Part 1: Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, 5 – 7 December 2025
Our booth for the 2025 edition of Art Basel Miami Beach is built around the work of Caribbean artist, writer and polymath Frank Walter (1926-2009) whose centenary we will be celebrating in the summer of 2026.
In 2013 Ingleby Gallery staged the first exhibition of Walter’s work. Four years after the artist’s death it was the very first time that his paintings had been hung on a gallery wall. Later that year we presented a first international showing of Walters’ work with a solo booth at the 2013 edition of Art Basel Miami Beach, and, in the dozen years since, Frank’s reputation has grown exponentially, representing Antigua and Barbuda at the Venice Biennale in 2017, followed by major solo exhibitions in museums such as MMK, Frankfurt and the Drawing Centre, New York, not to mention gallery exhibitions in London, Paris, Brussels, Sao Paulo, Hong Kong and New York. In short, he is now, deservedly, recognised as one of the key figures in 20th Century Caribbean art.
As we approach what would have been Frank’s 100th birthday we are planning to celebrate his memory with an exhibition that extends the context for his work to include a number of living artists who have either responded directly to his paintings, or whose own work has something to say in conversation with his. Frank Walter and Friends in other words… the kind of exhibition he never got to take part in during his life, but which we hope he might have enjoyed.
Fittingly, given that Frank’s work first found an international audience at Art Basel Miami, we will make this exhibition in two stages, the first being a preview at our booth for this year’s fair, before bringing a larger version of the exhibition home as our centrepiece exhibition for the Edinburgh Art Festival in the summer of 2026.
Alongside Frank Walter, our artists for Art Basel Miami 20205 include: David Austen; Hayley Barker; Robert Coutelas; Andrew Cranston; Nick Goss; Mia Kokkoni, Aubrey Levinthal; John Joseph Mitchell; Christopher Colm Morrin; Craig Murray-Orr; Catherine Ross; Ellen Siebers and Joel Tomlin.
