We offer space and support to working artists through curation, exhibition design, installation, administration, and marketing services. Our artist-run gallery, website, and social media platforms provide artists at various career stages with an independent space to share, sell, and even lease their work. Alongside exhibitions, we produce free and affordable programming such as workshops, performances, artist panels, walkthroughs, and podcast episodes, to deepen engagement and appreciation of the work and our artists’ perspectives and backgrounds as people. During the course of our shows, Compound YV facilitates connections between artists who later become collaborators, between artists and collectors, and between artists and the desert community.

As an additional layer to physical installations, we encourage programming such as live performances and workshops that allow us to interact differently with audiences and deepen their experience of artwork and its subject matter. This frequently touches on culturally relevant, political and personal issues: how we treat our land, how domestic abuse ricochets through the media, how motherhood is experienced in the body, how we find ourselves across borders, and how queerness and mental health are interwoven, to name a few.