The Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (SMoCA) holds in trust a collection of 1,834 artworks by 640 artists for the people of the City of Scottsdale. In this exhibition, we highlight many of our exciting recent acquisitions and celebrate some of our intriguing conservation projects as we continue the important work of understanding, documenting and preserving all of the artworks in our care. This is a chance for us to draw some surprising and novel juxtapositions and showcase the wide range of media we collect as we build a strong collection of art for future generations of Arizonans to enjoy and discover.
Organized by Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art. Sponsored by Security Title Agency.
Mar 21, 2026 – Jan 31, 2027
Featuring drawings, paintings, prints, and sculpture from SMoCA’s collection, Mark + Making explores the use of marks, gestures, and line to build form and shape ideas in contemporary artistic practic...
Sep 19, 2026 – Jan 31, 2027
What the Earth Keeps is a site-specific installation, performance, and cyanotype-mapping project by the collective Desert ArtLAB that explores relationships between land, ecology, and cultural memory....
Sep 19, 2026 – Sep 5, 2027
Desert Perspectives is a yearlong exhibition that explores the deserts of the Southwest through more than a century of artistic responses from the museum’s collection, alongside loans and new commissi...
Sep 25, 2026 – Jan 17, 2027
ArtSpark #1 features work created by the artists in the first cohort of Scottsdale Arts’ new ArtSpark program. These artists were provided funding to engage the local community and participate in care...
