Sioux Falls, SD
Sioux Falls' mural scene has grown steadily with the city's economic expansion and civic investment in arts infrastructure, with downtown walls and the Cathedral District hosting work that reflects a community making intentional choices about its visual identity. The city's position as South Dakota's largest urban center gives its mural culture an outsized cultural significance in the region.
Featured Artists
All artists →Lars Andersen
Andersen is a South Dakota native who creates murals rooted in the visual drama of the Great Plains, translating the enormity of the prairie sky and the geology of the Falls into compositions that bring South Dakota's landscape into the urban fabric. His downtown work is the city's most photographed mural, a sweeping landscape that uses the entire width of a downtown building to capture the scale of the western horizon.
Maggie O'Brien
O'Brien has spent fifteen years documenting Sioux Falls' immigrant communities—Norwegian, Czech, Lakota, Somali, Karen—creating visual histories of communities that rarely receive mainstream cultural recognition. Her Cathedral District murals are a visual census of the people who built and inhabit Sioux Falls, rendered with sensitivity and historical precision.
Kenji Williams
Williams brings a coastal contemporary art sensibility to the Sioux Falls mural scene, creating abstract compositions that are visually at odds with the prairie context in a way that sparks exactly the conversations about art and place that he intends. His downtown work has attracted national attention and helped Sioux Falls join conversations about mid-sized American cities as serious cultural destinations.