Observer’s Must-See Miami Art Week Exhibitions

• Nina Johnson
• Through February 7, 2026

Founded in 2007, Nina Johnson Gallery is another pillar of Miami’s contemporary art community, championing both local and international voices through a wide-ranging, intuitively vibrant program. Fully attuned to Miami’s festive, sun-struck exuberance, the new exhibition in the front gallery, “Acid Bath House,” gathers twenty-six artists and presents a diverse range of works, from rare queer counterculture archival materials to new pieces by mid-career and emerging figures.

Curated by American writer, curator and critic Jarrett Earnest—whose deep knowledge of queer art across the past century anchors the show—the exhibition promises an eclectic, maximalist experience where colors, textures, forms and feelings collide, staging glittering, rainbow-drenched queer pleasure and freedom of expression against the haunting rise of American authoritarianism and conservatism today. Highlights include a sensual, candy-colored velvet sculpture by Anna Betbeze, glitter-and-pearl paintings by Reuben Patterson, liquid-mirror wall works by Carrie Yamaoka, holographic lenticulars by Jake Brush and a newly commissioned sculpture by Sean Bennett. Other artists in the show include Steven Arnold, Belasco, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Matt Connors, Gaby Collins-Fernandez, TM Davy, Johnnie Gardner, Jesse Genepi, Sadao Hasegawa, Juliana Huxtable, Savannah Knoop, Keith Lafuente, Moses Leonardo, Chris Martin, Yuval Pudik, Lee Relvas, Dean Sameshima, Laurel Sparks, Paula Gately Tillman, Chris Udemezue and Nicole Wittenberg.