UMOCA | Exhibitions

Current Exhibitions

UMOCA x Aïsha Lehmann Present: My Roots, Your Roots

Sep 12, 2022 – Aug 30, 2023

Through visual narratives, My Roots, Your Roots explores the intricacies of authentic and perceived identities. Multimedia artist Aïsha Lehmann uses printmaking techniques to communicate the stories and experiences that form…

i know you are, but what am i? (De)Framing Identity and the Body

Jun 24, 2022 – Jan 7, 2023

i know you are, but what am i? (De)Framing Identity and the Body focuses on the use of the figure, in contemporary art, to explore culture, identity, fluidity, body positivity––and to provide a…

Bernard Meyers: Urban Abstracts

Aug 12, 2022 – Oct 15, 2022

“Photograph something not for what it is but for what it can become.” —Minor White Bernard Meyers uses images collected on walks through urban environments to explore the intersections of…

John Sproul: Here Between There

Aug 12, 2022 – Oct 15, 2022

John Sproul’s Here Between There uses the body to explore opposites—protection vs. exposure, public vs. private, acknowledgment vs. disregard, and conscious vs. subconscious—to understand the fallacy of power and the strength found…

Upcoming Exhibitions

Haimaz, Heimr, Hjem, Heem, Hām, Home

Jan 20, 2023 – Jun 3, 2023

Haimaz, Heimr, Hjem, Heem, Hām, Home is a broad examination of what it means to be home, in some cases, to lack a home, and the potential to create a home outside…

Christy Chan: Who’s Coming to Save You?

Sep 30, 2022 – Jan 7, 2023

Christy Chan is a Virginia-born, San Francisco Bay Area-based artist who uses video, installation, performance, and social practice to question the everyday power structures that uphold white supremacy in the United…

Tali Alisa Hafoka: Carried Across

Sep 30, 2022 – Jan 7, 2023

In Carried Across: Meditations on Diasporic Living Tali Alisa Hafoka uses food as a lens to explore culture and connection in Pacific Islander communities in the diaspora. Hafoka focuses on…

Past Exhibitions

WINDOWS + MIRRORS

Sep 4, 2022 – Sep 24, 2022

This student exhibition features work by artists aged 9-14 who participated in the Museum’s Artist-in-Training summer camp. Throughout the week-long camp, students learned about contemporary art practices and techniques. In…

UMOCA x Angie Smith Present: Stronger Shines the Light Inside

Sep 4, 2022 – Sep 24, 2022

Stronger Shines the Light Inside is an ongoing photography project that tells the personal stories of refugees in the United States. In 2015, Los Angeles-based photographer Angie Smith began documenting…

Utah Division of Arts & Museums Presents DesignArts2022 Utah

Jun 24, 2022 – Sep 17, 2022

Returning to a several decades old tradition of partnering with the State, the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art is pleased to serve as the host site for (UA&M) annual DesignArts…

Tobias Fike: When I Am Gone

Jul 13, 2022 – Sep 3, 2022

When I Am Gone is an attempt at coming to terms with the inevitability of death and an examination of the impact loss has on those left behind. Fike’s seemingly playful…

Alise Anderson: My Grandma is a Meme

Jun 24, 2022 – Aug 6, 2022

My Grandma is a Meme is an intergenerational collaboration between artist Alise Anderson and her late grandma, Trudy White. White meticulously, near compulsively, recorded her life, starting in the 1930s until…

Aloe Corry: Loose Limbs

Jun 24, 2022 – Aug 6, 2022

We are tossed by a torrent, limbs swaying, straining against floods —ankles, palms, and thighs. Branching and burned out, measured and weeping. When the wind blows, we bend, break, and…

Jaclyn Wright: High Visibility (Blaze Orange)

Mar 18, 2022 – Jun 18, 2022

In High Visibility (Blaze Orange), artist Jaclyn Wright uses debris collected from gun ranges on public lands to explore the intersections of photography, capitalism, and colonialism. Employing original images as…

2022 Gala Art Auction Exhibition

May 13, 2022 – Jun 11, 2022

Featured Artists: Alise Anderson; Coleman Andersen; Mitchell Barton; John Bell; Collin Bradford; Thomas Campbell; Justin Chouinard; is it Jared Lindsay Clark; Nic Courdy; Paul Crow; Annelise Duque; Patrick Durka; Daniel…

Kaleidoscopic: Life Through a Multi-Colored Lens

Apr 15, 2022 – Jun 8, 2022

Out Loud is an artistic platform for young LGBTQ+ voices in Utah. Through a 12-week workshop series, these teenage artists have explored new mediums and developed their artistic voices with…

Our Wake Up Call For Freedoms

Jan 21, 2022 – Jun 4, 2022

Founded in 2016 by artists Hank Willis Thomas, Eric Gottesman, Michelle Woo, and Wyatt Gallery, For Freedoms formed as an artist-led organization that produces artist activations, community programming, exhibitions, and…

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