Since its founding in 1931, the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art has been committed to exhibiting innovative and challenging work. Exhibitions are spread across six gallery spaces and include group shows with a curated theme, individual presentations of video, audio or tech-based work as well as large-scale installations. Its exhibition program juxtaposes local artists and ideas with national and international ones to forge a richer understanding of the intersection between local and global issues. To further deepen this understanding and to maintain an ongoing conversation with the public about the provocative ideas the art presents, the museum also maintains a busy program of educational components, community outreach projects and professional development opportunities for artists in Utah.
Utah Museum of Contemporary Art
Visitors at opening of
Shattering the Pictures in Our
Heads, January 21, 2022, Photo
by Zachary Norman.
Visitors at opening of
UMOCAxAngie Smith Present: Stronger Shines the Light
Inside, August 6, 2021, Photo by Zachary Norman.
Installation photograph,
Thomas Campbell: Making stuff
to express stuff, To share
stuff, So others can feel or
wanna make stuff, Hopefully. ,
Utah Museum of Contemporary
Art, Jan 20–Apr 29, 2023, Photo
by Zachary Norman.
Installation photograph, Mitsu Salmon: Somatic Tracing, Utah
Museum of Contemporary Art, Apr
15–Jun 04, 2022, Photo by Zachary Norman.
Visitors at opening of Beyond the Margins: An Exploration of Latina Art and Identity, January 20, 2022, Photo by Zachary Norman.
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“The terrific range of project proposals we receive each year speaks to the mobile and porous disciplinary boundaries of contemporary art practice, and to the rich and inventive ways writers approach art today. They are alert to the urgent need to expand the conventions of art history and criticism with ideas from other discourses, such as black studies, transnational and diaspora studies, gender and women’s studies, and LGBT studies. The work of lesser known and overlooked artists and art communities continues to be mined, with writers articulating new ways to counter the striking imbalances of race, class and gender that continue to affect the arts and the culture industry.”