Installation art
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| 2024 | Meow Wolf grew to employ 1,000 people across the country, marking significant expansion and national recognition. |
| October 31 2024 | Radio Tave, Meow Wolf's fifth location, opened in the Fifth Ward of Houston, Texas. |
| May 2024 | Meow Wolf announced plans to open its sixth permanent location in West Los Angeles, specifically in a movie theater within the Cinemark Complex at Howard Hughes L.A. |
| July 14 2023 | The Real Unreal, Meow Wolf's fourth location, opened in the Grapevine Mills Mall in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. |
| May 2023 | The name of the exhibition 'The Real Unreal' was revealed. |
| 2022 | Jose Tolosa became CEO, replacing co-CEOs Carl Christensen and Ali Rubinstein. |
| 2022 | Meow Wolf relocated the Vortex Music Festival to Denver, Colorado. |
| 2022 | Meow Wolf announced the formation of the Meow Wolf Foundation, with Julie Heinrich named as its executive director. |
| 2022 | Company ratified a contract with Meow Wolf Workers Collective, allocating $1 million towards wage increases, ensuring artists are paid at least $60,000 annually and exhibition workers earn no less than $18 per hour. |
| July 9 2022 | Meow Wolf co-founder and senior creative director Matt King passed away. |
| May 2022 | Meow Wolf announced its fourth permanent exhibition, located in Grapevine Mills Mall in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. |
| 2021 | Meow Wolf settled a workplace discrimination lawsuit. |
| 2021 | Meow Wolf abandoned plans for a themed hotel in Phoenix, though they maintained plans for an exhibition in the city. |
| 2021 | Vortex Music Festival remained on hold due to ongoing COVID-19 pandemic concerns. |
| 2021 | In its first year of operation, Omega Mart attracted over 1 million visitors, demonstrating significant public interest in the immersive art experience. |
| 2021 | The planned permanent exhibition in Washington, DC, located in Fort Totten, was canceled. |
| September 17 2021 | Convergence Station, Meow Wolf's third installation, opened to the public in Denver. |
| March 2021 | House of Eternal Return reopened at 25% capacity (625 people per day), operating four days a week. |
| January 2021 | Meow Wolf opened their permanent exhibition in Las Vegas, a reimagined version of their Omega Mart concept. |
| 2020 | The New York Times Magazine published an article titled 'Can an Art Collective Become the Disney of the Experience Economy?', exploring Meow Wolf's transition from underground artists to a multimillion-dollar corporation. |
| 2020 | Vortex Music Festival was paused due to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| December 2020 | A preliminary collective bargaining group was formed in response to pandemic-related economic challenges, seeking more worker input. |
| March 2020 | House of Eternal Return closed due to COVID-19 pandemic, with company laying off more than half its staff in Denver and temporarily laying off 200 employees while placing 56 on furlough. |
| 2019 | Kaleidoscape debuted during Elitch Gardens' summer season. The Denver Post described the attraction as 'a hallucinogenic gallery of neon art', offering visitors an immersive experience of entering a piece of art. |
| 2019 | Meow Wolf announced plans for a Phoenix attraction featuring an exhibit with a 400-room hotel, though the project ultimately did not materialize. |
| 2019 | The collective expanded to include works from 200 different artists and employed more than 150 people. |
| 2019 | Meow Wolf continued its Vortex Music Festival in Taos, New Mexico. |
| 2018 |
The Dinner Party
Judy Chicago created a limited edition set of functional plates reproducing designs from The Dinner Party, including Elizabeth I, Primordial Goddess, Amazon, and Sappho plates.
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| 2018 | Meow Wolf held its first Vortex Music Festival in Taos, New Mexico. |
| 2018 | Meow Wolf announced Kaleidoscape, an 'other-worldly' dark ride for Elitch Gardens Theme Park in Denver, Colorado, replacing Ghost Blasters. The ride was conceptualized as a prequel to their later Denver exhibit, Convergence Station, featuring a narrative about the Quantum Department of Transportation and a Cosmic Egg that opens a path to a new universe. |
| November 29 2018 | The documentary 'Meow Wolf: Origin Story' was released in movie theaters across the United States in a one-time only showing, documenting the collective's history and artistic journey. |
| January 2018 | Meow Wolf announced plans for two new art complexes in Las Vegas and Denver, expanding their immersive art installation presence. |
| 2017 | Meow Wolf became a Certified B Corporation, demonstrating its commitment to social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency. |
| 2016 | Meow Wolf opened its first permanent installation, House of Eternal Return, created by a collective of 135 artists in Santa Fe, marking a significant milestone for the immersive art collective. |
| 2013 | CHIMERA began working with the Albuquerque Museum of Art and History's classroom mentorship program for gifted students on an installation named 'Project Dreamscape'. |
| 2013 | Created 'Nucleotide', a pastel, cave-like installation in Chicago's Thomas Robertello Gallery, conceived and built over three months by 18 collective members. |
| 2012 | CHIMERA collaborated with approximately one thousand Santa Fe students to create Omega Mart, a fictitious grocery store installation with satirical goods, placed away from Santa Fe's arts district to attract a diverse audience. |
| 2012 | Ragnar Kjartannson created 'The visitors', an innovative music video featuring 9 different artists filmed in separate rooms, simultaneously performing a song while connected through headphones. |
| 2011 | Formed CHIMERA, an initiative to teach collaborative arts practices. |
| 2011 | Meow Wolf installed 'The Due Return', a more than 70-foot-long, two-story ship in the Muñoz Waxman Gallery of the Center for Contemporary Arts, featuring rooms and objects suggesting implied inhabitants' lives. |
| 2011 | Created 'Glitteropolis' at the New Mexico State University Art Gallery, an installation that used 50 pounds of glitter. |
| 2010 | Meow Wolf created multiple projects including 'The Moon is to Live On', a multimedia theatrical play, and 'Geodecadent I' and 'Geodecadent II', a series of installations based on geodesic domes. |
| 2010 | Apichatpong Weerasethakul won the Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or, expanding video art's reach into mainstream cinema. |
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