Current Exhibitions
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salt 16: Arleene Correa Valencia
November 15, 2024 - June 29, 2025
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 Arleene Correa Valencia is an emerging contemporary artist interested in migration, family, and the visibility/invisibility of undocumented people in the United States. Born in Michoacán, Mexico, Correa Valencia fled with her family to the United States at age three and grew up in Napa Valley. The prolonged experience of separation when her father left to find work made a profound impact on Correa Valencia’s childhood and outlook. Her artistic practice continues to explore the grief, anxieties, and fears of repeated separation alongside the joys of reunited life together. 

Three quilts hang on a green wall in front of a white bench.
Interwoven: Social Transformation Through Art and Community
October 5, 2024 - June 22, 2025

Last fall, the Utah Museum of Fine Arts invited community members to submit proposals for a site-specific, participatory installation in ACME Lab. After a rigorous review process, the UMFA selected teaching artist Sydney Porter Williams to create our newest ACME Lab: Interwoven: Social Transformation Through Art and Community. Collaboratively envisioned with students from Sydney’s University of Utah course, Art for Critical Consciousness — this exhibition deepens our understanding of shared humanity by highlighting our intersecting identities and diverse experiences. 

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.
West and East Asian Art
Permanent Collection

Historic and contemporary artworks

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 large red oval hangs on a white wall next to a painting of a Native American man sitting.
Global 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

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. 

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