Meow Wolf Names Nearly 40 L.A. Artists for Its New Los Angeles Venue

Meow Wolf has identified nearly 40 Los Angeles artists who will contribute to its forthcoming venue at West L.A.’s Howard Hughes entertainment complex, with the company targeting a late-2026 opening. According to Blooloop, the location is being designed as a walk-through, floor-to-ceiling experience inspired by cinema and shaped by science-fiction and psychedelic elements. The project will combine work from Meow Wolf’s Santa Fe-based in-house team with contributions from artists working across multiple mediums. More than a dozen artists will create sculptures or dioramas, while six artists are slated to paint murals. Seven others will contribute video installations and games. A group of artists has also been selected to curate full-scale rooms within the venue. Artists creating rooms include Gabriela Ruiz, whose work will include a multicolored insect serving as a periscope, and the collective Everything Is Terrible, which has described its planned space as featuring a “cartoony, root vegetable floating alien god.” Other room contributors include Jen Stark, Lauren YS, Wayne White, Seth Bogart, Corinne Loperfido, Killer Acid and longtime Meow Wolf contributor Nick Toll. The video and interactive contributors listed for the Los Angeles project include Vinyl Williams, Hugo Shiboski, Will Wharton, Réka Bucsi, Agnus Oakes, Cadmiumcoffee and Blake Kathryn. Local animation company Titmouse was previously announced as a media partner for the venue. Murals are planned from Bunnie Reiss, Ozzie Juarez, Greg Ito, Harlen Hue, Evelyn Tan and Devin Reynolds. The sculpture and diorama contributors include S.C. Mero, Ruben Ulises, Sofia Enriquez, David Altmejd, Sharif Farrag, Joe Holliday, Nemo Gould, Alake Shilling, Elrod, Brooke Weston, Shrine, Hana Ward, Roberto Benavidez, Estevan Oriol, Wizard of Barge, Mike Chattem and Karla Ekaterine Canseco. Charles E. Dickson is also contributing to the exhibition. Han Santana-Sayles, who worked with art curator and local art liaison AJ Girard on the artist selection, said the process was intended to reflect the breadth of the Los Angeles population. Girard said the project’s themes would engage with subjects including social media, social capital, commercialism and graffiti art. Meow Wolf said it has welcomed about 10 million visitors across its four venues since opening House of Eternal Return in Santa Fe in 2016.