PAST EXHIBITIONS

Since the Museum’s opening in 1993, exhibitions curated from within the collection and from around the world have made the MOA a place where visitors can truly find inspiration and an appreciation for others and their ideas. Explore past exhibitions from the BYU Museum of Art’s rich history in this archive (exhibitions are listed under the year they closed).

2022 Exhibitions

Jules Chéret, “Folies-Bergère/La Loïe Fuller Émilienne D’Alençon,” 1893, color lithograph. Photograph by John Faier. © 2015 The Richard H. Driehaus Museum.
L'Affichomania!The Passion for French Posters
Jesus and Peter on the Water by Gustave Brion
Rend the HeavensIntersections of the Human and Divine
Maynard Dixon, Free Speech
Becoming America

2021 Exhibitions

Medusa Marinara From the After Warhol series Dye destruction print, 1997 Courtesy of the artist
Vik MunizExtra-Ordinary
Victoria Sambunaris, Moab Evaporation Pool
Far Out: The West Re-seenPhotography of Victoria Sambunaris
Culmer, Shoshone Falls
Treasures from the MOA CollectionStaff and Audience Favorites from the Collection
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From the VaultMinerva Teichert's Book of Mormon Paintings
Grant Wood, Approaching Storm
Art for the PeopleAssociated American Artist Prints from the Springfield Museum of Art Collection
Fields of Labor and RecoveryA Photographic Portrait of Utah from the Great Depression to WWII, 1936-1942

2020 Exhibitions

Dorothy Weir Young, "Seated Girl Reading Newspaper," c.1930, painting
A Studio of Her OwnWomen Artists in the Collection
John Henri Moser, "Red Butte River"
John Henry MoserPainting Utah Modern
Jasper John, Target with Four Faces
SupermarketPop Art and 1960s America

Earlier Exhibitions

Mahonri M. Young,
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Danae Mattes: Where the River Widens
Windswept by Patrick Dougherty
4.1 miles film screenshot
Over the Top for You
Bloch, Self Portrait, etching
Iwo Jima, Joe Rosenthal/The Associated Press
Adrien Paci
Rick Shaefer,
Nina Katchadourian,
Dana Gluckstein,
Tiffany - Overhead View of Dragonfly Hanging Shade
We Revolve Ceaseless, Aundrea Frahm
M.C. Escher,
Struss, Flatiron Building
Justin Wheatley,
No Dull Days: J. Alfred Myer's Turn-of-the-Century America
Work in Progress
February 24 - September 9, 2017
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Opens January 27
Lawrence, Builders
February 3 - April 29, 2017
James Mollison. Aida Boys School, Bethlehem, West Bank
March 17 - July 8, 2017
Electronic Gallery:
May 3, 2016 - January 7, 2017
Rebecca Campbell: The Potato Eaters
September 30, 2016 - February 18, 2017
A Visual Testimony: Minerva Teichert's Book of Mormon Paintings
September 16, 2016 - May 6, 2017
Capturing the Canyons: Artists in the National Parks
April 29 - August 20, 2016
Blair Leighton,
Summer 2016 - Summer 2019
Reality Reorganized: Walter Askin and Wayne Kimball's Mysterious Discursions
April 13 - August 27, 2016
e.g.: Kehinde Wiley,
December 21, 2015 - April 30, 2016
Branding the American West: Paintings and Films 1900-1950
February 19 - August 13, 2016
e.g. Nicholas Galanin: We Will Again Open This Container of Wisdom That Has Been Left in Our Care
June - September 2015
CCA Christensen
June 4-October 3, 2015
Weaving the Unexpected: Navajo Pictorials from the Lucke Collection
May 1, 2015 - September 19, 2015
e.g. Courtney Kessel: You and Me
January 29, 2015 - May 16, 2015
Music of Freedom: Jazz Through the Lens of Herman Leonard
November 6, 2015 - March 19, 2016
No Place Like Home: Selections from the Sue and John Wieland Collection of Contemporary Art
September 18 - December 5, 2015
Treasures of British Art 1400-2000: The Berger Collection
August 14, 2015 - January 5, 2016
In Word & Deed: Five Centuries of Religious Art from the Collection of the BYU Museum of Art
Through July 2016
e.g. Amar Kanwar: A Season Outside
September 5, 2013 - January 3, 2015
Folding Paper: The Infinite Possibilities of Origami
January 29 - June 20, 2015
American Chronicles: The Art of Norman Rockwell
November 20, 2015 - February 13, 2016
Kim Schoenstadt: Block Plan Series: Provo
September 2014 - April 18, 2015
Fabric of Belonging: Exotic Quilts from Pakistan & India
June 27 - November 29, 2014
Deco Japan: Shaping Art and Culture, 1920 - 1945
February 13 - July 18, 2015
e.g. Sarah O Donnell
March 28 - August 9, 2014
Loving Devotion: Visions of Vishnu
September 5, 2014 - March 21, 2015
Cut! Costume and the Cinema
July 11 - December 6, 2014
Timothy O'Sullivan: The King Survey Photographs
January 23 - May 26, 2014
e.g. Monika Bravo: Landscape(s) of Belief
September 6, 2013 - March 15, 2014
Through September 14, 2013
[IMAGE CREDIT: Elzbieta Jablonska, House Games (Washing, Cooking, Laundry), 2002, Private Collection, Houston, Texas.]
December 7, 2012 to April 6, 2013
Alex Webb: The Suffering of Light: Thirty Years of Photographs
December 14, 2012 - May 4, 2013
Sacred Gifts: The Religious Art of Carl Bloch, Heinrich Hofmann and Frans Schwartz
November 15, 2013 - May 26, 2014
Simpler, Brighter, Stronger: Southwestern Art and Early Modernism, 1910 -1960
October 11, 2013 - July 26, 2014
Edward Burtynsky: The Industrial Sublime
Through June 14, 2014
Work To Do: Trent Alvey, Pam Bowman, Jann Haworth, Amy Jorgensen
May 17 - September 28, 2013
People In A Hard Land: Iconic Images of Life in the Southwest
Through December 28, 2013
Michael whiting sculpture of Buck, Gold/Yellow
June 2012 - April 11, 2015

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