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This website is an archive of HDTS projects from 2002-2022.

High Desert Test Sites has hosted the work of more than 460 artists, 12 expansive site-specific programs, and 25 solo projects over the span of more than 20 years.

From the Archive

gray — A Gift is a Letting Go

Katie Bachler

imgp1730-sm-600x-q100 — Marie Lorenz
The History of the Last Five Minutes (No.2)

HDTS 5 (2006)

image-600x-q100 — Burro Bill and Me by Edna Caulkins Price at Copper Mountain Community Center

Kip's Desert Book Club

01-3raskin-settingup96-lisi-600x-q100 — Lisi Raskin
Untitled by Lisi Raskin

HDTS 3 (2003)

bodycity-azittel-600x-q100 — Bodycity
Body Desert: End Trails

HDTS 2011

gray — Say Hi to Kevin for Me -- An Amboy Story

Amboy

gray — Desert Underground, The

Desert Research Library

Mormon Tea

HDTK

pict0350-600x-q100 — Skylar Haskard

Joel Kyack
Lost Desert Stage

HDTS 4 (2004)

screen-shot-2018-11-06-at-2-15-55-pm-600x-q100 — HDTS 2011

Biennials

10192013-scalkins-333-600x-q100 — Vecinos Artist Collective
Burial Grounds

HDTS 2013

10142013-atang-190-600x-q100 — Landon Wiggs
Mall Ruin

HDTS 2013

AUDC, Lisa Anne Auerbach, Justin Beal, Jedediah Caesar, Kate Costello, Jeremy Deller, Jim Drain, Jacob Dyrenforth, Shannon Ebner, Lars Fisk, Christy Gast, Aaron Gatch, Katie Grinnan, Wade Guyton, GWC, Investigators, Mary Beth Heffernan, Dave Hopkins, Patrick Jackson, Christopher James, Alex Kennewick, Mark Klassen, Fabienne Lasserre, Marie Lorenz, Allan McCollum, Aleksandra Mir, Yoshua Okón, Joel Otterson, Julianna Parr, Raymond Pettibon, Jack Pierson, Virginia Poundstone, Lisi Raskin, Jeff Reed, Ry Rocklen, David Shrigley, LeRoy Stevens, Mungo Thomson, Von Tundra, Amy Yao, Wendy Yao

An Ephemeral History of High Desert Test Sites: 2002-2015

HDTS 2017