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

Past Exhibitions

2016 Exhibitions

Mike Lee: Digital Mirror: Selfie Consciousness

October 21–December 17, 2016

The mirror is a central part of Shintoism. A mirror, Yata-no-Kagami, is one of the three objects that constitute the…

Object[ed]: Shaping Sculpture in Contemporary Art

August 26–December 7, 2016

Bringing together the work of six sculptors, this exhibition explores how visual artists use three-dimensionality as a language to reframe…

Berna Reale: Singing in the Rain

August 19–November 5, 2016

Video and performance artist Berna Reale exposes habituated realities in Brazil’s contemporary society with acts that infiltrate the relentless urban…

Cara Krebs: Sehnsucht

August 26–October 14, 2016

Sehnsucht: “the inconsolable longing in the human heart for we know not what”; a yearning for a far, familiar, non-earthly…

Andrew Rice: (re)Structured

August 12–October 8, 2016

Layers upon layers of entrapment. We all, to some degree, create our own shell-like environments that become safe havens from…

Jennifer Seely: Supporting Elements

May 13–September 24, 2016

Exploration, intrusive investigation, research and analysis are the foundation of Jennifer Seely’s project Supporting Elements. As a forensic architect, Seely…

Jim Williams: 265 I … Home As Self-Portrait

May 13–September 24, 2016

Working across several modes of expression, artist Jim Williams aims to express each facet of the self through the lens…

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

June 10–August 6, 2016

Cross-stitching has traditionally been seen as women’s work. It was taught as a handicraft, primarily to keep hands from being…

Jennet Thomas: The Unspeakable Freedom Device

May 13–July 30, 2016

Confronting the state of contemporary politics, Jennet Thomas’s The Unspeakable Freedom Device offers a satirical interpretation of electioneering, voting systems,…

Nicholas Courdy: Metaphornography

May 6–July 23, 2016

Nicholas Courdy explores the ways in which the internet’s availability of media and social interaction shape the complexities within the…

Ideologue

February 5–July 23, 2016

Exploring power relationships in both the cultural and political realms, Ideologue brings together the work of nine artists who employ…

2 Out 2 Loud: Where’s the Glitter?

April 29–July 9, 2016

During the second installment of the Out Loud workshop series, nine teens worked with local artists and museum staff to…

Ian Booth: Kazakhstan: Tselina/Building the Virgin Lands

March 25–May 7, 2016

For over a decade, Utah native Ian Booth has roamed the globe documenting people, architecture, and landscapes of obscure and…

Paul Crow: Here

February 5–April 30, 2016

Paul Crow’s photographs are records of his movement through places with the aim of being as fully present there as he…

Yoshua Okón: Oracle

January 29–April 30, 2016

Oracle (2015) is among the most recent multi-channel video installations by Yoshua Okón, exploring the timely issue of immigration and…

David Brothers: Rolithica

January 29–April 30, 2016

Incorporating both the beautiful and the wretched, David Brothers creates elaborate, fantastical, and sublime staged worlds as the palette for…

Areas for Action: Play, Exploration, and Interaction

February 5–April 16, 2016

In October 2015, Brooklyn-based artist Oliver Herring collaborated with several Utah County art educators and institutions. To engage hundreds of…

Andrew Moncrief: A Strange Feeling

January 29–March 19, 2016

In Andrew Moncrief’s A Strange Feeling, the artist appropriates images of male wrestlers to unravel dichotomies of violence and intimacy,…

Firelei Báez: Patterns of Resistance

September 25, 2015–January 16, 2016

Catherine Doctorow Prize for Contemporary Painting Winner, 2015 UMOCA is pleased to present the 2015 Catherine Doctorow Prize For Contemporary…

Human Rights Teen Art Contest

December 15, 2015–January 16, 2016

In partnership with the Salt Lake City Mayor’s Office of Diversity & Human Rights and the Salt Lake City Human…

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