GALLERY HAYASHI + ART BRIDGE is pleased to announce our participation in NADA Miami 2025.
Founded in 2002, NADA Miami is the flagship art fair of the New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA), taking place each December in Miami, Florida. Known for its focus on new voices and experimental practices, the fair highlights contemporary art from a diverse range of emerging and established galleries, non-profits, and artist-run spaces from around the world.
Date
2 – 6 December, 2025
Time
2 December 10am – 4pm VIP Preview
3 December 11am – 7pm General Admission
4 December 11am – 7pm General Admission
5 December 11am – 7pm General Admission
6 December 11am – 6pm General Admission
Venue
Ice Palace Studios
1400 North Miami Avenue, Miami, FL 33136
Website
https://www.newartdealers.org/fairs/nada-miami-2025/introduction
GALLERY HAYASHI + ART BRIDGE, Tokyo, is pleased to participate in NADA Miami 2025 with a duo presentation of Japanese artists Midori Arai and Kurumi Ono. This presentation marks the gallery’s debut at NADA and in Miami, as well as both artists’ first exhibitions in the city.
Midori Arai (b. 1992) creates abstract paintings that explore subjects ranging from gender and feminism to wild grass and natural landscapes. Recognizing that art history has long been centered on Western and male perspectives, Arai positions herself in contrast—as an Asian woman painter who reexamines and challenges the legacy of modernism from a different cultural and bodily standpoint. At the fair, she will present new works on paper themed around wildflowers and grass, capturing the quiet vitality of the natural world through her gestural abstraction.
Kurumi Ono (b. 1995) explores new approaches to photography through processes of decomposition. She buries photographs printed on paper in soil, allowing microorganisms, moisture, and organic matter to gradually dissolve the ink and surface. This transformation abstracts the original image, revealing the tension between impermanence and the human desire for preservation. For NADA Miami, Ono presents a selection of her signature buried photographs alongside a new textile installation created specifically for this presentation.
Artists
Midori Arai
Grass drawing #1, 2025, Pencil, pastel and oil on paper, 12 × 16 inches (H310 × W410 mm)
Born in 1992 in Ibaraki, Japan. Lives and works in Tokyo. Arai is currently pursuing a PhD in Fine Arts at Tama Art University. She received her MA in Oil Painting from Kyoto University of the Arts in 2022 and her BA in Fine Arts from Tokyo Zokei University in 2015. Arai explores the infinite of painting through finite physical gestures. Her dynamic brushwork invites the viewer to trace the movements of her body, transforming action into an experience that reflects on life and the passage of time.
Her work has been exhibited at GALLERY HAYASHI + ART BRIDGE (Tokyo), Seojung Art (Seoul), The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma (Japan), Gallery Lulla (Los Angeles), and The Pool Side Gallery (Ishikawa). She received the Prize of The 16th Gunma Biennale for Young Artists (2025).
This art fair marks her seventh presentation with the gallery, following her solo exhibition Refle; fraction (2025), group exhibitions Women in Abstraction (2025) and Vagueness / Waving Rhythms (2023), and participation in Art OnO Seoul (2025, 2024) and Art Fair Tokyo (2023).
Kurumi Ono
Recursive Life, 2025, Inkjet print on fabric, thread, 84.6 × 55.1 inches (H215, 0 × W1400 mm)
Born in 1995 in Tochigi, Japan. Lives and works in Niigata and Tokyo. Ono received her BA in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins, London. Her practice explores new approaches to photography through decomposition and transformation. By burying photographs in soil and allowing natural processes to erode the ink and paper, she examines the tension between constant flux and the human desire to preserve.
Her work has been exhibited at GALLERY HAYASHI + ART BRIDGE (Tokyo), √k Contemporary (Tokyo), Gallery Lulla (Los Angeles), Spiral Garden (Tokyo), and the Teshikaga Extreme Cold Art Festival (Hokkaido).
This fair marks her thirteenth presentation with the gallery, following solo exhibitions Luminous Life (2022) and C(h)ronos (2021), group exhibitions Emerging Directors and Curators U40 (2024) and In Different Ways (2023), and art fairs Art Fair Tokyo (2022) and 3331 Art Fair (2021).