Interactive art
Creative works that involve viewer input
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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. |
| March 8 2024 | Second performance of 'Xeno in Vivo' at the Exploratorium, with Dewey-Hagborg narrating conversations about the ethical implications of xenotransplantation, accompanied by original music composed by Bethany Barrett. |
| March 7 2024 | Heather Dewey-Hagborg premiered her multimedia opera 'Xeno in Vivo' at the Exploratorium in San Francisco, exploring xenotransplantation and CRISPR gene editing through live performance, featuring four opera singers, projections, sculpture, and live beating heart cells. |
| 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 | Meow Wolf relocated the Vortex Music Festival to Denver, Colorado. |
| 2022 | Jose Tolosa became CEO, replacing co-CEOs Carl Christensen and Ali Rubinstein. |
| 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. |
| 2022 | Meow Wolf announced the formation of the Meow Wolf Foundation, with Julie Heinrich named as its executive director. |
| 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 | 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. |
| 2021 | Meow Wolf settled a workplace discrimination lawsuit. |
| 2021 | Vortex Music Festival remained on hold due to ongoing COVID-19 pandemic concerns. |
| 2021 | Meow Wolf abandoned plans for a themed hotel in Phoenix, though they maintained plans for an exhibition in the city. |
| 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 | Won the New Technology Art Award for her project 'Probably Chelsea' at Zebrastraat in Ghent, Belgium. |
| 2019 | Meow Wolf continued its Vortex Music Festival in Taos, New Mexico. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| October 2018 | The 'Probably Chelsea' exhibition was featured at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art in the Hyperprometheus exhibition from October to December. |
| May 2018 | The 'Probably Chelsea' exhibition was displayed at MU Art Space in Eindhoven, Netherlands, as part of the Genomic Intimacy exhibition from May to July. |
| January 2018 | The 'Probably Chelsea' exhibition was shown at Transmediale 2018: Face Value in Berlin from January to April. |
| January 2018 | Meow Wolf announced plans for two new art complexes in Las Vegas and Denver, expanding their immersive art installation presence. |
| 2017 | Heather Dewey-Hagborg collaborated with Chelsea Manning to create an exhibition titled 'A Becoming Resemblance' at Fridman Gallery in New York City, featuring 3-D printed portraits of Manning based on her DNA samples. |
| 2017 | Meow Wolf became a Certified B Corporation, demonstrating its commitment to social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency. |
| 2016 | Received a Creative Capital Award, a prestigious recognition for artists working on groundbreaking projects. |
| 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 | Received special mention at the VIDA 15.0 Art and Artificial Life International Awards, recognizing her innovative work at the intersection of art and technology. |
| 2013 | Created 'Nucleotide', a pastel, cave-like installation in Chicago's Thomas Robertello Gallery, conceived and built over three months by 18 collective members. |
| 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'. |
| 2012 | Awarded Artist's Residency and Jerome Foundation Grant at Clocktower Gallery in Manhattan, New York. |
| 2012 | Completed a residency at Eyebeam, a prominent art and technology center. |
| 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. |
| 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 | Formed CHIMERA, an initiative to teach collaborative arts practices. |
| 2011 | Created 'Glitteropolis' at the New Mexico State University Art Gallery, an installation that used 50 pounds of glitter. |
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