A directory of press releases for current visual art exhibitions in the state of Utah, organized by geographic area.
Salt Lake City July 17 – August 7, 2026 Reception: Friday, July 17, 6-9 pm Phillips Gallery’s annual Summer Group Show brings together works by artists from the gallery’s full roster, offering a broad survey of contemporary painting, sculpture, and mixed media. Showcasing both established and emerging voices […]
Taylorsville July 29 – February 21, 2027 Reception: August 5, 2026, 5:30–7:30 pm Del Dicho al Hecho — Luis Rosado Montes Salt Lake County’s Civic Museum presents Del Dicho al Hecho, an exhibition by Oaxacan artist Luis Rosado Montes. Created in partnership with the Consulate of Mexico in […]
West Valley City July 16 – August 26, 2026 The 22nd annual Face of Utah Sculpture brings together established and emerging Utah sculptors in a statewide exhibition celebrating the diversity of contemporary sculpture. Founded more than two decades ago through the vision of glass artist Dan Cummings, […]
Salt Lake City July 17 – August 29, 2026 Reception: July 17, 6–9 pm In blip, Roland Thompson presents a series of custom-cut, three-dimensional wall works that blur the boundaries between painting and sculpture. Inspired by the visual language of pop art, arcade games, and digital culture, the […]
Salt Lake City July 13 – September 5, 2026 Reception: Aug. 15, 3–5 pm The Human Condition presents a series of oil paintings by Arash Shoveiri examining the challenges and complexities of contemporary life. Drawing on influences ranging from Renaissance masters to Symbolist and figurative painting, Shoveiri explores […]
Provo July 10 – August 22, 2026 Reception: July 10, 6–9 pm JKR Gallery presents the annual Landscapes & Handscapes, a group exhibition celebrating the beauty and diversity of the landscape. Featuring works by multiple artists, the exhibition showcases a wide range of approaches, styles, and price […]
Salt Lake City June 30 – August 2, 2026 Reception: July 17, 6–9 pm Urban Arts Gallery presents Monsters, Muses & Myths, a group exhibition exploring the stories humanity has created to explain the unknown, confront fear, and give shape to wonder. Drawing inspiration from mythology, folklore, […]
Park City July 1-29 Julie Nester Gallery presents Circular Garden, an exhibition featuring botanical paintings by Carol O’Malia alongside abstract pointillist works by AJ Oishi. Together, the artists explore themes of nature, color, growth, and transformation through distinct yet complementary visual languages. In a new series of paintings, […]
Park City June 26 – July 18, 2026 Reception: June 26, 6–8 pm Meyer Gallery presents Horizons, a new collection of paintings by Luke Frazier. The exhibition explores the enduring character of the American West through contemporary landscape painting, featuring subjects that range from sweeping desert buttes to […]
Park City June 26 – July 18, 2026 Reception: June 26, 6–8 pm Meyer Gallery presents Tucked In, an exhibition of new paintings by Colby Sanford. Through the use of light, color, and carefully considered compositions, Sanford explores moments of stillness, connection, and belonging, inviting viewers to reflect […]
Salt Lake City June 26, 2026 – January 2, 2027 Dirt Nap is a video installation consisting of 46 one-minute excerpts showing artist Rick Silva napping in landscapes across the Western United States. Recorded between September 2024 and January 2026, the work presents a simple premise—a body at […]
Salt Lake CityJune 26 – September 12, 2026 In Rapture | Rupture, Alexis Rausch examines the uneasy space between spiritual exaltation and violence, drawing on the visual language of roadside memorials, religious imagery, and billboard evangelism. Through paintings and installations, Rausch explores how gestures associated with communal worship, […]
Salt Lake CityJune 26 – September 5, 2026 In The End, internationally acclaimed artist Alfredo Jaar turns his attention to the environmental crisis facing the Great Salt Lake. Through a series of photographs, Jaar documents the lake’s dramatic decline, which has lost 73 percent of its water and […]
Salt Lake City June 26 – September 19, 2026 Drawing inspiration from Gary Snyder’s Pulitzer Prize–winning collection Turtle Island, Eleanor Mahin Thorp’s exhibition Snowtrickle, feldspar, dirt explores the land as a living entity shaped by both natural forces and human intervention. Through paintings informed by the geothermal activity […]
Bountiful June 26 – July 24, 2026 In Real Grief | Potential Grief, Sydney Porter Williams presents a multidisciplinary installation examining the relationship between lived grief, anticipated loss, and inherited trauma. Combining photography, sound, sculpture, textiles, and found objects, the exhibition considers how personal and generational experiences of […]
Bountiful June 26 – July 24 In Eternal Return, Denver-based artist Cassandra Chalfant explores the relationship between memory, nostalgia, and imagined futures through a series of paintings and sculpture. Drawing on family photographs, childhood objects, and familiar domestic spaces alongside visions of abandoned malls, crumbling highways, and empty […]
Salt Lake City June 8 – July 17, 2026 Receptions: Friday, June 19, 6–9pm: Opening Reception & Salt Lake Gallery Stroll Friday, July 17, 6–9pm: Salt Lake Gallery Stroll In Without Care, Michelle Wentling presents a body of work examining fragility, control, and the quiet tensions embedded within domestic […]
Salt Lake City June 8 – July 17, 2026 Receptions: Friday, June 19, 6–9pm: Opening Reception & Salt Lake Gallery Stroll Friday, July 17, 6–9pm: Salt Lake Gallery Stroll In Deserts We Have Crossed, Laura Hope Mason, Claire Tollstrup, and Elizabeth Sanchez present a collaborative exhibition exploring themes of […]
Salt Lake City June 19 – August 14, 2026 Reception: June 19, 6–9 pm Inspired by the symbolism of the Chinese New Year Fire Horse, Year of the Horse brings together paintings, photography, sculpture, and mixed-media works that explore the horse as subject and symbol. The exhibition […]
