Cultural Creatives That Everyone Should Know

Greater Miami & Miami Beach is famous for its awe-inspiring natural landscapes and richly diverse cultural creatives who have made significant contributions to Miami's tapestry. If you're aiming to be in-the-know on Miami's art scene, you'll want to get to know these dynamic artists and artisans. From famous painters and muralists to sculptors and woodworkers, these are the top Cultural Creatives to know in Miami right now. 

Charles Humes Jr.

Charles Humes Jr. is a Miami Beach native with Bahamian roots. This cultural combination reflects his deeply felt art, which has spanned a 40-year career. Humes' work depicts "the genre and visual poetry of Black People throughout Miami," says the artist. 

A painter, printmaker, muralist, draftsman and multimedia artist, Humes' favorite medium is painting. "I am a sensitive and expressive painter of primarily oil paints," he says.

Humes' work remains in high demand, with recent local exhibits including "Gatherings" at AIRIE Nest Art Gallery inside Everglades National Park and "Squash" at Miami-Dade's Westchester Library.

Mark Delmont

Mark Delmont is a multidisciplinary artist and proud Miami Gardens resident who draws from his Jamaican and Haitian heritage to tell the story of the Black experience. "The purpose of my work is to reprogram how Black and brown people see themselves in art and the world," he says. 

Delmont's raw yet refined works are informed by the worlds of music, cinema and construction. He credits hip-hop artists like Outkast, and films like "Boyz n the Hood" as soundtracks to his development. His father's vocation as a contractor and fabricator also influenced his practice.

"I learn from my environment," says the self-taught Delmont, who uses materials like paint, wood, metal, steel, denim and leather to create works that pay homage to acts of labor while evoking the harmony of structural precision. 

Awarded numerous competitive art grants, Delmont was recently recognized by the South Florida Cultural Consortium as well as the Miami Independent Artists program. His work can be viewed at N’Namdi Contemporary art gallery in Little Haiti.

Nate Dee

Nathan Delinois (Nate Dee) is an urban contemporary artist and muralist known for combining elements of traditional Haitian art, Art Nouveau, Hellenistic Greek art and pop surrealism. Dee earned bachelor's and master's degrees in arts education from Florida International University.

A South Florida native and resident, Dee draws from his Haitian lineage and the surroundings to create his artistry. "Growing up in a tropical place and seeing Haitian art, I've kind of been drawn to bright colors," he says.

Dee works in oil paint on canvas, but he's best known for his bold and fantastical murals that have graced facades at Mana Wynwood and Miami Marriott Biscayne Bay in Downtown Miami, among others.

Loni Johnson

As a multidisciplinary visual and performance artist, Loni Johnson focuses on assemblage, movement and rituals in her works that center Black women and the creation of healing spaces. 

A Miami native with Southern ancestry, the SUNY Purchase College School of Art and Design graduate views her artistic practice as a calling. "We have a certain obligation to be the mouthpiece of what's happening," she said. "We have to question, confront and investigate society."

Johnson creates assemblages of wood pieces from materials of cultural value, such as cowrie shells and bamboo earrings, to build ancestral memories and models of present-day values. Installations are site-specific and create new environments as in a recent activation at the Coral Gables Museum Open Studio, where she offered to build altars for patrons. 

Annick Duvivier

Haitian-born and raised mixed-media artist Annick Duvivier earned a bachelor of fine arts degree from Miami International University of Art & Design in 2019.

She developed her signature style using acrylic on canvas, with pieces exploring themes such as cultural identity and consumerism. "As Black artists, we are ambassadors of the culture," says Duvivier. "We have the responsibility to show the positive stories of Black and brown people."

Duvivier shares those stories in various formats, from realist portraits to nudes. Part of Duvivier's impressive portfolio can be found locally at the Little Haiti Cultural Complex, Fruit & Spice Park in Homestead and the MIA Galleries at Miami International Airport with a commissioned piece for FIFA forthcoming in 2026. 

Cornelius Tulloch

Cornelius Tulloch is a multidisciplinary artist and architect from Cornell University. With numerous accolades under his belt, including being named the 2024 artist laureate for the Bakehouse Art Complex x Cité internationale des arts residency, which broke open his career to international opportunities.

Tulloch met contemporaries from around the word while in Paris presenting a show with the experimental Thaer Select collective as well as participating in a residency with Vertygo Art in Italy. 

Landing the Knight New Work Miami grant enabled Tulloch to work with local secondary students on poetry and collages for his "Porch Passages: Creole Collage" project at the African Heritage Cultural Arts Center. "What I'm talking about is local, but it extends back to the Caribbean, Africa and Europe," says Tulloch. "These ideas take root and take up a new form in Miami."