Late Artist’s Creative Ferocity Fills Her Utah Enclave, and Those Who Still Gather There
Painter Pilar Pobil's largest artwork was her maximalist Salt Lake City home, a communal hub that still hums nearly a year after her death.
October 16, 2025
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Ogden Contemporary Arts Announces Suzanne Sbarge as Fall 2025 Artist-in-Residence
New Mexico–based artist Suzanne Sbarge's two-month residency in Ogden begins September 2025, featuring new collage and installation work exploring nature and consciousness, culminating in a solo exhibition November 7, 2025–January 11, 2026.
September 09, 2025
To Affect Social Change, These Artists Put One Foot in Front of the Other
In Step After Step at Kimball Art Center, artists leave their studios behind to claim the moving body as a revolutionary artistic method.
September 05, 2025
Field ReportUtahVol. 12 Obsession
Field Report: Park City
Beneath the glitz of Park City's skiing and film scenes, underground culture abounds—including a cowboy speakeasy, hidden Banksy murals, and subterranean scuba diving.
September 05, 2025
The Medium is their Message: Compulsion and Identity in Zion
Artists Stephanie Leitch, Angela Ellsworth, and Nancy Rivera use materially obsessive processes to reflect on the mythos of Utah.
September 05, 2025
Modern Nature: The Contemporary Art Guide to Southwest Botanical Gardens
Southwest botanical gardens have reshaped their grounds as living museums for stunning—and challenging—contemporary art. Discover seven culture-filled desert oases.
July 03, 2025
Lu Wei Takes on Feminine Archetypes and the Desert in Wild, Visionary, and Precise Strokes
In two successive solo exhibitions, Taiwanese artist Lu Wei traces a wild pilgrimage through the shadows of motherhood into the searing heat of the Utah desert landscape.
June 26, 2025
“What’s Your Side Hustle?”: Hard-Earned Lessons on Artistic Survival from a Southwest Highway Town
The artists of Helper, Utah, have spent the last three decades honing strategies to strengthen their rural community—and make the regional market work for them.
May 13, 2025
ArtistsUtahVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
The Hyperlocal: Joshua Graham
Salt Lake City–based artist Joshua Graham explores site-specificity through walking and collecting, gathering objects in the foothills above the city and reconfiguring them in the gallery.
March 07, 2025
ReviewUtahVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
Arleene Correa Valencia Stitches Together Identity Through the Trauma of Immigration
Arleene Correa Valencia’s exhibition at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts reveals the indelible imprint of growing up as an undocumented migrant through personal writings, photographs, and textiles.
March 07, 2025
EssayUtahVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
The Neon Guardian of Ogden: A Familial Origin Story
How a lost-and-found neon dragon on Ogden's main drag shaped one family's mythology—and captured a community's heart.
March 07, 2025
UMFA’s Copper-Infused Riverbed Installation Surfaces Shimmering Visuals from Poisoned Depths
Yasuaki Onishi's site-specific installation Stone on Boundary poetically links Japan and Utah's mountains, rivers—and entanglements in the mining industry.
February 18, 2025
This Utah Curator Launched Her Career with a Treatise on Artistic Rebellion
Nancy Stoaks of Park City's Kimball Art Center wrote her thesis on artistic rabble-rouser Niki de Saint Phalle, sparking a career-long fight for the underdogs.
February 06, 2025
Salt Lines Converge at Southern Utah Museum of Art
Salt Lines: Exploring Climate, Environment, and the Saline Influx examines the past, present, and future of salt in the global landscape through the work of duo Hylozoic/Desires, photographer David Maisel, and poet and photographer Alexandra Fuller.
November 19, 2024
Mourn the Dead, Fight for the Living: How Should Salt Lake City’s Fleet Block Murals Be Commemorated?
The artists and families tied to soon-to-be-demolished Salt Lake City murals depicting people slain by police diverge on how best to preserve their legacy.
September 19, 2024
Concurrent Exhibitions at the UMFA Highlight Impressionism and Photography’s Mutual Influence
Together, Blue Grass, Green Skies and Photo-Secession present a unique dialogue between painting and photography in new Salt Lake City exhibitions. On view through December 29, 2024.
September 10, 2024
FeatureUtahVol. 10 Radical Futures
Red Planet Role-Play at the Mars Desert Research Station
At the Mars Desert Research Station near Hanksville, Utah, scientists conduct experiments as if they are on the Red Planet, the only caveat being that they aren’t.
September 06, 2024
ReviewUtahVol. 10 Radical Futures
Asserting the Humanity Behind Border Politics through Play and PDA at the Kimball Center
In the Shadow of the Wall at the Kimball Art Center offers poignant and playful perspectives on the border wall, beyond political controversy.
September 06, 2024
FEMA Artworks: Climate Resiliency, Photography and Storytelling at Ogden Contemporary Arts
At Ogden Contemporary Arts, artists share stories of resilience in the face of climate change. On view through October 13, 2024, in Ogden, Utah.
August 21, 2024
Utah Artist Fellowships: Celebrating Creativity in the Beehive State
The Utah Division of Arts & Museums proudly presents the 2024 Utah Artist Fellowship Recipients, awarded for their artistic excellence.
June 20, 2024
100 Years of the Springville Museum of Art’s Living Archive, the Spring Salon
Growing from the halls of a high school to the walls of its own museum, a storied exhibition series helped transform a small Utah town into "Art City."
June 10, 2024
Drawn in Dust: Museums Across Utah Showcase Art Made in Japanese American Incarceration Camp
While incarcerated in the Utah desert, a circle of World War II-era Japanese American artists founded an art school.
June 07, 2024
Oracle Bones: High Desert Divination with Terry Tempest Williams and Gaylord Schanilec
In Oracle Bones from Red Butte Press, a writer and an artist wander the Utah wilderness to discern the future. Then it comes true.
May 15, 2024
From Utah’s Geographical Center, an Argument for Decentralizing Arts Discourse
Granary Arts's Critical Ground advances a bold idea: in the Southwest arts community, the center shouldn't hold.
May 14, 2024
Southwest Art News: April 2024
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more.
April 02, 2024
EssayUtahVol. 9 Living Histories
A Fluid History Set in Stones, Springs, and Rivers
In this essay, nicholas b jacobsen braids together ongoing histories of Mormon and U.S. settler colonialism and genocide against Nuwu and Diné peoples at Pipe Spring National Monument and Lake Powell.
March 01, 2024
FeatureUtahVol. 9 Living Histories
Living at the Home of Truth: Emma Kemp Blends History with Memoir in Marie’s Place
After living at an abandoned commune in rural Utah for eight years, author Emma Kemp blends history with memoir in her forthcoming book.
March 01, 2024
…and there is this lingering thought.: Gail Grinnell at Weber State
Gail Grinnell's ...and there is this lingering thought. sparks reflection on the world we live in and ourselves at the Shaw Gallery at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah.
January 24, 2024
Ogden Contemporary Arts Announces Two Fall Exhibitions
MyLoan Dinh: Unsettled Provisions and Nancy Rivera: No Present to Remember open Friday, November 3, 2023, and run through January 14, 2024.
October 31, 2023
Experience Coincidences at Dumke Arts Plaza, Ogden, Utah
The Mary Elizabeth Dee Shaw Gallery at Weber State University presents Coincidences, a multimedia project and contemporary movement experience exploring shared isolation.
October 18, 2023
