Exhibitions

A directory of press releases for current visual art exhibitions in the state of Utah, organized by geographic area.

2025 Filmmaking, Art & Design Faculty Exhibition at SUMA

Cedar City October 18, 2025 – March 7, 2026   The biennial Filmmaking, Art & Design Faculty Exhibition at Southern Utah Museum of Art celebrates the creativity and achievement of 17 SUU faculty artists, representing a wide range of disciplines including printmaking, ceramics, photography, illustration, and installation. The […]

Art for All: The Cedar City Art Exhibit, 1940–2008

Cedar City October 18, 2025 – March 7, 2026   The Southern Utah Museum of Art revisits one of Utah’s most significant community art initiatives with Art for All: The Cedar City Art Exhibit, 1940–2008. First organized in 1940 by local art teacher Eugene Jorgensen and the Cedar […]

2025 UVU Faculty Art Exhibition at UVU Museum

Orem October 14 – December 2025 Opening Reception: Tuesday, October 14, 5:00–7:30 PM   The 2025 Faculty Art Exhibition at Utah Valley University Museum of Art highlights new works by current Art & Design faculty, showcasing the breadth and vitality of creative practice across disciplines. Featuring painting, sculpture, […]

39th Annual Spiritual and Religious Art of Utah at SMOFA

Springville October 15, 2025 – January 7, 2026 The Springville Museum of Art presents the 39th Annual Spiritual and Religious Art of Utah, a juried exhibition inviting artists from across the state to share diverse expressions of faith, belief, and spirituality. Through painting, sculpture, photography, and mixed media, […]

LatinArte: Nuestras Raíces (Our Roots) at SLCC

Salt Lake City October 9 – November 6, 2025 Reception & Awards Ceremony: Thursday, October 9, 6 pm   The George S. & Dolores Doré Eccles Gallery at Salt Lake Community College presents LatinArte: Nuestras Raíces (Our Roots), an exhibition celebrating Latinx creativity and cultural expression in Utah. […]

Touchstone: Kellie Bornhoft at UMOCA

Salt Lake City September 26, 2025 – January 3, 2026 Opening reception Friday, September 26, 6–9 PM Touchstone invites viewers to reflect on their own material composition as a blend of geological minerals. In this installation, Kellie Bornhoft embeds sixteen of the most prevalent minerals found in the […]

Shifting Terrain, Mapping Place at UMOCA

Salt Lake City September 26, 2025 – January 3, 2026 Opening reception Friday, September 26, 6–9 PM Shifting Terrain, Mapping Place presents new work by Al Denyer exploring how maps picture and interpret landscapes. Using the visual language of cartography, especially the contour lines that trace changes in […]

Relative Truths at UMFA

Salt Lake City September 26, 2025 – January 3, 2026 Opening Celebration: Friday, September 26, 6–9 PM Panel Discussion: Thursday, November 6, 6 PM In Relative Truths, faculty from the University of Utah’s Department of Art & Art History present new works that consider human relationships to truth […]

Visions of the American West at David Dee Fine Arts

Salt Lake City September 19 – December 31 Opening reception Friday, September 19, 6–9 PM Paintings included in this exhibition reflect a world shaped by solitude, resilience and beauty in everyday life. The exhibition includes works by LeConte Stewart, Maynard Dixon, James T. Harwood, Henri Moser and Mahonri […]

salt 17: Adama Delphine Fawundu at UMFA

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, […]

Randolph Peay: Momento at The Compass

Provo August 22 – September 27, 2025 Memento Mori is a term used in art history to describe a genre of work meant to remind the viewer that they will die someday. In this show the work is meant to remind the viewer instead of the opportunity to […]

Exploding Native Inevitable at NEHMA

Logan August 20, 2025 – January 17, 2026 Reception: Friday, September 19, 2025, 5:30–8:00 pm Curated by Brad Kahlhamer and Dan Mills, this exhibition showcases twelve contemporary Indigenous artists and two collaboratives whose works push against traditional Western art expectations. Inspired by Andy Warhol’s Exploding Plastic Inevitable, the […]

Faces of Drug Addiction: Real People, Real Stories at NEHMA

Logan August 20, 2025 – January 17, 2026 Reception: Saturday, August 23, 2025 As part of the national INTO LIGHT project, this exhibition features hand-drawn graphite portraits and stories of Utahns who lost their lives to drug addiction, drug poisoning, or related causes. Each portrait, created from photographs […]

William Cobbing: Inner Horizon at UMOCA

Salt Lake City June 27, 2025 – January 3, 2026 The Utah Museum of Contemporary Art presents Inner Horizon, the first U.S. solo exhibition by London-based artist William Cobbing. Commissioned by UMOCA, this immersive, multi-channel video installation chronicles Cobbing’s journey across Utah’s iconic basin and range region—an environment […]

Something from Everything at UMOCa

Salt Lake City Jun 27, 2025 – Jan 3, 2026 The Utah Museum of Contemporary Art presents Something from Everything, a dynamic exhibition that investigates the ever-expanding possibilities of materiality in 21st-century sculpture. Featuring a diverse array of artists working with unconventional processes and materials, this exhibition offers […]