Wynwood Walls

The Wynwood Walls, located in the Wynwood Art District (a sub-district of Wynwood that contains over 70 galleries, museums and art collections) is an outdoor mural permanent exhibit featuring some of the worlds most renowned street artists. Additionally there are hundreds of other street art and graffiti murals around the district curated yearly by Primary Flight making it one of the biggest street art districts in the world.

Wynwood contains a large number of art studios and galleries, offering every second Saturday night of every month the "ArtWalk", where the art galleries and studios open their doors to the public for viewing.

The Wynwood Walls were conceived by the renowned community revitalizer and placemaker, the late Tony Goldman in 2009, who was looking for something big to transform the warehouse district of Wynwood, and he arrived at a simple idea: "Wynwood's large stock of warehouse buildings, all with no windows, would be my giant canvases to bring to them the greatest street art ever seen in one place." Starting with the 25th–26th Street complex of six separate buildings, his goal was to create a center where people could gravitate to and explore, and to develop the area's pedestrian potential.

The Wynwood Walls became a major art statement with Tony's commitment to graffiti and street art, a genre that he believes is under appreciated and not respected historically. Goldman wanted to give the movement more attention and more respect: "By presenting it in a way that has not been done before, I was able to expose the public to something they had only seen peripherally." Murals by renowned street artists have covered the walls of the Wynwood Walls complex since 2009, and to create more canvases and bring more artists to the project, Tony opened the Wynwood Doors in 2010 with 176 feet of roll-up storefront gates. The painted exteriors and interiors of the doors reveal a portrait gallery. Murals have also been commissioned for Outside the Walls through 2011, in key locations outside the park itself.

The Wynwood Walls has brought the world's greatest artists working in the graffiti and street art genre to Miami.