Artists Against the Bomb opens Friday, October 16, 2026.

Past Exhibitions

2012 Exhibitions

Jonathan Horowitz, Your Land/My Land: Election ’12

October 5–November 24, 2012

The Utah Museum of Contemporary Art joins the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, the New Museum in New York, and…

Mr. Winkle: Object of Projection

July 6–October 20, 2012

Beneath the many interpretations of this fascinating creature is a real dog, a cult sensation who became an object of…

Alex Israel: As It Lays

August 3–September 29, 2012

Los Angeles-based artist Alex Israel uses Hollywood as a material to produce videos, objects, performances, and installations. AS IT LAYS,…

Mark Hedengren: The Invincibility Fable

May 4–August 18, 2012

The latest Locals Only Gallery inhabitant is Mark Hedengren. The Invincibility Fable is a survey of over 30 color photographs taken…

Christian Jankowski: Casting Jesus

June 5–July 28, 2012

For nearly two millennia, artists who have wished to depict Jesus Christ have had to make difficult decisions about the…

Play Me I’m Yours

June 15–June 30, 2012

The Utah Museum of Contemporary Art is thrilled to welcome artist Luke Jerram’s international sidewalk sensation, Play Me, I’m Yours.…

Cantastoria

June 15–June 30, 2012

Historically, cantastoria, which means “history singer” or “sung story” in Italian, were prominent in preliterate culture as vehicles for transmitting…

FAX

March 2–June 23, 2012

FAX invites a multigenerational group of artists, architects, designers, scientists, filmmakers and writers to reconceive of the fax machine as…

2012 Sundance Film Festival New Frontier

January 20–May 19, 2012

UMOCA will again host Sundance Film Festival’s New Frontier in Salt Lake City, Utah. New Frontier is curated by Sundance…

Elizabeth Tobias: Let Them Eat Cupcakes

April 6–May 19, 2012

Let Them Eat Cupcakes (aka The Cupcake Project), combines performance, outreach and installation to create a sobering commentary about the…

Karl Haendel and Petter Ringbom: Questions For My Father

February 25–May 19, 2012

Made in collaboration with New York-based filmmaker Petter Ringbom, Questions for My Father is a document of the inquiries, doubts…

Constant Dullaart: Onomatopoeia

March 2–May 5, 2012

Dutch artist Constant Dullaart wrestles within the delicate space between analog and digital. He makes works that reconcile ways to…

Joshua Luther: Meaning

January 6–April 21, 2012

Joshua Luther’s multi-media exhibition is an exciting invitation for visitors to take a step back from the language that we…

Spy Hop Productions: Sonic Squeeze

January 24–March 24, 2012

Cooperate. Communicate. Collaborate. Buzz words of the 21st Century. In theory, it’s what we’re all doing, but in the lightning…

Kehinde Wiley: Smile

January 13–February 25, 2012

Wiley’s Smile, a video created while a student at Yale University, challenges four men, each in a separate quadrant of…

Kim Schoenstadt

November 4, 2011–February 18, 2012

Recipient of the Catherine Doctorow Prize for Contemporary Painting Salt Lake Art Center and the Jarvis and Constance Doctorow Family…

Mirko Martin: NOIR

December 2, 2011–January 21, 2012

German artist Mirko Martin’s video, Noir, documents a night during the artist’s half-year stay in Los Angeles in 2008. Monitoring…

Doublespeak

October 7, 2011–January 7, 2012

Doublespeak features artworks by an international roster of contemporary women artists who utilize strategies of layered or multiple meanings to…

Neha Choksi: Leaf Fall

November 4, 2011–January 7, 2012

Neha Choksi’s Leaf Fall records a single day’s work of stripping a rural peepul tree of all its leaves, save…

All Exhibitions

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