Arresting Art By Artists of Color at Art Basel 2025
By Delaina Dixon and Samantha Bessudo Drucker | December 8, 2025 | The Soft Life
Art Basel isn’t just about the parties and paparazzi—it’s about power and presence. And at Art Basel 2025, its enduring relevance and vitality, reflecting a full, complex spectrum of global creativity by artists of color, allow these creatives not only to express their brilliance but also to be financially stable in the process.
With artists from every corner of the globe, from vibrant Latinx voices to groundbreaking Indigenous and Black talent —like Henry Taylor‘s Every Brother Has a Record (featured up top) — we’re getting our moment on this massive stage. It doesn’t just look good, it makes the entire institution richer and truly relevant.
Inside the Convention Center, we saw work from well-known names like Mickalene Thomas, Kehinde Wiley and Carrie Mae Weems. Weems’ 2010 piece Untitled (Colored People) was on display. This set of 25 archival pigment prints, featuring portraits of Black children, is set to challenge racial stereotypes and explore identity, beauty and the complexity of the Black American experience.
But we were also drawn to the work of emerging names, like Ghanaian painter and visual artist Amoako Boafo, whose 2025 piece Pearl Set, an oil on paper work, speaks to his mission to create luminous portraits that hold space for Black joy, subjectivity and self-determination.
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Romero Britto brought his colorful signature style to the scene with a new “Renaissance Collection,” reinterpreting classical-style art through his signature bold colors and playful pop-art and cubist aesthetic.
Samsung even let us be part of Art Basel Miami 2025, turning our selfies into AI renditions inspired by Lee Kun Yong‘s artistic style.
Experience more dazzling works from artists of color like Henry Taylor, Ja’Tovia Gary, Jeffrey Gibson and more on DivaGalsDaily.
photo credit: Amanne Media; courtesy Art Basel
