Press releases for current visual art exhibitions in Salt Lake City and surounding 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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Salt Lake City June 8 – August 7, 2026 Reception: June 17, 5–6 pm In IN THIS MANILLA ENVELOPE THE RESULTS OF MY INSANITY, Isaac Cuevas presents a body of paintings that explores the uncertain territory between imagination, spirituality, memory, and perception. Working intuitively, Cuevas allows each piece […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
