September may be the quiet stretch before Miami's big winter art season kicks into gear, but there's no shortage of compelling work on view across South Florida right now. Highlights span Fort Lauderdale's museum corridor, Miami's Allapattah and Little Haiti neighborhoods, and the sands of Miami Beach.
At NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, two major exhibitions are running simultaneously. "Joel Meyerowitz: Aftermath" presents 28 photographs taken at Ground Zero — images Meyerowitz gifted to the museum in 2025 — marking the 25th anniversary of September 11. He remains the only photographer who was granted access to the World Trade Center ruins after the attacks. The show runs through February 14, 2027. Alongside it, "Wifredo Lam's Legacy" traces the Cuban modernist's sweeping influence on later generations of artists, including Ana Mendieta, Jose Bédia, and several Miami-based figures, through March 14, 2027. Adult admission to NSU Art Museum is $16, with free entry on the first Thursday of each month.
In Allapattah, Superblue Miami has unveiled "Blue Sea Sky," a new Ganzfeld installation by Light and Space legend James Turrell — a walk-through chamber saturated in bold fluorescent color that replaces a previous Turrell piece that had been on display since the venue opened in 2021. Tickets start at $32 for adults and must be reserved online. Also in the neighborhood, KDR is hosting "Common Skin Fantasy," a joint show pairing Alicia Bilbao's unsettling doll-like sculptures with Alejandra Moros' surreally textured paintings, running September 5 through October 10. And at Mahara+Co., Pablo Matute's "Load Bearing" repurposes construction materials — wood, drywall, plaster — as art exploring labor, class, and family history, through October 9.
Miami Beach's Bass Museum opens two solo presentations on September 17. Tokyo-based Yuko Mohri brings improvised, site-specific Rube Goldberg-style sculptures to the main galleries, while Amalia Pica's "Lecturas Posibles" transforms the rotunda space — walls, furniture and all — into a chalkboard that visitors are encouraged to draw on themselves. Both run through 2027; adult admission is $15, with free entry for Miami Beach and Surfside residents, among others. Elsewhere, City State in Little Haiti opens "Three Ways to Pray," a duo show from resident artists Leah Mendez and Penny Crane running September 10 through November, and Primary in Little River welcomes a solo show from Luna Palazzolo-Daboul, whose sculptural work incorporates more than 40,000 cement beads.
This roundup was originally reported by Miami New Times.
