Wynwood
Wynwood Walls launched in 2009 when developer Tony Goldman commissioned international street artists to cover the blank warehouse walls of a blighted Puerto Rican and Latino neighborhood during Art Basel week. The result transformed a forgotten industrial district into a global street art destination — and sparked a debate about whether public art is a tool of community expression or of displacement that Miami is still having. The murals themselves, whatever their politics, are extraordinary.
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The original 2009 Wynwood Walls installation brought together Shepard Fairey, Os Gemeos, Swoon, Kenny Scharf, Ron English, and a dozen other major international artists to fill 80,000 square feet of warehouse walls. Since then the program has rotated new works annually, making Wynwood the most frequently renewed mural site in the country — each Art Basel season brings new large-format commissions from globally recognized artists.
Shepard Fairey
Providence, Rhode Island-born artist best known for the OBEY Giant campaign and the Barack Obama "Hope" poster. Fairey has painted multiple works in Wynwood since the inaugural 2009 season. "Miami Heat" from 2011 is his most iconic Miami piece — a graphic portrait in his signature red, black, and cream palette depicting a Cuban-American woman in the style of revolutionary propaganda, subverting the imagery to celebrate rather than command.
Edif
Miami-born Afro-Cuban artist whose politically urgent murals engage with race, immigration, and the erasure of Wynwood's original Latino community. "El Grito" (The Cry) was painted during Art Basel 2019 on a wall owned by a developer who had displaced 40 Puerto Rican families from the same block — a direct confrontation between the art world's money and the community's memory, displayed in full view of the collectors who attended the fair.