MIAMI BEACH, FL (JUNE 10, 2026) – The Bass is pleased to share its exhibition schedule for the 2026 – 2027 season, spanning summer 2026 through fall 2027, featuring new solo exhibitions by Yuko Mohri, Amalia Pica, Sara Zapata, Pedro y Juana, and Pepe Mar, among others.

Visitors are invited to engage with a range of perspectives and narrative themes across the season’s exhibitions, which reflect the diverse international audiences of Miami Beach. Fluid, imaginative, and deeply resonant, the exhibitions are shaped by both personal perspectives and the larger systems through which they are experienced.

Throughout the season, the museum becomes a dynamic site of dialogue and exchange, bringing together distinct perspectives and ways of seeing. Across the exhibitions, audiences are invited to engage with the multiple meanings that emerge through personal, cultural, and institutional frameworks, revealing interpretation itself as an active and evolving process.

ABRAHAM CRUZVILLEGAS: AUTOCONTUSIÓN 
JUL 16 2026 – JUL 25, 2027
Autocontusión is a reflection on the life cycle of cities and objects, which the artist sees as permanent construction and destruction sites—in terms of politics, economy, ecology, and nature. Cruzvillegas exposes a unique experience caused by physical displacements that are common among diasporic communities as the viewer walks through the installation, becoming aware of the constant reforming of their identity influenced by a newly acquired understanding of the environment.

SARAH ZAPATA: AGAINST A STATE OF MALEVOLENCE
JUL 30, 2026 – FEB 2027
The Bass recently acquired Sarah Zapata’s textile installation, A Famine of Hearing in its entirety. Accompanied by an additional gallery of her large-scale tactile works, Against a State of Malevolence introduces Zapata to the viewer through her welcoming boldness. Zapata is a builder of worlds, made from tantalizing texture and audacious color, that both harken back to her Peruvian heritage, embrace the present as a woman taking up space, and advance a queered future.

GABRIEL RICO: X MURAL FROM THE SERIES — REDUCCION OBJECTA ORQUESTADA
AUG 29, 2026 – AUG 2028
Gabriel Rico clashes seemingly unrelated objects together to prompt the formation of new meaning. Expanding beyond a painted mural alone, his eclectic approach manifests a singular visual language. Using the concept of a mathematical equation, he amalgamates organic and inorganic items to create a “problem” from which the viewer can derive their own conclusion as to the “solution.”

YUKO MOHRI: UNVIOLATED IMPERFECTION
SEP 17, 2026 – APR 25, 2027
In Unviolated Imperfection, Yuko Mohri turns away from the pristine, and towards the improvisational, inefficient, and the imaginative. In this multi-gallery installation, space is used to convey distinct, yet intertwined ideas exploring sound as sculpture and decay as genesis. Combining common and organic objects, using time as a medium, and sound as language, Mohri manipulates both the recognizable and invisible to express innate experiences of being human.

AMALIA PICA: LECTURAS POSIBLES
SEP 17, 2026 – FEB 2027
IN THE ROTUNDA
Everyone is invited into Amalia Pica’s world. Emphasizing imagination, language, and play as means for humans to seek connection, Pica builds a space where participants can redraw, rewrite, and recontextualize their surroundings. Lecturas Posibles is an almost-two-dimensional library, where every surface is a chalkboard, imploring the visitor to make their own mark on this world of objects, images, and words.

PEDRO Y JUANA: AQUÍ
OCT 28, 2026 – MAY 2028
A textural, maximalist, site-specific intervention by Pedro & Juana offers a saturated experience that encourages visitors to prolong their stay in the space. This 360-degree composition includes custom-designed wallpaper, a bespoke carpet, anthropomorphic furniture, and imaginative, floral light fixtures. Pedro & Juana are taking their Miami inspiration to the highest level, enveloping the visitor in subtropical color, while also offering a place to connect, relax, and take in the interior as a mixed-media artwork in itself.

PEPE MAR: EL GATO NEGRO
MAR 18, 2027 – OCT 2027
IN THE ROTUNDA
Eponymous for a nightclub that he frequently passed by on the street as a kid in his hometown in Mexico, Pepe Mar projects his imagination of an unknown space in eclectic fantasy in El Gato Negro. The installation addresses borders and migration, paralleling the artist’s move to the US and the shedding of light on a veiled reality of a previous, seemingly inaccessible space. Mar invites everyone to journey inside the unique Rotunda to celebrate our journeys that brought us together with our communities.

ART OUTSIDE IN COLLINS PARK

SUSAN PHILIPSZ: TOO MUCH I ONCE LAMENTED (2019-2026)
DEC 2026
Susan Philipsz’s iconic outdoors sound installation at The Bass is relocating in December 2026! Installed amongst the baobab trees in the southwest area of Collins Park, Too Much I Once Lamented now plays in the shade of these massive, African trees. The visitor is invited to sit and experience the ethereal sounds of the artwork, amongst these “trees of life.”

Susan Philipsz explores the psychological and sculptural potential of sound using recordings of her own untrained voice to investigate how sound can trigger memory and emotions. With Too Much I Once Lamented, Philipsz sings her own rendition of a Welsh madrigal song, a five-part ballad describing a heartbroken lover in a state of solitary reflection. Although madrigal compositions traditionally aim to achieve the illusion of breathlessness in creating a seamless whole by layering multiple voices over one another, in her rendition Philipsz purposely makes her inhalations and pauses clearly audible, emphasizing separation over unity, and feelings of solitude and isolation.

 Look for more throughout the season as The Bass continues its proud tradition of sharing powerful international contemporary art that excites, challenges, and educates audiences, bringing new perspectives to Miami Beach’s diverse cultural context. For museum information, please visit thebass.org/. Follow us on social media @thebassmoa.

[Photo caption: Yuko Mohri, Decomposition, 2024. Vintage table, speakers, lights, 5 channel audio generated by fruits, and 5 LED lights dimmed by fruits. 31 1/2 x 35 1/2 x 13 1/3 inches. Photography by Koshiro Shikine. Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York.]

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Sarah Zapata: Against A State of Malevolence is generously supported by The Forum of Fountainhead Arts. Yuko Mohri: Unviolated Imperfection is generously supported by Funding Arts Network. Amalia Pica: Lecturas Posibles in The Rotunda is generously supported by the Diane W. Camber Exhibition Fund.

Sarah Zapata: Against A State of Malevolence, Amalia Pica: Lecturas Posibles, Yuko Mohri: Unviolated Imperfection, Pedro y Juana: Aquí, and Pepe Mar: El Gato Negro are organized by Jasa McKenzie, Associate Curator for The Bass.  Abraham Cruzvillegas: Autocontusión, Susan Philipsz: Too Much I Once Lamented, and Gabriel Rico: X, Mural from the series — Reduccion objecta orquestada are organized by Silvia Karman Cubiñá, Executive Director for The Bass. Isaac Julien: Vagabondia, The Kaleidoscopic: Writing Histories Through the Collection, and assume vivid astro focus: XI are organized by Claudia Mattos, former Associate Curator of New Media Art for The Bass.