From Ballroom Marfa: "Ballroom Marfa is pleased to announce the upcoming Fall 2024 exhibition from Julie Speed, The Suburbs of Eden opening Friday, September 20,…

09.20.24 | 02.02.25

From Ballroom Marfa: "Ballroom Marfa is pleased to present a new exhibition, STEADY on view beginning April 17, 2024 with opening celebrations on Saturday, April 20…

04.17.24 | 09.08.24

From Ballroom Marfa: "Mariposa Relámpago, a traveling installation created by the Salvadorian-born, New York-based transdisciplinary visual artist, choreographer, and healer Guadalupe Maravilla, makes its way across…

11.04.23 | 03.16.24

From Ballroom Marfa: "Ballroom Marfa presents unlit: sof landin, a solo exhibition by interdisciplinary artist, musician, and filmmaker Li(sa E.) Harris. Through an intuitive and experimental process, the…

05.24.23 | 09.16.23

From Ballroom Marfa: "Tongues of Fire is a group exhibition of artworks reflecting on language that has been suppressed, silenced, or obscured. Featured artists include…

05.24.23 | 09.16.23

From Ballroom Marfa: "Ecstatic Land is an exhibition and screening series that brings together a multigenerational group of artists whose works explore the intersecting vitalities of…

11.26.22 | 05.07.23

From Ballroom Marfa: "Kenneth Tam’s solo exhibition Tender is the hand which holds the stone of memory features a series of commissioned sculptures alongside a two-channel…

10.26.22 | 05.07.23

From Ballroom Marfa: "Ballroom Marfa presents The Blessings of the Mystery, a multidisciplinary exhibition on view May 26, 2022. The opening celebration will be held the…

05.26.22 | 09.04.22

From Ballroom Marfa: "Ballroom Marfa presents Kite Symphony, a multidisciplinary exhibition by Roberto Carlos Lange and Kristi Sword, opening January 22. The project features a newly commissioned film,…

01.22.22 | 05.08.22

From Ballroom Marfa: "Donna Huanca presents a series of new work commissioned by Ballroom Marfa in her exhibition ESPEJO QUEMADA. Huanca creates experiential installations that…

06.26.21 | 01.02.22

From Ballroom Marfa: "Ballroom Marfa presents The Blessings of the Mystery in January 2021. Artists Carolina Caycedo and David de Rozas create a new film and series…

01.30.21 | 05.28.21

From Ballroom Marfa: "Visitors are invited for outdoor screenings of Chang’s film (12 min, looped), projected onto Ballroom’s exterior at sundown (8/8:30pm) – 10pm, Wednesday…

04.09.21 | 04.25.21

A group exhibition in Marfa. From Ballroom Marfa: "This fall Ballroom Marfa presents an outdoor exhibition from October 2, 2020 through January 21, 2021 that…

10.02.20 | 01.21.21

Join us for a free digital screening of João Vargas Penna’s Landscape Film: Roberto Burle Marx on May 16th at 8pm CST through our Ballroom Marfa Film channel on Vimeo.…

05.16.20 | 05.16.20

https://youtu.be/DRhE0Hipqfs "The first solo museum exhibition in the United States of noted Brazilian artist Solange Pessoa in the fall of 2019. Pessoa has built a…

11.15.19 | 04.19.20

A group exhibition at Ballroom Marfa, featuring Beatriz Cortez, Candice Lin, and Fernando Palma Rodríguez. The opening reception on April 5 will feature a live…

04.05.19 | 09.01.19

"The exhibition features new and existing work from artist and writer Jibade-Khalil Huffman, including First Person Shooter, the video nominated by Ballroom Marfa for the 2018…

11.16.18 | 03.24.19

"Hyperobjects is a group exhibition co-organized by philosopher and Rice University professor Timothy Morton and Ballroom Marfa Director & Curator Laura Copelin, engaging ideas from…

04.13.18 | 09.15.18

Tierra. Sangre. Oro. is an exhibition envisioned by artist Rafa Esparza. The program will include new installation, performance, and sculptural work from Esparza alongside collaborations and…

08.25.17 | 03.18.18

An exhibition "exploring the uncertainties and poetics of networks, environmental events, technology, and sound." The show is curated by Gryphon Rue and features works by Lawrence…

03.10.17 | 08.06.17

The Marfa Myths festival is back! For more info on this year's program, please go here.

03.09.17 | 03.12.17

An exhibition of newly-commissioned video and virtual reality works from the artist collective the Institute for New Feeling (Scott Andrew, Agnes Bolt, and Nina Sarnelle). One video…

09.23.16 | 02.21.17

An exhibition featuring works by Ed Fornieles, Sonja Gerdes, Joel Holmberg, Dwyer Kilcollin, Chanel Von Habsburg-Lothringen, Anna Mayer, Thomas Mcdonell, and Isaac Resnikoff. This show is…

12.09.16 | 02.21.17

"Dengue Fever is imagined as a sort of Henri Rousseau delirium, a jungle of feeling, and a landscape turned inwards.  The project, which is installed…

06.03.16 | 08.21.16

A group exhibition featuring multimedia works from Dan Colen, Loie Hollowell, key works by Emil Bisttram, Raymond Jonson, Agnes Pelton, Florence Miller Pierce, and Stuart Walker of…

03.11.16 | 08.21.16

A cultural festival in Marfa featuring music, film, and visual art. Participating bands include: Connan Mockasin's Wet Dream, Hailu Mergia, Fred & Toody (Dead Moon), Pill, Heron Oblivion, Awesome Tapes…

03.10.16 | 03.13.16

A group exhibition focusing on the "mammalian hand and the tools it touches, holds and uses." The exhibition looks at tools from early history to…

09.25.15 | 02.14.16

A film program curated by Executive Director Susan Sutton.

08.28.15 | 08.29.15

An exhibition of recent sound, video, sculptural, and wall works by artist Sam Falls, including works created during his residency in Marfa last summer.

03.13.15 | 08.16.15

Organized in conjunction with London’s Whitechapel Gallery, Ballroom Marfa presents the sixth season of Artists’ Film International, a program that showcases international artists working in…

11.19.14 | 01.11.15

Hubbard/Birchler are two Austin-based artists who collaborate in video, photography and sculpture. This exhibition consists of three films and associated photographs that explore film's relationship…

02.28.14 | 10.26.14

Slasher Flicks is comprised of Avey Tare, Angel Deradoorian and Jeremy Hyman, names you may recognize from Animal Collective, Dirty Projectors and Ponytail.

05.05.14 | 05.05.14

Comic Future features work by artists who employ various approaches such as abstraction and figuration to twist the representation of their environment creating a skewed vision…

09.27.13 | 02.02.14

Louisiana-born/Brooklyn-based musician Barwick will perform.  Diplo introduced her music to his followers as the sound of "Care Bears making love." $5 at the door

12.03.13 | 12.03.13

In collaboration with the Texas Biennial, an independent survey of contemporary art in Texas, Ballroom Marfa is presenting an installation in the gallery and a…

09.14.13 | 11.09.13

Laura Marling's music belongs to a tradition of British and American folk music. Her album, Once I Was An Eagle, has been nominated for the…

11.02.13 | 11.02.13

In collaboration with the Texas Biennial, an independent survey of contemporary art in Texas, Ballroom Marfa is presenting an installation in the gallery and a…

09.13.13 | 09.13.13

Organized in conjunction with Whitechapel Gallery, London, Ballroom Marfa is pleased to present the fifth season of Artists’ Film International, a program that showcases international…

07.19.13 | 09.08.13

New steel and shea butter sculptures and starscape paintings in an installation exploring African-American intellectual history and pop culture.

03.08.13 | 06.07.13

Newly commissioned works that propose a creative response to climate change by Amy Balkin, Erika Blumenfeld, David Buckland, Adriane Colburn, Heather Ackroyd & Dan Harvey,…

08.31.12 | 09.02.12

Organized in conjunction with Whitechapel Gallery, London, Ballroom Marfa presents international artists working with film, video and animation in their center gallery.  Associate Curator, Erin…

07.20.12 | 08.12.12

Artists who shape web-based and software-generated data into art, curated by Rachel Gugelberger and Reynard Loki. After the opening, there will be a live performance…

03.02.12 | 07.08.12

As featured in our Spring Preview: "As with everything else New Orleansian, the art scene there is wholly unique from the rest of the country.…

03.18.11 | 08.14.11

Ballroom Marfa selects Alyce Santoro's exhibition The Synergetic Omni-Solution: a Weekend of Social Sculpture Happenings as their 2011 Texas Biennial entry. Santoro will present a…

04.29.11 | 05.01.11

Ballroom Marfa kicks off the Fall season with a weekend of festivities for the opening of the group exhibition Immaterial. Curated by Executive Director Fairfax…

01.10.11 | 02.20.11

AutoBody, curated by Neville Wakefield, explores the mythology of the American automobile, featuring works by Liz Cohen, Matthew Day Jackson, and Jonathan Schipper and North…

09.30.11 | 01.29.11

Ballroom Marfa and The Washington Spectator, in collaboration with The Big Bend Sentinel, Marfa Public Radio and Marfa Book Company, presents Marfa Dialogues: Politics and…

09.17.10 | 09.19.10

In Lieu of Unity, En Lugar de la Unidad brings together artists from Mexico who give us their perspectives on social dynamics, community, utopians ideas…

09.19.10 | 09.19.10

The Ballroom's annual video series Art in the Auditorium presents its second installment! Artists working in video and film are organized by Whitechapel Gallery, London…

01.29.10 | 03.07.10

Ballroom Marfa states that these artists "hailing from Austin, TX, James Petralli, Joshua Block, and Steve Terebecki formed the group White Denim in 2006. While…

01.15.10 | 01.15.10

Ballroom Marfa presents Two Face, an exhibition by artists-in-residence Aaron Curry and Thomas Houseago. "Based in Los Angeles, Curry and Houseago are sculptors who invoke…

05.29.09 | 12.13.09

The original Marfa Sessions was curated by Regine Basha, Rebecca Gates and Lucy Raven. The new catalog of the project includes texts by Josh Kun…

10.08.09 | 10.11.09

The Ballroom's first exhibit devoted to artists working with sound. Featuring Emily Jacir, Nina Katchadourian, Christina Kubisch, Louise Lawler, Iñigo-Manglano Ovalle, Kaffe Matthews, Angel Nevarez…

09.27.08 | 02.01.09

Creating "theatrical depictions of three specific social/historical contexts: the utopian hippie commune, the clandestine meth lab, and the varied sites of modern industrial production," young…

04.05.08 | 08.03.08

Organized by Bob Nickas, and featured in our Fall Preview!! Featuring 13 NYC-based artists. Not to be missed, if you're within a 200-mile radius...if you're…

09.22.07 | 02.03.08

In collaboration with ARTLIES, Medicine Show is the culmination of three years of Ballroom Marfa's adventurous live music program, that has brought an array of…

10.05.07 | 10.07.07

Doig's film posters from the Rheingold and Ringier collections will be included, as well as posters from the artist's personal collection.

01.01.70 | 02.28.07