Life on Mars
June 14 - September 14, 2025
Artists Erika Lynne Hanson and Steven J. Yazzie present works that link physical and metaphysical realities of nature, humanity, geology, and cosmology to position Earth as the endgame.
Archived SMoCA Exhibitions
Michael Afsa: Suburban Paradise
June 14 - September 14, 2025
In Suburban Paradise, artist Michael Afsa reduces the visual language of the Southwest to its most elemental forms through minimalist sculpture and photography.
This Just In
March 8 - September 21, 2025
This exhibition highlights recent acquisitions to our ever-growing collection and celebrates the unexpected connections between works spanning a wide range of media.
• Squidsoup • Infinite •
June 28, 2025 - Aug 30, 2026
Enter 𝘐𝘯𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘦 and be surrounded by hundreds of illuminated spheres that form a symphony of notes.
Alida Sun: Biophony
Mar 8 - Sep 7, 2025
Biophony is a hand-coded generative synesthesia environment created by Berlin-based artist Alida Sun.
There are other skies
February 22 - June 1, 2025
There are other skies brings to light a multiplicity of urgent, pressing, and ongoing topics faced by female-identifying people worldwide.
Entrainment 718
September 21, 2024 - February 16, 2025
Entrainment 718 by Phoenix-based artist Shomit Barua explores spatial and temporal perception through video and sound techniques.
Cybele Lyle: Floating Seeds Make Deep Forms
August 24, 2024 - August 24, 2025
Floating Seeds Make Deep Forms is a site-specific installation that reimagines deserts of North America as liminal expanses and positions architecture through the lens of queer space, a responsive site to the natural evolution of identity and environment.
Brains and Beauty: At the Intersection of Art and Neuroscience
August 17, 2024 - January 19, 2025
Brains and Beauty: At the Intersection of Art and Neuroscience is a visual exploration of neuroaesthetics, the new and rapidly expanding field of research that combines neuroscience and psychology to study the neural processes of aesthetic experience.
Exploding Native Inevitable
Aug 10, 2024 - Jan 5, 2025
Exploding Native Inevitable is an exhibition of the work of twelve contemporary Indigenous artists and two collaboratives, accompanied by a program of dance, film, music, performance, readings, storytelling, and video by Indigenous artists from a land we now call America.
poetics of dissonance
Aug 10, 2024 - Feb 16, 2025
Situated on the cusp of another pivotal election, poetics of dissonance presents eighteen artists from the SMoCA collection whose work navigates the tumultuous landscape of socio-political discourse.
Roadside Attraction: Challenging Reality Now @SMoCA
May 1 - May 31, 2024
ArtFarm Phoenix is an artist collective with the goals of creating exhibition opportunities for artists and supporting initiatives that make art accessible to everyone.
Tiffany Trenda: Beyond Performance
March 27 - June 23, 2024
Beyond Performance is an ongoing series of images by Tiffany Trenda that ventures into the realm of performance art and artificial intelligence.
Carolina Aranibar-Fernández: Oleaje
February 10 - August 4, 2024
Oleaje [Groundswell] features new large-scale installation works by Bolivian-born artist Carolina Aranibar-Fernández that map and memorialize the effects of a coercive global trade industry.
Dorothy Fratt: Color Mirage
February 3 - July 21, 2024
Color Mirage is the first major U.S. museum exhibition on the prolific, yet underrecognized, American painter Dorothy Fratt.
Roelof Knol: the space in between
September 23, 2023 - July 24, 2024
the space in between is a playful, interactive, audiovisual installation that invites the viewer to explore their relationship with digital and physical spaces.
Earth and Sky
September 23, 2023 - July 7, 2024
Earth and Sky highlights artworks primarily from the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art Collection that touch on how humans inhabit, construct, or perceive various natural, artificial, or ethereal environments.
Kenaim Al-Shatti: Dreams Don’t Have Time
September 22, 2023 - August 25, 2024
In this new large-scale video installation, Kenaim Al-Shatti transforms physical space into a colorful, dreamlike environment, wherein you can immerse yourself.
Roelof Knol: paper shapes
September 22, 2023 - July 28, 2024
Roelof Knol’s dynamic small-scale installation paper shapes responds when viewers interact with it by placing shapes within the projection.
Christina Fernandez: Multiple Exposures
September 16, 2023 - Jan 7, 2024
Christina Fernandez: Multiple Exposures brings together the artist’s most important bodies of works for the first time, allowing audiences to discover the threads that connect them, both formal and conceptual.
Language in Times of Miscommunication
March 4, 2023 - August 27, 2024
Through the formats of exhibition, catalog, and special projects, Language in Times of Miscommunication acts as a platform to question how social fictions are created, interpreted, and, often, miscommunicated.
The Air Around Us
November 4, 2022 - February 16, 2023
The Air Around Us is an arts and engineering initiative that aspires to increase the visibility of poor air quality conditions across the Phoenix metropolitan area.
Phillip K. Smith III: Three Parallels
October 29, 2022 - January 14, 2023
Southern California artist Phillip K. Smith III creates experiential art that highlights changes in perception as related to light, color, time, and space.
Inside Job: Staff Selections from the SMoCA Collection
October 20, 2022 - April 30, 2023
Inside Job offers unique perspectives on the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art Collection by those who work most closely with it.
In Our Time: Selections from the Singer Collection
October 1, 2022 - February 12, 2023
In Our Time: Selections from the Singer Collection includes a selection of paintings and works on paper collected by Iris and Adam Singer over the span of 16 years.
Teresa Baker: Capturing Space
April 16, 2022 - October 9, 2022
Los Angeles-based Mandan/Hidatsa artist Teresa Baker features seven large-scale hanging works in Capturing Space.
Brad Kahlhamer: Swap Meet
February 26, 2022 - October 9, 2022
New York and Arizona-based Native American artist Brad Kahlhamer first exhibited at Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (SMoCA) in 2004 with his hugely successful Let’s Walk West show.
Beverly McIver: Full Circle
February 12, 2022 - September 4, 2022
Beverly McIver: Full Circle presents a survey of more than 50 works that demonstrate the diversity of the artist’s thematic approach to painting over 25 years.