocean Drive dinner on the way back north. Two fairs, one street, no car.

Route 3, the mainland day. NADA at Ice Palace Studios first, because it closes Saturday, then Art Miami and CONTEXT at One Herald Plaza, then one museum: Perez Art Museum Miami sits minutes from the pavilions, and the Institute of Contemporary Art anchors the Design District to the north. Our Miami museums guide maps both. Do the mainland on a weekday if you can; the causeways are the week's bottleneck, as our traffic and parking guide sets out.

Whichever routes you pick, the standing rules hold: buy fair tickets only from the fairs' own sites, keep one day unplanned for the exhibition you hear about on day two, and book the room before the tickets. Fair week is the most expensive hotel week of the Miami year, and the convention center blocks go first; our hotels near the convention center guide ranks the walkable options.

Check Miami Beach hotel prices for Art Week on Expedia

Add a Wynwood art tour to an Art Week evening on Viator

Brickell towers in downtown Miami. Photo: Tory Brown, Pexels.

Frequently asked questions

When is Miami Art Week 2026?
Monday, November 30 to Sunday, December 6, 2026. The satellite fairs open from Tuesday, December 1; Art Basel's public days are Friday, December 4 to Sunday, December 6.

Which fairs should a first timer pick?
Art Basel for the main event, Untitled for discovery on the sand, and one mainland fair, NADA or Art Miami, for range. The three routes above are built to that logic.

What does Art Week cost in tickets?
One fair day runs from free (INK Miami, with registration, and the Collins Park public art) through NADA's listed early bird day tickets from $45 to an Art Basel day ticket from $92. The $132 Art Basel and Design Miami combination is the best value pairing on the beach side.

Where should you stay for Art Week?
Near the convention center if the main fair is your anchor: the Collins Avenue corridor and Mid Beach put every beach side fair in this planner within a walk or one trolley ride. Book in November; December rates only move one way.

Keep planning

The anchor fair in depth is the Art Basel Miami Beach guide, the whole cluster sits on the Art Basel hub, the driving plan is the traffic and parking guide, and the running news file is Miami Art Week news. The week after the fairs, the season rolls into the Christmas in Miami guide.