About

Powder Art Foundation is a place where art, landscape, and movement converge. Situated across 8,000 acres of alpine terrain in Utah’s Wasatch Mountains, PAF is an open-air museum presenting site-specific works throughout every season. Here, art is not simply viewed but encountered; on snow, on trail, and through direct engagement with the mountain environment.

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PAF001Griffin Loop, Launch Intention, 2014

(41°22'05"N 111°46'26"W)

Lift Access:
Woody’s World shuttle

PAF002Gerard & Kelly, Relay (Powder Mountain), 2023

(41°22'35"N 111°47'10"W)

Lift Access:
Sunrise

PAF003Susan Philipsz, We’ll All Go Together, 2009

(41°23'03"N 111°46'05"W)

Lift Access:
Paradise

PAF004Davina Semo, Listener, 2020-2024

(41°22'37"N 111°46'16"W)

Lift Access:
Timberline

PAF005Davina Semo, Reflector, 2025

(41°23'24"N 111°45'04"W)

Lift Access:
Sunrise

PAF006Davina Semo, Mother, 2020-2025

(41°22'30"N 111°45'53"W)

Lift Access:
Hidden Lake

PAF007Kayode Ojo, “...and that they hadn’t heard us calling, still do not hear us, up here in the tree house...”, 2025

(41°22'32"N 111°45'26"W)

Lift Access:
Hidden Lake

PAF008EJ Hill, Surrendered (Total Ascent), 2025

(41°22'33"N 111°46'17"W)

Lift Access:
Timberline

PAF009EJ Hill, Love Song (for Eden), 2025

(41°23'55"N 111°45'44"W)

Lift Access:
Paradise

PAF010Madeline Hollander, The Moon is Always Full, 2023

(41°22'46"N 111°46'52"W)

PAF011Nancy Holt, Starfire, 1986

(41°22'08"N 111°45'55"W)

Lift Access:
Hidden Lake

PAF012Nobuo Sekine, Phase of Nothingness - Stone Stack, 1970/2025

(41°22'30"N 111°45'57"W)

Lift Access:
Hidden Lake

PAF013Sam Falls, Geological Time (Healing Tree), 2026

(41°22'30"N 111°45'48"W)

Lift Access:
Hidden Lake

PAF014Rose Wylie, Pale-Pink Pineapple/Bomb, 2025

(41°22'16"N 111°45'42"W)

Lift Access:
Hidden Lake

PAF015Xu Zhen, Hello, 2021-22

(41°22'20"N 111°45'45"W)

Lift Access:
Hidden Lake

PAF016Jenny Holzer, Carved Boulders & Living Rock, 2026

(41°22'19"N 111°45'43"W)

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Featured Artwork

Powder Art Foundation celebrates the legacy of Land art and supports the vision of artists by commissioning site-responsive installations across 8,000 acres of alpine terrain in Utah’s Wasatch Mountains. By building and maintaining access to a system of immersive artworks in the landscape, Powder Art Foundation transforms its site into a multi-season platform for meaningful outdoor adventures envisioned by path-breaking artists.

PAF016Jenny Holzer, Carved Boulders & Living Rock, 2026

  1. Medium

    Quartzite

  2. Date

    2026

  3. Dimensions

    64 inches tall x 80 inches wide x 70 inches deep

  4. Photo

    (c) Jenny Holzer; “The Promontory Moment” from Nature by May Swenson, © 1994 by the Literary Estate of May Swenson. Used with permission of the Literary Estate of May Swenson.

PAF014Rose Wylie, Pale-Pink Pineapple/Bomb, 2025

  1. Medium

    Painted bronze

  2. Date

    2025

  3. Dimensions

    320 × 120 × 120 cm (126 × 47 1/4 × 47 1/4 in.)

  4. Photo

    Ben Moisen Photography.

PAF015Xu Zhen, Hello, 2021-22

  1. Medium

    Brass, stainless steel, paint

  2. Date

    2021-22

  3. Dimensions

    475 × 430 × 430 cm (187 1/8 × 169 1/4 × 169 1/4 in.)

  4. Photos

    Ben Moisen Photography.

PAF012Nobuo Sekine, Phase of Nothingness - Stone Stack, 1970/2025

  1. Medium

    Natural stone, steel

  2. Date

    1970/2025

  3. Dimensions

    228 × 37 × 56 inches

  4. Photos

    Ben Moisen Photography.

    Carlson Art Photography.

    © Nobuo Sekine Estate.

©Dia Art Foundation, New York.

PartnersDia Art Foundation

Powder Art Foundation and Dia Art Foundation have formed a partnership comprising a broad set of collaborative initiatives that includes dialogue around Powder Art Foundation’s institutional development and the management of artwork situated in the landscape, collection sharing, and the long-term development of an expanded visitation program for two of Dia’s Land art sites: Nancy Holt’s Sun Tunnels (1973–76) and Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty (1970), both located in Utah. The partnership also encompasses shared initiatives to deepen public engagement with these iconic Land art works and their historical context. The partnership reflects a shared commitment to fostering greater connectivity between Utah’s rich cultural offerings and the stewardship of ambitious artistic practices in the environment.

PartnersPowder Mountain

Powder Art Foundation is proud to collaborate with Powder Mountain on building a new kind of cultural institution—one rooted in place, driven by purpose, and animated by adventure. Powder Mountain provides the essential infrastructure and operational partnership that make the Foundation’s collection possible: its trails and lifts, construction and safety teams, and deep environmental knowledge allow ambitious works to emerge in dialogue with the land. Extending far beyond logistics, the partnership with Powder Mountain cultivates a culture of slowness, wonder, and connection—where physical movement through the landscape opens up space for reflection, and where shared experience fosters a deeper relationship to the environment and to one another. Together, Powder Art Foundation and Powder Mountain are exploring new ways of being in the world: ways that honor the mountain, embrace experimentation, and create the conditions for meaning to emerge from place.