Marquez Art Projects (MAP)

In our opening exhibition, we dedicate a large-scale installation to the incredible work of Miami artists, including Alejandro Piñeiro Bello, Hernan Bas, Loriel Beltran, Bernadette Despujols and Tomm El-Saieh. Join us as we inaugrate the galleries, designed by Miami architects KODA. And explore four new exhibitions on September 23, 2023. #map

Marquez Art Projects opens with works from the Marquez Family Collection, including contemporary masters Jadé Fadojutimi, George Condo, KAWS, Rashid Johnson, Lauren Quin and many more. #map

The countdown begins. Marquez Art Projects opens to the public in Miami's dynamic Allapattah neighborhood, on September 23. Join us 6–8 PM for the public opening. #map

Don’t miss the final day to experience Kat Lyons: Full Earth, on view at Marquez Art Projects through tomorrow, May 16. In her first U.S. solo institutional exhibition, Kat Lyons presents a suite of newly commissioned paintings exploring the layered ecosystems of Florida and the Everglades—where, as @cabellerina writes in The Art Newspaper, “Full Earth ultimately collapses time and taxonomy, melding the Everglades with the human histories that press upon the ecosystem.” Through this lens, the work considers how the region’s material and symbolic roles shape our understanding of progress and environmental change. Reserve your free appointment via the link in bio. Installation photography by Oriol Tarridas.

In Kat Lyons’s painting Trinity Trace, the artist vividly renders an ecosystem brimming with life, movement, and unseen exchanges between a dragonfly, frog, and snake, illuminating the flow of energy and interdependence among species. Rather than a simple food chain, the work suggests a continuous exchange—an intricate choreography of survival, transformation, and balance. This cycle unfolds at the base of a tree, where the tongues of each creature entwine, forming a striking visual metaphor for connection and reciprocity within the natural world. The exhibition’s title, “Full Earth,” expresses themes of abundance and connection, as well as the perseverance of nature. “Kat Lyons, Full Earth,” the artist’s first institutional solo presentation, is on view at Marquez Art Projects until May 16. Reserve your free appointment in the link in bio. Featured: Kat Lyons, Trinity Trace, 2025, Oil on canvas, 24 x 20 in.

Austin Lee (born 1983, Las Vegas) explores the convergence of digital processes and physical form. Working from 3D modeling software, he translates his imagery into sculpture that retains the soft gradients and hazy edges of digital rendering. Though materially solid, his figures feel improbably light in space, and almost buoyant, blurring the boundary between virtual and real while reflecting on perception, memory, and the emotional tone of digital life. In Lion & Girl, two monumental figures stand across from each other—the girl offering flowers as the lion gazes back with quiet tenderness, capturing a moment that feels both surreal and deeply human. From the Marquez Family Collection, and currently on view at Marquez Art Projects: Austin Lee, Lion & Girl, 2019, Aluminum, Edition of 3 + 2 AP

Kat Lyons’s paintings result from extensive research, ranging from scientific phenomena to advertising and art history, as well as her personal experience with livestock and small-scale regenerative agriculture. “From the Vernal Pond” draws from the artist’s personal experience of watching a pool of tadpoles evolve into frogs, reimagined in her work as a whimsical, dancing line of figures. The work captures the wonder of ecological change and the playful, almost mythic quality of witnessing life in motion. “Kat Lyons, Full Earth,” the artist’s first institutional solo presentation, is on view at Marquez Art Projects until May 16. Reserve your free appointment in the link in bio. Featured: Kat Lyons, From the Vernal Pond, 2025, Oil on canvas, 18 x 24 in.

The vibrant, cartoon-infused universe of Kenny Scharf (born 1958, Los Angeles, California) bursts with neon color, playful chaos, and retro-futuristic energy. After moving to New York to study at the School of Visual Arts, Scharf became embedded in the city’s Downtown scene, alongside artists like Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring, where he began creating work that extended beyond traditional gallery spaces. He became known for painting on unconventional surfaces—everything from discarded objects to club interiors—and for organizing immersive, party-like installations. This laid the foundation for his signature style: dynamic figures rooted in a mix of pop culture, graffiti, and communal experience. From the Marquez Family Collection, and currently on view at Marquez Art Projects: Kenny Scharf, Anti-Gravity Land, 1984, Oil and spray paint on canvas, 84 x 60 1/8 in.

In Double Country, Lyons presents a haunting convergence of nature and industry, where a white-tailed deer stands in the foreground, its antlers ensnared in the branches of an uprooted tree. In the distance, twin plumes of smoke rise on the horizon: one born of industrial activity, the other from a volcanic eruption, collapsing the divide between human-made and natural catastrophe. Created within her exhibition Full Earth, Lyon’s work suggests that animals are essential to material culture, and her recourse to history highlights the dangers of the ongoing destruction of wildlife. “Kat Lyons, Full Earth,” the artist’s first institutional solo presentation, is on view at Marquez Art Projects. Reserve your free appointment in the link in bio. Featured: Kat Lyons, Double Country, 2025, Oil on canvas, 16 x 20 in.

The Marquez Family Collection is honored to lend “Phoenix” (2023), by José Delgado Zuñiga (b. Ventura, CA) to the Buffalo AKG Art Museum for its traveling exhibition “Let Us Gather in a Flourishing Way,” curated by Andrea Alvarez. This work was originally presented at Marquez Art Projects as part of the artist’s 2023 solo exhibition, “Cusp.” Rooted in tradition yet endlessly evolving, the exhibition highlights the diversity and innovation of 58 Latinx artists reshaping contemporary art. “Let Us Gather in a Flourishing Way” takes inspiration from former U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera’s poem of the same name, and offers a vision of art as expansive and complex as the diaspora itself. “Let Us Gather in a Flourishing Way” is on view at Buffalo AKG Art Museum: March 6, 2026– September 6, 2026 and will be followed by a national tour including presentations at the Des Moines Art Center, the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, the Phoenix Art Museum, and the Frye Art Museum, Seattle. Featured: José Delgado Zuñiga, Phoenix, 2023, Oil on linen, 78 x 101 in. Installation view of Let Us Gather in a Flourishing Way at Buffalo AKG Art Museum, March 6, 2026–September 6, 2026. Image courtesy Buffalo AKG Art Museum. Photo: Brenda Bieger, Buffalo AKG Art Museum.

A touchpoint for Lyons in the paintings of “Full Earth” is the writings of seminal Everglades conservationist Marjory Stoneman Douglas. The artist was struck by Douglas’s poetic, complicated descriptions of Florida, which reflected Lyons’s own memories of and engagement with this region and its landscape. She cites of Douglas: [H]istory, the recorded time of the earth of man, is in itself something like a river. To try to present it whole is to find oneself lost in the sense of time and space, and the end is the future and the unknown. What we can know lies somewhere between the course along which for a little way one proceeds, the changing life, the varying light, must somehow be fixed in a moment clearly, from which one may look before and after and try to comprehend wholeness. So it is with the Everglades, which have that quality of long existence in their own nature. They were changeless. They were changed. They were complete before man came to them, and for centuries afterward, when he was only one of those forms which shared, in a finely balanced harmony, the forces and ancient nature of the place. –Marjorie Stoneman Douglas, The Everglades: River of Grass, 1947 “Kat Lyons, Full Earth,” the artist’s first institutional solo presentation, is on view at Marquez Art Projects. Reserve your free appointment in the link in bio. Featured: Kat Lyons, All the World A Cow, 2025, Oil on canvas, 48 x 72 in.

Ken Gun Min (b. 1976, South Korea) is a Los Angeles–based artist widely known for his richly layered practice merging painting, embroidery, beading, and textiles to create deeply textured, fantastical worlds. His work blends Korean pigments with oil paint and intricate hand-applied materials, imagining exuberant landscapes and intimate figures that intertwine themes of queer identity, cultural assimilation, and masculinity, rooted in his experience as a first-generation immigrant. From the Marquez Family Collection and currently on view at MAP: Ken Gun Min, The vastness is bearable only through love (homage to Carl Sagan, Robert Chanler), 2024, Onyx, crystal, assorted gemstones, vintage beads, Korean pigment, silk embroidery thread, found fabric, oil paint on canvas, 92 x 150 in. Reserve your free appointment in the link in bio.