Trent Alvey has exhibited in many significant one-person and group shows, including Out of the Land, which traveled to The National Museum for Women in the Arts in Washington, DC. Toaster Worship, Alvey’s sculptural piece that was included in the national exhibition is now in the permanent collection of the Utah Museum of Fine Arts at the University of Utah. Her work is also included in the Salt Lake County Art Collection, Springville Museum of Art and Westminster Collage collection and she is a recipient of the Salt Lake City Mayor’s Artist Award (2011) and Distinguished Alumni in the Arts award by Westminster College (2016). Additional accolades include being chosen as one of Utah’s “15 Most Influential Artists” by Artists of Utah, publishers of 15 Bytes: Utah’s Art Magazine, and she is included in both editions of the book Artists of Utah and Utah Artists Dictionary ‘23. Alvey most recently had a neon work at Benrimon Fine Art in New York City for an exhibit entitled Rethink Americ...

October 4 – November 8, 2024 Bountiful Davis Art Center Bountiful, UT December 12, 2025 – March 31, 2026 Stewart Library, Weber State University Ogden, UT April 1 – May 14, 2026 Grand County Library Moab, UT June 15 – July 30, 2026 Hub City Gallery Mount Pleasant, UT August 24 - September 30, 2026 Museums at Union Station Ogden, UT January 4 – February 12, 2027 ZArts Gallery at the Canyon Community Center Springdale, UT March 8 - April 20, 2027 Delta Library Delta, UT May 17-June28, 2027 Orem Library Orem, UT January 5 - February 7, 2028 Gallery East, Utah State University Price Price, UT

 The Utah Exquisite Corpse Project is a series of collaborative paintings and drawings created by 58 Utah artists. Each piece is divided into several panels, with a different artist painting each one in ignorance of what the other participants are doing. The only clues telling each artist what to paint are the knowledge of where their panel is in relation to the whole, and lines or colors left at the top of their panel by the previous artist. The project was inspired by games played in the 1920s and ‘30s by the Surrealists in Paris. The name Exquisite Corpse (translated from the French Cadavre Exquis) came from the phrase “The exquisite corpse shall drink the new wine,” which was generated from a word game played by Surrealist leader Andre Breton, Marcel Duhamel, Yves Tanguy and others around 1920. The first conceal part of the story before passing it to the next player, who continued writing from there, folding the paper again and passing it along, etc. Before long, the practice w...