The Revolt Art Fair is staging its second edition this week, featuring the work of more than 50 Black artists and digital creators. Taking up residence at Ice Palace Studios, around the corner from Nada Miami, Dual Currency: Defiance by Design builds on the 12-year-old media company Revolt’s commitment to centring not just the creative output of Black artists but economic access to Black audiences, who have been historically excluded from participation in the broader art market. Visitors can purchase pieces via QR code through Ujamaa, an art-market app that borrows its name from the Swahili principle of cooperative economics. The fairs’ curators, Amy Andrieux and Zindzi Harley, have trained their focus on a celebration of Black art in 2025. “What’s different about this year is that we are going beyond the idea of what a traditional fair is and what it could mean within the context of the Black artistic landscape,” Andrieux tells The Art Newspaper.
In October, Revolt Art Fair announced a digital open call to be included in an LED presentation during the event’s much anticipated Saturday closing party, a nod to its umbrella company and its longstanding dedication to hip-hop’s legacy in music. “The intention was to create a larger net for us to capture more directly the diversity that existed in terms of artists that are working not only locally and nationally but internationally,” Harley says.
A sense of optimism abounds throughout Revolt, and according to Andrieux, this is a function of its pledge to amplify a diverse group of voices. “We’ve captured a slice of this intergenerational audience who wants to be spoken to,” she says. Highlights at the fair include Toni (2023), a woven wall sculpture by Chire “VantaBlack” Regans that features nods to protective hair styles popularised by women of colour; You Gotta Pencil? (2024) ($4,500), a textile piece by Brooklyn-based artist Lex Marie; and Fly (2025) ($8,500), a photo-printed denim collage by the Haitian American fashion designer Daveed Baptiste.
