Material Gallery is pleased to present Grief Work, a multidisciplinary project exploring grief as layered, communal, and transformative. Rather than viewing grief as singular or linear, Grief Work recognizes it as something that unfolds across time, cultures, bodies, and artistic practices.
The 53 artists in the exhibition working across a multitude of mediums including 2D and 3D art, performance, video, sound, and poetry, engage grief in its many forms—personal, collective, ancestral, societal, and ecological—approaching it not only as loss, but also as process, ritual, memory, resistance, care, and transformation. How do we hold space for pain? How can art witness and metabolize sorrow?
Emerging at a moment of cultural urgency, Grief Work offers space for reflection, connection, and shared meaning—centering grief not as something to resolve, but to honor.
Co-curated by Molly Heller, Colour Maisch, and Jorge Rojas.
On view March 6–April 10, 2026 at Material Gallery.
Live performance + film screenings April 3 at V. PROJECT STUDIO.
Image credit: Pablo Cruz Ayala, Mothers Warmth, 2026
March 6, 2026 - April 10, 2026
Material Gallery
2970 S W Temple St, South Salt Lake, UT 84115
