MIAMI, FLA.- NADA Miami, presented by the New Art Dealers Alliance, concluded its 2021 fair on Saturday, December 4th with diverse presentations, strong sales, and inaugural special sections. The nineteenth edition of the fair welcomed over 12,000 attendees and featured over 170 exhibiting galleries, art spaces, and publishers from 49 cities, including Brussels, Warsaw, Lima, New York, Los Angeles, and Marfa. Online Viewing Rooms for this year’s fair will remain online until December 19, 2021.

This year’s fair welcomed two inaugural special sections, Artists’ Books Publishers, an exciting new collaboration with Printed Matter and EXILE Books that featured 39 artists’ books publishers focusing on Latin American artists, publications, and printmakers, plus accessible, DIY approaches to bookmaking, and the Curated Spotlight section, presented with TD Bank and organized by David Zwirner director and curator Ebony L. Haynes.

Notable Sales Across the Board

Several galleries sold out their booths on opening day, with many galleries accruing over $100,000 in sales over the entirety of the fair. Curated Spotlight gallery Saint George Projects’ solo presentation by Henri Paul Broyard sold out entirely, as did other Spotlight exhibitors Calderón, Dale Zine, KDR305, and REGULARNORMAL. Atlanta’s Burnaway sold their entire booth of 10 vivid, pastoral-meets-millennial paintings by Dianna Settles for between $4,000 and $6,000.

New York’s 56 Henry sold its entire collection, including a soft sculpture by Al Freeman for $15,000, as well as her other works. Lauren Quin, presented by San Francisco gallery Friends Indeed, sold two of her psychedelic, vivid paintings for $28,000 and a third for $30,000. Beacon and New York gallery MOTHER sold out their entire solo exhibition of Jenny Morgan’s oil paintings, ranging from $6,000 to $34,000. Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami acquired a piece for their permanent collection by Kyle Manning from anonymous Gallery. The international Nino Mier Gallery saw a plethora of significant sales, including an André Butzer painting for over $170,000, as well as paintings by Jonathan Wateridge ranging from $100,000 to $120,000, with two sold to a foundation in Lebanon.

New York’s New Discretions had two pieces enter the Beth de Woody Collection; Candy Factory by Eric Heist and Genesis P-Orridge, as well as a piece by Letitia Quesenberry. The entire exhibit at Luis De Jesus Los Angeles sold out in about an hour, with over half of the booth selling to new collectors and museum trustees.

Curated Spotlight by Ebony L. Haynes Shines

Curated Spotlight highlighted eight solo presentations by underrepresented artists and quickly became among the crowd-favorites at NADA Miami 2021. Several of self-taught Nicaraguan artist Joel Gaitan’s terracotta pots presented by KDR305 were sold, ranging from $1,600 to $4,800. Adee Roberson’s bright, screen-printed scenes captivated audiences at Dominique Gallery, while Saint George Projects booth featuring Henri Paul Broyard’s paintings of urban domesticity reflected on the backgrounds of his Creole and the fluctuation of memory in physical spaces. Also featured in the Spotlight was Miami-based publisher and art book shop Dale Zine, which debuted their first exhibition at this year’s fair, featuring a solo collection of works by local artist Alejandra Moros.




PAMM Acquires Fourth Annual Acquisition Gift by Danielle de Jesus (Calderón)

Pérez Art Museum Miami curators perused through the fair to select the fourth annual NADA Acquisition Gift for PAMM, an acquisition gift for the museum’s permanent collection. PAMM Curator María Elena Ortiz, Associate Curator Jennifer Inacio, and Curatorial Assistant and Publications Coordinator Maritza Lacayo selected Two men and their blue gate, 2021 by Danielle De Jesus from Calderón. De Jesus’s work was also featured in the Curated Spotlight section.

MobileCoin Awards First-Ever Cryptocurrency Art Award

NADA Miami 2021 presented a first of its kind cryptocurrency art award, the MobileCoin Art Prize, an award that highlights, celebrates, and supports artwork addressing the critical topic of privacy. Writer and curator Andrew Berardini and MobileCoin Art Director and contemporary artist Inga Bard selected three artists and projects that underlined the importance and nuances of the topic of privacy: Gabriella Torres-Ferrar at Embajada, Puerto Rico; Hangama Amiri at Towards, Toronto; and Black Experience isn’t a Spectacle by afila.si presented by Anteism Books in the Artists’ Books Publishers section of the fair. The prize will be equally divided among the three winners in the form of $7,500 equivalent to MOB.

NADA Projects & Artists’ Books Publishers

NADA Projects, an open, exhibition-like presentation of new art from emerging voices; and the latest addition, Artists’ Books Publishers, a co-presentation of publishers with Printed Matter and EXILE Books, quickly became highlights of NADA Miami 2021. Printed Matter invited four artists and publishers to create special online projects as a part of their presentation in Miami, all of which tackled themes like transparency, privacy, and equality, like Transparencia Index, by Federico Pérez Villoro, which acknowledged civic concerns by automatically collecting data from the Plataforma Nacional de Transparencia, a system through which people can request public information from the Mexican government.

Dynamic Talks & Events Drew Crowds Throughout the Week

Visitors gathered at the fair throughout the weekend, taking in the vibrant, energetic atmosphere among tropical flora and hammocks, where dealers, collectors, and artists mingled with colleagues and visitors from around the globe. Notable guests included collector Beth de Woody, musician Joe Jonas, and Bachelor contestant Kit Keenan.

This year’s programming featured dynamic talks, performances, and events including de Boer Gallery’s performance featuring Ivorian-American artist Monsieur Zohore, in which the artist invited guests to participate in a reimagined version of the quintessential Greek-life pastime, beer pong, as he challenged visitors to unpack ideas of fraternal assimilation rampant across American life; and Pioneer Works celebration of the launch of their forthcoming publication, PÒTOPRENS: The Urban Artists of Port-au-Prince, showcasing a conversation with artist and curator Edouard Duval-Carrié; artist André Eugène; and curator and editor Leah Gordon. Artist Rights Society held an impressive panel, “What Every Artist Needs to Know About NFTS” consisting of artist Nancy Baker Cahill, collector Adam Lindemann, artist Tiona Nekkia McClodden, and art lawyer Sarah Odenkirk for a nuanced discussion around NFTs and the positive and negative implications they may have for artists.

Guests perused among items for sale at the NADA Shop, which featured an artist-designed, unlimited edition basketball, Charge, (2nd Edition) 2020 by Andrew Kuo; Dinner Is Served, 2021, an archival pigment print by Nikki Maloof; and a limited-edition print by artist Mark Thomas Gibson in support of NADA’s year-round programming, titled Everyone Should Have One on Their Wall: Sunset.