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Exhibitions

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Current Exhibitions

Nina Elder: What Sustains

Sep 1, 2023 – Aug 1, 2024

2023-2024 Art Truck Exhibition Nina Elder What Sustains: Landscapes for Curiosity and Connection How do rocks, trees, and holes in the Earth sustain your daily life? Artist and researcher Nina…

Andrea Jensen: Solastalgia

Oct 20, 2023 – Jan 6, 2024

Solastalgia, as defined by the philosopher Glenn Albrecht, is the feeling of homesickness while we are still at home. More specifically, it describes the anxiety experienced due to environmental changes,…

2023 Doctorow Prize Winner: Chie Fueki

Sep 29, 2023 – Jan 6, 2024

The Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, in partnership with the Jarvis and Constance Doctorow Family Foundation, is honored to present the winner of the 2023 Catherine Doctorow Prize for Contemporary…

A Greater Utah

Jul 28, 2023 – Jan 6, 2024

↗ View a digital version of the exhibition here. A Greater Utah is an ambitious survey of artists living and working in Utah today. Curated by six leading curators, cultural…

Steven Stallings-Cardenas: Left Time

Jul 28, 2023 – Jan 6, 2024

In Left Time, Steven Stallings-Cardenas combines music and performance as metaphor to examine workers and their labor through a cyclical narrative that focuses on a nondescript drummer (worker). Dressed in…

Alyce Carrier: Cake Stand Altar

Aug 11, 2023 – Jan 6, 2024

In 2018, my sister disappeared for a little less than a year. In that year, I was incessant in my attempt to make sense of her physical and mental absence,…

Upcoming Exhibitions

There are no upcoming exhibitions at this time.

Past Exhibitions

Artist-in-Training: Head in the Clouds

Sep 1, 2023 – Oct 21, 2023

This student exhibition features work by artists aged 8-14 who participated in the Museum’s Artist-in-Training camp. Throughout the summer, the artists experimented with new mediums, toured current exhibitions, and collaborated…

Ben Sang: Gut Set

Jul 28, 2023 – Oct 14, 2023

“The archive plays a big role in this whole exhibition,” says artist Ben Sang, explaining that the collective body of work functions as “artifacts of an embodied experience of living…

Utah Division of Arts & Museums Statewide Annual UT ’23 Mixed Media & Works On Paper

Jun 23, 2023 – Sep 16, 2023

Visual arts competitions and exhibitions have been a project of the Utah Division of Arts & Museums (UA&M) since 1899. The Statewide Annual Exhibition (SWA) is an annual juried exhibition…

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…

Alexis Rausch: Nobody likes it here

Jun 23, 2023 – Aug 5, 2023

Nobody likes it here is a collaborative photography and performance project between Alexis Rausch and 12 international artists and creators. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Rausch created a mask of her own…

Gordon Matta-Clark: Splitting, 1974

Jan 20, 2023 – Jul 15, 2023

In Matta-Clark’s Splitting, the artist carefully slices, nearly in half, a suburban home, in Englewood, New Jersey. Part sculpture, part-video, part-architecture, the ambitious project is typical of Matta-Clark’s body of…

Haimaz, Heimr, Hjem, Heem, Hām, Home

Mar 10, 2023 – Jul 15, 2023

Haimaz, Heimr, Hjem, Heem, Hām, Home seeks to explore the notion of homes that are real, constructed, remembered, displaced, damaged, and imagined through the lens of the Old English word hām, which…

A Way of Working

Mar 10, 2023 – Jul 15, 2023

 “A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, and in the end, be unmeasurable.”  —Louis Kahn  The presented works celebrate the conception of ideas in the design process of Sparano…

Mitchell Barton: Razorbacks

May 12, 2023 – Jul 15, 2023

This exhibition takes its name from a passage of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick where the narrator, Ishmael, spots a whale of which only a fragment is seen and only at…

2023 Gala Art Auction

May 12, 2023 – Jun 10, 2023

↗ Click here to view auction website. By generously donating artwork, the local artists featured in the 2023 Annual Gala Art Auction Exhibition contribute to UMOCA’s mission in real and…

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