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Past Exhibitions

2017 Exhibitions

Jaime Salvador Castillo & Michael Anthony García: whereABOUTS

August 12–December 9, 2017

whereABOUTS was an immersive art installation created by Castillo and García for UMOCA’s Art Truck. The project encouraged community members…

Jason Manley: Shrinking Room

August 25–October 21, 2017

Shrinking Room is a monumental, wood sculpture that merges architectural form with text to address issues of wealth inequality. This…

Spy Hop: Safe and Sound

June 9–September 16, 2017

According to Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, feeling safe comes second only to water, food and air. It is crucial to…

Michael Ryan Handley: Sublimation

May 19–September 9, 2017

Michael Ryan Handley’s Sublimation explores the importance of water or lack thereof, and its generative power to change the look…

Willow Skye-Biggs: Tastes Like Mandy

May 19–August 12, 2017

Tastes Like Mandy is a visceral experience that combines queer visual cues with assembled audio recordings that simulate the abstraction…

Céline Downen: Beehive Works

April 28–August 5, 2017

Strong communities are collections of individuals working together. Everyone contributes. Mothers, fathers, children, students, neighbors, caregivers, dreamers, storytellers, scientists, teachers,…

Rona Pondick and Robert Feintuch: Heads, Hands, Feet; Sleeping, Holding, Dreaming, Dying.

February 3–July 15, 2017

This exhibition brings together sculptures by Rona Pondick and paintings by Robert Feintuch. A couple since the mid-1970s, the artists…

Scott Horsley: I Learned it from Watching You

June 9–July 15, 2017

Scott Horsley’s work discusses the parallels between nourishment and destruction, the ways in which everything we create can be used…

Out Loud: Identities, Symbolism, and the Self

May 5–July 8, 2017

Over a period of ten weeks, eleven youths attended after-school workshops to explore identity and power through contemporary artmaking. As…

Kelly O’Neill: rend/er

April 28–June 3, 2017

Kelly O’Neill presents 3D prints and CG photographic scenes constructed from photo documentation collected on the site of Nancy Holt’s seminal 1976…

SIDESHOW: 2017 Gala Art Auction

May 12–June 3, 2017

Each year, UMOCA is overwhelmed by the generosity of Utah’s art community. As part of our annual Gala, which is…

The Future Isn’t What It Used To Be

January 27–May 13, 2017

Curated by Susan Caraballo, The Future Isn’t What It Used To Be is a collection work that examines violence and…

Gary Jacobson: Some Thoughts

March 24–May 6, 2017

Gary Jacobson’s anthropomorphized animal sculptures live within a mysterious narrative shaped by his subconscious that alternates between humor, empathy, and…

Justin Chouinard: These Ribbons Are Substratum

March 17–April 22, 2017

Wrinkled sheets of memory. Light that once mingled on a form, a body, a vehicle, a dinner table. Analogue technology…

Imagining UMOCA

January 24–April 15, 2017

Led by Anne Mooney in the Senior Design Studio course at the University of Utah, architecture students imagined possibilities for…

Niki Chan Wylie, Words By Stephen Dark: Only God Can Judge Me

January 27–March 18, 2017

If the homeless are invisible, homeless youth are doubly so. They are our teenage sons and daughters who sleep on…

Mary Rothlisberger: From Nothing To Nothing Is No Time At All

February 3–March 11, 2017

If creative practice is something to drape duration on, what shape is the landscape of conversation during a slow drive…

Work In Progress

October 7, 2016–January 14, 2017

Artistic director Jann Haworth presents Work In Progress, a collaborative traveling exhibit that celebrates women who are catalysts for change. Work…

Alyce Carrier: Old Work

October 14, 2016–January 14, 2017

I realize that nothing is ever how you imagine.  A hand on your shoulder from someone you love is different…

Kristin Lucas: Air On The Go

November 11, 2016–January 14, 2017

Lucas becomes the subject and the author of that content through the use of small HD digital video cameras that…

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