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

Past Exhibitions

2018 Exhibitions

Working Hard to Be Useless

June 29–December 22, 2018

Although there are positive aspects of the current push for urban development and densification of city centers, the questions of…

JP Orquiz: A Stack of Forms

October 12–December 15, 2018

JP Orquiz explores the anxiety that surrounds the immigration process and how it affects the lives of applicants and their…

Ryan Ruehlen: Georhythmic Drift Music

August 17–November 3, 2018

Georhythmic Drift Music is an on-going work by inter-disciplinary artist Ryan Wade Ruehlen. The project focuses on deep listening research…

Machine Dazzle Scared Objects: Act 1

October 2–November 1, 2018

Originally conceived for Taylor Mac’s A 24-Decade History of Popular Music, a marathon performance art concert that tells the history…

SLUG Retrospective: 30 Years Under the Influence

June 29–October 20, 2018

With a goal of creating “some sort of guide to help you find your way around this town’s sorry ass…

Josh Samson: The Identity Project

June 1–October 13, 2018

What is your identity? Or what is “identity” for that matter? The Identity Project posed these questions to several community…

Emily Call: Practical Contact

September 7–October 6, 2018

Practical Contact examines altered ways of experiencing the substantial realities of the body as a way of understanding our place…

The Blocks SLC Urban Plein Air

September 19–September 29, 2018

The Blocks SLC is dispatching a team of 25 Plein Air Painters to the downtown streets September 13–15 in Salt…

Buster Graybill: Informalism

May 25–September 8, 2018

Informalism centers itself in the principles and aesthetics of Modernism (a rejection of previous art movements and a focus on…

Nancy Rivera: Impossible Bouquets, After Jan van Huysum

August 3–September 1, 2018

Impossible Bouquets: After Jan van Huysum derives from the work of 18th-century Dutch still-life painter Jan van Huysum. His pieces,…

Chase Westfall: Control

May 25–August 11, 2018

Chase Westfall’s Control is a single-channel video work capturing the powerful rhythmic sound of a drum composition by musician Julian Dorio.…

Alison Neville: M.A.D.

June 29–July 28, 2018

M.A.D. (Mutually Assured Destruction) consists of two parts: a mixed media sculpture series and a coloring book. Both explore how…

OUT LOUD: Mostly Human

May 4–July 14, 2018

With a tongue-in-cheek title about how society views LGBT youth, this collection explores our humanity through our relationships with ourselves…

Seven Deadly Sins: 2018 Spectacle Art Auction

May 18–June 9, 2018

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

Julius von Bismarck: Landscape Painting

March 23–May 26, 2018

Primarily concerned with the intersection between nature and culture, Julius von Bismarck engages the tradition of landscape painting by, quite…

Desire Lines

January 26–May 26, 2018

“Desire Line—a path created as a consequence of erosion caused by human or animal foot-fall or traffic. The path usually…

Dream: Egyptian Theatre YouTheatre

December 22, 2017–May 19, 2018

Based on Dream: A Tale of Wonder, Wisdom and Wishes by Susan V. Bosak Stage Adapted for the Egyptian Theatre…

Wren Ross: The Forge, The Gibbous, The Heron, The Oilcan: Contemporary Constellations for Navigation

March 23–May 12, 2018

Myth is a medium developed to inform, encourage, sustain and soothe. It functions to impart morals and to help communities…

Earl Gravy: Homebodies, Away Teams

January 26–May 12, 2018

Homebodies, Away Teams, organized by L.A.-based artists Earl Gravy, features sculpture, video installation and performances that explore the numinous, the revelatory…

Merritt Johnson: Exorcising America

January 26–May 12, 2018

Merritt Johnson uses soft-spoken but powerful language, catchphrases, and DIY instructional videos to provide a model for viewers to follow…

All Exhibitions

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