The Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (1931-) is located in Salt Lake City, Utah.

The Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (UMOCA) started as the Art Barn in 1931 when Alta Rawlins Jensen co-founded the Art Barn Association and served as its first president. In 1932, the Art Barn was located near the University of Utah campus, where volunteers managed art classes and exhibited artwork. The Art Barn became the Salt Lake Art Center (SLAC) in 1958, and in 1961, James Haseltine was hired as the first paid full-time director. Haseltine instituted a greater emphasis on Abstract Expressionism, architecture, and sculpture in the Salt Lake Art Center. In 2011, the Salt Lake Art Center was renamed to the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, refocusing on contemporary art and making it accessible to a diverse audience.

Michael Plyler (1955-) is a self-taught photographer from Utah.

Michael Plyler is a long-time resident of Utah, and has his own photography studio, Michael Plyler Photography. He has been displaying his work since 1982. His most famous works include a series about Guatemala and another of Zion National Park. In 2013, fifty-six pieces of his work from Guatemala were housed in the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian. Plyler is currently the director of the Zion Canyon Field Institute.

John Telford (1944-) is a Utah outdoor photographer.

John Telford was born December 31, 1944. Although essentially self-taught, he received an MFA from the University of Utah, where he was the supervisor of photography at Educational Media Services. He is a Professor Emeritus of Brigham Young University, where he was also the chair of the Department of Visual Arts. He also taught at Westminster College, the Salt Lake Art Center, and Hill Air Force Base. Previously he won the prestigious Karl G. Maeser Award for Creative Excellence at BYU and has won numerous other awards and honors throughout the country. His photographs have been published extensively and exhibited both nationally and internationally. He has authored and co-authored seventeen books.

Joe Marotta (born approximately 1940) is a local Utah photographer, and was a professor of photography at the University of Utah.

Joe Marotta's interest in photography began in his third year of college at the State University of New York in Albany in the 1960s. In 1978, he began teaching photography at the University of Utah where he served as the chair of the photography department from 1988 until 1993. Marotta's work has been shown nationally and internationally. His work is featured in Photographers of the West and Black and White Photography: An International Collection. He retired from teaching at the University of Utah in May 2018.

Barbara Richards (1941-) is a local Utah Photographer.

Barbara's first teaching assignment was in the School of Journalism at the Utah of University. She later taught photography at the Graduate School of Architecture for 25 years. Richards taught the first televised course in 1988, and was also a Purchase Award winner at the 'Utah Photography '88' exhibit. She is currently retired.

Rodger Newbold (approximately 1940) is a local Salt Lake City photographer.

Since 1980, Rodger Newbold has been an educator at the Salt Lake Art Center (now known as the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art). In 1984, he became the director of photography for the Art Center. He was named Educator of the Year in 1997. He is the author of "62 Laps Around the Sun."

David Baddley (born appoximately 1940) is a local Utah photographer.

Baddley received his Bachelor of Fine Arts and Masters of Fine Arts from the University of Utah, and he now works as an associate professor of Art at Westminster College in Salt Lake City. He has had many exhibits since 1985.

Richard Burton (born approximately 1940) is a local Utah photographer.

Burton studied photography in Los Angeles from 1968 to 1969. He is inspired by nature in his photography. In 1989, Burton had an exhibit about the U.S. Highway 89 at the Salt Lake Art Center (now known as the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art).

Charles Wiese (born approximately 1940) is a local Utah artist.

Charles' art was shown at the Utah '88 Photography exhibit in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1988.

Kent Miller (born approximately 1940) is a local Utah artist.

Maria R. Kirtland (born approximately 1940) is a local Utah artist.

Max Jarman (born approximately 1940) is a local Utah photographer.

Ray Kirkland (born approximately 1940) is a local Utah photographer.