Immersive & weird art in Denver

Looking for immersive & offbeat art in Denver? These 13 are the genuinely strange ones — Cat Alley (Alley Cats by Kelly Monico), RUMTUM UV-Reactive Mural, One River North (MAD Architects canyon floors) and more — each hand-vetted and sourced, not pulled from a top-ten list. Great for an unusual date, a weird afternoon, or showing a visitor the side of Denver they'd never find on their own.

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Cat Alley (Alley Cats by Kelly Monico) Wander into the right unmarked alley off Larimer between 14th and 15th and you'll start noticing them — cats.… LoDo / Larimer Square
RUMTUM UV-Reactive Mural RiNo is wall-to-wall murals, but this RUMTUM piece has a second painting hiding inside it that daylight never… RiNo (River North Art District)
One River North (MAD Architects canyon floors) A 16-story RiNo apartment tower with a literal canyon torn through its middle: floors 6 through 9 are split o… RiNo (River North Art District)
Su Teatro Cultural and Performing Arts Center The oldest theater company of any kind in Denver — founded in 1972 by CU-Denver students as a protest against… Santa Fe Arts District / La Alma
Room for Friends … a wine bar! A husband-and-wife pair of ex-United Airlines folks turned this skinny Santa Fe storefront into a wine bar th… Santa Fe Arts District / Lincoln Park (La Alma)
Future Drawn oneLINE Gallery — Easter Art Hunt A working line-art gallery on Tennyson runs a hunt almost nobody catches: framed, signed original oneLINE ink… Berkeley / Tennyson Street
Contreras Market & Panaderia What started in 2000 as the Contreras family knocking on doors selling bread wholesale now eats an entire Mor… Westwood
Understudy Inside the Colorado Convention Center, in a 700-square-foot wedge under a stairwell that was too small and we… Downtown / Theatre District
Dateline Gallery Founded in 2013 by curator Jeromie Dorrance and artist Adam Milner, Dateline sits at the awkward, deliberate… RiNo
Spectra Art Space A women-run gallery on a nondescript stretch of South Broadway that builds two completely different walk-thro… Baker / South Broadway (technically Overland/SoBo at 1836 S Broadway)
Sidewalk Joy Free Little Art Galleries Tiny plexiglass-roofed gallery cabinets bolted to the sidewalk in front of people's homes, stocked with origi… Littleton and metro Denver
OddKnock Test Kitchen Three New York actors who cut their teeth at Sleep No More took over an empty 3,700-square-foot storefront at… RiNo
Squirm Gallery This small brick warehouse on Brighton was Rhinoceropolis — one of the most mythologized DIY spaces Denver ev… RiNo (River North)