The High Desert Art Fair returns to Pioneertown, California, on March 28–29, 2026, bringing art, music, and culture together in one of the most iconic settings in the American West. For two days, the Pioneertown Motel and surrounding venues become an immersive desert campus where exhibitions, performances, and community meet.

Each motel room transforms into a gallery, with local, regional, and national exhibitors presenting installations and curated selections across photography, painting, sculpture, and more. Talks, book signings, and daytime programming spark conversations between artists, curators, collectors, and the broader high desert community.

The weekend’s music lineup expands this year, kicking off with a free Friday-night opening party at Red Dog Saloon, featuring a DJ set by Shepard Fairey.
On Saturday night, Mark Mothersbaugh—artist, composer, and co-founder of DEVO—performs at Pappy & Harriet’s, debuting The General, his one-of-a-kind instrument first introduced in his Myopia retrospective. Additional musical guests will be announced, rounding out a full evening of performances across Pioneertown.

The 2026 fair also launches new collaborations with Desert X for talks and special programming, along with a special edition of the Pioneertown Gazette documenting the weekend’s exhibitions, performances, and stories.

A full list of participating galleries, publishers, musicians, and cultural partners will be announced in January 2026.

Whether you’re a collector, an art lover, or finally planning that Joshua Tree weekend with friends, the High Desert Art Fair offers a magnetic mix of art, music, and desert energy unlike anything else in California.

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Saturday March, 28th

The High Desert Art Fair is back — and this is your excuse to gather your crew and head to Joshua Tree.
 Spend a full day exploring desert gallery takeovers, artist-led programming, and immersive pop-ups throughout the Pioneertown Motel.

Your Day Pass includes full access from 10am–5pm to all exhibitions and daytime events.

Pioneertown becomes a walkable, creative desert hub — galleries in motel rooms, installations in courtyards, talks under the sky, artists everywhere. It’s the perfect mix of art, music energy, desert culture, and community.

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Follow along and grab tickets early — this year will sell fast.

This is the catalyst for the Joshua Tree weekend you’ve talked about forever.
 Come for the art fair. Stay for the desert, the sunsets, the food, the vibes. Bring your friends and make it a full adventure.

See you in the high desert.

Sunday March, 29th

Experience the High Desert Art Fair — a two-day art + culture takeover in Pioneertown, CA.
 Your Day Pass gives you full access to exhibitions, gallery pop-ups, artist talks, and creative programming across the Pioneertown Motel from 10am–5pm.

This is the weekend to finally make that Joshua Tree trip happen.

Curated exhibitions from leading galleries + desert artists

Intimate gallery rooms transformed into immersive viewing spaces

Artist talks, book signings, and special daytime programming

Collectors, creators, designers, and desert culture-makers from LA & beyond

A one-of-a-kind desert setting steps from Pappy & Harriet’s

From now until the fair, we’ll be revealing exhibiting galleries, musicians, speakers, pop-up moments, and special guests across our socials.
 This year’s lineup is our biggest yet — don’t wait.

Because this isn’t another gallery opening or a crowded convention.
 It’s a real community-driven desert weekend — creative, intimate, vibrant, and unforgettable.

Get your ticket, invite your friends, and make the trip.
 The desert is calling.

HIGH DESERT ART FAIR MUSIC SHOWCASE

mARCH 28TH 4PM TO 10PM

BUY TICKETS HERE FOR MUSIC SHOWCASE

MARK MOTHERSBAUGH (DEVO)

Mark Mothersbaugh is one of the most singular creative forces of our time—a visionary composer, conceptual artist, and boundary-breaking cultural pioneer. As co-founder of DEVO and the mind behind the sonic identity of over 150 films, television shows, and games, he has spent five decades reshaping how we hear and see the world. Through his studio Mutato Muzika, Mark’s work has permeated global culture, and his visual art has been featured in more than 165 exhibitions, including his major museum retrospective Myopia.

For the High Desert Art Fair, Mark will perform on The General—his legendary, custom-built orchestral machine that fuses analog invention with digital chaos. Part instrument, part sculpture, part living archive, The General is Mothersbaugh’s personal laboratory of sound, capable of everything from fragile melodic fragments to explosive, layered sonic epics. Seeing Mark play it live is rare; experiencing it in the desert is once-in-a-lifetime.

STOLEN NOVA

STOLEN NOVA is the pulsating, shape-shifting music project of singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist . LA-based creative whose sound threads together glam-rock swagger, psychedelic pop textures, and a gritty, cinematic edge. Known for explosive live shows and a visual world that feels halfway between a desert fever dream and a late-night art-house film, STOLEN NOVA has quickly become one of Los Angeles’ most magnetic underground forces.

Burns brings a full-spectrum performance ethos to the stage: hypnotic vocals, raw charisma, and a sonic palette that moves from shimmering falsettos to fuzzed-out guitar eruptions. With a cult following stretching from DIY venues to fashion runways and gallery events, STOLEN NOVA embodies the next wave of LA’s art-driven music scene.

For the High Desert Art Fair, STOLEN NOVA will deliver an electric, high-energy set built for the desert night—equal parts spectacle, ceremony, and sonic blast. A rising star with the voltage turned all the way up.

U.S. Girls

U.S. Girls is the critically acclaimed avant-pop project of Meg Remy, a genre-bending songwriter, producer, and performance artist whose work has redefined the possibilities of modern music. Blending radiant pop hooks with experimental production, incisive lyricism, and a cinematic sense of scale, Remy has spent over a decade building one of the most singular and emotionally charged catalogs in contemporary art music. Her albums—widely celebrated by Pitchfork, The New York Times, and the Polaris Prize—move fluidly between disco, soul, art rock, and radical sound collage, all anchored by her unmistakable voice and fiercely imaginative storytelling.

Onstage, U.S. Girls is a revelation: part ritual, part dance floor communion, part political opera. Remy brings a magnetic presence and a fearlessly creative spirit, transforming every performance into an immersive, art-forward experience.

For the High Desert Art Fair, U.S. Girls will deliver a deeply atmospheric set—lush, powerful, and otherworldly. A rare chance to see one of North America’s most visionary artists under the desert sky.

DEVON ROSS

Devon Ross is a multifaceted creative force—model, actor, and now musician—who is carving out a singular voice at the crossroads of indie-rock tradition and high-fashion cool. Born into a musical household (her father is guitarist Craig Ross) and raised between Los Angeles, London and The Bahamas, she absorbed creative codes early and has moved seamlessly across art-forms.

As a model she walked for top houses like Valentino and Simone Rocha; as a musician she released her debut EP Oxford Gardens in 2024, a record celebrated for channeling influences like Kim Gordon fronting Television.

Her sound moves with raw intimacy—echoes of Sonic Youth, Pavement and The Breeders—fused with a cinematic sense of place and style. Ross returned to Los Angeles after years abroad, and the desert-and-sky aesthetic of her home base now pops up in her music and persona. Mastermind

For the High Desert Art Fair, Devon Ross brings a live set that is one part subterranean rock ritual and one part style-icon moment. She invites us into her world—fraught, stylish, unexpected—and leaves an imprint that lingers long after the last note.

ÖLÜM

ÖLÜM is a sonic force built on distortion, ritual, and atmosphere—an experimental rock project that bends between desert psychedelia, drone, metal, and cinematic noise. Their sound moves like weather: slow-burning, ominous, and suddenly overwhelming. With guttural bass lines, trance-driven percussion, and vocals that drift between incantation and catharsis, ÖLÜM creates a wall-of-sound experience that feels both ancient and entirely new.

Live, the band performs as if conducting a séance—feedback, rhythm, and raw emotion collapsing into something hypnotic and physical. Their shows are known for intensity and immersion, pulling the room into a shared, almost ritualistic state.

For the High Desert Art Fair, ÖLÜM will bring a performance built for the landscape itself—heavy, hallucinatory, and transcendent. A desert invocation. A sound you don’t just hear, but inhabit.

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HIGH DESERT ART FAIR

March 28th and 29th 2026