PAST EXHIBITIONS

May 17 – September 21, 2019

2018-19

July 23, 2018 – March 3, 2019

Summer 2016 - January 2019

September 22, 2018 – January 12, 2019

December 7, 2018 – October 19, 2019

2019

August 10, 2018 – January 5, 2019

2019

February 2 – May 5, 2018

November 17, 2017 – May 19, 2018

June 30, 2017 – March 31, 2018

May 18 – September 29, 2018

March 3 – August 11, 2018

May 18 – September 29, 2018

2018

August 2018

March 22, 2013 – March 2018

September 22, 2017 - June 23, 2018

August 11 — December 2, 2017

June 9 - September 23, 2017

February 10 – September 9, 2017

January 27 - August 26, 2017

This exhibition explores the diversity of experience and artistic expression among American artists of African descent. These works demonstrate as wide a range of stylistic approaches and viewpoints as one would expect of any group of Americans. While some works offer a glimpse of an artist's personal vision, others speak out as bold political and social calls to action.

March 17 - July 8, 2017

2016-17

California-based contemporary artist Rebecca Campbell creates haunting paintings and installations inspired by her family history, that contemplate the hazy boundary between memory and imagination. The resulting works, richly painted and emotionally resonant, encourage viewers to reflect on their own past and to embrace nostalgia as a tool of self-discovery.

September 16, 2016 - April 29 2017

Electronic Gallery

One of the most popular American artists of the past century, Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) was a keen observer of human nature and a gifted storyteller. Rockwell’s contributions to our visual legacy, many of them now icons of American culture, have found a permanent place in our national psyche. For nearly seven decades, while history was in the making all around him, Rockwell chronicled our changing society in the small details and nuanced scenes of ordinary people in everyday life, providing a personalized interpretation—albeit often an idealized one—of American identity. His depictions offered a reassuring visual haven during a time of momentous transformation as our country evolved into a complex, modern society. Rockwell’s contributions to our visual legacy, many of them now icons of American culture, have found a permanent place in our national psyche.

February 19 - August 13, 2016

April 29 - August 20, 2016

** Due to lighting replacements on the 2nd floor of the MOA, Music of Freedom: Jazz through the Lens of Herman Leonard will close at 6 PM on Saturday, March 5. We apologize for the inconvenience. **

August 2014 - August 2016

Regarded as one of the most impressive groups of British art assembled in private hands, Treasures of British Art, 1400-2000: The Berger Collection of British from the Denver Art Museum includes artworks by British masters ranging from portraits of celebrated historical figures to quintessentially British landscapes to horse racing and everything in between.

April 13 - August 27, 2016

Folding Paper: The Infinite Possibilities of Origami is a groundbreaking exhibition that explores the evolution of origami from craft to fine art and its stunning modern-day applications in the fields of mathematics, engineering, design, and the global peace movement.

A Season Outside is a work by Indian born artist Amar Kanwar that reveals the tension surrounding the militarized border between India and Pakistan. The work is an abstract digital video projection of the sunset ritual of closing the gate on the border at Wagah-Atari juxtaposed with images of enforced division, theatrical military posturing, and real violence in the region. These images are accompanied by a voiceover offered by the artist, a narrative of what has occurred in his own family and a suggestion of how deeply this aggression has affected the cultures and individuals involved.

In the video series Tsu Heidei Shugaxtutaan (pronounced soo HAYdee shoe GAK tu tahn), performers dance to seemingly unlikely soundtracks, juxtaposed on the wall in black and white in balanced beats. One hears the video before actually seeing it, and the artist delights in the surprise of visitors as they encounter the paradox of performance and sound.

The BYU Museum of Art presents a historic saga of early Church history. C.C.A. Christensen's 22 sweeping panoramas depict the miracles and persecutions between Joseph Smith's First Vision to the pioneers' entrance into the Salt Lake valley in 1847.

In 1880-1920, the Navajo wove modernity into their traditional rugs. Trains, trading posts, and soda pop all became part of the ever adapting and progressing Navajo narrative. The Lucke Collection of pictorial weavings offer a snapshot of reservation life, synthesizing tradition and popular culture.

The first exhibition dedicated to Japanese Art Deco shown outside Tokyo, Deco Japan: Shaping Art and Culture, 1920 – 1945 provides dramatic examples of the spectacular craftsmanship and sophisticated design that defined an iconic style long associated with Japan.

Through sculpture, performance, and video, Courtney Kessel strives to make visible the quiet, understated, and often unseen love and labor of motherhood. Her video performances are repetitive, performative, and mundane; but the seemingly endless, sometimes awkward efforts accrue deeper meaning through the accumulation of these nuanced actions. Her work manifests as a form of umbilical cord between mother and child that expresses their intimate connectedness despite physical separation.

No Place Like Home features an extensive selection of paintings, sculptures, photographs, mixed-media pieces and films by contemporary artists including Roy Lichtenstein, Cindy Sherman, Ai Weiwei, Rachel Whiteread, Ed Ruscha, Martha Rosler, Hubbard / Birchler, and Wolfgang Laib.

June 2012 - April 2015

This fresh contemporary art installation by artist Kim Schoenstadt features three-dimensional wall drawings inspired by the architecture and identity of Provo, Utah.

November 15, 2013 through May 26, 2014

Showcasing ralli quilts from the exceptional contemporary textile collection of Patricia Ormsby Stoddard, Fabric of Belonging explores how historical traditions contribute to the deep sense of belonging that ralli quilts provide for people living in the areas of Sindh, Pakistan and West India. For their owners, ralli quilts are a personal form of identification that connects them with their region and their heritage.

July - December 2014

This work by up-and-coming artist Sarah O Donnell — a panoramic photograph transparency projected onto the walls of a darkened room — creates the illusion of a lighthouse illuminating a nighttime seascape, treading the fine line between fiction and reality as does most of O Donnell’s work.

January - May 2014

October 2013 - July 2014

September 2013 - Mar 2014