Salt Lake Area Exhibitions

Press releases for current visual art exhibitions in Salt Lake City and surounding area.

Liminal Spaces at Material

South Salt Lake April 24 – May 22, 2026 Reception: Friday, April 24, 6–8 pm (Artist Talk 5:30–6 pm) Additional Events: May 15 & May 22, 6–8 pm Liminal Spaces brings together Katie Green and Wren Ross in a two-person exhibition exploring states that resist language—grief, transformation, disorientation, […]

Offense of Legacy at SLCC Edna Runswick Taylor Foyer

Salt Lake City April 16 – May 22, 2026 Reception: Thursday, April 16, 6–8 pm In Offense of Legacy, Greggory Wood presents a series of large-scale photographic collage works that interrogate the enduring influence of patriarchy and inherited notions of legacy. Using bold polyptych compositions, Wood critiques how […]

In the Shadow of the Giant Mushrooms at SLCC Eccles Gallery

Salt Lake City April 16 – May 22, 2026 Reception: Thursday, April 16, 6–8 pm In In the Shadow of the Giant Mushrooms, Vincent Mattina examines the legacy of uranium mining and the atomic age in the American West. Through assemblage, mixed media, and video, the exhibition traces […]

Cuong Ta and John Wood at Phillips Gallery

Salt Lake City April 17 – May 09, 2026 Reception: Friday, April 17, 6–9 pm (Salt Lake Gallery Stroll) Phillips Gallery presents ceramics by Cuong Ta alongside abstract paintings by John Wood in the Main Floor Gallery. Concurrently, the Dibble Gallery hosts HA! The Art of Humor, a […]

Trent Call and Anne Wolfer at 15th Street Gallery

Salt Lake City April 17 – April 30, 2026 Reception: Friday, April 17, 6–9 pm (Salt Lake Gallery Stroll) 15th Street Gallery presents its April exhibition featuring new work by Trent Call and Anne Wolfer. The show highlights a range of contemporary approaches, offering viewers a chance to […]

Pamela Beach: Recent Work at David Ericson Fine Art

Salt Lake CityApril 16 – May 11, 2026Reception: Friday, April 17, 6–9 pm (Artist Talk at 7 pm) Pamela Beach presents a new body of figurative paintings exploring the inner dimensions of human experience. Working in oil on panel, Beach blends realism and abstraction to depict emotional and […]

Hannah Vaughn: Reliquaries at Finch Lane Gallery

Salt Lake City April 17 – May 29, 2026 Reception: Friday, April 17, 6–9 pm (Salt Lake Gallery Stroll) Additional Stroll: Friday, May 15, 6–9 pm In Reliquaries, Hannah Vaughn presents sculptural forms that evoke vessels, ribcages, shelters, and fragments of memory—objects that feel both sacred and emptied, […]

Spring Salon at Modern West Fine Art

Salt Lake CityApril 3 – June 5, 2026Reception: Friday, April 17, 6–8 pm (Salt Lake Gallery Stroll) Spring Salon at Modern West Fine Art brings together a vibrant group exhibition inspired by the changing season, blooming foliage, and luminous color. Featuring a wide range of artists including Shonto […]

Identities at A Gallery/Allen+Alan Fine Art

Salt Lake City April 17 – May 30, 2026 Reception: Friday, April 17, 6–9 pm In Identities, Brent Godfrey presents a new body of paintings exploring the shifting construction of self. Blending psychologically charged figuration with abstraction, Godfrey examines the tension between core identity and external influence, reflecting […]

Urban Decay at Urban Arts Gallery

Salt Lake City, Utah March 31 – May 2, 2026 Reception: April 17, 2026, 6–9 p.m. (free and open to the public) Urban Arts Gallery presents Urban Decay, an exhibition exploring the fragile beauty that emerges when structures, surfaces, and stories begin to break down and shift with […]

And the Journey Continues at Anderson-Foothill Branch

Salt Lake CityMarch 20–May 1, 2026Reception: Friday, March 20, 3:30–5:30 PM In And the Journey Continues, Dr. Sam Forlenza presents paintings that reflect on art as an ongoing process of exploration and discovery. Drawing on visual elements such as maps, highways, intersecting lines, and geometric structures, the works […]

In The Orders: Insects in Watercolor at The Gallery at Library Square

Salt Lake City March 14–April 24, 2026 Artist Talk: Saturday, March 28, 3–3:30 PM Reception: Saturday, March 28, 4–5:30 PM In The Orders: Insects in Watercolor, Heath Ogden presents a series of paintings exploring the extraordinary diversity of the insect world. An entomologist by profession, Ogden set out […]

Make Me a Landscape, Do Not Include Any Sky at The Gallery at Library Square

Salt Lake CityMarch 14–April 24, 2026Reception: Saturday, March 28, 3:30–5:30 PMGallery talk: 3:30–4 PMReception: 4–5:30 PM Make Me a Landscape, Do Not Include Any Sky explores the relationship between art, nature, and technology in the emerging age of artificial intelligence. For this body of work, Ben Bloch collaborated […]

Storywork: The Prints of Marie Watt at UMFA

Salt Lake City February 21 – June 21, 2026 Storywork: The Prints of Marie Watt, drawn from the collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation, surveys more than three decades of work by multimedia artist Marie Watt. A member of the Seneca Nation with German-Scots ancestry, […]

Douglas Smith and Anne Becker at 15th Street Gallery

SALT LAKE CITY February 20 – March 14, 2026 Opening reception Friday, February 20, 6–9 pm (Gallery Stroll) Join 15th Street Gallery for the opening of its February exhibition featuring new work by Douglas Smith and Anne Becker. Salt Lake City–based artist, designer, and writer Douglas Smith creates […]

Unbound: Art of the West at Modern West

Salt Lake City February 12 – April 30, 2026 Opening reception: Friday, February 20, 6–8 pm Marking a new chapter for the gallery in its South Temple location, Unbound: Art of the West reflects on Modern West’s history while looking forward to the evolving possibilities of Western art. […]

Altered States in the Acid West at UMOCA

SALT LAKE CITY January 16 – June 6, 2026 Opening Celebration: Friday, January 16, 2026, 6-9 pm Altered States draws from the acid western genre that emerged in the 1970s alongside countercultural movements and a growing distrust of inherited histories. These films upended the familiar language of the Western—its […]

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