"It was a challenge to bring together all the galleries, because they're afraid to enter the US,"
"It's a way of working in the context and boosting what we already have there, and working together to grow. Of course you have galleries, you have museums, you have amazing artists, but the infrastructure is small and weak, and these kinds of initiatives make you grow. It's a really interesting model to see what places in Latin America have the potential but maybe still don't have the capacity."
Pinta Art Fair is in its fourth year in Miami, hosted in a waterfront hangar in Coconut Grove about a half-hour from Miami Beach by car. Around 40 galleries from 19 cities across the Americas and Europe participate. Organisers aim to spotlight contemporary Latin American art, but political tensions and US policies have complicated participation. Many galleries feared entering the US and several artists experienced visa difficulties. Pinta runs fairs in Miami, Lima and Buenos Aires and art weeks in Panama City and Asunción, with 2026 events planned in Medellín and Santo Domingo. The initiative seeks to strengthen small arts infrastructures and grow regional ecosystems.
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