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Preparations are underway for PINTA Miami’s large-scale tenth-anniversary edition to be held at the Mana Wynwood Convention Center in the heart of the Miami Art District from November 28 to December 4, 2016. This edition will celebrate the remarkable history of a fair that has left its mark on modern and contemporary art from Latin America.

Since the time of its successful inaugural edition in New York in 2006, Pinta has become the most important event of its kind. Its founding was a watershed in the communication and perception of the breadth of art produced in the region in the 20th and 21st centuries. The fair has achieved one of its founding goals, mainly increasing the visibility of crucial figures in the United States.

The pioneering modern artists to whom the fair has paid tribute by increasing recognition of their work include Julio Le Parc, José Gurvich, Jorge Eduardo Eielson, Lydia Okumura, Antonio Manuel, Waltercio Caldas, Iván Contreras Brunet, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Carmen Herrera, as well as Spanish artist Elena Asins, who passed away just one week after Pinta Miami 2015 featured her work in a curated solo projects section. At each new edition, the ranks of the artists featured—many of them present at the fair itself—expands to encompass emerging artist like Elías Crespín, Iván Navarro, Alexandre Arrechea, Darío Escobar, Matías Duville, Alejandro Londoño, Gonzalo Fuenmayor, José Luis Landet, Ricardo Alcaide, Emilio Chapela, and many others.  Thanks to the fair’s management strategies, a large number of works of Latin American art have been acquired by major museums. By way of example, the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA) acquired work by Abraham Palatnik for its permanent collection; work by Elías Crespín was purchased by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and work by Fernando Bryce by the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano en Buenos Aires (Malba).