Painter Maureen O’Hara Ure, Professor Lecturer in the University of Utah Department of Art and Art History, has received several research grants supporting her work. Thirty Days in Spain, the fourth artist’s book published under her imprint, The Hand in Glove Press, features images developed from her recent travel sketchbooks. O’Hara Ure’s next solo show of paintings opens in January at Phillips Gallery, Salt Lake City.
MAJOR (ONE AND TWO-PERSON) EXHIBITIONS
- 2026 Phillips Gallery, Salt Lake City
- 2024 A World Away, Phillips Gallery, Salt Lake City
- 2022 Elsewhere, Phillips Gallery, Salt Lake City
- 2019 Art History, Phillips Gallery, Salt Lake City
- 2016 Love & Work, Phillips Gallery, Salt Lake City
- 2012 Here Be Monsters, Finch Lane Gallery, Salt Lake City
- 2010 Sightseeing, Phillips Gallery, Salt Lake City
- 2007 Stranger and Stranger, Finch Lane Gallery
- 2005 A New World Bestiary, Art Access Gallery, Salt Lake City
- 2003 Souvenirs, Installation, Finch Lane Gallery, Salt Lake City
- 2000 Finch Lane Gallery, Salt Lake City
- 1999 Fever, Phillips Gallery, Salt Lake City
- 1997 Natural Histories, Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City
- 1993 Natural Disasters, Finch Lane Gallery, Salt Lake City
- 1991 Pierpont Gallery, Salt Lake City
- 1989 SPACE, Los Angeles
- 1989 Soft on Crime, ARC/Raw Space Gallery, Chicago
- 1988 Kansas City Artists’ Coalition, Kansas City
- 1988 Finch Lane Gallery, Salt Lake City
- 1987 Matrix Gallery, Sacramento
- 1987 Gayle Weyher Gallery, Salt Lake City
- 1986 True Stories, Finch Lane Gallery, Salt Lake City
- 1983 SPACE, Los Angeles
- 1983 Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City
- 1981 Arizona State University, Tempe
- 1981 Arts Place, Portland
- 1980 Meadows Museum, Shreveport
- 1980 Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles
SELECTED GRANTS
- 2019 Faculty Creative Research Grant, University of Utah
- 2014 CFA Creative Research Award, University of Utah
- 2012 CFA Creative Research Award, University of Utah
- 2008 Faculty Creative Research Grant, University of Utah
- 2008 Individual Artist Project Grant, Utah Arts Council
- 2005 Faculty Creative Research Grant, University of Utah
- 2005 Individual Artist Project Grant, Utah Arts Council
- 2003 Faculty Creative Research Grant, University of Utah
- 2002 Faculty Creative Research Grant, University of Utah
- 1997 Development Grant, Salt Lake City Arts Council
- 1992 Individual Artist’s Grant, Utah Arts Council
PUBLICATIONS
- 2025 30 Days in Spain, offset color, The Hand in Glove Press
- 2018 Stranger and Stranger, letterpress book with Katharine Coles, Red Butte Press
- 2016 Seeing and Believing: A Traveler’s Sketchbook, offset color, The Hand in Glove Press
- 2007 The Sightseer, (INDIA), letterpress book, hand-colored, The Hand in Glove Press
- 2002 SWOON, letterpress book, some in edition hand-colored, The Hand in Glove Press
COVERS
- 2008 New England Review, Middlebury College
- 2007 Quarterly West (Also 2001, 1994)
- 2005 Fire Season novel by Katharine Coles, Juniper Press
- 2001 The Golden Years of the Fourth Dimension. Poems” Katharine Coles. University of Nevada Press
- 2000 Reading Under the Sign of Nature: New Essays in Ecocriticism, University of Utah Press
- 2000 Poetry Comes Up Where It Can: An Anthology, University of Utah Press
SELECTED INSTITUTIONAL COLLECTIONS
- Green Library, Special Collections, Stanford University
- Fenwick Library, Special Collections, George Mason University
- Utah Museum of Fine Arts
- Salt Lake County Art Collection
- The Albuquerque Museum of Art and History
- Fidelity Investments
- Utah State Department of Health
- J. Willard Marriott Library, Special Collections, University of Utah
- Weber County Libraries
- Utah State Collection of Fine Arts
CONTACT INFORMATION
- MAUREEN.OHARAURE@UTAH.EDU
- PROFESSOR LECTURER
DEPARTMENT OF ART AND ART HISTORY
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH
375 SOUTH 1530 EAST #161
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 84112-0380
