Miami’s contemporary art scene is about to speak the language of the forest. On November 19, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (ICA Miami) opens the first solo U.S. museum exhibition dedicated to Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe, the celebrated Venezuelan artist of the Yanomami people — and it arrives just in time to open Miami’s beloved art season, eleven days before Art Basel Miami Beach.
Presented jointly with the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, the exhibition gathers more than 100 works spanning over 25 years of Hakihiiwe’s practice. Visitors will encounter drawings, paintings and prints on handmade paper — the artist’s signature medium, crafted from tree and plant fiber — alongside sweeping site-specific murals, new commissions and film. Every piece carries the visual language of the Amazonian forest, its wildlife and Yanomami cultural traditions, translating ancestral oral histories into bold, joyful images.
Hakihiiwe was born in 1971 in Sheroana, Venezuela, and still lives in the remote Poripori community along the upper Orinoco River, where the forest itself is his studio. His work has traveled from the Venice Biennale to the Sydney Biennale and the Museum of Modern Art in New York — and now, Miami gets the first full museum survey on American soil. The exhibition design comes from renowned Mexico City architect Mauricio Rocha, whose atmospheric spaces take inspiration from the traditional Yanomami dwelling, the shapono.
The show runs November 19, 2026 through March 28, 2027 at ICA Miami, 61 NE 41st Street in the Miami Design District — and admission to the museum is always free, so the whole family can experience it. Co-curated by Gean Moreno of ICA Miami and Michela Alessandrini of the Fondation Cartier, this is one of those rare Miami moments where world-class art, Indigenous heritage and pure beauty come together. Mark your calendar.
Photo: ICA Miami
