No Vacancy, Miami Beach

Art, architecture and storytelling converge across Miami Beach as No Vacancy, Miami Beach returns for its sixth edition, activating landmark hotels with site-specific works by 12 artists and collectives.

Presented by the City of Miami Beach in collaboration with the Miami Beach Visitor and Convention Authority (MBVCA) and the Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau (GMCVB), the juried competition celebrates the city’s vibrant cultural landscape while transforming its hotels into temporary galleries. Each participating artist receives a commission to create a new work that engages the history, design and spirit of its host property. The 2025 edition awards two prizes totaling $35,000: a $25,000 juried prize selected by an art world panel and a $10,000 public prize presented by the GMCVB.

Participating Hotels and Projects for No Vacancy, Miami Beach 2025

• Avalon Hotel / Andrea Myers – A Soft Pixelation, a textile-based installation composed of hundreds of repurposed T-shirts sewn into a pixelated patchwork field.

• The Betsy Hotel / Liz’N Bow – Portal to Niña, an immersive transformation of the hotel’s iconic Betsy Egg into a surreal, femme-centered universe.

• Cadillac Hotel & Beach Club / Denise Treizman – Wish You Were Here, a large-scale tapestry woven from pool noodles and playful found materials.

• Casa Faena / Pepe Mar – Tropical stomping grounds, an autobiographical installation revisiting 15 years of work inspired by South Beach culture and ephemera.

• The Catalina Hotel & Beach Club / Edison Peñafiel – Florida Florarium, a suspended garden of elongated textile banners forming a monumental floating landscape.

• International Inn on the Bay / Nathalie Alfonso – BayScape—, a light drawing that transforms the building’s second-floor windows into a shifting reflection of the bay.

• Kimpton Surfcomber / Patty Suau – Unexpected Encounters, an interactive installation merging mirrors and life-size figure drawings to evoke fleeting moments of human connection.

• The Miami Beach EDITION / Amanda Linares – Tierra Húmeda, a poetic arrangement of clay tiles and graphite drawings exploring the relationship between land and memory.

• Nautilus Sonesta Miami Beach / Evelyn Sosa – No Place is Far Away, a participatory archive of migration inspired by the question: What object did you take with you when you emigrated?

• Riviera Suites South Beach / Fabiola Larios – Heartware, a constellation of pink piñatas embedded with mirrors, screens and live-feed cameras.

• The Shelborne by Proper / Lee Pivnik – Wellspring, a sculptural installation tracing the movement of water through Florida’s ecosystems and its role as a carrier of memory.

• Sherry Frontenac Hotel / James Sprang – Take Me Home, an immersive celebration of Caribbean carnival, community and cultural resilience.

Through these installations, No Vacancy, Miami Beach highlights the city’s dynamic intersection of art, design and hospitality, inviting visitors to explore its hotels not just as places to stay, but as sites of imagination and dialogue.

No Vacancy, Miami Beach runs November 13–December 20 at multiple hotel venues throughout Miami Beach.