No Vacancy, Miami Beach

The City’s program page also lists the project titles, so I’ve included those alongside the hotel locations and brief descriptions.

Miami Beach hotels become temporary exhibition spaces for site-specific contemporary art during the seventh edition of No Vacancy. The annual City of Miami Beach program runs November 12 through December 19, 2026, bringing 12 artist projects to 12 hotels and overlapping with Miami Art Week. Sculpture, painting, textiles, photography and video installations invite visitors to encounter contemporary art outside traditional museum and gallery settings.

Participating hotels and projects include:

• Avalon Hotel — Morel Doucet: To Bloom Under the Midnight Stars reimagines South Florida’s tropical flora through themes of resilience, cultural memory, diaspora and environmental change.

• Balfour Hotel Miami Beach — Luján Candria: Living Archive transforms hotel windows with translucent photographic textiles depicting native South Florida vegetation, connecting memory, nature and urban transformation.

• The Betsy Hotel — Ricardo E. Zulueta: RISING GLITCH LEVELS combines experimental animation, visual glitches and ambient sound in a video installation mapped onto The Betsy Orb.

• Casa Faena — Kevin Arrow: The Magic Is You! draws on decades of collected 35mm imagery to explore physical media, place, time and memory.

• Eden Roc Miami Beach — Emmett Moore: Riviera, a knotted stainless steel exhaust pipe, considers gas-powered machinery, obsolescence and the relationship between technology and the environment.

• Hotel Croydon Miami Beach — Justin H. Long: Abyssal Wunderkammer presents fictional undersea relics in an Art Deco display cabinet, blending maritime history, myth and imagined archaeology.

• International Inn — Lulu Sanchez: Palm Court Ship: The Jury is Out at the International Inn creates a luminous sculptural arboretum of handmade palms honoring Miami’s subtropical ecology and public art legacy.

• Kimpton Surfcomber Hotel — Alex Nuñez: You Cannot Step into the Same Ocean Twice brings printed palms and an iridescent portal into a sculptural environment exploring memory, change and renewal.

• Marriott Stanton South Beach — Marlon Portales: Busco en El Monte Amparo comprises two monumental paintings examining identity, displacement, memory and the body’s relationship to an imagined Cuban landscape.

• The Royal Palm South Beach Miami — Diana Eusebio: Home, Safe uses textiles, photography and natural dyes to consider displacement, rootedness and the search for safety through Miami’s landscape.

• The Shelborne by Proper — Yanira Collado: Converging Timelines/Woven Silhouettes layers repurposed paper, wood and textiles to examine regional histories of labor, diaspora, spirituality and ingenuity.

• Sherry Frontenac OceanFront Resort — Gonzalo Hernández: AMERICA assembles seven jacquard-woven banners in colors drawn from South American flags, reflecting on language, national identity and movement across borders.

The program is presented by the City of Miami Beach with support from the Miami Beach Visitor and Convention Authority and the Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau. Two participating artists will receive prizes totaling $35,000: a $10,000 Public Prize presented by the GMCVB and a $25,000 Juried Prize selected by a panel of art professionals.

Image: Winner of Juror's Choice No Vacancy 2025: BayScape— by artist Nathalie Alfonso, at International Inn on the Bay. Photo by Monica McGivern.