Pussy Riot creator, Nadya Tolokonnikova, will join SCOPE for a discussion on hope and change where we explore how art can be a catalyst that inspires and empowers people to stand-up to injustice. This year, Nadya brings her "This Art is a Hammer That Shapes the World", "Knife Play", "Putin's Ashes" and “Holy Squirt” art pieces to Miami. Her discussion will touch on the history of Pussy Riot and discuss current art-for-change initiatives such as “GOD SAVE ABORTION”. Additionally, audience members can expect to learn about future actions Nadya, and other members of the movement she founded, are producing all around the world, from Mexico to Ukraine and beyond.
In conversation with Nadya Tolokonnikova and Valentine Uhovski
Valentine Uhovski is a creative leader having worked in the intersection of tech, culture, and innovation for over 17 years. He has collaborated with hundreds of groundbreaking creators, institutions, and brands during his award-winning work at Tumblr, IMG, Interview Magazine, Wall Street Journal, Milk Studios, and Rainbow Contemporary just to name a few. His passions in every project are community building, innovation, and putting artists first. Valentine is currently a principal at VOLSTER Culture.
FILM | CONNOR TINGLEY
December 5, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Video showcase of Connor Tingley’s installation. This installation in collaboration with pro skater Curren Caples explores the unstable relationships between culture and nature in a liberated union of shared messaging between painting and skateboarding.
PERFORMANCE | TRiECHOES
December 5, 6:00pm - 7:00pm
TRiECHOES is a Koto (Traditional Japanese harp) performance group. The innovative worldview and the electric sound have garnered high praise. Videos of performances have been viewed more than 1 billion times across social media. They have collaborated with a variety of global brands from Loewe to America's Got Talent.
MORNING WELLNESS | ALO YOGA
December 6, 10:00am - 11:00am
After the success of their partnership in 2022, Alo Yoga returns to SCOPE to present daily health and wellness programming. Guests will be encouraged to attend morning healings, yoga classes, guided meditations and more – all against the backdrop of beautiful South Beach.
Private Event
Talk Series | New Connections: Digital and Physical in Tandem
December 6, 1:00pm - 2:00pm
The proliferation of digital technologies in the 20th and 21st centuries have arguably upended aesthetic expression, consumption, and presentation. These trends have destabilized traditional cultural hierarchies, while allowing new forms, processes, and networks to develop. Rather than positing the supremacy of either digital or physical, this panel will explore the dialectic of their collaboration: how digital serves physical, and vice versa. Bringing together artists, collectors, and builders from various aesthetic disciplines, the discussion will provide educational insights into these new modes of creating, seeing, and connecting, how they are at once a departure from and a continuation of the past, and how new audiences can (and should) access and embrace this new normal.
Panelists: Gmoney, Nicole Sales Giles, JN Silva, Parin Heidari, Yosnier Miranda
Moderator: Aniko Berman
Talk Series | Portraits of Women in Web3 | Presented by Kraken
December 6, 2:00pm - 5:00pm
Portraits of Women in Web3 (PWW3) is thrilled to announce its second edition at SCOPE Art Fair during Miami Art week. This dynamic event, featuring speakers and networking sessions, will bring together prominent female leaders in the Web3 space. Their inaugural event, hosted at NeueHouse Madison Square, was one of the most popular and well attended events of NFT.NYC which sold out at over 800 RSVPs.
PWW3 is spearheaded by independent curators Coco Dolle (artist and writer) and Raina Marie (PACE Gallery Director), in collaboration with the contemporary web3 marketplace, Artwrld. Together, they have curated a select group of female artists, curators, experts, and entrepreneurs deeply immersed in the cultural landscape of Web3. The focus of these conversations revolves around positive impact, education.
PWW3 will be held at the SCOPE Art Fair on December 6th, from 2 to 5 pm with a stellar lineup of speakers amongst Shantell Martin, Swan Sit, Debbie Soon and Simone Berry. In addition to the conference, PWW3 x Artwrld will host a booth at the fair featuring such world renowned artists as Shirin Neshat, Deborah Kass, Jill Magid, Anne Spalter and Nicole Ruggiero.
TALK SERIES | Q&A WITH NICK KYRGIOS, PRESENTED BY JOE AND THE JUICE AND MIAMI PICKLEBALL CLUB
December 6, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
Experience an intimate Q&A with Australian tennis star, Miami Pickleball Club team owner and Joe and the Juice brand ambassador Nick Kyrgios. Listen to him speak candidly about his career, his achievements so far and what he would still like to accomplish in the future.
SUNSETS | DJ TOKYO ROSE
December 6, 5:30pm - 7:30pm
Sunsets transform experiential afternoons into exclusive live evening performances. SCOPE’s stage will ignite with top music performers who will add a new dimension to our pavilion.
MORNING WELLNESS | ALO YOGA
December 7, 10:00am - 11:00am
After the success of their partnership in 2022, Alo Yoga returns to SCOPE to present daily health and wellness programming. Guests will be encouraged to attend morning healings, yoga classes, guided meditations and more – all against the backdrop of beautiful South Beach.
Private Event
Talk Series | Shining A Light: The Work of Championing Underrepresented Artists
December 7, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Shining a Light: the work of championing underrepresented artists
Why are galleries shining a light on BIPOC artists? How do curators advocate for collecting plans to diversify museum holdings? Are museums using their collections to challenge the art historical cannon? Using these questions as a springboard, artists, gallerists, museum professionals and curators of contemporary art will be in open conversation about their work to champion underrepresented artists in museums.
Talk Series | The Art of Transforming: Why Immersive Art Matters More Than Ever
December 7, 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Immersive is not a buzzword, it's an inherent trust in what happens when individuals are given autonomy and agency inside of artistic expression. Immersive art environments are radically altering the art viewing experience, and fundamentally challenging the ways that galleries and museums operate, offering more accessible, transformative experiences that center on the participant. Who will they be on the other side?
Join Margot Mottaz, Curator at SuperBlue, Catherine Turp, Executive Director of Creation and Innovation at Moment Factory, Virgil Ortiz, Ceramicist and Immersive Installation Artist from Cochiti Pueblo, New Mexico, Han Santana-Sayles, Senior Director of Artist Collaboration at Meow Wolf in a provocative discussion moderated by Kelly Schoeffel, Chief Marketing Officer at Meow Wolf.
Talk Series | The Art of Memes: Significance in the Art World
December 7, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
This Panel would bring together a diverse group of experts, including digital artists, cultural critics, art historians, and social media influencers. The panel will explore how memes, as viral pieces of digital content, have transcended their role as internet jokes to become a form of art that can comment on society, politics, and culture. It will discuss the way memes influence and reflect contemporary aesthetics, their use as a democratic tool that allows for mass participation in art-making, and their archival value as snapshots of the cultural zeitgeist.
Talk Series | Thinking Monumentally, SCOPE Walls and STRAAT
December 7, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
SCOPE continues to bring the world of art to unconventional settings. This year the SCOPE Walls, a series of murals, will be featured at SCOPE on the sands of Miami Beach. This project is a continuation of SCOPE’s mission to work globally while thinking locally, impacting the art industry as a whole with a profound respect for the surrounding community.
The works this year are a black and white monochrome highlighted with select, powerful, colors from a rainbow. This is a way of drawing a broad but simple 'line in the sand' as it were. This line though is not an ultimatum but rather an invitation. Through the righteous aid of all the participating artists. NOT SO BLACK AND WHITE, is our effort at a beach front venue that sparks dialogue and discourse. Our world is rapidly changing and evolving and through art and through conversations we move together.
This joint project between SCOPE Art Show and STRAAT Museum brings together two leading international art institutions with a shared commitment to promoting diversity, inclusion, and social justice. STRAAT Museum in Amsterdam is the world's largest Street Art and Graffiti focused museum. The collaborations created a unique platform for artists to showcase their work, engage with a global audience, and participate in important conversations about contemporary social issues.
FILM | CONNOR TINGLEY
December 7, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Video showcase of Connor Tingley’s installation. This installation in collaboration with pro skater Curren Caples explores the unstable relationships between culture and nature in a liberated union of shared messaging between painting and skateboarding.
SUNSETS | ARTIST APPRECIATION TOAST PRESENTED BY VOODOO RANGER
December 7, 5:00pm - 8:00pm
Sunsets transform experiential afternoons into exclusive live evening performances. SCOPE’s stage will ignite with top music performers who will add a new dimension to our pavilion.
MORNING WELLNESS | ALO YOGA
December 8, 10:00am - 11:00am
After the success of their partnership in 2022, Alo Yoga returns to SCOPE to present daily health and wellness programming. Guests will be encouraged to attend morning healings, yoga classes, guided meditations and more – all against the backdrop of beautiful South Beach.
Private Event
Talk Series | Futures Spotlight
December 8, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Gallery owner Ki Smith will speak to fellow young gallery owners Quintin Blumka, Salome Papashvili, & Patricia Trafton about building a program and helping to shape the future of the art world. We will dive into topics spanning from how to discover and build with new talent to the importance of young entrepreneurial programs. Join us as we discuss how to collect contemporary and discover early blue chip.
Talk Series | Gravity is a Force that takes innovation to Defy
December 8, 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Through Connor's art, he explores the perspective of existing on our planet within the vast universe, surrounded by the forms and branded symbols that define our culture and shape our identity. He contemplates the collector's vital role in supporting artists like himself who strive to innovate and offer fresh perspectives in our quest for meaning. He believes that making art should be a freely accessible, ubiquitous social practice, enabling everyone to see and think without limitations, not just those deemed artists. He questions whether innovation begins at the individual level, driven by intention, or if collaboration is inherently rooted in the human spirit. In these questions and reflections, Connor seeks to bridge the gap between art, culture, and the human experience.
Talk Series | FLEX – to bend
December 8, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Artist and two-time Tony, Emmy and Golden Globe nominee, Jeremy Pope, will join SCOPE in a conversation with Oscar-winning screenwriter and playwright, Tarell Alvin McCraney (Moonlight), around his photojournalism series, FLEX(bitch).
Growing up with a preacher and professional bodybuilder father, this series opens a dialogue about Pope’s journey to manhood, masculinity, and self-love. What began as a self-funded creative project transformed into a therapeutic journey and a profound excavation of self.
Pope and McCraney will discuss the confrontation of fears, unexplored thoughts, and the unraveling of internalized homophobia. FLEX(bitch) challenges preconceived notions, urging us to bend what we believe about ourselves, our convictions, and how we show up in the world.
Talk Series | Embodied Form: Material Engagement as a Path to Environmental and Social Justice
December 8, 3:00pm - 3:30pm
This panel will explore philosophical intersections between art making, meditative practices, and social justice. The act of mindfully responding to materials suggests a path for vital connection that may begin on an intimate scale, but has the potential to unfold with global implications. Embodied practices draw our attention to material reality and the interconnection of our bodies with an entangled political and ecological landscape. Inspired by the sculptures of Lauren Fensterstock and LaNia Roberts on display at Scope, this panel will explore how making and viewing encourage the empathetic understanding that opens the possibility of transformation and justice.
In the West, Post-Enlightenment thinking has positioned the idea of a separate self at the center of our social and economic systems. Dividing our world into isolated categories of being shows up in our classification of nature, divisions of race, and our economic systems, clearing a moral pathway for colonialism, capitalism, and environmental destruction. Drawing our attention back to the materiality of objects and the interconnection of things creates empathy, helps us see mutual consequences, and begins to rebuild the entangled reality that is the common destiny of our planet and people.
PERFORMANCE | TRiECHOES
December 8, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
TRiECHOES is a Koto (Traditional Japanese harp) performance group. The innovative worldview and the electric sound have garnered high praise. Videos of performances have been viewed more than 1 billion times across social media. They have collaborated with a variety of global brands from Loewe to America's Got Talent.
SUNSETS | RICH MEDINA
December 8, 5:30pm - 7:30pm
Sunsets transform experiential afternoons into exclusive live evening performances. SCOPE’s stage will ignite with top music performers who will add a new dimension to our pavilion.
FILM RESIDENCY | SCREENING
December 8, 7:30pm - 9:30pm
New York City underground art gallery 'The Locker Room' unleashes Winnie Cheung's documentary-horror film, RESIDENCY, at SCOPE Art Show.
Is it a documentary about making a horror film? Or a horror film about making a documentary? Artist and Filmmaker Winnie Cheung crafts a haunting metafictional tale about women artists pushed beyond their limits.
Screening will be followed by a Q&A moderated by Art21’s Nick Ravich with director Winnie Cheung, producer Samara Bliss, and artist Manuela Viera-Gallo.
Private Event
MORNING WELLNESS | ALO YOGA
December 9, 10:00am - 11:00am
After the success of their partnership in 2022, Alo Yoga returns to SCOPE to present daily health and wellness programming. Guests will be encouraged to attend morning healings, yoga classes, guided meditations and more – all against the backdrop of beautiful South Beach.
Private Event
Talk Series | Reimagining Paradise | The Current – Baha Mar
December 9, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
The word ‘paradise’ conjures images of warm, sunny holidays on white, sandy Caribbean beaches kissed by turquoise seas - a sense of escapism accessible to a few and desired by many. It is a notion created for tourists rather than those from the Caribbean, for whom a shared colonial past, national idiosyncrasies, and the realities of daily life complicate the idea of paradise. The story of the Caribbean and the juxtaposition of the notion of paradise is often told
through the work of artists from the region. Caribbean art is evolving and in the midst of a transformational moment, reimagining paradise through an expanding ideology that is more experiential and daring. In addition to increasing the perception of its monetary value, the very definition of Caribbean art and what it means to be an artist from the Caribbean is becoming more expansive and inclusive.
This talk will explore how artists and gallerists, bringing together related visual languages, independent and shared identities, ways of thinking, and nuanced expressions, can be a driving force for creating a sense of agency and building an ecosystem to control a Caribbean narrative for value creation and authentic cultural preservation.
Talk Series | Artist x AI: A Show of Hands
December 9, 1:00pm - 2:00pm
As new AI updates bring photorealism within reach, we witness the end of the first true era of AI artwork.
When perfection is possible, imperfection will be a choice, and the statement of each artwork after will have shifted subtly but irreversibly.
We in the arts community are given the opportunity to recognize this epoch in its own time. To capture the “DNA” of this moment, this imperfection, this “fly in the ointment” saved with the same dignity and importance of any “mosquito in the amber”.
The common failure point of AI is how HANDS are represented in the artwork. For some reason, this commonality has been the most widely recognized, permeating all output aesthetics during a brief and hyper-accelerated time.
There will be a presentation of artwork from this era shown on the main stage screen while experts in the field discuss this period of time and what advancements are being seen in the world of AI art today.
Talk Series | Photo Basel Spotlight
December 9, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Fine art photography has established itself within museums and the art market within the last 2 decades – let’s find out why and how.
What are the current trends in fine art photography? What does the art market for photography look like and will new practices and forms such as NFTs pick up again?
Our panelists will try to address these questions and provide answers in regard to “how to start a collection – photography on the forefront”.
Our panelists will address these questions, and provide insights on the current trends of fine art photography, its market, and how to build and establish a collection.
SUNSETS | MONKEY SHOULDER AND TRACKSTAR THE DJ
December 9, 5:30pm - 7:30pm
Sunsets transform experiential afternoons into exclusive live evening performances. SCOPE’s stage will ignite with top music performers who will add a new dimension to our pavilion.
Talk Series | Black Art in America
December 10, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Studio Noize presents a diverse panel of collectors, artists, and patrons of the arts to discuss the experiences and business around art fairs. The art fair has become a cornerstone in the art world for different reasons. Each panelist offers unique perspectives on what the art fair does and does not do for the participants.
Studio Noize podcast is a space to celebrate the Black creatives redefining the art world hosted by Jamaal Barber. You learn so much about artists and their art by conversing with them. I always get charged up and excited after those studio visits. It doesn’t matter if it’s a superstar artist like Deborah Roberts or Bisa Butler, or a legend in the game like David Driskell or Kevin “WAK” Williams, or an emerging artist doing their first solo show. Every artist has a story behind what they do. We are sharing a creative energy. You feel it in their air. You get to take some of that inspiration and passion to your studio. I want everybody to get that excitement and to keep motivated to make their best art.
Jamaal Barber is a creative, imaginative soul born in Virginia and raised in North Carolina. In 2013, after seeing a screen printing demo at a local art store, Jamaal started experimenting with printmaking and made it his primary focus. His woodcuts and mixed media prints can be seen on display at ZuCot Gallery. They have also been included in the Decatur Arts Festival, Atlanta Print Biennial Show, and various art shows around the Metro Atlanta area. Additionally, Jamaal has done work for Twitter, the New York Times, Penguin Random House, Black Art in America, and Emory University. In 2004, Jamaal moved to Atlanta, GA, with his wife and two children.
Talk Series | Love Lane Pictures: Film and Art
December 10, 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Love Lane works deeply with the art community, including large museums, top galleries, and internationally acclaimed artists, to create captivating films. Our work illustrates the artist and gallery's vision and creates a connection to the community for art lovers, patrons, and potential buyers. In this talk, we will illuminate how these films are created, from the research to the final edit, and how galleries and artists can talk to their audience with maximum impact.
Through our intimate portrait of Ai Wei Wei for the MFAH, we show the artist in action, revealing his creative intentions and emotions behind his work. Similarly, with films depicting El Anatsui's large-scale bottle cap tapestry, we allow the viewer to understand the artist's vision and motivation. In our film with Olafur Eliasson's interactive work, we see Eliasson's desire to democratize art. With Cristina Iglesias' fountains, we know (learn of) her connection to her home mountains in Northern Spain. For the film with sculptor Joel Shapiro for LGDR Gallery NY, we allowed the audience to feel like insiders and to bond them with the artist's creative process. Our films expose the concrete behind the abstract.
Love Lane is where the craft of the story opens the door to the creative process and creates the human connection. We always aim to bring excitement and insight into the process so the audience can see the artist's mind and do this through succinct and powerful realized visual narratives.
FILM | CONNOR TINGLEY
December 10, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Video showcase of Connor Tingley’s installation. This installation in collaboration with pro skater Curren Caples explores the unstable relationships between culture and nature in a liberated union of shared messaging between painting and skateboarding.
TALK SERIES | BUILDING COMMUNITY THROUGH GENERATIVE ART
December 10, 4:30pm - 5:30pm
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SUNSETS | MICK
December 10, 5:30pm - 7:30pm
Sunsets transform experiential afternoons into exclusive live evening performances. SCOPE’s stage will ignite with top music performers who will add a new dimension to our pavilion.