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Past Exhibitions

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2016 Exhibitions

Mike Lee: Digital Mirror: Selfie Consciousness

Oct 21, 2016 – Dec 17, 2016

The mirror is a central part of Shintoism. A mirror, Yata-no-Kagami, is one of the three objects that constitute the Imperial Regalia of Japan. These objects originate in one of…

Object[ed]: Shaping Sculpture in Contemporary Art

Aug 26, 2016 – Dec 7, 2016

Bringing together the work of six sculptors, this exhibition explores how visual artists use three-dimensionality as a language to reframe and expand notions of objecthood. Beyond the tired dichotomy of…

Berna Reale: Singing in the Rain

Aug 19, 2016 – Nov 5, 2016

Video and performance artist Berna Reale exposes habituated realities in Brazil’s contemporary society with acts that infiltrate the relentless urban routines of Belém, the largest city and capital of the…

Cara Krebs: Sehnsucht

Aug 26, 2016 – Oct 14, 2016

Sehnsucht: “the inconsolable longing in the human heart for we know not what”; a yearning for a far, familiar, non-earthly land one can identify as one’s home. Paradoxical worlds hover…

Andrew Rice: (re)Structured

Aug 12, 2016 – Oct 8, 2016

Layers upon layers of entrapment. We all, to some degree, create our own shell-like environments that become safe havens from the harsh world around us. A place that shelters us,…

Jim Williams: 265 I … Home As Self-Portrait

May 13, 2016 – Sep 24, 2016

Working across several modes of expression, artist Jim Williams aims to express each facet of the self through the lens of the narcissistic and isolated artist in his decades-long self…

Jennifer Seely: Supporting Elements

May 13, 2016 – Sep 24, 2016

Exploration, intrusive investigation, research and analysis are the foundation of Jennifer Seely’s project Supporting Elements. As a forensic architect, Seely applies her architectural background, understanding of construction and proper installation…

Whitney Bushman: The Greatest Joy You’ll Ever Know is to Love and Be Loved in Return

Jun 10, 2016 – Aug 6, 2016

Cross-stitching has traditionally been seen as women’s work. It was taught as a handicraft, primarily to keep hands from being idle, and to promote often trite adages that were tediously…

Jennet Thomas: The Unspeakable Freedom Device

May 13, 2016 – Jul 30, 2016

Confronting the state of contemporary politics, Jennet Thomas’s The Unspeakable Freedom Device offers a satirical interpretation of electioneering, voting systems, and cultural extremes in British society. Thomas’s film and multimedia…

Ideologue

Feb 5, 2016 – Jul 23, 2016

Exploring power relationships in both the cultural and political realms, Ideologue brings together the work of nine artists who employ humor and hyperbole to address platforms of ideology. The vast…

Nicholas Courdy: Metaphornography

May 6, 2016 – Jul 23, 2016

Nicholas Courdy explores the ways in which the internet’s availability of media and social interaction shape the complexities within the spectrum of our romantic desires and perpetuate the maximum threshold…

2 Out 2 Loud: Where’s the Glitter?

Apr 29, 2016 – Jul 9, 2016

During the second installment of the Out Loud workshop series, nine teens worked with local artists and museum staff to explore LGBTQIA+ themes in the context of contemporary art. Each…

Ian Booth: Kazakhstan: Tselina/Building the Virgin Lands

Mar 25, 2016 – May 7, 2016

For over a decade, Utah native Ian Booth has roamed the globe documenting people, architecture, and landscapes of obscure and enigmatic places. From the streets of Flores in Guatemala to…

Yoshua Okón: Oracle

Jan 29, 2016 – Apr 30, 2016

Oracle (2015) is among the most recent multi-channel video installations by Yoshua Okón, exploring the timely issue of immigration and national borders, themes the artist has examined throughout his oeuvre.…

Paul Crow: Here

Feb 5, 2016 – Apr 30, 2016

Paul Crow’s photographs are records of his movement through places with the aim of being as fully present there as he is able.  With the camera recording the trajectories of his…

Areas for Action: Play, Exploration, and Interaction

Feb 5, 2016 – Apr 16, 2016

In October 2015, Brooklyn-based artist Oliver Herring collaborated with several Utah County art educators and institutions. To engage hundreds of high school and college students, he employed Areas for Action,…

Andrew Moncrief: A Strange Feeling

Jan 29, 2016 – Mar 19, 2016

In Andrew Moncrief’s A Strange Feeling, the artist appropriates images of male wrestlers to unravel dichotomies of violence and intimacy, stoicism and submission, tolerance and taboo. Rendered in thick layers…

Firelei Báez: Patterns of Resistance

Sep 25, 2015 – Jan 16, 2016

Catherine Doctorow Prize for Contemporary Painting Winner, 2015 UMOCA is pleased to present the 2015 Catherine Doctorow Prize For Contemporary Painter winner Firelei Báez in her solo exhibition, Patterns of Resistance.…

Tyrone Davies: IN CAMERA

Nov 13, 2015 – Jan 16, 2016

  Tyrone Davies’ IN CAMERA probes relationships between popular entertainment media, classic literature and dominant philosophical concepts of selfhood. Presenting an intentionally overstimulating array of video mashups, Davies’ installation simultaneously…

Ben Gaulon: Corrupt.Yourself

Nov 6, 2015 – Jan 16, 2016

Focusing on limits and failures of information and communication technologies, Paris-based artist Ben Gaulon re-purposes electronic devices in order to explore new strategies for e-waste recycling. Gaulon looks to themes…

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