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Prada Marfa

Prada Marfa by Elmgreen & Dragset, a small beige building with black Prada signs and shoes and bags in its windows, standing alone in flat, dry grassland in West Texas.
Artwork FileNear Valentine, Texas · United States

Prada Marfa

Reported16 Sep 2025

Elmgreen & Dragset · Near Valentine, Texas

Photograph from the Street Art Utopia archive. Photo: rob zand (CC BY-SA 2.0), 2010-05-25. Full framing retained; resized. Share image resized to 16:9 without cropping. Share derivative uses the same licence.

Prada Marfa looks like a luxury shop beside a desert highway, but its door stays locked. Elmgreen & Dragset created the permanent installation near Valentine, Texas, with shoes and bags from Prada’s fall 2005 collection. Source Reported

Reported Sep 2025. Source Dates refer to the linked evidence, not a new on-site inspection.

💡 4 things to know

  1. A shop-shaped sculptureThe permanently locked door is part of the work, not a sign of temporary closure. Source Reported
  2. Two commissionersArt Production Fund and Ballroom Marfa co-produced the installation. Source Reported
  3. Near ValentineDespite its name, the sculpture stands one mile west of Valentine. Source Reported
  4. Preserved rather than abandonedIn a 2025 interview, the artists describe how restoration and maintenance changed the work’s intended trajectory. Source Reported

📍 Where it is

Highway 90, one mile west of Valentine, Near Valentine, Texas, United States Source Reported

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🗓️ Sightings

  1. 20051 Oct

    Installation established · Ballroom Marfa record

  2. 201025 May

    Front view photographed by robzand

  3. 2020

    James Evans photograph reproduced by Domus

  4. 202516 Sep

    Twenty-year artist interview published

Green stamps are dated photographs; amber stamps are records or reports. Publication and upload dates are not camera dates. A dated sighting does not guarantee the work remains in place today.

✅ The facts

Artists
Elmgreen & Dragset Source Checked
Established
1 October 2005 Source Checked
Commissioners
Art Production Fund and Ballroom Marfa Source Checked
Location
Highway 90, one mile west of Valentine, Texas Source Checked
Contents
Shoes and handbags from Prada’s fall 2005 collection Source Checked
Door
Permanently locked Source Checked

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All sources & image credits

Photograph from the Street Art Utopia archive. Photo: rob zand (CC BY-SA 2.0), 2010-05-25. Full framing retained; resized. Share image resized to 16:9 without cropping. Share derivative uses the same licence.

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