UMOCA | Past Exhibitions

2014 Exhibitions

Bikuben

Jun 27, 2014 – Dec 20, 2014

Bikuben explores Danish contemporary art as a framework for understanding how the present may, albeit paradoxically, inform the past. Focusing on themes revolving around the intertwined nature of truth and…

Amy Jorgensen: Far From The Tree

Oct 17, 2014 – Dec 6, 2014

Amy Jorgensen explores themes and imagery of the apple as a loaded and sometimes contradictory cultural symbol. Her performative acts of eating, destroying, and documenting the common fruit speaks to…

Catherine Yass: Wall

Oct 17, 2014 – Nov 29, 2014

Catherine Yass’s film concentrates on the physical wall that separates Palestine from Israel. Winding through both dense communities and unspoiled landscape, Yass takes us through distinct experiences, corresponding to the…

Robert Smithson: Hotel Palenque

Aug 29, 2014 – Oct 4, 2014

Hotel Palenque, a slideshow of Robert Smithson’s photographs, reveals an unfinished hotel on the Mayan architectural site of Palenque, Mexico.Taken in 1969 during his travels to northern Yucatán, these photographs…

Matthew Allred: Clinamen

Aug 29, 2014 – Oct 4, 2014

From the ancient theories of Greek philosopher Epicurus to the writings of French philosopher Gilles Deleuze, the clinamen continually preoccupies debates regarding the random movements of particles through time and…

In Motion: Borders and Migrations

May 16, 2014 – Sep 27, 2014

In collaboration with Professor Elena Shtromberg and the students from the course, Visual Culture along the U.S./Mexico Border at the University of Utah, the exhibit, In Motion: Borders and Migrations,…

CLUI: Houston Petrochemical Corridor Landscan

Jul 11, 2014 – Aug 23, 2014

Spanning the petroleum fields of West Texas to the refineries and plastics plants clustered around the Gulf Coast, the petrochemical network of the nation converges on Texas, the home state…

Christopher Kelly: GOD COMPLEX

Jun 27, 2014 – Aug 16, 2014

What does the civilized man embody—a self-consumed mentality focused on one’s own existence in an effort to live outside of collective society, or at least the conditioned notion of life…

Melik Ohanian: Welcome to Hanksville

May 16, 2014 – Jun 28, 2014

The Cultural Cartographies Series begins in the Utah desert with Melik Ohanian’s Welcome to Hanksville (2003). This film examines the congregation of a group of pseudo-scientists on August 27, 2003, during…

do it

Jan 17, 2014 – May 31, 2014

Curated By Hans Ulrich Obrist Organized by Independent Curators International (ICI) do it began as a conversation between artists Christian Boltanski and Bertrand Lavier and Curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, who…

Andrea Jensen: Entropostasis

Mar 14, 2014 – May 10, 2014

Oscillating between moments of serenity and devastation, Andrea Jensen’s mixed media paintings reimagine sublime landscapes as blueprints of impermanence. Splotches of blue, red, yellow, and green juxtaposed with stark rigid…

Trent Harris: Echo Cave

Jan 17, 2014 – Apr 26, 2014

Trent Harris: Echo Cave is the first retrospective into the creative genius of the Utah cult filmmaker. This exhibition presents drawings, photographs, artists books, and short films that illuminate Harris’s…

.gif Shop

Sep 19, 2013 – Mar 14, 2014

Artistic collaborators since 2006, Admiral Potato and Adam ‘The Obviologist’ Heath have worked together on projects of creative expression across multiple mediums. From professional roots in photography, print design, and…

Stephanie Leitch: Untitled Apogee

Dec 6, 2013 – Feb 22, 2014

Untitled Apogee is part of a series that pulls inspiration from the aesthetic value of images, architecture, and realities in the local dominant culture of Salt Lake City. Drawing on…

Spy Hop Productions

Dec 6, 2021 – Jan 11, 2014

We exist in a more complex world than ever before. While collectively we can recognize that being a teenager today must be more challenging, confusing, overwhelming and exciting than it…

Tala Madani

Oct 4, 2013 – Jan 4, 2014

A survey of animated paintings by the 2013 winner of the Catherine Doctorow Prize for Contemporary Painting. Merging the satire of political cartoons with the palette of American abstraction, L.A.-based…

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