Artnet
August 28, 2025
Here are the emerging and established artists to look out for.
While Untitled Art is a recognized bastion of the Miami art scene, this September 19–21 the fair is marking a major expansion with the debut of its inaugural Houston edition. Staged at the George R. Brown Convention Center, Untitled Art will welcome over 80 national and international exhibitors. And while visitors of the Miami edition will recognize some aspects of the fair, such as the Nest section that offers reduced booth prices for up to 20 galleries, Untitled Art Houston will also feature a full slate of new programming and partnerships. Chief among these is the launch of a new prize organized in collaboration with the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH), the CAMH Commission Prize, which will result in a major new commission that will be unveiled at the 2026 edition of the Texas fair.
Ahead of Untitled Art Houston opening its doors for the first time, four leading art advisors have shared the artists they have on their shortlist to watch at the fair.
Liana Schwaitzberg
Ana Villagomez, A Heartbeat Overgrown (2025). Photo: Olivia Divecchia. Courtesy of the artist and Nino Mier Gallery.
A partner at Houston-based art advisory firm MKG Management, Liana Schwaitzberg has called Houston home since 2014. With 20 years of experience in the art world—working with galleries such as Barbara Gladstone in New York and White Cube in London—Schwaitzberg works with both corporate and private clients on everything from curatorial projects to market research and acquisitions.
At the forthcoming edition of the fair, Schwaitzberg has her eye on an artist being shown by Nino Mier Gallery, “Ana Villagomez, raised in Houston and currently living and working in Brooklyn, is one to watch. Part construction, part excavation, her painting process includes layers that have been sanded, peeled, and painted. I am drawn to the complexity and dimension of her paintings, a sense of ordered chaos.”
Aaron Morse, Cloud World Shepherd With Wildflowers (2024). Courtesy of the artist and Philip Martin Gallery.
Elsewhere, the technicolor work of artist Aaron Morse is high on her watchlist, “I am really loving psychedelic landscapes right now and Aaron Morse’s work from Philip Martin Gallery is a great example of this current in the art world. I have been following Morse’s work for almost a decade now, and excited to see his style develop and gain more exposure.”