NIGHT LIGHT

Co-presented by Aurora Picture Show and Buffalo Bayou Partnership, NIGHT LIGHT is an annual spring event featuring newly commissioned, large-scale video art installations at various sites and structures along Buffalo Bayou’s waterfront. Beginning at sunset, each of these transformational audiovisual works are connected by trails, with a lively market featuring food, drink, local goods, and music anchoring the one-night festival.

With these commissions of large-scale, site-specific installations, Aurora aims to expand creative possibilities and audience engagement for a diversity of Houston-based artists, as well as enhancing public engagement in contemporary art. NIGHT LIGHT has attracted thousands of attendees each year since 2022. Nothing better reflects Houston’s landscape than the unique confluence of natural, industrial, and urban elements along Buffalo Bayou, and there is no better activation of the currents of our contemporary art and culture than this truly unique, free, outdoor event.

NIGHT LIGHT 2025
Saturday, March 29, 2025
Featured artists: Saúl Hernández-Vargas, Diana-Sofia Estrada, and Isogram Media Studio (Ha Na Lee and James Hughes)
More about the event here.

NIGHT LIGHT 2024
Saturday, April 6, 2024
Featured artists: Violette Bule, Ronald Llewellyn Jones, Nick Vaughan & Jake Margolin, Ezra Wube
More about the works here.

NIGHT LIGHT 2023
Saturday, April 1, 2023
Featured artists: Chap Edmonson, Jamie Robertson, Input Output (Billy Baccam and Alex Ramos)
More about the works here.

NIGHT LIGHT 2022
Saturday, April 2, 2022
Featured artists: Julia Barbosa-Landois, Marcelese Cooper, Input Output (Billy Baccam and Alex Ramos)
More about the works here.