Sun-Kissed
Mindy Solomon is pleased to present the first solo exhibition of Zoe Schweiger at the gallery, Sun-Kissed, a love letter to Miami’s nightlife. Drawing from scenes at places such as Twist on South Beach and Willy’s, a beloved gay bar that recently closed in Wynwood, alongside longtime favorites like Over Under, Mac’s Club Deuce, Floyd, and Gramps, Schweiger documents the intimacy and vitality of these environments. Her paintings are rooted in lived experience, where music reverberates, cigarette smoke drifts from nearby bodies, and the heavy Miami air clings to skin.
Within these spaces, friends and loved ones dance, laugh, reapply lipstick, and drink between conversations. Vibrant reds melt beneath them as lights flicker. A warm haze encompasses them, sweat trickling down faces as bodies warp, overlap, and wrap around one another. The figures blur into their surroundings, mirroring the fleeting nature of the night. This series of works encapsulates her love for music, intimacy, and friendship, where moments of Miami’s familiar queer community are suspended in time.
These paintings act as an archive of a city in flux, where many of the spaces depicted have closed, echoing a larger loss. Through these scenes, Schweiger represents a Miami that may soon no longer exist. Eroded not only by development and time, but by the rising waters that threaten to reshape the city. These looming realities are what spur her to make these works, preserving the warmth, sweat, love, and music of a changing Miami.
About Zoe Schweiger
Zoe Schweiger (b. 2000, Miami, FL) is a multi-disciplinary artist born and based in Miami, FL. She received her BFA in Interdisciplinary Sculpture from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore, MD in 2022.
Schweiger has exhibited her work in a number of solo exhibitions, including Sun-Kissed at Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL (2026); When the Air Sticks and the Current Gathers with Mindy Solomon Gallery at EXPO Chicago (2025); Above The Limestone at NSU Art Museum in Ft Lauderdale, FL (2023); and Under Warm Water at Spinello Projects in Miami, FL (2023). She has also been included in group exhibitions in New York and Miami such as Young, Fresh, Di!erent at Zilberman Gallery, Miami, FL (2024); The Armory Show with Spinello Projects (2023); The BluPrnt, curated by Robert Chambers at Bridge Red Studios (2022); Deconstructing the Sameness, a survey by Ronald Sanchez at Laundromat Art Space, Miami, FL (2022); and Narration Within the Materials, curated by Amani Lewis at T&Y Projects with Art Intelligence Global in Tokyo, Japan (2022).
Schweiger has received numerous awards and scholarships, including a Hopper Prize (2025 finalist), Miami Individual Artist grant (2024 and 2025), a MICA Competitive Scholarship, MICA Creative Visions Award, MICA Presidential Scholarship, and MICA The DaVinci Award. Schweiger’s work has been published in several publications, including The Hopper Prize, The Gallatin Review, and Sprung Formal. Her work is in the permanent collection of The NSU Art Museum, in Ft Lauderdale, FL.
