APAA’s Top Picks From Art Basel Miami Beach 2025

Dec 3

Art Basel Miami Beach returns this week, and APAA advisors have highlighted their must-see works across the 2025 edition. Leading galleries from five continents present significant works by Modern and contemporary masters alongside standout pieces from a new generation of emerging artists. The fair opens with Private Days beginning Wednesday, December 3, followed by Public Days from Friday, December 5, through Sunday, December 7.

APAA advisors share their standout selections, offering insight into the presentations and artists shaping this year’s fair. Thank you to our advisors for their thoughtful curations and expertise.

Manfred Mohr, P-777_MA1, 2000-2002-2011-2019

“Manfred Mohr’s P-777_MA1 is a landmark from his space.color and space.color.motion phases, marking his shift from black-and-white into vibrant generative color. Powered by custom software running a complex 6-dimensional animation program, the work generates endlessly unique compositions with every restart—never repeating, always evolving. Color here functions as a procedural variable, revealing the spatial complexity and algorithmic ambiguity central to Mohr’s practice. Presented by bitforms gallery as part of Art Basel Miami Beach’s inaugural Zero 10 initiative, the work bridges the history of algorithmic art with the present moment and affirms generative systems as a vital, enduring creative language.”

– Marla Wasser

Custom software (color, silent), screen, computer
13.9 x 17.9 x 4.1 in / 35.3 x 45.5 x 10.4 cm, framed
Presented by bitforms gallery

Winston Branch, Untitled, 2024

“Winston Branch OBE infuses his abstract canvases with a mood and depth that feel connected to art historical precedent, but are wholly of the moment in capturing the artist's personal history and courageous spirit through their expressive swirling brushstrokes and palette.”

– Cris McCall

Acrylic on Canvas
35.4 x 55.1 x .8 in.
Co-presented by Goodman Gallery and Stephen Friedman Gallery

Do Ho Suh, Some/One, 2014

“For years, I’ve been captivated by Do Ho Suh’s fabric sculptures that explore physical space through reconstructions of his past and present homes and studios. I love the segments of this series Lehmann Maupin is bringing to Miami, but I’m especially thrilled to see "Some/One", a monumental sculpture that highlights Suh’s mastery of an entirely different material language. Composed of stainless steel dog tags and resembling traditional Korean military armor dating to the Goguryeo Dynasty (37 BCE - 668), the work fuses historical form with a material tied to contemporary military service. The reflective surface pulls viewers into the piece, prompting contemplation on how individual lives are woven into the broader fabric of national identity. Furthermore, the title underscores this tension between selfhood and collective belonging. Suh’s execution seamlessly unites concept, form, and material.”

– Victoria Burns

Stainless steel military dog tags, nickel plated copper sheets, steel structure, glass fiber reinforced resin, and rubber sheets
80 3/4 x 126 in.
Presented by Lehmann Maupin

Sheila Hicks, Festive Chorus, 2025

“For more than seven decades, Sheila Hicks has helped expand the material possibilities of fine art, continually redefining how textiles can communicate with the immediacy and nuance of paint on canvas. In Festive Chorus, she embraces a sense of joy - something often elusive in a world shaped by upheaval. Her methodical knotting, twisting, and wrapping honor the logic of the grid while leaving space for improvisation and play through shifting degrees of tightness and looseness. The interplay of blue, green, and red threads forms a gentle visual rhythm, creating a quiet, calming melody that settles into a harmonious equilibrium.”

– Lela Hersh

Linen and cotton
72 x 72 in.
Presented by Sikkema Malloy Jenkins

Willem de Kooning, Figures in a Landscape #2, 1976

“This profoundly lyrical and elegant composition dates from one of the most celebrated and covetable periods in de Kooning’s late career. The exceptionally beautiful palette and stupendous grace within this perfect painting is glorious. If I had $4.5mm I would just acquire the work and say thank you for entrusting me with such beauty.”

– Erica Barrish

Oil on paper laid down on canvas
30 1/4 x 35 1/8 in.
Presented by White Cube

Marcin Dudek, Gate III, 2025

“I once had the chance to hear Polish artist Marcin Dudek tell his life story in his own words and it has stayed with me ever since. Dudek’s narrative is one of hardship, resilience and transformation. He is known for installations and sculptures that fuse subcultural history and mass psychology with deeply personal memories.

Dudek’s work explores the tension between the individual and the crowd, aggression and ritual, deconstructing and reconstructing these forces through materials that evoke metal barriers, fencing, tape, bulletproof plexiglass and burned or torn fabrics.

Having lived the hooligan subculture as a teenager and later undergone the complex process of rebuilding his identity, Dudek offers a rare firsthand perspective. His practice unfolds as a forceful visual language about power, collective behaviour and ultimately, the depth of personal strength and hope.”

– Ellen De Schepper

Acrylic paint, aluminium, steel, image transfer, steel, medical tape and UV varnish on wood
199 x 85.5 x 23 cm / 78 3/8 x 33 5/8 x 5 1/8 in.
Presented by Edel Assanti

Lamerol A. Gatewood, *The Flow Of Music Equals Time | Untitled No.2022-044,*
4/25/2022
90 X 62 in / Framed 96 X 68 in.
Charcoal-Chalk Pastels-Oil Pastels-
Acrylic-Glitter Interference Colors on Paper

Lamerol A. Gatewood

“I love Lamerol A. Gatewood's work. I love abstraction, and Lamerol's mixed media works on paper are light, colorful, vibrant and energetic, with a feeling of playfulness.

Gatewood's signature style of mixed media collages involves combining painting and drawing with other media. He merges his abstract work with materials like charcoal, chalk pastel, acrylic paint, and oil sticks. He often incorporates up to a dozen individual drawings or paintings into one finished piece with his unique layering technique. In some cases, he applies a paper-weaving technique he developed while teaching art in the New York City Department of Education.”

– Barbara Wallace

Presented by Ten North Group