Chinati Foundation

04/21/2026

Gather at Chinati this Sunday, April 26, for a day celebrating our tri-county community.

This year’s Community Day activities include open viewing of work by Donald Judd, Oscar Hagerman, and Fred Sandback at Chinati, open hours at the Judd Foundation Ranch Office, an exhibition of artwork by Marfa and Presidio ISD students, free dinner and refreshments, plus workshops, folklórico, mariachi, and more.

View the full schedule: https://chinati.org/programs/online-programs/chinati-community-day-2026/

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[1] Community Day 2019. Photo by Sarah Vasquez, courtesy the Chinati Foundation.

[2] Donald Judd, 100 untitled works in mill aluminum, 1982–86. Permanent collection, The Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas. Photo by Alex Marks, courtesy The Chinati Foundation. Donald Judd Art © 2026 Judd Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

[3] Community Day 2024. Photo by Sarah Vasquez, courtesy the Chinati Foundation.

[4] Community Day 2018. Photo by Alex Marks, courtesy the Chinati Foundation.

[5] Community Day 2019. Photo by Sarah Vasquez, courtesy the Chinati Foundation.

07/15/2025

The Chinati Foundation is hiring! We currently have openings across our Facilities, Conservation, Visitor Services, and Education departments.

Chinati is an artist-created and artist-centered foundation in Marfa, Texas. Our mission is to care for the collection and present it to a broad public; to build community and support artists through public programs, artist residencies, educational activities, and exhibitions; and to steward the architecture and the land that Judd conceived as integral to Chinati.

Interested in joining our team? View the full list of positions and learn how to apply at https://chinati.org/jobs/.

05/02/2025

Photos by Marfa ISD high school students 📸

Tonight! Chinati invites you to "Marfa Moments," an exhibition of photography by Marfa Independent School District high school students from 5:00–6:30 pm at the Marfa Public Library. Visit the exhibition, meet the student artists, and enjoy hotdogs and a piñata. Free and open to all.

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"Marfa Moments" is the latest engagement in a long-standing collaboration between the Chinati Foundation education department and Marfa ISD (MISD). This spring, Chinati educators collaborated with MISD instructors to teach a photography curriculum that included cyanotypes, pinhole photography, photograms, 36mm film, and polaroid portraiture. "Marfa Moments" features work from over 50 students who participated in the 6th grade art class, Art I, and Advanced Art.

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All work by Marfa ISD students, grades 6–12.

12/27/2024

As we reflect on the past year, we are excited to share the newly available digital version of Chinati's newsletter. Volume 29 features contributions by Paula Cooper, Fernando A. Flores, Magalie Guérin, and Matthew Simms, along with reflections on three of Judd’s landscape architecture projects at Chinati. Read the full publication here: https://issuu.com/chinatifoundation

For those who were unable to join us during Chinati Weekend this past October, we are also thrilled to share a series of programs that respond to Zoe Leonard’s ‘Al río / To the River,’ on view at Chinati through June 22, 2025. These recordings feature readings by Natalie Diaz and Dolores Dorantes as well as a conversation between Leonard and Lynne Cooke. Available here: https://vimeo.com/user14282064

From all of us at Chinati, happy holidays! We look forward to welcoming you here in 2025.

12/18/2024

We are thrilled to share the dates for ‘Art in Context: Art, Architecture, and the Middle Landscape,’ the latest in a series of symposia presented by Chinati.

Part I (Marfa, April 4–7, 2025) will explore the relationship between art, architecture, and land at Chinati by focusing on one of the most significant examples of their integration: the former artillery sheds that house Donald Judd’s 100 untitled works in mill aluminum. Considering both the history of the buildings and their broader influence on museum architecture, Part I will focus on current efforts to restore the structures, preserve Judd’s architectural interventions, protect the art, and care for the surrounding landscape.

Part II (Houston, November 14–15, 2025) will extend these conversations to address pressing challenges in contemporary art and architecture practices. Through panels and discussions, participants will explore the tensions between environmental and art conservation, imagining future strategies for sites of ecological precarity and cultural significance. The symposium will coincide with an exhibition staged in the new Rice University Architecture Gallery, running September 4 through December 2, 2025.

In Marfa, Judd considered the specific legacies of a place that is neither urban nor rural—a type of environment that American cultural historian and literary critic Leo Marx termed “the middle landscape.” Judd’s work at Chinati invokes multiple understandings of historicity, frames the sites of work in relationship to their earliest uses, and provides opportunities for artists to determine the installation of their art within this context.
‘Art in Context: Art, Architecture, and the Middle Landscape’ will investigate art and architecture practices in socially, politically, and ecologically turbulent times, while imagining productive and sustainable futures of maintenance and repair, adaptive reuse, and environmental conservation.

This symposium is hosted collaboratively by The Chinati Foundation/La Fundación Chinati and Rice School of Architecture. Generous support has been provided by Lee and Mike Cohn and Lori and Alexandre Chemla.

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12/07/2024

The Chinati Foundation and ¿Tierra Y Qué? co-present a performance by Laura Ortman, Tom Carter, Rachel Orosco, and Mateo Galindo on Sunday, December 8 at 4:00 p.m. at Chinati’s Arena, 701 Katherine Street. Free and open to all!

Laura Ortman (White Mountain Apache) is a musician and composer versed in Apache violin, piano, electric guitar, keyboards, and amplified violin.

Tom Carter is an electric guitarist who creates unscripted, instant compositions.

Rachel Orosco is a multimedia artist, DJ, and musician using synthesizers, objects, and other electronics to improvise a range of textures, caustic interruptions, and other impromtu interventions.

Mateo Galindo is a Chicano artist who focuses on sound, sculpture, and performance, dealing with themes surrounding landscape, sonic agency, and cultural resonance.

09/05/2024

On Friday, September 20, Chinati will offer sunrise and sunset viewing of Donald Judd’s 100 untitled works in mill aluminum, 1982-1986, and 15 untitled works in concrete, 1980-1984. These special viewing hours will kick off the weekend of the autumnal equinox, which falls on Sunday, September 22.

We invite you to spend time with Judd’s work during dawn and dusk. Sunrise viewing will last from 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m., and sunset viewing will last from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

These open hours are free to all, thanks to the generous support of James Gregory.

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Donald Judd, 100 untitled works in mill aluminum, 1982-1986. Permanent collection, The Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas. Photo by Alex Marks. Donald Judd Art © 2024 Judd Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

08/23/2024

Chinati’s annual benefit dinner, taking place this year on Saturday, October 12, raises essential funds for our core initiatives: to present our collection to a broad public; to build community and support artists through public programs, artist residencies, and exhibitions; and to care for the art, architecture, and land that Donald Judd conceived as integral to Chinati.

This year, we are excited to host Brian Espinoza, formerly of Chez Panisse in Berkeley, California, who has planned a special Chinati Weekend menu. The evening will conclude with cocktails and music by several special guests under the incomparable West Texas skies.

Limited tickets and tables are available at the link below. We hope to see you in October!

https://chinati.org/support-chinati-weekend-2024/

Photo by Sarah Vasquez.

08/12/2024

Countdown to Chinati Weekend 2024 ✨

This October, Kim Gordon will kick off the Chinati Weekend festivities with a free solo performance on Friday, October 11 at Saint George Hall. Doors at 8:00 p.m. Performance at 9:00 p.m. All are welcome.

On Saturday, October 12, our annual benefit dinner at the Arena will continue into the night with an after-party featuring music by Veteranas & Rucas, Quecholatanrica, and PROXYGENTE, an experimental ruido-cumbia project by Mateo Galindo and Jon Lujan.

Tickets and tables are available at the link below, along with a full weekend schedule. We look forward to celebrating with you!

https://chinati.org/chinati-weekend-2024/

07/30/2024

We are thrilled to announce that we have been selected as a 2024 Frankenthaler Climate Initiative (FCI) awardee.

Established by the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, in collaboration with Environment & Culture Partners and RMI, the Frankenthaler Climate Initiative is the first grantmaking program of its kind that catalyzes climate action at visual arts organizations.

This generous grant will be used to study low-energy methods of mitigating temperatures and improving interior conditions in the historic buildings that house Donald Judd’s 100 untitled works in mill aluminum (1982–86).

We look forward to sharing more about this work in the coming months and extend our congratulations to all of the grantees.

The money will be used to install solar panels, updating lighting and create carbon-neutrality plans