Exhibitions – Department of Art & Art History

2023 BFA Show: Ministrations

Pop-up Gallery at the Gateway, April 2023

2023 BFA Show: Ministrations artwork: Susannah Thankful Minson

2023 BFA Show: Ministrations artwork: Hiro Robinson

2023 BFA Show: Ministrations artwork: Gabe Shuster, Susannah Thankful Minson, Connor Weight, Kelly Goff

2023 BFA Show: Ministrations artwork: Kayla Kaleel-Jarvis

2023 BFA Show: Ministrations artwork: Brian Villaseñor

2023 BFA Show: Ministrations artwork: Veronica Thompson, Connor Weight, Susannah Thankful Minson

2023 BFA Show: Ministrations artwork: Gabe Shuster (foreground)

2023 BFA Show: Ministrations artwork: Rory Angus, Pablo Ayala, Adah Bennion, Veronica Thompson

2023 BFA Show: Ministrations artwork: Kelly Goff (foreground), Connor Weight, Angel Perez, Yasbleidy Arechiga, Noelle

2023 BFA Show: Ministrations artwork: Kelly Goff

2023 BFA Show: Ministrations artwork: Noelle, Connor Weight, Anqi Yang, Rory Angus, Pablo Ayala

2023 BFA Show: Ministrations artwork: Noelle

2023 BFA Show: Ministrations artwork: Anqi Yang

2023 BFA Show: Ministrations artwork: Rory Angus

2023 BFA Show: Ministrations artwork: Pablo Ayala

2023 BFA Show: Ministrations artwork: Connor Weight

2023 BFA Show: Ministrations artwork: Adah Bennion

2023 BFA Show: Ministrations artwork: Veronica Thompson

2023 BFA Show: Ministrations artwork: Gabe Shuster, Kelly Goff, Angel Perez, Yasbleidy Arechiga, Barbie Spencer, Noelle, Connor Weight

2023 BFA Show: Ministrations artwork: Yasbleidy Arechiga

2023 BFA Show: Ministrations artwork: Gabe Shuster

2023 BFA Show: Ministrations artwork: Veronica Thompson, Connor Weight

2023 BFA Show: Ministrations artwork: Connor Weight, Angel Perez

2023 BFA Show: Ministrations artwork: Angel Perez

2023 BFA Show: Ministrations artwork: Barbie Spencer

2023 Student Art Exhibition

Gittins Gallery, April 2023
Artwork from: Ajmal Ahmad, Tate Alexander, Mitch Allen, Yasbleidy Arechiga, Hunter Bailey, Ellen Berg, Isaac Brickey, Kathy Castleton, Elisa Diaz, Sophia Dochod, Addy Dutson, Aubrey Ellis, Ashley C Gull, Melissa Howell, Eileen Johnston, Katherine Kenal, Preston Kramer, Nash LaFrankie, Maren Lawrence, Annie Lee, Melissa Lira, Sally A. Logue, Gillian Mark, Grace McJack, Allison McKinney, Lindsey Rose Melby, Matea Mihaljevic, Susannah Minson, Jadon Nadeau, Noelle, Gabrielle Oman, Angel Perez, Laura Parra Ponce, Pete Pindsey, Logan Pu, Isabella Sabala, Sarah Seely, M. Calvin Simmons, Lydia Stueber, Celia Thomas, Diego Torres, Monday Vu, Gabriella Walsh, Michael Wang, Rebecca Weber, Aubrey Wilkin, Christopher Woodward, Anqi Yang, and Hui Zheng.

Best in show from the Juror: Annie Lee – Muted

Best in show from our faculty: Diego Torres – Night Terrors

Best in show from our faculty runner-up #1 and Dean's Purchase Award: Rebecca Weber – The Holy Lies and Hidden Truths

Best in show from our faculty runner-up #2: Ashley Gull – The Rift

Printmaking Award #1: Isabella Sabala – Kitchen Sink

Printmaking Award #2: Anqi Yang – Life Sentence

Best in Photography: Allison McKinney – I’m scared of my body

Union Purchase Award: Matea Mihaljevic - Payer

Return: Alvin Gittins Gallery Inaugural Exhibition

Gittins Gallery (FMAB), March 2023

Return Inaugural Gittins Gallery Exhibition, March 2023

Return Inaugural Gittins Gallery Exhibition, March 2023 Alvin Gittins, Self Portrait

Return Inaugural Gittins Gallery Exhibition, March 2023 Mary Lois Wheatley Self-portrait Oil on Canvas, 1949

Return Inaugural Gittins Gallery Exhibition, March 2023 Brad Evan Taylor (BFA 1988) Pyroplastic Line Porcelain, 2008

Return Inaugural Gittins Gallery Exhibition, March 2023 Vanessa Romo (MFA 2017) Depersonalization

Return Inaugural Gittins Gallery Exhibition, March 2023 Stephanie Dykes (MFA 2010) At the Edge, Apausecalypse “Nature metaphors work because we are nature.” Four wood blocks printed onto 100 foot long jute fiber rolls with Field Bindweed vines, Globe Mallow blooms, Pumpkin Squash leaves and Antelope Horn Milkweed patterns, 2021.

Return Inaugural Gittins Gallery Exhibition, March 2023 Amber Heaton (BFA 2009), Countdown, Set of 10 Woodcut prints, 2017

Return Inaugural Gittins Gallery Exhibition, March 2023 Abbey Hepner (BFA 2008), Atmosphere, Rust, Fireflies, and Military Night Vision, Computer vision traslated articular print, 2017

Return Inaugural Gittins Gallery Exhibition, March 2023 Dianne Sanchez Shumway (BFA 2010), Road Work: Memories Under Construction; Judith M. Burton, Beatriz Albuquerque, Brian Bulfer, Wendell Jeffrey, Dianne Sánchez Shumway (University of Utah alumna), and Laia Sole Coromina. Mixed Media

Return Inaugural Gittins Gallery Exhibition, March 2023 Josh Graham (MFA 2019), Oxidization and Progress, Mixed-media, 2023

Return Inaugural Gittins Gallery Exhibition, March 2023 Collapse, Denis Phillips (BFA 1962), 2021, acrylic on cotton

Return Inaugural Gittins Gallery Exhibition, March 2023 Lavender Opening, Connie Borup (MFA 1992), oil on linen

Return Inaugural Gittins Gallery Exhibition, March 2023 TMI, Ben Duke (BFA 2002), 2010, oil

Return Inaugural Gittins Gallery Exhibition, March 2023 Eden, Dung Hoang (BFA 1992), 2023, mixed media

Return Inaugural Gittins Gallery Exhibition, March 2023 Cory Cooper (Book arts minor, 2019), "Brain Cell", Mixed media book, edition of 7, 2019

Return Inaugural Gittins Gallery Exhibition, March 2023 Sara Luz Jensen, Falling, Book, edition of 20, 2021

Return Inaugural Gittins Gallery Exhibition, March 2023 Nancy Rivera (MFA 2016), No Present to Remember series, Inkjet print on broadcloth, salt from the Great Salt Lake, 2020

Return Inaugural Gittins Gallery Exhibition, March 2023 Justin Watson (MFA 2016), Metamorphic Presence, 4k Video, synchronized 3-channel loop, 16:00 min, 2023

Return Inaugural Gittins Gallery Exhibition, March 2023 Ephraim Puusemp (BFA 1999) For EH (Edwin Hubble), Salvaged log segment from Mount Wilson Observatory, 24 carat gold leaf, 2019 N1, Archival Pigment Print, 2022

Return Inaugural Gittins Gallery Exhibition, March 2023 Nick Mendoza

Return Inaugural Gittins Gallery Exhibition, March 2023 J.P. Haynie (BFA 2014), 20th Century Women, book

Return Inaugural Gittins Gallery Exhibition, March 2023 Alumnus Justin Watson discussing his work in the Return Exhibition

Return Inaugural Gittins Gallery Exhibition, March 2023 Alumnus Connie Borup discussing her work in the Return Exhibition

MFA Interim Show 2023: Living Document

Gittins Gallery, February 2023

MFA Show: Living Document, artwork: Jes Booth

MFA Show: Living Document, artwork: Jes Booth, Kim Pack

MFA Show: Living Document, artwork: Kim Pack

MFA Show: Living Document, artwork: Douglas Tolman

MFA Show: Living Document, artwork: Holly Rios

MFA Show: Living Document, artwork: Marissa Strickland

MFA Show: Living Document, artwork: Kristina Hines

MFA Show: Living Document, artwork: Sara Serratos

Closing Shift Painting & Drawing Exhibition

Gittins Gallery, January 2023

Closing Shift Exhibition, artwork: Sammy Dunaway

Closing Shift Exhibition, artwork: London Matthews

Closing Shift Exhibition, artwork: Baylee Shupe

Closing Shift Exhibition, artwork: Matalyn Zundel

Set In Motion Graphic Design Proposals

Gittins Gallery, November 2022

Conflux: Acquainted Sculpture Intermedia Exhibition

Gittins Gallery, November 2022

We’ll Miss You Graphic Design Senior Exhibition

Gittins Gallery, September 2022

We' ll Miss You Graphic Design Senior Show, photo by Grey Larson

We' ll Miss You Graphic Design Senior Show Poster, design by Sydney Howell

Internal Structures Alumni Painting & Drawing Exhibition

Gittins Gallery, August 2022

Internal Structures Exhibition, August 2022 artwork: Susannah Thankful, Cyan Larson, Alicia Gaona

Internal Structures Exhibition, August 2022 artwork: Cyan Larson

Internal Structures Exhibition, August 2022 artwork: Alicia Gaona

Internal Structures Exhibition, August 2022 artwork: Alicia Gaona, Susannah Thankful

Internal Structures Exhibition, August 2022 artwork: Susannah Thankful

Internal Structures Exhibition, August 2022 artwork: Susannah Thankful, Alicia Gaona

BFA Show: Ah, Never to Escape

The Gateway, April 2022
View the entire exhibition online

Annual Student Art Exhibition, 2022

Gittins Gallery, April 2022

A Sense of Place Exhibition

Gittins Gallery, February, 2022

MFA Interim Exhibition: The An Abyss

Gittins Gallery, January 2022

Painting & Drawing Exhibition

Gittins Gallery, November 2021

Painting and Drawing Exhibition, Gittins Gallery, Fall 2021

PaperWest – 3rd National Works on Paper Juried Exhibition

Gittins Gallery, October 2021
See the Artwork

Sandy Brunvand: It’s Not Always Black and White

Gittins Gallery, September 2021

Sandy Brunvand Exhibition - It's Not Always Black and White

Sam Wilson: I seem to be drawing a crowd…

Gittins Gallery, August 2021

Annual Student Art Exhibition, 2021

Gittins Gallery, April 2021
View the online exhibition

2021 Juried Student Exhibition, Gittins Gallery

Video Evidence Exhibition

Marriott Library, March 2020

Video Evidence Exhibition, artwork by Alec Bang

Video Evidence Exhibition, artwork by Comstock (left) and Bea Hurd (right)

Video Evidence Exhibition, artwork by Araceli Haslam (left) and Natalie Cheatham (right)

Video Evidence Exhibition, artwork by Araceli Haslam (left) and Eden Merkeley (right)

Video Evidence Exhibition, artwork by Comstock

Video Evidence Exhibition, artwork by Ryne Ormond

Video Evidence Exhibition, artwork Jennifer Chacon

Video Evidence Exhibition, artwork by Araceli Haslam

MFA Interim Exhibition: Mixed Bag

Gittins Gallery, January 2020

2020 MFA Interim Exhibition: Mixed Bag, artwork: Bryce Billings, Dana Hansen, Holly Nielsen (l-r)

2020 MFA Interim Exhibition: Mixed Bag, artwork: Kylie Millward

2020 MFA Interim Exhibition: Mixed Bag, artwork: Hannah Nielsen

2020 MFA Interim Exhibition: Mixed Bag, artwork: Bryce Billings

2020 MFA Interim Exhibition: Mixed Bag, artwork: Candace von Hoffman

2020 MFA Interim Exhibition: Mixed Bag, artwork: Dana Hansen

2020 MFA Interim Exhibition: Mixed Bag, artwork: Holly Nielsen

This Is Not A Furniture Show Exhibition

Sculpture Building, November 2019
Artists: Alec Bang, Natalie Cheatham, Natalie Gerber, Kelly Goff, Bea Hurd, Valeria Johansen, Laurie Larson, Eden Merkley, Matt Peterson, Brooklyn Sena, Talia Tacy, Brian Villasenor Campos

This Is Not A Furniture Show Exhibition; artwork by Bea Hurd

This Is Not A Furniture Show Exhibition; artwork by Brian Villasenor Campos, Kelly Goff, Natalie Gerber, and Brooklyn Sena (l-r)

This Is Not A Furniture Show Exhibition; artwork by Brian Villasenor Campos

This Is Not A Furniture Show Exhibition; artwork by Brooklyn Sena

This Is Not A Furniture Show Exhibition; artwork by Laurie Larson

This Is Not A Furniture Show Exhibition; artwork by Talia Tacy

This Is Not A Furniture Show Exhibition; artwork by Eden Merkley, Valeria Johansen, and Matt Peterson (l-r)

This Is Not A Furniture Show Exhibition; artwork by Valeria Johansen

This Is Not A Furniture Show Exhibition; artwork by Natalie Gerber

This Is Not A Furniture Show Exhibition; artwork by Eden Merkley (foreground) and Talia Tacy (background)

This Is Not A Furniture Show Exhibition; artwork by Eden Merkley

This Is Not A Furniture Show Exhibition; artwork by Alec Bang and Douglas Tolman

This Is Not A Furniture Show Exhibition; artwork by Matt Peterson

This Is Not A Furniture Show Exhibition; artwork by Natalie Cheatham

Howard Clark Scholarship Exhibition

Gittins Gallery, August 2019
Artists: Alyssa Hood, Lucy Le Bohec, and Alexis Rausch

BFA Exhibition

Gateway Mall Gallery, Salt Lake City, April 2019
Artists: Mikey Baratta, Dylan Barbour, Kellie Eldridge-Chambers, Tiara Cook, Breann Evans, James Hadley, Anita Hawkins, Curtis Hendrickson, Alli Jensen, Lucy Le Bohec, Leigh Martinez, Molly McGinnis, Nikita Nenashev, Charles Pfaff, Annie Phan, and Annie Platt

Annual Student Art Exhibition, 2019

Gittins Gallery, April – May 2019
More about the exhibition here

Andy Nasisse: Heartland Darkland

Gittins Gallery, February – March 2019

Art in Form

Sculpture Club Exhibition
Trolley Square, Salt Lake City, February 2019
Artists: Stone Anderson, Alec Bang, Jennifer Bohn, Natalie Cheatham, Ethan Edwards, Nate Francis, Kelly Goff, Dana Hansen, Anita Hawkins, Bea Hurd, Molly McGinnis, Emily McMurray, Ryne Ormond, Maria Minerva Garcia Salazar, Brooklyn Sena and Joe Zeidner.

Call and Response MFA Interim Exhibition

Studio Elevn, Salt Lake City, January 2019
Artists: Nolan Flynn, Josh Graham, Dana Hansen, Etsuko Kato, Kylie Millward, and Kathryn Wingard
Photos courtesy of Mikey Baratta

Big Drawings Exhibition

Gittins Gallery, October 2018
Artists: Dylan Barbour, Abigail Bowe, Becky Graff, Jimmy Hadley, Curtis Hendrickson, Alyssa Hood, Amanda James, Alli Jensen, Katia Kelty, Nelson Morales, Charles Pfaff, Annie Phan, Natalie Vukic, Stefan Wadman, and Mikel Young

Centennial Windows: Taft-Nicholson Painting Residency Exhibition

Gittins Gallery, September – October 2018
Artists: Erin Adams, Christina Andersen, Halley Bruno, Leah Caldwell, Hazel Coppola, Lily Ellingson, Miranda Klausmeier, Molly McGinnis, Madelyn Poston, and Kendyl Schofield