Powder Art Foundation’s Skiable Sculpture Park

Eden, Utah’s Powder Mountain—the largest ski resort in North America by skiable terrain—is now the home of a continuously developing outdoor sculpture park with site-specific works on the slopes year-round. Since the open-air museum’s August 2024 announcement and the formation of the nonprofit Powder Art Foundation behind it, the curatorial team has installed pieces by Nancy Holt, Nobuo Sekine, EJ Hill, and Kayode Ojo. Further, 2026 will commence with the development of a pavilion to house works by James Turrell, Bruce Nauman, and more.

Powder Art Foundation recently secured a long-term partnership with Dia Art Foundation. The move, which will include a set of collaborative initiatives, curatorial guidance, and collection sharing, “marks a major milestone in our development as an emerging cultural institution celebrating the legacy of Land art in Utah and beyond,” Reed Hastings, founder of Powder Art Foundation (and co-founder and chairman of the board of directors of Netflix), shared in a statement.

The collaboration is also set to include a coordinated visitation program for Dia’s two remote Land art sites in Utah. “For over 25 years we have served as a stewarding presence in Utah with our ongoing care of Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty (1970) and Nancy Holt’s Sun Tunnels (1973-76). We are pleased to work with the Powder Art Foundation as they expand the exciting cultural offerings in Utah,” Jessica Morgan, Dia Art Foundation’s Nathalie de Gunzburg Director, added.

Powder Art Foundation intends to introduce a few pieces in advance of each ski season. Prior to the 2025-2026 opening, two historical works and two new commissions joined the previous year’s installation, which was a series of interactive bell sculptures by Davina Semo. Three works also preceded the establishment of Powder Art Foundation: a kaleidoscopic installation by Gerard & Kelly, a sound installation by Susan Philipsz, and a large-scale sculpture by Griffin Loop. From Ojo’s spectacular piece—a series of crystal chandeliers strung from the evergreen trees, named …and that they hadn’t heard us calling, still do not hear us, up here in the tree house…—to Sekine’s quietly moving Phase of Nothingness – Stone Stack, the curation already demonstrates that Powder Art Foundation intends to surprise and delight.