A directory of press releases for current visual art exhibitions in the state of Utah, organized by geographic area.
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 […]
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…
Salt Lake City
September 14 – October 23, 2026
Patterns of Place presents ceramic and mixed media works exploring memory, domestic life, and the stories carried by everyday objects…
Salt Lake City
September 14 – October 23, 2026
Curated by Vicky Lowe K’ulu, Weaving Memories highlights the many ways textile traditions continue across communities today…
Bountiful September 11 – November 23, 2026 Now in its second year, the Statewide Emerging Artists’ Annual (SWEAA) brings together 40 artists from across Utah who are in the formative stages of their careers, including university students and recent graduates, self-taught artists, and artists returning to their practices […]
Bountiful September 11 – November 23, 2026 Artists Who Teach brings together art educators, many working in Utah’s colleges and universities, to highlight the studio practices they maintain alongside their work in the classroom. The exhibition considers teaching and making as interconnected pursuits: questions and perspectives encountered through […]
Salt Lake City
Sept. 11 – Jan. 2, 2027
In the summer of 2020, artist Madeline Rupard bought an 18-year-old blue Subaru so she could leave her Queens apartment during the height of New York’s pandemic lockdowns. What began as a practical purchase to serve particular needs became a steady and reliable companion for repeated cross-country journeys—packed to the brim with all her belongings, fears, and dreams—as she followed various opportunities and instincts.
Mount Carmel
September 11 – October 16
The Thunderbird Museum, the historic home and studio of artist Maynard Dixon, presents Wild women paint the West: Big skies and desert blooms, a group exhibition by The Wild Women
Reception: September 11, 6 – 8pm
The Thunderbird Museum, the historic home and studio of artist Maynard Dixon, presents Wild women paint the West: Big skies and desert blooms, a group exhibition by The Wild Women…
SALT LAKE CITY
September 11, 2026 – June 5, 2027
Reception: September 11, 6–9 p.m.
Time, Truth, and Other Immeasurables explores dimensions of experience that resist calculation, including time, truth, vastness, spirituality, deep time, and history as it unfolds in the moment. …
PARK CITY
September 12 – November 29
Reception: September 12, 5–7 p.m.
Ephemeral is a juried art exhibition presented in partnership with the Utah Native Plant Society, celebrating Utah’s native plants and the artists inspired by them. …
West Valley City September 10 – October 14, 2026 Opening Reception & Awards Ceremony: September 10, Doors 5 p.m., Awards 6 p.m. The American Association of University Women (AAUW) Utah presents its 22nd Biennial Juried Women Artists Exhibition, featuring 128 works by women artists from across the state. […]
