Miami Art Week · December 2–6, 2026
KEY
ART + DESIGN
FAIR
Where Global Contemporary African Diaspora Art, Design, Music + Culture Converge during Miami Art Week
Where Global art, design, and music converge.
KEY Art + Design Fair is the “Fine Arts Homecoming” — where the culture meets each year during Miami Art Week to celebrate art, design, and music.
HBCU student and alumni artists shine alongside emerging and mid-career artists from Africa, the Caribbean and the Americas. Through curated exhibitions, special programming and immersive experiences, KEY connects artists to collectors, curators and art lovers worldwide.
At 8th & Collins, KEY Art debuted in a 15,000 square foot retail space with Howard University's Chadwick A. Boseman College of Fine Arts for their Bison at Basel celebration — establishing an early bridge between emerging HBCU talent and the international Miami Art Week ecosystem.
Thirty student artists exhibited, joined panels and met collectors along side emerging artists from around the globe. KEY Art + Design Fair’s 2025 debut demonstrated the commitment to cultivating the future of art while creating direct pathways to curators, collectors and the marketplace.
FROM A BUILDING TO A BEACH · FROM ONE HBCU TO A NATIONAL PLATFORM
KEY Art + Design Fair was built to give the culture a stage of its own during Miami Art Week.
The founder of KEY Art + Design Fair, Kellee Baker, is an art collector, a Howard University School of Law graduate, and lifetime entrepreneur.
The fair was built around a simple observation from years of Decembers in Miami: the culture fills every room of Art Week, but never owned a stage of its own.
KEY Art + Design Fair is that stage — promoting emerging artists, art panel discussions and musical performances.
The Fair's Artistic Director & Chief Curator, Ludlow E. Bailey, has curated Contemporary African Diaspora Art programming during Miami Art Week for seventeen consecutive years — the panels, exhibitions, and collector events that make him one of the most trusted names in the art world.
Miami brings the world.
KEY Art + Design Fair reframes the conversation.
The audience is already here in Miami Beach…join us.
At 4601 Collins Avenue, KEY Art + Design Fair occupies a distinctive position within one of the world's most important annual gatherings of the international art market.
KEY is designed for discovery: established voices in dialogue with a new generation, serious collecting alongside intellectual exchange, and art placed within the broader cultural forces of music, fashion, design, technology and ideas.
For collectors, institutions and brands seeking meaningful cultural proximity.
KEY Art + Design Fair is built for serious collectors searching for artists whose work belongs in important collections today and whose ideas will help define the art history of tomorrow.
Museum professionals, curators, scholars, art advisors, cultural leaders and sophisticated consumers meet within an environment designed for discovery and relationship-building.
Private previews, curator-led tours, collector conversations, artist encounters, dedicated lounges and invitation-only hospitality create the curated access increasingly valuable during a crowded Miami Art Week.
Ideas worth debating. Art worth collecting.
Beyond the conversations…live Jazz, Afrobeats, Rhythm & Blues, Soul, Caribbean traditions and contemporary sounds animate an environment built around art, hospitality and connection.
