A couple-dozen art fairs and work from thousands of artists takes over Miami each December. Here, we’re looking at pieces inside and outside just a few of those venues, distributed between Miami and Miami Beach. Below, see some of the works that grabbed our attention while surveying the city.
CONTEXT Art Miami (Plus: Art Miami)
CONTEXT is the sister fair to the neighboring Art Miami. Its focus is “emerging and mid-career” artists, as opposed to more Blue Chip offerings across the fairs.
Right outside of both CONTEXT and Art Miami, visitors found a collection of public sculptures that offered a more youthful invitation than the usual entry fare. One of Whisbe’s 7-foot Gummy Bear sculptures (top of page) garnered many Instagram shots (with accompanying security in case climbers got the wrong idea). A nearby Kim In Tae steel sculpture of a gorilla offered a more aggressive complement to Whisbe’s work.
Ron English
Samuel Salcedo
Salustiano
Chuck Sperry
Untitled
Untitled says that it “innovates the standard fair model by selecting a curatorial team to identify, and curate a selection of galleries, artist-run exhibition spaces, and non-profit institutions and organizations.” Here are a few selections seen around this Miami Beach offering.
Faig Ahmed
Del Kathryn Barton
Elsewhere
Superchief Gallery MIAMI hosted the “Scope X Superchief Afterparty,” with works from Banksy, Caratoes, and several others. See scenes from the affair below.
Lauren YS
Visitors take in a Banksy.
Caratoes
Sister fairs to 
Among the largest fairs during Miami Art Week has always been the extensive Art Miami, which was conjoined with its sister fair CONTEXT Art Miami in Wynwood, and Aqua Art Miami on the other side of the causeway. We first attended Aqua Art Miami, so named for its host, the Aqua Hotel. Since 2005, the fair has filled room after room, and even the hotel's hallways, with works by emerging galleries and mid-career artists. Tampa based gallery CASS Contemporary was among the stand outs this year, with their selection of new works by artists like Oakland based painter and street artist Allison Torneros, better known as Hueman, whimsical drawings with fantastical characters by French artist Amandine Urruty, and ink and gouache paintings by Berlin based Andrea Wan. Take a look at more of our highlights after the jump!
One of the first fairs to open during Miami Art Week, 
One of the first fairs to open during Miami Art Week was UNTITLED. Now in its fourth year, the fair showcases big and small scale works from over 130 galleries in its white beachfront tent- a place where you could find some of the most experimental and surprising uses of media this week. Among the booths we bee-lined for was Eric Firestone Gallery's, which featured a large and psychedelic new piece from artist Jen Stark, now recognized by many for the wormhole and animated dripping entrance that she created for Miley Cyrus at the 2015 MTV VMAs. Take a look at more of our highlights from UNTITLED after the jump!