Statewide Annual UT 25. Painting, Sculpture, and Installation. Call for artists. Submissions due March 15, 2025.

Statewide Annual Exhibition


Visual arts competitions and exhibitions have been a project of the Utah Division of Arts & Museums (UA&M) since 1899. The Statewide Annual Exhibition (SWA) is an annual juried exhibition that presents a survey of current, outstanding visual art by Utah-based artists through three rotating themes: Painting, Sculpture, & Installation; Mixed Media & Works on Paper; and Craft, Photography, Video, & Digital.

Statewide Annual UT ‘25: Painting, Sculpture, and Installation

Hosted by Southern Utah Museum of Art

June 17 through Sept. 27, 2025

DEADLINE EXTENDED: Saturday, Mar. 22, 2025, 11:59 p.m.

Submission Deadline: Mar. 15, 2025, 11:59 p.m.

Artist and Juror Reception: Saturday, Sept. 20, 2025,  6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Jurors’ Talks and Awards Presentation at 5 p.m. 

The 2025 Statewide Annual (SWA) will be exhibited at Southern Utah Museum of Art and composed of artworks of the categories of painting, sculpture, and installation selected from artists’ submissions received from across the state. We are honored to have Marela Zacarias (New York, NY) and Nancy Zastudil (Albuquerque, NM) as this year’s jurors, as they bring a vast array of knowledge to the selection process.

Artwork submissions must follow the theme of this year’s exhibition: Painting, Sculpture, and Installation.

  • Painting: This category accepts work that involves painting of any kind upon any surface. 
  • Sculpture: This category accepts any three-dimensional art object created by carving, casting, or other shaping techniques.
  • Installation: This category accepts large-scale, mixed-media constructions, designed to be displayed for a temporary period of time.

Note: AI must be included in the medium description of any artwork made with AI assistance.

Guidelines



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2025 Jurors




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Marela Zacarías


Marela Zacarías is known for creating painted sculptures which recall the fluid movement of fabrics. Her rich palette unfolds over the twists and turns of her sculptures. Zacarías’s work explores the possibilities of a dynamic abstraction, geometric or organic, socially committed, born from the artist’s study of the history and specificity of the site of work. The artist honors the many contributors to a history that finds its roots in painting, architecture, and textile traditions all over the world. 

Zacarías has held numerous solo exhibitions, both in the U.S. and internationally, including the Brooklyn Museum and Sapar Contemporary in New York, San Luis Obispo Museum of Art in California, and Galería Alterna in Mexico City. She has received many large-scale, permanent, site-specific commissions, including NYU Langone Ambulatory Care Center, NY, NY.; Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, Seattle, WA; Facebook HQ, Menlo Park, CA; and the American Consulate in Monterrey, Mexico. Zacarías’ residencies include the Pilchuck Glass School, MadArt, and Vermont Studio Center. 

Zacarías received an Honorary Doctor in Fine Arts Degree and a BA from Kenyon College, Gambier, OH, and an MFA from Hunter College, New York. She currently lives between Brooklyn and Mexico City.


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Nancy Zastudil


Independent editor, writer, and curator Nancy Zastudil has been advocating for artists’ voices for nearly two decades. She has held editorial, curatorial, or directorial roles at Arts+Culture Texas, Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts at the University of Houston, the Frederick Hammersley Foundation, Tamarind Institute, and Hyperallergic. Zastudil has edited numerous exhibition catalogues and related texts for galleries and museums, including Bridge Projects, the Columbus Museum of Art, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Tamarind Institute, the University of New Mexico Art Museum, and the Wende Museum, as well as artist monographs such as Jay Shinn: From All Points at Once (N+Co., 2025) and Marcelyn McNeil: Works (Radius Books, 2022). She was a 2024 Rabkin Prize nominee, and her writing has been published in Artforum, Arts+Culture Texas, Hyperallergic, Southwest Contemporary, and she contributed to Frederick Hammersley: To Paint without Thinking (The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, 2017), and The Hustle Economy: Transforming Your Creativity Into a Career (Running Press Adult, 2016). Her research has been supported by Women's International Study Center, National Endowment for the Arts, Graham Foundation, Utah State University, and others. She was the New Mexico consulting curator for the National Museum of Women in the Arts’ New Worlds: Women to Watch 2024, and she regularly participates in award juries, including Mid-America Arts Alliance, Fleishhacker Foundation, Creative Capital, and Harpo Foundation. Zastudil received her MA in Curatorial Practice from California College of the Arts and her BFA in Painting and Drawing from The Ohio State University.
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