Future Exhibitions

The Continuing Allure:
Painters of Utah's Red Rock

January 14 - June 27, 2010

Love of the western landscape has to do with the capacity of the viewer to experience vast space. To appreciate the desert terrain, one has to be comfortable with an inscrutable universe. Among those artists challenged by Utah's Red Rock Province, few were more successful than the visiting artists: Maynard Dixon, Edgar Payne, Conrad Buff, Sven Birger Sandzen and William R. Leigh, just a few of the artists represented in this exhibition.

Pablo O'Higgins and the Mexican Muralist Movement

February – July 26, 2010

Born in 1904 and raised in Salt Lake City, Pablo O’Higgins studied art under LeConte Stewart before moving to Mexico City, where he became the only Anglo artist welcomed by the Mexican Mural Movement.  O'Higgins was Diego Rivera's lead assistant until he left the mural group to form the anti-Fascist Taller de Grafica Popular with Leopoldo Mendez. The group promoted the graphic arts and was committed to combating racism and championing the underprivileged. Virtually unknown in Utah today, his stature as an artist "of the people" continues to grow and his work is enormously popular in Mexico.

Las Artes de Mexico:
From the Collection of the Gilcrease Museum

May 6 - September 26, 2010

In summer 2010, the Utah Museum of Fine Arts will be all things Mexican art and culture. Las Artes de Mexico: From the Collection of the Gilcrease Museum is an exhibition that explores the richness of Mexican heritage, from the ancient work of the Mayans and Aztecs through the twentieth century.  The exhibition includes a broad array of artifacts such as woven fabrics, masks, and religious objects from Mesoamerica (pre-Conquest Mexico) as well as paintings by modernist masters like Rufino Tamayo, Jose Clemente Orozco, and Diego Rivera. Complementing Las Artes de Mexico will be three companion exhibitions at the UMFA, including: salt I, Pablo O’Higgins and the Mexican Muralist Movement, and Community: Eat, Work, Play.

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Opens May 2010

Concurrent with Las Artes de Mexico, the UMFA will launch a new series of biannual exhibitions showcasing work by emerging, international contemporary artists. The program aims to forge local connections to the global, in keeping with the UMFA’s promise to be a “passport to the world.”

Community: Eat, Work, Play

May 2010 – January 2011

Community: Eat, Work, Play is a collaborative exhibition between the UMFA and three local community groups. UMFA educators, working with elementary and secondary students, will create large-scale murals to be installed in the education gallery. Each group will take on one aspect of the theme, either eat, work or play, and visually explore how that idea is represented in their community.

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