Art Basel Miami Beach 2025: Miami Beach Convention Center, Booth J8 | December 3 - 7

Edwynn Houk Gallery marks our 20th year of exhibiting at Art Basel Miami Beach, celebrating participation since 2005, with a presentation anchored by rare and historically significant works by Man Ray. The booth brings together three exceptional vintage artworks that illuminate the range of his innovation: the original light bulb Rayograph from the landmark Électricité commission, a striking solarized self-portrait, and a complete Champs délicieux portfolio that captures the earliest public expression of his revolutionary cameraless technique. Seen together, these works offer a focused view of Man Ray’s lasting impact on the development of modern photography.

Building on this foundation, the presentation highlights the dialogue between Man Ray’s breakthroughs and the achievements of the early masters who shaped the language of the medium. Works by Alfred Stieglitz, Tina Modotti, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, and André Kertész trace the evolution of early modernist experimentation and the formal innovations that defined photography’s first great artistic movements. Photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe, Laurie Simmons, Robert Longo, Joel Sternfeld, and Stephen Shore demonstrate how these ideas were transformed in the late twentieth century through expanded approaches to portraiture, constructed imagery, and the American landscape.

Works by Abelardo Morell, Ron Norsworthy, Matthew Pillsbury, Robert Polidori, Valérie Belin, Sebastiaan Bremer, Gregory Crewdson, Sissi Farassat, Sally Mann, and Lee Shulman & The Anonymous Project round out the presentation with contemporary perspectives that push the medium forward through inventive processes, conceptual framing, and new visual languages.