A directory of press releases for current visual art exhibitions in the state of Utah, organized by geographic area.
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 […]
Brigham City June 20 – September 26, 2026 The Brigham City Museum of Art & History presents Broad Spectrum IV: Evolutions, an exhibition organized by the Montana/Idaho region of Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA). Featuring 38 works by 31 artists, the exhibition explores the many meanings, images, and […]
Ogden June 5 – September 13, 2026 Reception: Friday, June 5 Members Only Happy Hour: 4–6 pm Public Reception: 6–9 pm Rooted in Ogden Contemporary Arts’ 2026 theme of Radical Joy, the Artist Factory Exhibition: Teachers & Students brings teaching artists and students into creative dialogue through a […]
Cedar CityJune 5 – September 26, 2026 Carrying the Flame Forward: 40 Years of the Larry H. Miller Utah Summer Games celebrates four decades of one of Utah’s most enduring community sporting traditions. Through photographs, memorabilia, stories, and historical materials, the exhibition traces the evolution of the Games […]
Cedar CityJune 5 – September 26, 2026 Celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Southern Utah Museum of Art and the Beverley Taylor Sorenson Center for the Arts, Art from Abstract to Zion presents a wide-ranging exhibition drawn from SUMA’s permanent collection. Featuring works from the museum vault alongside […]
OGDENMay 15 – October 15, 2026 An immersive installation by Meredith Connelly transforms Ogden’s Dumke Arts Plaza into a glowing environment of light, movement, and interconnected life systems. Featuring the illuminated works Water and Mushrooms & Snails, the exhibition explores ecology, mythology, and the fragile relationships that sustain […]
Salt Lake CityMay 1 – 31, 2026Reception: Friday, May 15, during Salt Lake Gallery Stroll In Bloom is a group exhibition featuring work inspired by flowers, botanicals, and garden landscapes in all their forms. Spanning a wide range of styles and media, the exhibition explores the visual and […]
Salt Lake CityMay 8 – May 9, 2026Reception: Friday, May 8, 6–9 pm The Aerodynamics of a Cow is a collection of ceramic work by Andrew Bos, presented at Books & Supply. The exhibition and sale showcases Bos’s inventive approach to clay through a series of sculptural and […]
Provo April 10 – October 10, 2026 Mimi Chen Ting: Make Movement Visible celebrates the life and work of Chinese American artist Mimi Chen Ting, whose paintings, prints, and performances span more than five decades. From the 1960s through the early 2020s, Ting developed a dynamic body of […]
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, […]
LOGAN January 20, 2026 – May 5, 2027 Panel Discussion & Reception: Wednesday, January 28, 2026, 5:30–7:00 pm (Roundtable panel at Russell/Wanlass Performance Hall), followed by a reception with refreshments and live music from 7:00–8:30 pm at the museum. Admission is free and open to the public. The […]
Springville June 18, 2025 – May 2027 The Springville Museum of Art invites you to experience In Search of Ourselves: Soviet Art and the Shared Human Spirit, a reexamination of its renowned Soviet and Russian Art Collection. This long-term exhibition explores themes of identity, community, labor, and leisure, […]
OgdenMay 16, 2025 – April 30, 2026Public Opening: Friday, May 16 (6-8 p.m.) On view at Dumke Arts Plaza, This was water is an interactive installation that combines sculpture, sound, and video to reflect on the precarious state of the Great Salt Lake. Created by artists Kellie Bornhoft […]
Salt Lake City, UT March 24–29, 2025 Reception: Friday, March 28, 7–11 PM Furnishings is an exhibition that highlights the distinctive beauty of Utah’s natural materials through the lens of craft. Organized by Sam Richards and Jack Orgill, the show presents works that draw from Utah’s rich landscape, […]
Salt Lake City Feb. 15, 2025 – Feb. 15, 2027 Japanese artist Onishi Yasuaki is fascinated with the molds, shells, and “reverse casts” of objects that help shape our perception of the physical world. As an installation artist, Onishi designs large-scale works that respond to a building’s architecture […]
