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The Utah Museum of Contemporary Art has been an award-winning aesthetic force and community leader since it was established in 1931. Located in the heart of downtown Salt Lake City, UMOCA encourages exploration into what it means to exist in today's world through art that inspires imagination, stimulates thought, and transforms society. The Museum connects people around the contemporary art practi

ce of Utah and beyond to shape an engaged and thoughtful global citizenry. UMOCA strives to be a place where all points of view, experiences, and ages feel welcome to explore the pressing issues of our time through socially relevant art exhibitions and programming. UMOCA is a five-time recipient of funding from the Andy Warhol Foundation and is a 2015 recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts’ Art Works grant award. UMOCA is a 501c3 institution that is supported by public, foundation, and corporate gifts. Admission is a suggested $5 donation.

06/03/2026

Just a few days left to experience the 2025 Annual Gala Art Auction Exhibition before it closes to the public on June 6.

Featuring generous donations from artists who believe in UMOCA's mission and the future of the arts in Utah, the exhibition offers a chance to collect exceptional work while supporting exhibitions, education, and Artist-in-Residence programs.

View the exhibition through June 6. Bidding remains open through June 13.

06/01/2026

What better way to kick off Pride Month than by celebrating our 2026 Out Loud cohort? 🌈

Thank you to everyone who joined us for the opening of the 10th anniversary exhibition. We’re so proud of this year’s Out Louders and the work they’ve created — thoughtful, bold, personal, and entirely their own.

The exhibition is on view through June 6, so stop by and celebrate these incredible young artists with us.

Special thanks to UMOCA educator Alison Neville and local artist Alisha Anderson_a_anderson for leading this year’s cohort, and to L-E, founder of the program, for joining us in celebrating this milestone year. ✨

05/29/2026

One more week to experience Sky Hopinka’s video, Lore, in the Codec Gallery.

In Lore, Hopinka animates memories through layered transparencies of friends and familiar landscapes projected overhead, while his voice carries a poem shaped by reflections on family, Indigenous mythologies, and the end of a relationship.

As images shift and overlap, memory becomes something constructed, carried forward, and retold — a form of self-made lore. The film closes with musicians performing Bo Diddley’s 1955 “Heart-O-Matic Love,” a song that imagines love as a road trip.

On view through June 6.

05/28/2026

Schvitz while you soundscape. Tickets at https://www.maplegrovesprings.com/event-details/a-score-for-no-film-concert-with-umoca

UMOCA is teaming up with Maple Grove Hot Springs to present A Score for No Film, an “acid western” live score performed poolside in the River Lounge as part of the Maple Grove Concert Series.

An ensemble of local musicians builds a shifting sonic environment around video work by Moses Williams—layering guitar, organ, banjo, pedal steel, bass, percussion, and projection into a live, cinematic score. Drawing from the sound worlds of Morricone, Neil Young, Langhorne, and Jodorowsky, the performance moves between sparse, filmic passages and dense improvisation.

Featuring Chaz Prymek, Nora Price, Taku Ishikawa, M. Horton Smith, Ian Hazel, Ian Camp, and sound tech Mike Fuchs. Opening set by St. Moan.

Presented in conjunction with Altered States in the Acid West, supported by Art Bridges Foundation.

05/27/2026

With school out for the summer, the UMOCA K–12 team is parking the Art Truck and taking a short hiatus from Family Art Saturdays — but you can still catch us at events across the valley all summer long. See you there ☀️

05/26/2026

Join us Thursday, June 4 from 7–8 PM for an in-gallery conversation with artists Ariel C. Wilson and Matt Kowal on from where the sun is, to wherever you are, currently on view in UMOCA’s AIR Space. RSVP at https://utahmoca.org/event/ariel-wilson-matt-kowal-artist-talk/

Developed during Wilson’s 2025 Artist-in-Residence at UMOCA, the exhibition traces a continuous cycle of daylight and darkness across twenty-four time zones through live we**am imagery gathered around the globe.

Wilson and Kowal will discuss the development of the project, collaboration, photography, environmental observation, and the technological systems that shape how we experience landscape and distance today.

Audience Q&A to follow.

05/21/2026

🤠 Reminder: DIY Bolo Ties tomorrow, Friday, from 6-9 pm!

Join us for a drop-in workshop inspired by Altered States in the Acid West, where participants will create their own bolo ties using fabric, beads, yarn, trinkets, googly eyes, and other unexpected materials.

Bring a small personal object to incorporate into your piece, or just show up and make something strange, glamorous, sentimental, or all of the above.

Friday, May 22, 6–9 PM
All materials provided.
RSVP at link in bio for supply count. https://utahmoca.org/event/diy-bolo-ties/

05/20/2026

UMOCA’s Annual Gala Art Auction Exhibition is now open!

Featuring work donated by over 40 local artists, the exhibition offers a chance to experience an incredible range of contemporary Utah art while directly supporting UMOCA’s exhibitions, education, and Artist-in-Residence programs.

Whether you’re a longtime collector or just getting familiar with artists working in Utah, anyone can bid on the work and participate in the auction. Bid now at https://secure.qgiv.com/event/acidwestgala/items/

The exhibition is free and open to the public through the gala—come spend time with the work.

Big thanks to all of the amazing artists who donated their work this year:
Participating Artists:
Andrew Alba
Trent Alvey
Henry Becker
Kellie Bornhoft
Collin Bradford
Ian Burnley
Maddison Colvin
Nic Courdy
Paul Crow
Daniel Everett
Peter Everett
Nolan Flynn
Jim Frazer
Daniel George
Josh Graham
Emily Hawkins
Robyn Hodess
Russell Huiskamp
Janell James
Brooklynn Johnson
Kathryn Knudsen
Lenka Konopasek
Beth Krensky
Jordan Layton
Christopher Lynn
Colour Maisch
Nick Pedersen
James Perkins
Alexis Rausch
Andrew Rice
Holly Rios
Jorge Rojas
Madeline Rupard
Mitsu Salmon
Laura Sharp-Wilson
Sallie Shatz
Nakita Shelley
Casey Jex Smith
Portia Snow
John Sproul
Jared Steffensen
Kaybria Swenson
James Talbot
Gary Vlasic

05/19/2026

Thank you to everyone who joined us for The Sacred West—both at the symposium and out on the trail. From presentations and performances to workshops, conversation, and shared time in the landscape, the weekend opened space for thoughtful exchange around land, perception, ecology, ritual, and place.

We’re especially grateful to Dr. Benjamin Lewis, Stephen Rodgers, Blanca Stacey Villalobos, and Kat Nix for sharing their work and practices with such generosity, and to everyone who joined us for Canyon Songs and carried these conversations into the foothills.

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Wednesday	11am - 6pm
Thursday	11am - 6pm
Friday	11am - 9pm
Saturday	11am - 6pm

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http://www.utahmoca.org/

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