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Provo
Oct. 2 – 31
Opening Reception: Friday, October 2, 2026, 6 p.m.
In Books of Life, Utah artist Andrew Payne explores the ways books become intertwined with memory and with the people, places and earlier versions of ourselves that we associate with the stories we have read…
Ogden City is seeking an Arts Administrator to manage and administer the city’s arts and cultural programs, including public art, arts grants, planning initiatives, community partnerships and special projects. The position provides leadership and supervision for program delivery and serves as a liaison among the city, arts […]
OREM
October 9, 2026–January 2, 2027
Reception: Friday, October 9, 5–9 p.m.
Megan Skye presents a selection of older and newer artwork in her first exhibition in more than a decade…
SALT LAKE CITY
October 8–November 20, 2026
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 8, 5–7 p.m.
In this solo exhibition, Arash Shovieri presents large-scale surreal oil paintings that place archetypal and possibly supernatural figures from different historical and geographic contexts alongside contemporary technologies…
PROVO
October 2–30, 2026
Opening Reception: October 2 6-9pm
Intertwined, recent paintings by David Raleigh exploring psychological states and human nature through figurative imagery, often infused with dry humor and everyday paraphernalia…
Salt Lake City
October 8 – Nov 20
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 8, 5 – 7 PM
Today, much of Abe’s art portrays forgotten peoples along with their material culture – the intent is to juxtapose vestiges of cultures with the innocence of nature as symbols of adaptation to life and land.
DEADLINE: NOV. 15, 2026 Art in Pilar’s Garden – June 12 and 13, 2027 Application Form – Due by 11/15/2026 Seven to eight artists will be invited to participate. Each should have approximately 12–16 works available for display and sale. If chosen, the participation fee is $250. Artists […]
SALT LAKE CITY
October 8–28
Reception: Thursday, October 22, 4:30–7 p.m.
The Alvin Gittins Gallery presents an exhibition celebrating the life and work of painter John O’Connell…
OREM
September 22 – November 21, 2026
Featuring work by 44 artists from Utah Valley University’s Art & Design faculty, this exhibition highlights the breadth of creative practice across disciplines and media…
PROVO
October 2, 2026
Reception: Friday, October 2, 7–9 p.m.
In Tantarantán, Mika Rane reflects on her childhood fascination with los diablos — playful, mischievous tricksters that are nothing like the frightening figure of Satan she had heard about in church…
Ogden October 2, 2026 – January 3, 2027 Opening Reception: Friday, October 2, 6–9 p.m. Members-Only Happy Hour: 4–6 p.m.; Artist Performance: 6:30 p.m. Created out of Brooklyn-based artist Zachary Fabri’s two-month residency in Ogden, Pink Kool-Aid Menagerie is a surreal, collage-like exhibition encompassing painting, photography, video, sculpture […]
Salt Lake City September 29 – November 1, 2026 Artist Reception: Friday, October 16, 6–9 p.m. Urban Arts Gallery’s Freak Show ventures into the strange, uncanny and gloriously abnormal. Inspired by carnival sideshows, curiosities, oddities and the macabre, the group exhibition features work embracing the unusual, creepy, grotesque […]
SALT LAKE CITY
Artist applications for the 2027 Utah Arts Festival open November 1. The festival is accepting applications from artists working in performing arts, visual arts, culinary arts, urban arts, film and the Kids Art Yard…
PARK CITY
Sep 25, 2026 – Jan 3, 2027
Reception: Fri, Sep 25, 6–8 p.m.
Between the Lines brings together international artists who use abstraction to explore identity, place, memory and the complexity of contemporary life….
OREM
September 22 – November 21, 2026
Featuring work by 44 artists from Utah Valley University’s Art & Design faculty, this exhibition highlights the breadth of creative practice across disciplines and media. The exhibition offers a glimpse into the ideas and experimentation that inform both the faculty’s professional work and their teaching…
Salt Lake City
September 21 – November 14, 2026
Artist Reception: Saturday, September 26, 3–5 p.m.
In How the Hell Did I Get Here?, Cottonwood Heights artist Jason Jacobson presents mixed-media paintings that function as oversized journal pages, moving between self-reflection and observations of contemporary society.
Salt Lake City
September 19 – November 6, 2026
Artist Reception: Saturday, September 19, 4–5:30 p.m.
Inspired by the Surrealist drawing game Exquisite Corpse, this collaborative print project brings together local artists and community members to create a large-scale serpent in celebration of 2025, the Chinese Year of the Snake.
Salt Lake City September 19 – November 6, 2026 Exhibit Reception: Saturday, September 19, 4–5:30 p.m. TRACE presents relief prints created during a collaborative printmaking workshop led by Saltgrass Printmakers. Inspired by contemporary artist Julie Mehretu, participants used tracing and relief printing to observe the surrounding cityscape and […]
Salt Lake City
September 18 – November 6, 2026
Opening Reception: Friday, September 18
Modern West presents Under Open Skies, a group exhibition featuring landscapes by Shonto Begay, Angela Ellsworth, Phil Epp, Nathan Florence, Alexandra Fuller, Kiki Gaffney, Ludivine Gérard, Tom Judd, Laura Hope Mason, Kevin Perry, Billy Schenck, Tom Schulte, Woody Shepherd and Eugene Tapahe…
