5:00 PM Russell/Wanlass Performance Hall 6:30 PM In-Gallery Performance at NEHMA NEHMA is partnering with USU’s College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Art and Design for the March Communitas […]
March 09, 2026
5:30 – 6:30 Wanlass/Russell Performance Hall 6:30 – 7:30 Reception at NEHMA Celebrate NEHMA’s newest exhibition, Jim Mangan: The Crick, with an evening of discussion featuring artist Jim Mangan. Discover […]
March 09, 2026
Experience Olafur Eliasson's immersive sound and light installation highlighting the Great Salt Lake's urgent decline March 26–April 4, in Salt Lake City's Memory Grove.
February 10, 2026
Contemporary art is gaining ground in Cedar City, Utah. Inside the former Mormon frontier town, ten years after the founding of its flagship art museum.
January 22, 2026
Returning to Wonder opens January 16, 2026, at Kimball Art Center featuring Pipilotti Rist, Josiah McElheny, Katie Paterson, and more. Experience world-class contemporary art at Park City's premier cultural destination.
December 16, 2025
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
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
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 ReportTravelUtahVol. 12 Obsession
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
Artists Stephanie Leitch, Angela Ellsworth, and Nancy Rivera use materially obsessive processes to reflect on the mythos of Utah.
September 05, 2025
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
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
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
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’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
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
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
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: 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
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
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
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
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
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
The Utah Division of Arts & Museums proudly presents the 2024 Utah Artist Fellowship Recipients, awarded for their artistic excellence.
June 20, 2024
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
While incarcerated in the Utah desert, a circle of World War II-era Japanese American artists founded an art school.
June 07, 2024
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
Granary Arts's Critical Ground advances a bold idea: in the Southwest arts community, the center shouldn't hold.
May 14, 2024
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more.
April 02, 2024
