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2018 Exhibitions

Working Hard to Be Useless

Jun 29, 2018 – Dec 22, 2018

Although there are positive aspects of the current push for urban development and densification of city centers, the questions of who benefits from that development and who does it negatively…

JP Orquiz: A Stack of Forms

Oct 12, 2018 – Dec 15, 2018

JP Orquiz explores the anxiety that surrounds the immigration process and how it affects the lives of applicants and their families. The work looks at the daunting amount of forms…

Ryan Ruehlen: Georhythmic Drift Music

Aug 17, 2018 – Nov 3, 2018

Georhythmic Drift Music is an on-going work by inter-disciplinary artist Ryan Wade Ruehlen. The project focuses on deep listening research and involves field experiments investigating VLF [very low frequency] radio…

Machine Dazzle Scared Objects: Act 1

Oct 2, 2018 – Nov 1, 2018

Originally conceived for Taylor Mac’s A 24-Decade History of Popular Music, a marathon performance art concert that tells the history of America through the perspectives of those whose stories are…

SLUG Retrospective: 30 Years Under the Influence

Jun 29, 2018 – Oct 20, 2018

With a goal of creating “some sort of guide to help you find your way around this town’s sorry ass but rising underground scene,” SLUG Mag (Salt Lake Underground Magazine)…

Josh Samson: The Identity Project

Jun 1, 2018 – Oct 13, 2018

What is your identity? Or what is “identity” for that matter? The Identity Project posed these questions to several community groups, and together they developed art and video projects surrounding…

Emily Call: Practical Contact

Sep 7, 2018 – Oct 6, 2018

Practical Contact examines altered ways of experiencing the substantial realities of the body as a way of understanding our place within our surroundings. Merging photographs, video, and installation, Call exhibits…

The Blocks SLC Urban Plein Air

Sep 19, 2018 – Sep 29, 2018

The Blocks SLC is dispatching a team of 25 Plein Air Painters to the downtown streets September 13–15 in Salt Lake’s Cultural Core. The Blocks SLC Urban Plein Air project…

Buster Graybill: Informalism

May 25, 2018 – Sep 8, 2018

Informalism centers itself in the principles and aesthetics of Modernism (a rejection of previous art movements and a focus on materials and processes to produce forms rooted in abstraction). Graybill’s…

Nancy Rivera: Impossible Bouquets, After Jan van Huysum

Aug 3, 2018 – Sep 1, 2018

Impossible Bouquets: After Jan van Huysum derives from the work of 18th-century Dutch still-life painter Jan van Huysum. His pieces, which have been described as illusions, depict a menagerie of…

Chase Westfall: Control

May 25, 2018 – Aug 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. A founding member of the band The Whigs, Dorio was…

Alison Neville: M.A.D.

Jun 29, 2018 – Jul 28, 2018

M.A.D. (Mutually Assured Destruction) consists of two parts: a mixed media sculpture series and a coloring book. Both explore how governments are perfecting a means to kill through nuclear testing…

OUT LOUD: Mostly Human

May 4, 2018 – Jul 14, 2018

With a tongue-in-cheek title about how society views LGBT youth, this collection explores our humanity through our relationships with ourselves and each other. You’ll find that most of the exhibit…

Seven Deadly Sins: 2018 Spectacle Art Auction

May 18, 2018 – Jun 9, 2018

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

Desire Lines

Jan 26, 2018 – 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 represents the shortest or most easily navigated route between an…

Julius von Bismarck: Landscape Painting

Mar 23, 2018 – May 26, 2018

Primarily concerned with the intersection between nature and culture, Julius von Bismarck engages the tradition of landscape painting by, quite literally, painting the landscape. In the remote Mexican desert, the…

Dream: Egyptian Theatre YouTheatre

Dec 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 YouTheatre Program Performed by the YouTheatre Drama Company II Class…

Merritt Johnson: Exorcising America

Jan 26, 2018 – May 12, 2018

Merritt Johnson uses soft-spoken but powerful language, catchphrases, and DIY instructional videos to provide a model for viewers to follow to enact change while exploring the physical, political, and ecological…

Earl Gravy: Homebodies, Away Teams

Jan 26, 2018 – 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 and the cryptic as avenues for non-rational inquiry. At the…

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

Mar 23, 2018 – May 12, 2018

Myth is a medium developed to inform, encourage, sustain and soothe. It functions to impart morals and to help communities remember how to nourish and support each other. It is…

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