Education
1993
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT. Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Studio Art with an Emphasis in Painting & Drawing.
Solo Exhibitions
2025
Crowded Spaces. UVU Museum, Orem, UT, Jun-Oct.
Happy Family. CICA Museum, Yangchon-eup, South Korea, April.
2024
We Could Be the Enemy. Avenue For the Arts, Artprize, Grand Rapids, MI. Sep-Nov.
2023
As You Are, Current Work Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT. Oct-Nov.
UnderBelly. The Gallery at Library Square, Salt Lake City, UT. Mar-Apr.
Walking The Dark. The Granary Art Center, Ephraim, UT. Feb-May.
2022
Here Between There. The Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT. Aug-Oct.
2021
Brother Be Gone. The Alice Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT. Sep-Nov.
2020
The Body in Paint. The Bountiful Davis Arts Center, Bountiful, UT. Nov-Dec.
Serenity Now! Nox Contemporary, Salt Lake City, UT. Sep-Jan 2021.
2019
An Underness of Being. The Gallery at Library Square, Salt Lake City, UT. Mar-Apr.
2017
Body to Body. Finch Lane Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT. Jan-Feb.
2016
Uncertain Certainties. Central Utah Art Center (CUAC), Salt Lake City, UT. Aug-Oct.
Blackened White. Sweet Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT. Jan-Feb.
Two Person Exhibitions
2026 Push & Pull – John Sproul & Tara Trueblood. Fitton Center for the Creative Arts, Hamilton, OH. Feb-Mar.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025
Small Works Show. Material Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT. Dec.
Group Exhibition, Diderot Gallery, Orquevaux, France. Sep.
Takes A Village, LIV Gallery, New York City, NY. Apr-May.
2024
Spiritual & Religious Art of Utah, Springville Museum, Springville, UT. Oct-Jan 2025.
Crit Ecologies, Hudson Valley MOCA, Peekskill, NY. Sep-Dec.
Alumnus, UVU Museum, Orem, UT. Aug-Sep.
Venice ‘24, Imagoars Center for Visual Arts, Venice, Italy. May.
2023
CORPO, Buinho Projects, Messejana, Portugal. Sep.
Table, Level Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. May.
Chromatic, Bountiful Davis Art Center, Bountiful, UT. Feb.
2022
Friends of Friends, Current Work, Salt Lake City, UT. Aug-Oct.
Modes of Thought & Vision, One Modern Art, Salt Lake City, UT. Jul-Aug.
GLAM. The Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT. Jun.
Within, Art Fluent, Boston, MA. May-Jun.
Beauteous Forms, KunstMatrix, DE. Apr.
Pollen Path. Lost Eden Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT. March.
2021
Liminal. Verum Ultimum Art Gallery, Portland, OR. Jul-Aug.
90th. The Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT. Jul.
2020
Bookworks 2020. Utah Cultural Celebration Center, Salt Lake City, UT. Jan-Mar.
2019
Anthropocene Epoch Explored Through Art. Harris Fine Art Center, Provo, UT. Sep-Oct.
Liten. The Bountiful Davis Arts Center, Bountiful, UT. Sep-Oct.
The Body in Parts. BG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA. Sep-Oct.
Statewide. The Bountiful Davis Arts Center, Bountiful, UT. Aug-Sep.
Glow. The Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT. May-Jun.
Loss, Redemption & Grace. EBD4 Art Center, Chamblee, GA. May-Jun.
Camarones. Camaron Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT. May.
Drawn. Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH. Apr-May.
Metamorphosis. Bipolar Projects, Barcelona, Spain. Jan-Mar.
2018
Un Seul Grain De Riz. Galerie Metanoia, Paris, France. Dec-Jan 2019.
Suspend. Cloyde Snook Gallery, Alamosa, CO. Oct-Nov.
A Sense of Place. Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art, Augusta, GA. Sep-Oct.
Black Out. Ashton Gallery, San Diego, CA. Sep-Oct.
A Sense of Place. Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art, Augusta, GA. Sep-Oct.
Black White Metallic. Artless Bastard, Depre, WI. Sep-Oct.
9x12. Dual Gallery, Budapest, Hungary. Jul-Aug.
Viewpoints 2018. Studio Montclair, Montclair, NJ. May-Jun.
Wide Open. Brooklyn Waterfront Art Center, Brooklyn, NY. Apr-May.
Clearly Human III. St Louis Artist Guild, St Louis, MO. Apr-May.
Visual Impressions 2018. Ryan James Fine Art, Kirkland, WA. Apr-May.
Abstraction at Large. Site:Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY. Apr-May.
2017
Utah ‘17. Rio Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT. Nov-Jan 2018.
Paper West. Gittens Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT. Nov.
National Prize Show. Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge, MA. May-Jun.
Day Dreamers. BG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA. Apr-May.
Art on Paper. MFA Circle Gallery, Annapolis, MD. Mar-Apr.
National Drawing & Print Exhibit. Gormley Gallery, NDU, Baltimore, MS. Mar-Apr.
Huge Art Show. Mestizo Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT. Feb.
2016
Massively Small. J-Go Gallery, Park City, UT. Jul-Aug.
Retrieval of the Beautiful. The Painting Center, New York, NY. Jun-Jul.
Drawn. Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH. Apr-May.
300 Plates. Art Access Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT. May-Jun.
Residencies
2025
Chateau D’Orquevaux Artist Residency, Orquevaux, France. May.
Edgewood Farm Residency, Truro, MA, Feb.
2024
La Macina di San Cresci Residency, Chianti, Italy. Apr 2024.
2023
Buino Artist Residency, Messejana, Portugal. Sep 2023.
Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont. Jan 2023.
Arts Advocacy
2008-Present
The Art Group, Salt Lake City, UT. Director.
2022-2024
Editorial Advisory Board, Southwest Contemporary Art Magazine, Santa Fe, NM. Member.
2010-2022
Nox Contemporary Art Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT. Founder/Director/Curator.
Bibliography
2025
Rising Stars: Meet John Sproul of Salt Lake City. Voyage Utah, Salt Lake City, UT. Oct 22.
Crowded Spaces: Finding Connection in a Crowd. UVU News, Orem, UT. Erin Kratzer. Aug 25.
In the Company of Strangers: John Sproul’s Crowded Spaces at UVU. 15 Bytes Magazine, Salt Lake City, UT. Geoff Wichert. Jul 20.
2024
Meet the Artist John Sproul. Art Problems with Paddy Johnson. Podcast. Episode 67, July 19, 2024.
2023
John Sproul Dreams in a Material World in Current Work Exhibit. 15 Bytes Magazine, Salt Lake City, UT. Geoff Wichert. Oct 13.
Conversations With John Sproul. Down2Art with Kristy Gordon. Podcast. Episode 19. May 22.
Anthropocene Now: John Sproul Paints Humanity’s Dilemma in Library Exhibit 15 Bytes Magazine, Salt Lake City, UT. Geoff Wichert. Mar 13.
2022
Salt Lake Bids Farewell to John Sproul’s Beloved Nox Contemporary.. Southwest Contemporary Magazine, Santa Fe, NM. Scotti Hill. Oct 25.
Your Weekly 5x5: The New Enchanted West. “Here Between There” exhibit among top 5 picks of the week. Southwest Contemporary Magazine, Santa Fe, NM. Sep 8.
John Sproul’s Rich Opportunity for Theatrical Speculation. 15 Bytes Magazine, Salt Lake City, UT. Geoff Wichert. Aug 24.
Utah Museum of Contemporary Art: John Sproul, Bernard Meyers, Tobias Fike. The Utah Review, Salt Lake City, UT. Aug.
2021
John Sproul, Lost & Found, in Brother Be Gone. 15 Bytes Magazine, Salt Lake City, UT. Geoff Wichert. Sep 27.
2020
John Sproul’s Serenity Now! 15 Bytes Magazine, Salt Lake City, UT. Bea Hurd. Sep 15.
Body Language: Flesh, Failure and Phenomena in the Art of John Sproul . Essay. Darren Jones.
2019
Work included in Volume 14. Inda 14 Drawing Annual, Cincinnati, OH..
The Tangible & the Intangible in John Sproul & Nancy Starks. 15 Bytes Magazine, Salt Lake City, UT. Ann Poore. Apr 3.
2018
Exhibition on Environmental Protection in the Dual Gallery. Eurostar Internet Magazine, Budapest, Hungary. Jul 17.
Cover Art. The Freshwater Review, Vol 21.
Cover Art. The Gateway Review – A journal of Magical Realism, Vol 1, Issue 4.
Work included. Studio Visit Magazine, Boston, MA., Vol 41.
Featured Artist – Publication of Series To Be Named with Prose by Lynn Kilpatrick . Western Humanities Review, Salt Lake City, UT. Spring Issue.
Featured Artist. Whitefish Review, Whitefish, MO. Winter/Spring Issue.
2017
Ut ’17 Showcases the States Talent in Painting & Sculpture. 15 Bytes Magazine, Salt Lake City, UT. Geoff Wichert. Nov 29.
Cover Art. Superstition Review, Tempe, AZ. Issue 19
Inexhaustable Pleasure. Review of “John Sproul – Body to Body”. 15 Bytes Magazine, Salt Lake City, UT. Geoff Wichert. Jan Issue.
Lectures/Panel Discussions
2025
Crowded Spaces. Lecture. UVU Museum, Orem, UT. Jul 1.
2017
Art, Life & Society. Lecture. Snow College, Ephraim, UT. Nov 9.
Full CV available upon request.