Current Exhibitions
October 12, 2022 - January 11, 2023
The SMA invites all Utah artists to enter this exhibition which celebrates the diversity of religious experience and belief in our community.
October 12, 2022 - January 11, 2023
For this exhibition we invited members of our local Springville community and the larger Utah religious community to choose a work of art from our Permanent Collection that represents sanctuary to them. On these walls you will find their answers and writings about where they find peace, solace, and community.
November 19, 2022 - January 11, 2023
This exhibition is open to K-10 students living in Utah Valley. This year, in efforts to make this an interfaith celebration, we are encouraging students to create artwork that will coincide with themes found in the exhibition, Sanctuaries. The prompts for this year’s Youth Art Competition will focus on sanctuaries and what that means to each student. Entries are due Nov 10-11, 2022.
Sep 14, 2022 - Dec 24, 2022
This exhibition celebrates the work and voices of a selection of contemporary Native Utah artists. Their work shows the vibrancy of artmaking and creativity in Utah’s Native communities.
August 24, 2022 - May 13, 2023
Celebrate mid-century modern art, culture, and design with us in this fun and playful exhibition. You get to be the judge!
Utah artists have always been ambitious. They studied abroad, created monumental works, and pushed the boundaries of Utah art and creation. This exhibition celebrates the grand ambitions, interests, and aims of our Utah artists from the nineteenth-century to the present day.
The works in this exhibition reveal layers of meaning, context, and reality about life in the Soviet Union.
November 15, 2017 - Ongoing
This exhibition takes a deeper look at a work from our permanent collection, Entertaining: Favorite Ladies II, by Jeanne Leighton Lundberg Clarke. This colorful painting serves as a lens on how artists use patterns, portraits, and still-life in their paintings. This family friendly exhibition uses various interactives to help explore playful patterns in other works from our permanent collection
November 15, 2017 - Ongoing
This exhibition on the lower level explores the history of the oldest art Museum in Utah.
April 22, 2020 - April 1, 2021
This special online exhibition consists of submitted works from K-12 students across the state and their responses to COVID-19. Participate by viewing how Utah’s youth have coped with crisis and change.