15 Bytes posts press releases regarding the arts in Utah, including exhibitions, call for entries, job opportunities, workshops, art talks. Send your press releases to listings@artistsofutah.org. Please include an expiration date for your posting.
OGDEN
October 29, 2026 – April 9, 2027
Opening reception: Thursday, October 29, 6 p.m.
The Mary Elizabeth Dee Shaw Gallery presents La Vrille, a public art installation by Paris-based artist elparo. Working primarily with wood and upcycled materials, elparo creates large-scale, site-responsive sculptures that challenge perceptions of gravity and familiar spaces…
BOUNTIFUL
March 5 – April 9, 2027
Deadline: December 14, 2026
Clay Arts Utah invites members to submit ceramic work for this juried group exhibition at the Bountiful Davis Art Center’s Underground Gallery…
TOOELE
November 13–14, 2026
Presented by the Tooele City Arts Council and Tooele County Arts Guild, the inaugural Tooele Fall Art Show features artwork by artists of all ages and skill levels, alongside an art competition, live music, and food. Eligible competition entries must have been created within the past three years and reflect Tooele County through its locations or character…
SALT LAKE CITY
October 30, 2026
Reception: Friday, October 30, 5:30–7:30 p.m.
Tracy Aviary presents a closing exhibition featuring paintings created by artist Alison H. Spencer during her residency, which began in June 2026. Inspired by the birds at the aviary and Utah’s wetlands, Spencer’s portraits highlight the diversity and beauty of native bird species and the habitats they depend on…
South Salt Lake
October 24 – November 20, 2026
Opening Reception: Saturday, October 24, 6–9 p.m.
Artist Talk: Friday, November 20, 5:30 p.m.; Closing Reception: 6–8 p.m.
Material presents Every Rock is a Cloud, a solo exhibition by Utah-based artist Collin Bradford exploring the landscape and our place within it through the expansive scale of geologic time….
Provo
October 29 – November 6, 2026
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 29, 7–9 p.m.
In Interoception, Mabel Hillyer combines photography, video and painting with self-portraiture to disrupt the conventional relationship between viewer and artwork….
SALT LAKE CITY
October 24, 2026 – June 6, 2027
Reception: Friday, October 23, 6–9 p.m.
Mexico City-based artist Amor Muñoz explores the intersections of technology, craft, labor, and biology in salt 18, an exhibition centered on corn as a carrier of memory, cultural exchange, and generational knowledge…
SALT LAKE CITY
October 23, 2026
UMOCA’s annual Halloween party—a night of music, art-making, open studios, and atmosphere inside the galleries…
Cedar City
October 17, 2026 – March 6, 2027
Curated by Las Vegas Paiute artist, activist and Nuwu Art founder Fawn Douglas, Tooveep (The Land) explores the intersection of identity, landscape and storytelling through contemporary Indigenous art.
Salt Lake City
October 16 – Nov. 7
Opening Reception: October 16, 6-9 pm
Phillips Gallery presents sculpture by Larry Elsner (1937–2024) alongside oil landscapes by Earl Jones (1930–1990) in the Main Floor Gallery….
Salt Lake City
October 16 – Nov. 7
Artist Reception: Friday, October 16, 6–9 p.m.; Art Talk: 7 p.m.
David Ericson Fine Art presents new paintings by Jeff and Julia Pugh….
Salt Lake City
October 16 – Nov. 7
Opening Reception: Friday, Oct. 16, 6-9 pm
Alpine Art presents Suspension of Disbelief, a group exhibition featuring artists who draw inspiration from the world around them to create convincing realms of fantasy.
Salt Lake City
October 16 – Nov. 7
Opening Reception: Friday, October 16, 6–9 p.m.
15th Street Gallery presents an October group exhibition featuring new work by Utah artists Alex Gerrard, Lindsay Frei and Jenna von Benedikt…
Salt Lake City
October 17 – November 7, 2026
Opening Reception: Saturday, October 17, 6–9 p.m.
Curated by Yuri Ortiz, Hyperconsumption brings together Mexican and American artists Nolan Flynn, Paxton Morgan, Alix Wright, Michel Cárdenas, Angel VHS and Will Wolf in a conversation about contemporary cultures of excess…
SALT LAKE CITY
October 16
Reception: Friday, October 16, 7–9 p.m.
UMOCA Artist-in-Residence Steven Chodoriwsky presents new work in the AIR Space. His research-centered practice spans site-specific installations, performance, publications, and audio-visual artifacts, with a focus on the built environment and pedagogical models…
SALT LAKE CITY
October 16, 2026–March 27, 2027
Reception: Friday, October 16, 7–9 p.m.
Artists Against the Bomb is a traveling exhibition advocating for universal nuclear disarmament through more than 250 historical and newly commissioned works. Drawing from international and regional artists, musicians, writers, and activists, the exhibition traces the cultural history of global protest movements and considers collective action and public refusal…
Deadline: November 1, 2026
Salt Lake City is accepting applications for its 2027 Arts, Culture, and Entertainment (ACE) Grant, which supports community-led cultural programming, education, festivals, neighborhood gatherings, and other events. Individual awards range from $500 to $10,000…
Deadline: November 13, 2026
Earth Immemorial
Alvin Gittins Gallery, University of Utah
Summer 2027
111th Meridian Projects seeks Utah visual artists and writers for Earth Immemorial, an exhibition exploring reciprocal relationships with place and the ways earth, ochre, minerals, and other regional materials can act as co-authors of memory and identity…
SPRINGVILLE
October 16, 2026 – January 13, 2027
Reception: Friday, October 16, 7–9 p.m. (Opening reception and awards ceremony)
The Springville Museum of Art’s 40th annual Spiritual & Religious Art Show explores the diversity of spiritual and religious experience through works in a variety of media…
