UMOCA | Past Exhibitions

2012 Exhibitions

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

Oct 5, 2012 – Nov 24, 2012

The Utah Museum of Contemporary Art joins the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, the New Museum in New York, and other museums across the United States to present Jonathan Horowitz’s…

Mr. Winkle: Object of Projection

Jul 6, 2012 – Oct 20, 2012

Beneath the many interpretations of this fascinating creature is a real dog, a cult sensation who became an object of fascination for the world and the source of inspiration for…

Alex Israel: As It Lays

Aug 3, 2012 – Sep 29, 2012

Los Angeles-based artist Alex Israel uses Hollywood as a material to produce videos, objects, performances, and installations. AS IT LAYS, 2012 employs the television talk-show format as a platform to…

Mark Hedengren: The Invincibility Fable

May 4, 2012 – Aug 18, 2012

The latest Locals Only Gallery inhabitant is Mark Hedengren. The Invincibility Fable is a survey of over 30 color photographs taken from his series Cliff Jumpers, a project that spanned nearly…

Christian Jankowski: Casting Jesus

Jun 5, 2012 – Jul 28, 2012

For nearly two millennia, artists who have wished to depict Jesus Christ have had to make difficult decisions about the appearance of the person to play the role. In Casting Jesus (2011),…

Cantastoria

Jun 15, 2012 – Jun 30, 2012

Historically, cantastoria, which means “history singer” or “sung story” in Italian, were prominent in preliterate culture as vehicles for transmitting news and heritage. Their information was conveyed theatrically in a…

Play Me I’m Yours

Jun 15, 2012 – Jun 30, 2012

The Utah Museum of Contemporary Art is thrilled to welcome artist Luke Jerram’s international sidewalk sensation, Play Me, I’m Yours. Members of the public and closet musicians alike are invited…

FAX

Mar 2, 2012 – Jun 23, 2012

FAX invites a multigenerational group of artists, architects, designers, scientists, filmmakers and writers to reconceive of the fax machine as a thinking and drawing tool. Participants transmit their fax-based work…

Karl Haendel and Petter Ringbom: Questions For My Father

Feb 25, 2012 – May 19, 2012

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

2012 Sundance Film Festival New Frontier

Jan 20, 2012 – May 19, 2012

UMOCA will again host Sundance Film Festival’s New Frontier in Salt Lake City, Utah. New Frontier is curated by Sundance Film Festival Senior Programmer Shari Frilot. Highlighting work that pushes…

Elizabeth Tobias: Let Them Eat Cupcakes

Apr 6, 2012 – May 19, 2012

Let Them Eat Cupcakes (aka The Cupcake Project), combines performance, outreach and installation to create a sobering commentary about the scale of hunger in the United States. During her one-night-only…

Constant Dullaart: Onomatopoeia

Mar 2, 2021 – May 5, 2012

Dutch artist Constant Dullaart wrestles within the delicate space between analog and digital. He makes works that reconcile ways to demystify technology by trying to physically enter it. Onomatopoeia is…

Joshua Luther: Meaning

Jan 6, 2012 – Apr 21, 2012

Joshua Luther’s multi-media exhibition is an exciting invitation for visitors to take a step back from the language that we all too often take for granted, and instead contemplate why…

Spy Hop Productions: Sonic Squeeze

Jan 24, 2012 – Mar 24, 2012

Cooperate. Communicate. Collaborate. Buzz words of the 21st Century. In theory, it’s what we’re all doing, but in the lightning fast world we live in, these ideas often get left…

Kehinde Wiley: Smile

Jan 13, 2012 – Feb 25, 2012

Wiley’s Smile, a video created while a student at Yale University, challenges four men, each in a separate quadrant of the screen, to smile directly into the camera’s lens for…

Kim Schoenstadt

Nov 4, 2011 – Feb 18, 2012

Recipient of the Catherine Doctorow Prize for Contemporary Painting Salt Lake Art Center and the Jarvis and Constance Doctorow Family Foundation are pleased to announce the inaugural recipient of the…

Mirko Martin: NOIR

Dec 2, 2011 – Jan 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 gang activity, police helicopters circled the neighborhood on a regular…

Doublespeak

Oct 7, 2011 – Jan 7, 2012

Doublespeak features artworks by an international roster of contemporary women artists who utilize strategies of layered or multiple meanings to address politically, sexually or socially difficult subject matter. This exhibition…

Neha Choksi: Leaf Fall

Nov 4, 2011 – Jan 7, 2012

Neha Choksi’s Leaf Fall records a single day’s work of stripping a rural peepul tree of all its leaves, save an autumnal sprig at the tip of a single high…

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