Miami beach, ART Basel, December 2025
With around 300 galleries shows, ART Basel Miami displayed hundreds of artworks, this year focusing of digital art and South American artists. Despite the numerous presence of famous artists artworks not so much new discoveries, hereunder my top 5.
My TOP 5 Findings
Lorenzo AMOS (B 2002)
Lorenzo Amos is a self-taught American artist whose luminous paintings of friends, family and shared interiors transform everyday domestic space into a site of revelation, community and care. He creates figurative paintings in oil on linen/canvas that depict scenes into compressed, sometimes vertiginous spaces where bodies, furniture and architecture seem to share the same emotional charge. His work blends devotional intensity with everyday observations creating intimate, contemporary language of colour, touch and gesture.
Range of artwork price: Between 30000 to 120000 Usd and rising fast!
Kye CHRISTENSEN-KNOWLES (B 1993)
Kye Christensen-Knowles dedicates his paintings into 2 distinctive directions.
In one series of paintings Knowles figurative artworks depict contemporary society portraits unnerving, chilling and his touch reminds me the great portraitures of Lucian Freud.
In other series, his futuristic works look like a fusion of classical tradition and modern dystopian imagery, focusing on bridge the gap between renaissance techniques and science-fiction fever dreams.
Range of artwork price: Between 15000 to 50000 Usd
Gisela McDANIEL (B 1995)
Gisela McDaniel is a diasporic, indigenous CHamoru artist who explores the effects of trauma, displacement and colonization through portraiture and oral histories. Interweaving audio interviews, assemblage and oil painting, she intentionally incorporates the portrait sitters’ voices in order to subvert the traditional power relations of artist and sitter. Working primarily with women and nonbinary people who identify as Black, Micronesian, Indigenous to Turtle Island, Asian, Latinx, and/or mixed race, her work disrupts and responds to the systemic silencing of subjects in fine art, politics, and popular culture.
Range of artwork price: Between 25000 to 75000 Usd.
Cheyenne JULIEN (B 1994)
Cheyenne Julien paints colorful portraits of young figures with exasperated and exuberant facial expressions. Vibrant and full of emotion, these paintings reflect on Julien’s encounters with racism to serve as a response to larger societal issues. She also paints spaces where light through a window feels like a spooky presence and obscures the line between nature and surveillance. In images like Night Sun (2018) her figures’ exaggerated large eyes express emotion that can be read simultaneously as fearful, contemplative, or filled with love and gaiety. Her figures emit uneasy energy that could represent joy and jubilance or personal anxiety in narratives that are both poignant and exquisite.
Range of artwork price: Between 10000 to 35000 Usd.
Maria BERRIO (B 1982)
Well known artist but a discovery for me, María Berrío as Colombian painter works with monumental collage-paintings that use the fragility of Japanese paper to mirror the vulnerability and resilience of the human spirit, blending South American folklore with the pressing global realities of identity and migration.
Range of artwork price: Between 300000 to 1600000 Usd.
Shanghai ART021 findings, November 2025
Very refreshing visit with plenty of new artists, here undermy top 5 and a Pdf with 70 other findings
My TOP 5 Favorites
Rachel ZHANG (B 1998)
Rachel ZHANG is Chinese-American new surrealist painter born in 1998.
Her paintings delve into existential anxieties, social roles (especially gendered bodies), morality, and punishment. She describes scenes often unfold in everyday public spaces like laundry rooms, train stations, dive bars or bowling alleys, giving them a contemporary genre painting feel with a mythological twist.
Range of artwork price: Between 7000 to 20000 Usd.
WANG Qiqi "汪琦琦" (B 1996)
WANG Qiqi is a Chinese painter born in 1996.
Her paintings often explore themes related to the body and dislocation using delicate and fragile brushstrokes. However the results of her compositions could be brutal and questions us of our anxieties, sufferings, decay and mortality. I would say that her actual works refer to new-expressionism style and take great inspiration from master like Egon Schiele.
Range of artwork price: Between 2000 to 7000 Usd.
Sonia JIA (B 2000)
Sonia JIA is a Chinese painter and her unique technique, allows her to create a subtle yet profoundly visceral experience on linen. The resulting pieces possess a remarkable sense of aliveness. To achieve this, she paints in multitudes of highly thin, layered oil paintings, onto linen that is first primed with "rabbit skin glue" an old priming practice. With her techniques characterized by their muted and subtly bruised pastel tones, Sonia meticulously examines the human body as a site where trauma, tenderness, and ultimately, transformation intersect. Reflecting on personal experiences of loss alongside the pervasive sense of alienation in our hyperconnected world, Sonia’s art serves as both a poignant space for mourning and a tender ritual of care.
Range of artwork price: Between 8000 to 25000 Usd.
AN Kun "安堃" (B 1968)
AN Kun is a Chinese painter born in 1968.
His technique is described as having a refined or "velvet" quality, showcasing a mastery of his medium. He's known for depicting the ambitious and wealthy Chinese bourgeoisie in a style that is distinctly European, almost like a portrait from a past era. In his notable series "Pretty, Bourgeois Friends" he portrays his subjects while subtly removing or masking their Chinese characteristics and identity. This serves as a commentary on the increasing westernization of Chinese society. Rather than sharp criticism, AN Kun uses his refined visual language to share his opinions on society in a charming and respectful way, often stripping his subjects of their Chinese identity to tell his own story.
Range of artwork price: 9000 to 25000 Usd.
WEI Dong "魏东" (B 1968)
WEI Dong is a Chinese painter born in 1968.
Wei Dong combines cross-cultural traditions of East and West, merging Chinese landscape painting with depictions of frank sexuality. His works comment on globalization, politics and the suppression of desire. He combines references to art historical styles ranging from traditional ink landscapes to social realism to renaissance and romantic painting. WEI Dong began depicting erotic themes, then taboo in China, often juxtaposing exposed women with Ming dynasty landscapes.
Range of artwork price: Between 30000 to 120000 Usd.
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