2025 Statewide Annual

Painting, Sculpture, & Installation | June 17 - September 27, 2025

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.

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.

Opening Reception: Friday, June 20, 2025, 4-8 p.m.

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

Congratulations to the 2025 Statewide Annual Award Winners

• Best in Show: Chorus (lynne), by Christopher Lynn, Sound, guitar amplifiers, electronics, 2025
• Juror’s Award: Stress Flesh, by Aziza Abdieva, silicone, 2022
• Juror’s Award: from where the sun is rising (composition for Cedar City, Utah, September 27th, 2025: Laikipia, Kenya; Chennai, India; Cha-Am, Thailand), by Ariel Wilson and Matt Kowal, Live feed multichannel video (monitor, web server and scripting tools, Raspberry Pi), 2025
• Juror’s Award: Ch’é’étiin (Portals), by Eugene Tapahe, The soil used in this artwork comes from my homeland, the Navajo Nation, specifically from the following locations: Bears Ears, UT, Canyon de Chelly, AZ, Lukachukai, AZ, Monument Valley, AZ, Round Rock, AZ, Shiprock, NM, Chilchinbito, AZ, and the Valley of the Gods, UT., 2024
• Juror’s Award: Mind in Two 25A1, by McGarren Flack, Oil on Aluminum Composite, 2022
• Juror’s Award: Regard, by Clinton Whiting, oil on canvas, 2023
• Juror’s Award: Some Kind of World, Michelle Nixon, Watercolor, 2024
• Honorable Mention: Breathing, by Collin Bradford, Hospital Bed, rocks, video projector, custom electronics, 2022
• Honorable Mention: Congregational Hymn (Acidbath Revival), by Alexis Rausch, oil on panel, 2025

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