{"id":450111,"date":"2026-09-01T17:10:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T17:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/450111\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T17:10:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T17:10:11","slug":"meow-wolf-l-a-announces-the-local-artists-wholl-bring-the-immersive-world-to-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/450111\/","title":{"rendered":"Meow Wolf L.A. announces the local artists who’ll bring the immersive world to life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Meow Wolf is getting closer to unveiling its Los Angeles locale. When doors open \u2014 the company is targeting late 2026 \u2014 anticipate a walk-around, floor-to-ceiling experience that pays homage to the art of cinema<\/a> with a sci-fi, psychedelic-like bent.<\/p>\n

And to bring that vision to life, the Santa Fe, N.M.-based experiential art collective will be working with nearly 40 L.A. artists across multiple mediums. Expect more than a dozen sculptural and diorama artists to contribute, along with those who specialize in mixed media for interactive and video content. Local artists will also create a number of murals for the space, and a handful of artists have been chosen to curate their own life-size rooms in the venue at West L.A.\u2019s Howard Hughes entertainment complex. <\/p>\n

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Artist Gabriela Ruiz will be contributing a major piece to Meow Wolf L.A.<\/p>\n

(Jason Armond \/ Los Angeles Times)<\/p>\n

While the bulk of a Meow Wolf exhibition is envisioned and designed by a core in-house team in Santa Fe, the company partners with dozens of local artists in each city to ensure a local flavor. Here in Los Angeles, the task of curating L.A. artists fell heavily to Han Santana-Sayles. As a SoCal native from a Mexican American family, Santana-Sayles has told me<\/a>, \u201cI would be dishonored\u201d if the exhibit failed in its mission to capture the breadth of the L.A. population.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s really important to make that intentional,\u201d Santana-Sayles said. \u201cI\u2019m not just going out and saying, \u2018They have art I like. I\u2019m going to bring them in.\u2019 It\u2019s a combination. Yes, they\u2019re an amazing artist, and they have a really important story for this region.\u201d<\/p>\n

Santana-Sayles worked closely with art curator AJ Girard as Meow Wolf\u2019s local art liaison. Girard has spoken of<\/a> being inspired by everything from L.A.\u2019s emphasis on social media to commercialism to graffiti art. <\/p>\n

\u201cSocial media and social capital is so relevant in our city,\u201d Girard said. \u201cHow do we make fun of it in an avant-garde, punk, radical way? How do we poke holes at it?\u201d<\/p>\n

Artists tapped to create full-scale rooms at Meow Wolf L.A. include Gabriela Ruiz<\/a>, who crafted an adorably vibrant, multicolored insect that will serve as a periscope, and collective Everything Is Terrible<\/a>, who described their space <\/a>as featuring a \u201ccartoony, root vegetable floating alien god.\u201d <\/p>\n

Also look for contributions from Compton\u2019s Charles E. Dickson<\/a>, a renowned self-taught sculpture artist, whose public works can be found throughout the region, including at Metro\u2019s Mariposa Station and outside the California African American Museum, and Jen Stark<\/a>, whose geometric kaleidoscope art flirts with the natural and the synthetic. Stark\u2019s \u201cChromatic Cascade\u201d<\/a> is a staple of downtown\u2019s Art\u2019s District. <\/p>\n

Lauren YS <\/a>(a.k.a Squidlicker) is also tapped to have a room at Meow Wolf L.A., known for hyper-vivid colors and surrealist mythology. The artist currently <\/a>has a piece in \u201cMythical Creatures: The Stories We Carry<\/a>\u201d at the USC Pacific Asia Museum. <\/p>\n

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Downtown L.A. street artist S.C. Mero will be contributing a sculpture piece to Meow Wolf L.A.<\/p>\n

(Kayla Bartkowski \/ Los Angeles Times)<\/p>\n

Others with exhibiting rooms include Wayne White<\/a>, album artist<\/a>, surrealist and puppeteer, perhaps best known for his work as the main puppet-maker for the children\u2019s show \u201cPee-wee\u2019s Playhouse; Seth Bogart<\/a>, known best as a local musician<\/a> (Hunx and his Punx); upcycled fashion specialist Corinne Loperfido<\/a>; cartooney psychedelic artist Killer Acid<\/a>; and longtime Meow Wolf contributor Nick Toll<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Meow Wolf L.A. lists seven artists as contributing either video installations and games to the space, including artist\/musician Vinyl Williams<\/a> and musician\/animator Hugo Shiboski<\/a> with director\/media artist Will Wharton<\/a>. Animators R\u00e9ka Bucsi<\/a>, Agnus Oakes<\/a> and Cadmiumcoffee, <\/a>as well as digitial artist Blake Kathryn<\/a> will also contribute. It was previously announced that local animation house Titmouse<\/a> would be supplying media for Meow Wolf L.A.<\/p>\n

Six artists are slated to paint murals for Meow Wolf L.A. Look for work from Bunnie Reiss<\/a>, Ozzie Juarez<\/a>, Greg Ito<\/a>, Harlen Hue<\/a>, Evelyn Tan<\/a> and Devin Reynolds. <\/p>\n

Finally, more than a dozen L.A. artists are listed as contributing either sculptures or dioramas to the exhibition. Those artists range from downtown L.A. street artist S.C. Mero<\/a> to multidisciplinary artist Ruben Ulises<\/a> to former Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival contributor Sofia Enriquez<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Rounding out the list will be David Altmejd<\/a>, Sharif Farrag<\/a>, Joe Holliday<\/a>, Nemo Gould<\/a>, Alake Shilling<\/a>, Elrod<\/a>, Brooke Weston<\/a>, Shrine<\/a>, Hana Ward<\/a>, Roberto Benavidez<\/a>, Estevan Oriol<\/a>, Wizard of Barge<\/a>, Mike Chattem<\/a> and Karla Ekaterine Canseco<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Meow Wolf helped define the modern immersive space. Since 2016, when the once-scrappy Meow Wolf opened Santa Fe\u2019s \u201cHouse of Eternal Return\u201d exhibition, the company has welcomed about 10 million visitors across its four venues in locales such as Las Vegas, Denver, Houston and the Dallas suburbs. <\/p>\n