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2017 Exhibitions

Jaime Salvador Castillo & Michael Anthony García: whereABOUTS

Aug 12, 2017 – Dec 9, 2017

whereABOUTS was an immersive art installation created by Castillo and García for UMOCA’s Art Truck. The project encouraged community members to investigate mapping as a visual tool for understanding, expressing…

Jason Manley: Shrinking Room

Aug 25, 2017 – Oct 21, 2017

Shrinking Room is a monumental, wood sculpture that merges architectural form with text to address issues of wealth inequality. This sculpture originated from Manley’s interest in developing a project related…

Spy Hop: Safe and Sound

Jun 9, 2017 – Sep 16, 2017

According to Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, feeling safe comes second only to water, food and air. It is crucial to our survival as human beings. When we feel safe, we…

Michael Ryan Handley: Sublimation

May 19, 2017 – Sep 9, 2017

Michael Ryan Handley’s Sublimation explores the importance of water or lack thereof, and its generative power to change the look and feel of areas experiencing prolonged drought, as well as…

Willow Skye-Biggs: Tastes Like Mandy

May 19, 2017 – Aug 12, 2017

Tastes Like Mandy is a visceral experience that combines queer visual cues with assembled audio recordings that simulate the abstraction of entering into or exiting from an organism, either along…

Céline Downen: Beehive Works

Apr 28, 2017 – Aug 5, 2017

Strong communities are collections of individuals working together. Everyone contributes. Mothers, fathers, children, students, neighbors, caregivers, dreamers, storytellers, scientists, teachers, entrepreneurs, artists…. We all have something to give. The beehive…

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

Feb 3, 2017 – Jul 15, 2017

This exhibition brings together sculptures by Rona Pondick and paintings by Robert Feintuch. A couple since the mid-1970s, the artists share interests in making work that uses the body to…

Scott Horsley: I Learned it from Watching You

Jun 9, 2017 – Jul 15, 2017

Scott Horsley’s work discusses the parallels between nourishment and destruction, the ways in which everything we create can be used for better or for worse. The following story is Horsley’s…

Out Loud: Identities, Symbolism, and the Self

May 5, 2017 – Jul 8, 2017

Over a period of ten weeks, eleven youths attended after-school workshops to explore identity and power through contemporary artmaking. As a group that reflects racial, neurological, gender and sexual diversity,…

Kelly O’Neill: rend/er

Apr 28, 2017 – Jun 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 work titled Sun Tunnels. The tunnels, located 200 miles west…

SIDESHOW: 2017 Gala Art Auction

May 12, 2017 – Jun 3, 2017

Each year, UMOCA is overwhelmed by the generosity of Utah’s art community. As part of our annual Gala, which is the Museum’s largest fundraiser of the year, local, national, and…

The Future Isn’t What It Used To Be

Jan 27, 2017 – May 13, 2017

Curated by Susan Caraballo, The Future Isn’t What It Used To Be is a collection work that examines violence and man-made atrocities, reflecting how the future before us looks bleak…

Gary Jacobson: Some Thoughts

Mar 24, 2017 – May 6, 2017

Gary Jacobson’s anthropomorphized animal sculptures live within a mysterious narrative shaped by his subconscious that alternates between humor, empathy, and malice. While each vignette exists independently from the next, Jacobson…

Justin Chouinard: These Ribbons Are Substratum

Mar 17, 2017 – Apr 22, 2017

Wrinkled sheets of memory. Light that once mingled on a form, a body, a vehicle, a dinner table. Analogue technology serving as a performer and medium for ghosts of experience…

Imagining UMOCA

Jan 24, 2017 – Apr 15, 2017

Led by Anne Mooney in the Senior Design Studio course at the University of Utah, architecture students imagined possibilities for expanding the museum to serve its diverse and growing audience. They…

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

Jan 27, 2017 – Mar 18, 2017

If the homeless are invisible, homeless youth are doubly so. They are our teenage sons and daughters who sleep on the street or on friends’ couches- vulnerable to predators, with only other homeless…

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

Feb 3, 2017 – Mar 11, 2017

If creative practice is something to drape duration on, what shape is the landscape of conversation during a slow drive across rural America? From human nature to geologic time, the…

Work In Progress

Oct 7, 2016 – Jan 14, 2017

Artistic director Jann Haworth presents Work In Progress, a collaborative traveling exhibit that celebrates women who are catalysts for change. Work In Progress brings to the fore the diverse contributions women have…

Kristin Lucas: Air On The Go

Nov 11, 2016 – Jan 14, 2017

Lucas becomes the subject and the author of that content through the use of small HD digital video cameras that document her leisurely walk through a nondescript suburban neighborhood. Lucas…

Alyce Carrier: Old Work

Oct 14, 2016 – Jan 14, 2017

I realize that nothing is ever how you imagine.  A hand on your shoulder from someone you love is different than a stranger’s, but it’s not worth explaining because what…

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