The New Avant-Garde: How AI Artists Are Rewriting the Rules of Creative Expression
By Miami Art Week Staff
Miami, a city known for pushing boundaries, is a place where the future of art embraces technology. Meet Dahlia Dreszer and Fabiola Larios, two creatives who are pushing AI past the hype and into something that feels intensely creative and ground breaking.
AI, Identity, and Dahlia Dreszer’s Many Selves
Dahlia’s Dreszer was born in Colombia and grew up in Panama in a family shaped by migrations, which means she has always lived balancing layers of identity. Her upbringing led her to a unique mode of self expression. Dreszer is an acclaimed artist currently based in Miami, and was recently featured in Time Magazine regarding her work with photography and generative AI to tell stories. She even created Clone Dahlia, an AI version of herself trained on her memories and ideas, to serve as a genuine collaborator. Her art is part performance, part research experiment.
“I see AI as a collaborator,” she tells Miami Art Week with a kind of calm delight, “a way to accelerate ideas and reach our full potential.” Her work layers in migration stories, cultural memory, and questions about home and identity. She continues, “I work a lot with objects that hold cultural memory and think about what we decide to take with us when we move and what we leave behind.”
Glitter, Cameras, and the many worlds of Fabiola Larios
Fabiola Larios’ art invites viewers into a hyper-feminine cocoon. The installations are playful, often pink, and are full of nostalgia. But once you’re drawn in, you start noticing the cameras and realize the tech isn’t just sitting there. It’s watching you. As a Mexican artist and a resident artist at Bakehouse Art Complex, Larios works from a space where two worlds meet.
Growing up in Mexico, Larios learned to create with whatever tech she could get her hands on, which meant hacking, modifying, repurposing and outsmarting machines for fun. Her time in Miami allows her to lean into an alternative energy: abundance, new gadgets everywhere, and a whole tech ecosystem watching itself grow. For example, in Mexico she has seen AI woven into conversations about memory, community and heritage while in the US she encounters AI more through institutional partnerships, tech ecosystems, and an art market interested in innovation and futurism. Her artistic output is the kind of work that makes you smile before it makes you think. “Before, surveillance was just a camera taking a picture,” she says. “Now it’s deciding who you are.”
Feeling and the Future of Art
What makes Dreszer and Larios stand out amongst the growing sea of artists leaning into AI storytelling is how much heart they bring to the genre. They are focused on what happens when people connect with technology and start reflecting on themselves and the world around them.
The new avant garde isn’t trying to convince you that AI art belongs in museums. In most places, it’s already there. These artists are asking much better questions about what it means to collaborate with technology that learns from us. Larios comments, “That tension is exactly how AI operates in the real world. It promises convenience and personalization while quietly mapping our behaviors, predicting our actions, and absorbing our identities.”
This Miami Art Week, the line between human and generative AI is worth exploring deeply. The future of art is worth paying attention to, and Miami is lucky to have trailblazers like Dreszer and Larios in our midst.
Dahlia Dreszer and Fabiola Larios will speak together on the Miami Art Week panel titled “Beyond the Brush: Generative Art in the Age of AI” on Thursday, December 4 from 4-5 pm at the Coral Gables Museum, 285 Aragon Ave, Coral Gables.
Throughout Miami Art Week, you can experience Fabiola Larios’ No Vacancy installation Heartware at the Riviera Suites South Beach (318 20th St, Miami Beach), with a special activation on Friday, December 5th, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM. Come chat with her, see her Mexican piñatas, and enjoy Mexican bread, coffee, and maybe even some candy! You can also visit her in Studio 40 during the Baker’s Brunch: Open Studios + Cafecito at Bakehouse Art Complex (561 NW 32nd St) on Thursday, December 4th, 9:00 AM–12:00 PM, where visitors can explore her installation Panoptipink and eyeseeyou.watch and see new work in progress. To follow more of her projects, exhibitions, and behind-the-scenes process, find her on Instagram @fabiolalariosm or visit fabiola.io.
You can see Dahlia Dreszer’s new project,“Todo esto que Parece Inventado” at the Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU exhibition ‘Hope Becoming Home’, on view from November 19 to March 31. Join the artist for a special Art Basel Brunch on Sunday December 7th 11 am - 1 pm at the Jewish Museum of Florida FIU (301 Washington Ave, Miami Beach). Dreszer’s works from ‘Bringing the Outside In’ are on display at The Betsy Hotel, 1440 Ocean Dr, Miami Beach throughout Art Week. You can follow her on IG at @dahlia.dreszer to keep up with latest exhibitions and view a full event calendar here.