Press releases for current visual art exhibitions in Salt Lake City and surounding area.
Salt Lake CityMarch 21–May 1, 2026Reception: Friday, March 20, 3:30–5:30 PM In And the Journey Continues, Dr. Sam Forlenza presents paintings that reflect on art as an ongoing process of exploration and discovery. Drawing on visual elements such as maps, highways, intersecting lines, and geometric structures, the works […]
Salt Lake City March 14–April 24, 2026 Artist Talk: Saturday, March 28, 3–3:30 PM Reception: Saturday, March 28, 4–5:30 PM In The Orders: Insects in Watercolor, Heath Ogden presents a series of paintings exploring the extraordinary diversity of the insect world. An entomologist by profession, Ogden set out […]
Salt Lake CityMarch 14–April 24, 2026Reception: Saturday, March 28, 3:30–5:30 PMGallery talk: 3:30–4 PMReception: 4–5:30 PM Make Me a Landscape, Do Not Include Any Sky explores the relationship between art, nature, and technology in the emerging age of artificial intelligence. For this body of work, Ben Bloch collaborated […]
Salt Lake City, Utah March 9 – April 18, 2026 Reception: March 29, 3–5 pm Transgender Celebration 2026 is the third annual group exhibition featuring work by transgender artists, presented in the Lower Urban Room of the Main Library. The exhibition highlights a range of artistic perspectives while […]
Salt Lake City, Utah March 5 – April 19, 2026 Reception: March 14, 2–3 pm Artist Alise Anderson presents Loose parts ~ a child’s way of knowing, an interactive exhibition of sculptural works inspired by early childhood learning. Installed in the Children’s Gallery at the Main Library, the […]
South Salt LakeMarch 6 – April 10, 2026Opening Reception: March 6, 5:30–8 PM Material Gallery presents Grief Work, a multidisciplinary exhibition exploring grief as communal, embodied, and transformative. Rather than understanding grief as singular or linear, the exhibition approaches it as an experience unfolding across time, cultures, bodies, […]
Salt Lake City March 2 – April 10, 2026 Receptions: Friday, March 6, 6–9pm: Opening Reception Friday, March 20, 6–9pm: Salt Lake Gallery Stroll In Shadows and Alleyways, Benjamin Childress turns his attention to the peripheral—people, places, and histories that exist just outside our frame of attention. Inspired by […]
Salt Lake City March 2 – April 10, 2026 Receptions: Friday, March 6, 6–9pm: Opening Reception Friday, March 20, 6–9pm: Salt Lake Gallery Stroll In (un)contained: On Skin, Boundaries, and the Emotions We Hold, Jill Saxton Smith explores boundary and containment as intimate, political, and relational conditions. Working with […]
Salt Lake City, UtahFebruary 26 – April 3, 2026Opening reception: Friday, February 27, 5–7 pm In Hidden Life, the artist collective 4 Common Corners explores aspects of the natural world that often remain unseen. Moving across scales both microscopic and cosmic, the exhibition considers subjects ranging from bacteria […]
Salt Lake City, UtahFeb. 26 – Apr. 3 Reception / Open House: 6–7:30 pm, George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Art Gallery; SLCC Chamber Singers performance, 7:30–9 pm, Multipurpose Room (1-032 & 1-030) Inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s vision of a “beloved community,” this photography exhibition […]
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, […]
SALT LAKE CITY February 20 – March 14, 2026 Opening reception Friday, February 20, 6–9 pm (Gallery Stroll) Join 15th Street Gallery for the opening of its February exhibition featuring new work by Douglas Smith and Anne Becker. Salt Lake City–based artist, designer, and writer Douglas Smith creates […]
SALT LAKE CITY February 20 – March 30, 2026 Opening reception: Friday, February 20, 3–5 pm GOD IS FOR EVERYONE is an exhibition of artwork by Travis Olsen, inspired by Keith Haring’s message “Art is for Everyone,” and reimagined here as an inclusive invitation: “GOD is for Everyone.” […]
SALT LAKE CITY February 14 – March 28, 2026 Opening reception: Saturday, February 14, 4–5:30 pm Desert Blooms features acrylic paintings by Terence K. Stephens, inspired by the sculptural forms and vivid color of florals thriving in extreme climates. Painted from both Palm Springs and Salt Lake City, […]
Salt Lake City February 12 – April 30, 2026 Opening reception: Friday, February 20, 6–8 pm Marking a new chapter for the gallery in its South Temple location, Unbound: Art of the West reflects on Modern West’s history while looking forward to the evolving possibilities of Western art. […]
SALT LAKE CITY January 16 – June 6, 2026 Opening Celebration: Friday, January 16, 2026, 6-9 pm Altered States draws from the acid western genre that emerged in the 1970s alongside countercultural movements and a growing distrust of inherited histories. These films upended the familiar language of the Western—its […]
SALT LAKE CITY January 16 – May 9, 2026 Opening Celebration: Friday, January 16, 2026, 6-9 pm Love and Squalor takes its name from a short story by JD Salinger, which contrasts innocence with destruction. The title functions as an umbrella between two pieces by Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson, […]
SALT LAKE CITY January 16 – April 25, 2026 Opening Celebration: Friday, January 16, 2026, 6-9 pm Paisana is an exhibition about recognition, mistranslation, and the politics of belonging. Created during her 2024–2025 residency at UMOCA, this multimedia exhibition by Sara Serratos examines how governmental, social, and labor systems […]
Salt Lake City September 13, 2025 – June 14, 2025 Opening reception: Friday, September 26, celebration with artist and live DJ Adama Delphine Fawundu is a New York–based artist of Mende, Krim, Bamileke, and Bubi descent. Her practice embodies ancestral memory across space and time, reconnecting places, objects, […]
