The Museum
Open
Universe.
Open Universe is the world's first museum dedicated exclusively to artists with disabilities — anchored in Miami and connected across the country through a physical institution, national partner network, and living collection in continuous circulation.
A fundamentally new museum model — built not for a single building but for a generation seeking deeper connection with art, with artists, and with the world their work inhabits.
A museum whose collection
never stops moving.
Open Universe operates through a hybrid model — a physical hub anchored in Miami's arts and cultural district, combined with a distributed network of museum nodes across the country. Hospitals, corporate offices, hotels, and public institutions actively host and present the collection.
The collection is not stored and occasionally shown. It lives in the world — generating income for artists and genuine human encounters for the people who pass through these spaces every day.
The permanent
institutional anchor.
The Hub is where the museum becomes physically rooted — the address, the permanent collection space, the place where the museum is undeniably real. It is where visiting artists come, where collectors experience the work in depth, and where the curatorial and operational infrastructure of the museum lives.
We are establishing the Hub in one of Miami's established arts and cultural districts — building toward a permanent address that gives the museum the physical presence it deserves, and that the artists whose work it holds have never had.
From fair to collection
to institution.
Every part of Open Universe feeds every other part. The Fair finds the work. The Studio sustains it. The collection preserves and circulates it. The result is an institution that grows stronger with every exhibition, every acquisition, and every placement.
Studios bring their artists. Free for studios, free for the public. The most significant platform for disability art in the country — where new work enters the ecosystem.
Year-round gallery space. Exhibitions, sales, and collector access — connecting artists to the institutions and collectors that take the work seriously, between fair editions.
Works acquired through the fair and gallery enter the permanent collection — establishing each artist's institutional record with lasting cultural value.
Collection works rotate through museum partner locations — hospitals, offices, hotels, and civic buildings — generating ongoing income for artists and genuine cultural encounters for the public.
Hospitals, offices, hotels, and libraries become museum satellites — forming the distributed infrastructure that makes Open Universe a national institution rather than a single building.
"The art world has always had edges. We're building the institution that lives there — permanently."
Open Universe · MiamiBuilt by people who
know the field.
Open Universe was founded by two people with deep roots in the gallery world, the hospital art world, and the institutional relationships that make a museum real.
Ross brings the operational infrastructure — the nonprofit structure, the institutional relationships, and the long-term vision to establish Open Universe as a permanent cultural anchor in Miami. He manages the museum's programming pipeline, donor relationships, and expansion strategy across four cities.
David has operated FIERMAN Gallery in New York since 2016, placing work with the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem, and the Speed Museum, with coverage in The New York Times, The New Yorker, and Artforum. He has consulted for major New York hospitals on art programming for over a decade — making him uniquely positioned to build the museum partner network.
The institution is
being built.
Be part of it.
The museum is already operating. The collection is growing. The network is expanding. The Hub is coming. Every person who joins now is part of the founding chapter of something permanent.