Art Miami opens on December 1, the day before Art Basel Miami Beach begins its VIP days across the bay. For its 2026 presentation at One Herald Plaza, Carousel Fine Art brings together eight international artists, each known for a distinct, hands-on process. Below are the fair dates, the curation, and an introduction to each artist.
Miami Art Week 2026: key dates
| Fair | Dates | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Miami Art Week | November 30 to December 6 | Citywide |
| Art Miami (36th edition) | December 1 to 6, with a VIP preview on December 1 | One Herald Plaza, downtown Miami |
| CONTEXT Art Miami (14th edition) | December 1 to 6 | One Herald Plaza, beside Art Miami |
| Art Basel Miami Beach | VIP days December 2 and 3, public days December 4 to 6 | Miami Beach Convention Center |
Art Miami is Miami's longest-running international contemporary art fair. This year it hosts galleries from 25 countries, and its VIP preview benefits the Pérez Art Museum Miami.
Is Art Miami part of Art Basel?
No. Art Miami and Art Basel Miami Beach are separate fairs, run by different organizers, during the same week. Art Miami is on the mainland in downtown Miami and opens a day earlier. Art Basel Miami Beach is at the Miami Beach Convention Center. Many collectors plan to see both, starting at Art Miami early in the week and crossing to Miami Beach for Art Basel's public days.
The Carousel Fine Art curation at Art Miami 2026
Carousel's booth brings together eight artists from six countries. What connects them is process: each one builds an image by hand, using a technique closely tied to their name. Portraiture runs through much of the booth, made in glass mosaic, nail and thread, stitched thread and photography sealed under glass. Around it hang staged large-format photography, layered collage, art-historical painting, impasto florals and gestural abstraction.
| Artist | Background | Medium |
|---|---|---|
| David Yarrow | Scottish | Staged large-format photography |
| Nemo Jantzen | Dutch | Nail and thread, and photography under glass spheres |
| Alexi Torres | Cuban | Oil painted to look woven, and stitched thread |
| Eric Alfaro | Cuban-American | Impasto oil and acrylic |
| Caroline Dechamby | Dutch | Oil on canvas with mounted plexiglass |
| Isabelle Scheltjens | Belgian | Fused glass mosaic and marble sculpture |
| Gregory Watin | French | Mixed media on wood and plexiglass |
| Taher Jaoui | Tunisian | Oil, acrylic and charcoal on canvas |
The artists
David Yarrow
David Yarrow is a Scottish photographer, born in Glasgow in 1966. At 20, on assignment for The Times, he photographed Diego Maradona holding the World Cup trophy in Mexico City. He later built a career in finance, sold his hedge fund in 2014 and returned to photography full time. He is known for large-scale staged scenes with wildlife, models and vintage cars, in black and white and in color. His book Wild Encounters, with a foreword by Prince William, was named Amazon's Art Book of the Year in 2017, with royalties going to the conservation charity Tusk.
Yarrow has a long history at Art Miami. In December 2019, a print of The Wolves of Wall Street, signed by Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese, sold at the fair for $200,000, with proceeds going to conservation charities. This year Carousel presents five of his photographs: Road Trip (2018) and Testarossa (2023), both made in Monument Valley; The Good Life and Mille Miglia (2026), staged in Tuscany around the Italian road race that turns 100 in 2027. Carousel represents Yarrow in Miami, Atlanta and Nashville. More on these works in David Yarrow's Road Movies.
Nemo Jantzen
Nemo Jantzen was born in The Hague in 1970 and grew up around the studio of his uncle, the comic artist Johnn Bakker. He studied art, design and photography in Rotterdam, then worked as a billboard painter and creative director in Antwerp before turning to his own practice. His work is held by the GEM Museum in the Netherlands, Museum POPA in Switzerland and the Mandarin Oriental New York.
At Art Miami he shows two techniques. His "Thread" works, including No Doubt, Keep the Change and Round Midnight, are built from hundreds of stainless steel nails set into wooden panels, with thread run between them to form a portrait from a photographic reference. His sphere works, including Girl with Glasses, Sky High 2.0 and Riches, set photographs beneath glass spheres in resin, so the image shifts into a field of small lenses up close.
Alexi Torres
Alexi Torres was born in 1976 in Matanzas, Cuba, and is based in the United States. He is known for oil paintings that appear woven or knitted, with each strand painted by hand. More recently he has worked in thread on black canvas and burlap, with individual portraits counting more than a million stitches. His Game of Life series was on view at Carousel's Buckhead gallery this summer, as part of "The Beautiful Game."
Eric Alfaro
Eric Alfaro is a Cuban-American painter, classically trained at an academy of arts in Cuba. Working from photographic references, he paints in oil and acrylic with brushes and palette knives, building thick impasto surfaces across florals, koi and water scenes. His series include Blossoms, Koi, Wildflowers and Fishbowl, and Carousel has described him as the Modern-Day Monet. In 2026, his Fishbowl painting appeared on the cover of Dan's Papers Palm Beach. His work is held in private collections in more than 20 countries.
Caroline Dechamby
Caroline Dechamby is a Dutch artist based in Switzerland, with a career of more than three decades spanning painting and design, including leather goods, hand-painted timepieces, furniture and swimwear. In her paintings she places her own figure inside compositions that reference modern masters: the master's composition is painted in oil on canvas, and Dechamby paints herself onto plexiglass mounted over it. The work is a reclamation of art history, putting a woman artist inside the paintings that defined it. Carousel held a double retrospective of her work in 2024, in Palm Beach and Buckhead.
At Art Miami she shows Hold On (Mondrian) (2026), Rothko's Brush (2024) and Orange Dot (2026). The history behind this kind of work is the subject of From Copy to Conversation.
Isabelle Scheltjens
Isabelle Scheltjens is a Belgian artist who trained at the Antwerp City Institute for Decorative Arts and Crafts, where her study of glass design led her to develop her own glass-melting technique. Her portraits are made from thousands of hand-cut glass shards, arranged by color and fused together at around 800 degrees Celsius. The method draws on pointillism, and Carousel has called her the Queen of Dots.
At Art Miami she shows three new glass mosaic portraits, Lips Like Fire, Kiss Me Later and Elara (2026), alongside marble sculpture: Holly (2026) in black marble with white veining, and Nur and The Future is a Big Kiss (Totem) (2025) in white marble.
Gregory Watin
Gregory Watin is a French artist whose work begins with photographs of cities: buildings, weathered surfaces and graffiti. He combines those images with drawing, paper, cardboard, wood and plexiglass into layered collages, working quickly to keep the energy of the street. "I have created my contemporary poetry from daily material, from the town, the people," he has said.
His 2026 works for Art Miami include several Florida subjects, among them Fort Lauderdale, Wynwood Road, New Flamingo and Blue Palmer, along with Pink New York, Saint Laurent and a selection of small box works.
Taher Jaoui
Taher Jaoui was born and raised in Tunis, in a family of mathematicians. He trained as a financial engineer and worked for several years as an actor in Paris and Los Angeles before turning to painting, which he taught himself. He has lived and worked in Tunis, Paris, Berlin and Dubai. His large abstract canvases, in oil, acrylic and charcoal on raw canvas, often include equations and symbolic notation, and draw on post-war Abstract Expressionism, CoBrA, African art, graffiti and glitch aesthetics. His work is in the collection of the Enter Art Foundation in Berlin.
At Art Miami he shows eight new paintings from 2026, including Temporary Reality, Between Two Choices, Exit the Loop and Almost Dream State.
Visiting Carousel Fine Art at Art Miami
Art Miami runs December 1 to 6, 2026, at One Herald Plaza (NE 14th Street and Biscayne Bay). The VIP preview is December 1, and the fair opens to the public that afternoon. Find Carousel Fine Art at booth AM202. Private previews of the curation can be arranged before the fair opens, and work by these artists is also on view at Carousel's Miami gallery at 6737 NE 3rd Ave, as well as in West Palm Beach, Atlanta, Chicago and Nashville.
Frequently Asked Questions About Art Miami 2026
When is Miami Art Week 2026? Miami Art Week runs November 30 to December 6, 2026.
When is Art Basel Miami Beach 2026? Art Basel Miami Beach has invitation-only VIP days on December 2 and 3 and public days December 4 to 6, 2026, at the Miami Beach Convention Center.
When and where is Art Miami 2026? December 1 to 6, 2026, at One Herald Plaza on Biscayne Bay in downtown Miami. The VIP preview is December 1 and benefits the Pérez Art Museum Miami.
Is Art Miami part of Art Basel? No. They are separate fairs held during the same week. Art Miami is in downtown Miami and opens a day earlier; Art Basel Miami Beach is at the Miami Beach Convention Center.
Which artists is Carousel Fine Art showing at Art Miami 2026? David Yarrow, Nemo Jantzen, Alexi Torres, Eric Alfaro, Caroline Dechamby, Isabelle Scheltjens, Gregory Watin and Taher Jaoui.
Can I see or reserve work before the fair opens? Yes. Contact Carousel Fine Art to arrange a private preview, or visit the Miami gallery at 6737 NE 3rd Ave.
