Current Exhibitions
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An impressionist painting of a cliffside. There's a blue ocean and brown cliffs in the background. There is a green tree in the foreground.
Blue Grass, Green Skies: American Impressionism and Realism from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
August 24 - December 29, 2024
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Blue Grass, Green Skies: American Impressionism and Realism from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art is an exhibition that highlights seventeen paintings by some of the most esteemed Realists and Impressionists. The roster includes Americans active in Europe like Mary Cassatt in France, East Coast denizens like Childe Hassam and John Henry Twachtman, and Californians like William Wendt and Granville Redmond.

A black and white photo of a woman in a white dress sitting on the ground beneath a tree with a small child looking at a book.
Photo-Secession: Painterly Masterworks of Turn-of-the-Century Photography
August 24 - December 29, 2024

Photo-Secession: Painterly Masterworks of Turn-of-the-Century Photography celebrates an intrepid group of photographers, led by preeminent photographer Alfred Stieglitz, who fought to establish photography as fine art, coequal with painting and sculpture at the turn of the 20th century.

The seven muralists of 2020: From here on out posing infront of a mural in the UMFA Great Hall
2020: From here on out
September 25, 2021 - January 9, 2025

In 2020, artists created numerous murals across Salt Lake City in response to the global pandemic and racial injustice. These public works reflect our city’s pain and frustration but also our hopes and demands for a better future.

a black and white photograph of a women standing in the large entry to a ruined building made of rocks in a desert
Digital Exhibitions
Explore the UMFA's Collections from home

The UMFA's digital exhibitions highlight the past through dynamic curatorial exploration of the collections of both the Museum and the J. Willard Marriott Library at the University of Utah. Learn from the comfort of your own home today. 

Colorful bead work sits in a display case against a white wall. There are brown carvings in another display case next to it.
Arts of Africa
Permanent Collection

The scope of artistic practice from twenty-one African cultures

Three painted canvases line the back, burgundy-colored wall. There are two dark pieces of pottery in glass display cases on similar-colored stands in the middle of the room.
American and Regional Art
Permanent Collection

Exploring westward expansion 

Two carved deities sit on separate mint-colored stands. One is in a glass display case.
East Asian Art
Permanent Collection

China's celebrated ceramic tradition

A statue of a man on a horse is on a platform in the foreground. In the background are two portrait paintings in gold frames on a dark green wall
European Art
Permanent Collection

The progression and practice of art-making across five centuries

A statue of a sparrow sits in a glass case. There's another glass case in the background, mounted to a purple wall, with swords in it.
Japanese Art: Adaptation and Transformation
Permanent Collection

Exploring how Japanese artists over the last thousand years have responded to internal and external events and influences in their art-making. 

Two pieces of pottery sit in glass cases. There's two white head statues on a shelf on a white wall.
Ancient Mediterranean Art
Permanent Collection

Intriguing funerary objects from Egyptian, Greek, and Roman cultures

Pottery and carved figures sit inside a glass case against a white wall.
Ancient Mesoamerican Art
Permanent Collection

The artistic traditions of western Mexico, Olmec, and Mayan cultures

A sculpture made of black tires stands in the middle of a room. There are colorful paintings on the white walls in the background.
Modern and Contemporary Art
Permanent Collection

A look at the diversity of global artistic production post 1945

Carved figures on a thin, brown boat, sit on a white shelf. There are brown, carved, shield-like objects hanging on the white wall above.
Arts of the Pacific
Permanent Collection

The dynamic and diverse art practices of earth's largest region

A green, carved deity sits in a glass case in the center of a large room. There are other carved deities on their own stands against the walls in the background.
South Asian Art
Permanent Collection

Celebrating the art of Hinduism and Buddhism

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