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Scottsdale Museum Of Contemporary Art

Founded in 1999, the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art [SMoCA] is the only museum in Arizona (USA)devoted to the art, architecture and design of our time. Global in its focus, the Museum is a unique and vital cultural resource for the Southwest, serving local audiences as well as visitors from throughout the United States and abroad. Designed by award-winning architect Will Bruder, SMoCA’s minimalist building (an ingenious renovation of a former movie theater) has five galleries for showcasing changing exhibitions and works from the Museum’s growing permanent collection. SMoCA also features an outdoor sculpture garden housing James Turrell’s “Knight Rise,” one of the renowned artist’s few public skyspaces, and “Scrim Wall,” a monumental curtain of prismatic glass by James Carpenter Design Associates. The Museum presents a wide variety of educational programs and special events for adults and families, including lectures, docent-led tours, workshops and classes. The Museum Store @ SMoCA offers classic design objects and furnishings, contemporary jewelry, art and architecture books and imaginative gifts for all occ... [ Read all ]

Scottsdale, Arizona

United States
Address:
7380 E. 2nd Street
85251
Phone: 480-874-4666
Fax: 480-874-4654
Website: www.smoca.org




Artists Represented
SMoCA presents six-twelve exhibitions a year, depending on scale. We rotate exhibitions during the time periods of late August/early October; mid December/ early February and late April/early June. We have ca. three consolidated opening receptions annually, usually in October, in late January/early February and in late May/early June.

We present a balance of more historical exhibitions and cutting-edge contemporary art, of known names and exciting emerging artists on the cusp of today’s new ideas. Projects are often organized thematically to provide accessible points of entry to unfamiliar territory for the general public. The exhibition program includes ca. two installments annually in our ongoing exhibition series “southwestNET,” which highlights work by artists, architects and designers working in the U.S. southwestern region and seeks to build regional interaction and dialog. We also rotate into the schedule exhibitions of works in the permanent collection, approximately every twelve-eighteen months.


Sample Art Work (5)

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Forthcoming Exhibitions
"Celebrity" Jan 20-Apr 29, 2007; "Celebrating Freedom: The Art of Willie Birch" Jan 20-Apr 20, 2007; "Art Is An Idea: The Moquay Collection" Feb 10-May 27, 2007; "southwestNET: drawing" May 12-Sept 16, 2007; "Contemporary Scandinavian Art" [working title]May 12-Sept 2, 2007; "Modern(ist) Love: The Collection of Dorothy Lincoln-Smith & Harvey Smith" May 12-Sept 16, 2007; "Space is the Place" June 16-Sept 2, 2007.


Previous Exhibitions
November 20, 1999 – August 13, 2000: KEITH HARING; December 17, 1999 - March 12, 2000: LOOKING FORWARD, LOOKING BLACK; February 11 - June 3, 2001: JAMES TURRELL: Infinite Light; October 7 - January 6, 2002: WOLFGANG LAIB: A Retrospective; September 7, 2002 - January 5, 2003: BEFORE, AFTER AND BEYOND SEPTEMBER 11: Photographs of the World Trade Center Site by Joel Meyerowitz;October 6, 2002 - January 19, 2003: HANS HOFMANN: Selections from the Berkeley Art Museum Collection; January 18 - April 27, 2003: ANSEL ADAMS: Classic Images; February 7 - May 11, 2003: LESLEY DILL: A Ten Year Survey; September 6 - December 7, 2003: IN RESPONSE TO PLACE: Photographs from The Nature Conservancy's Last Great Places; December 20, 2003 - May 2, 2004: ROBERT INDIANA: The Story of LOVE; January 10 - April 11, 2004: PHILIP C. CURTIS: Watercolors; May 15 - September 19, 2004: JIN SOO KIM: Twenty Years, 1983 - 2003; September 25, 2004 - January 2, 2005: JOSEF ALBERS: seeing in color; October 1, 2004 - January 2, 2005: SAMUEL MOCKBEE AND THE RURAL STUDIO: Community Architecture; October 2, 2004 - January 23, 2005: LET’S WALK WEST: Brad Kahlhamer; Jan... [ Read all ]


Art Fairs
"Celebrity + Style" 2007: 3rd Annual SMoCA Benefit. February 10, 2007 at the Safari Drive Showroom. Call 480-874-4671 for tickets.


Contact-Directors/Staff
SMoCA Marketing & Public Relations: 480-874-4654Front Desk: 480-874-4666


Opening Times
Closed Mondays; Tue, Wed, Fri & Sat: 10a-5p; Thur: 10a-8p; Sun: 12p noon-5p.Call for summer hours.