The seventh edition of No Vacancy, Miami Beach will feature site-specific works by 12 artists at 12 hotels across the city from November 12 through December 19, 2026.
Organized by the City of Miami Beach with support from the Miami Beach Visitor and Convention Authority and the Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau, the juried art competition invites the public to experience local hotels as art destinations.
This year’s call for artists received a record 228 applications. Participants were selected by a committee representing the city’s Art in Public Places Committee, Cultural Arts Council and the Miami Beach Visitor and Convention Authority.
Each selected artist will receive a $10,000 honorarium to create an installation at an assigned hotel. Two additional awards totaling $35,000 will be presented: a $10,000 public prize supported by the Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau and a $25,000 juried prize selected by a panel of art professionals.
Participating Hotels and Artists
The 2026 program includes installations spanning video, sculpture, painting, photography and textiles:
- Avalon Hotel — Morel Doucet: An exploration of South Florida’s tropical flora addressing resilience, cultural memory, diasporic experience and environmental change.
- Balfour Hotel Miami Beach — Luján Candria: Translucent photographic textiles depicting native vegetation will transform hotel windows.
- The Betsy Hotel — Ricardo E. Zulueta: A video installation projected onto The Betsy Orb will combine experimental animation, glitch effects and ambient sound.
- Casa Faena — Kevin Arrow: An immersive installation drawing on a collection of 35mm material gathered throughout South Florida will explore place, time and memory.
- Eden Roc Miami Beach — Emmett Moore: A knotted stainless steel exhaust pipe sculpture will examine technology, obsolescence and the environment.
- Hotel Croydon Miami Beach — Justin H. Long: A fictional collection of undersea relics in an Art Deco display cabinet will blend maritime history and imagined archaeology.
- International Inn — Lulu Sanchez: A sculptural arboretum of hand-built palms will reference Miami’s subtropical ecology and public art history.
- Kimpton Surfcomber Hotel — Alex Nuñez: Printed palms and an iridescent portal will form a sculptural environment exploring memory and renewal.
- Marriott Stanton South Beach — Marlon Portales: Two monumental paintings will examine identity, displacement and an imagined Cuban landscape.
- The Royal Palm South Beach Miami — Diana Eusebio: Textiles, photography and natural dyes will explore displacement, rootedness and the search for safety.
- The Shelborne by Proper — Yanira Collado: An installation using upcycled paper, wood and textiles will examine regional histories, material culture and diaspora.
- Sherry Frontenac OceanFront Resort — Gonzalo Hernández: Seven jacquard-woven banners spelling A-M-E-R-I-C-A will draw colors from South American flags to explore language, national identity and movement across borders.
Funding is provided by the City of Miami Beach Cultural Arts Council, the Miami Beach Visitor and Convention Authority and the Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau.
For additional information, visit miamibeachfl.gov/no-vacancy.
Source: City of Miami Beach press release, October 19, 2026.