RiNo
The River North Art District has transformed Denver's former industrial zone into one of the most mural-dense neighborhoods in the Mountain West. RiNo's conversion from railyards and warehouses began with artists seeking cheap studio space in the 2000s; their murals followed on the exterior walls of buildings they occupied. Today the art is more curated and the studios more expensive, but the concentration of large-format work remains extraordinary.
Featured Artists
All artists →Jaime Molina
Denver-based artist whose large figurative works often incorporate Western mythology and the psychological landscape of the Mountain West. "Mile High" on Larimer Street is his signature RiNo piece — a five-story figure standing at altitude, the figure's body dissolving at the edges into the high-altitude light that makes Denver skies unlike any other city in the country.
Pat Milbery
Denver-based muralist and longtime RiNo Arts District participant whose work translates the Rocky Mountain landscape into large-format abstract-naturalist painting. "Rocky Mountain Way" is his most ambitious RiNo work — a 70-foot panorama of Front Range scenery painted in a style that combines en plein air landscape tradition with the scale and presence of WPA mural art.
Kelly Gale Amen
Denver artist whose practice centers ecological awareness and water rights in the arid West. "Platte River" documents the South Platte River that runs through RiNo — its pre-settlement ecology, its industrial degradation, and its ongoing restoration — in a mural that reads left to right like a timeline from 1800 to the present, rendered in the teal and brown palette of a western waterway.