diff --git a/.changes/unreleased/Under the Hood-20240130-161637.yaml b/.changes/unreleased/Under the Hood-20240130-161637.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..17d274a8595
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changes/unreleased/Under the Hood-20240130-161637.yaml	
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+kind: Under the Hood
+body: Move data parts of `Exposure` class to dbt/artifacts
+time: 2024-01-30T16:16:37.176038-08:00
+custom:
+  Author: QMalcolm
+  Issue: "9380"
diff --git a/core/dbt/artifacts/resources/__init__.py b/core/dbt/artifacts/resources/__init__.py
index 80727abb4aa..fba7c9730c4 100644
--- a/core/dbt/artifacts/resources/__init__.py
+++ b/core/dbt/artifacts/resources/__init__.py
@@ -3,6 +3,12 @@
 # alias to latest resource definitions
 from dbt.artifacts.resources.v1.components import DependsOn, NodeVersion, RefArgs
 from dbt.artifacts.resources.v1.documentation import Documentation
+from dbt.artifacts.resources.v1.exposure import (
+    Exposure,
+    ExposureConfig,
+    ExposureType,
+    MaturityType,
+)
 from dbt.artifacts.resources.v1.macro import Macro, MacroDependsOn, MacroArgument
 from dbt.artifacts.resources.v1.docs import Docs
 from dbt.artifacts.resources.v1.group import Group
diff --git a/core/dbt/artifacts/resources/v1/exposure.py b/core/dbt/artifacts/resources/v1/exposure.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..1460c110d43
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core/dbt/artifacts/resources/v1/exposure.py
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+from dataclasses import dataclass, field
+from dbt.artifacts.resources.base import GraphResource
+from dbt.artifacts.resources.types import NodeType
+from dbt.artifacts.resources.v1.components import DependsOn, RefArgs
+from dbt.artifacts.resources.v1.owner import Owner
+from dbt_common.contracts.config.base import BaseConfig
+from dbt_common.dataclass_schema import StrEnum
+import time
+from typing import Any, Dict, List, Literal, Optional
+
+
+class ExposureType(StrEnum):
+    Dashboard = "dashboard"
+    Notebook = "notebook"
+    Analysis = "analysis"
+    ML = "ml"
+    Application = "application"
+
+
+class MaturityType(StrEnum):
+    Low = "low"
+    Medium = "medium"
+    High = "high"
+
+
+@dataclass
+class ExposureConfig(BaseConfig):
+    enabled: bool = True
+
+
+@dataclass
+class Exposure(GraphResource):
+    type: ExposureType
+    owner: Owner
+    resource_type: Literal[NodeType.Exposure]
+    description: str = ""
+    label: Optional[str] = None
+    maturity: Optional[MaturityType] = None
+    meta: Dict[str, Any] = field(default_factory=dict)
+    tags: List[str] = field(default_factory=list)
+    config: ExposureConfig = field(default_factory=ExposureConfig)
+    unrendered_config: Dict[str, Any] = field(default_factory=dict)
+    url: Optional[str] = None
+    depends_on: DependsOn = field(default_factory=DependsOn)
+    refs: List[RefArgs] = field(default_factory=list)
+    sources: List[List[str]] = field(default_factory=list)
+    metrics: List[List[str]] = field(default_factory=list)
+    created_at: float = field(default_factory=lambda: time.time())
diff --git a/core/dbt/artifacts/schemas/manifest/v12/manifest.py b/core/dbt/artifacts/schemas/manifest/v12/manifest.py
index d4fbccbacbd..5f39f76e73d 100644
--- a/core/dbt/artifacts/schemas/manifest/v12/manifest.py
+++ b/core/dbt/artifacts/schemas/manifest/v12/manifest.py
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 from dbt.artifacts.schemas.upgrades import upgrade_manifest_json
 from dbt.artifacts.resources import (
     Documentation,
+    Exposure,
     Group,
     Macro,
     Metric,
@@ -22,7 +23,6 @@
 from dbt import tracking
 from dbt.flags import get_flags
 from dbt.contracts.graph.nodes import (
-    Exposure,
     GraphMemberNode,
     ManifestNode,
     SourceDefinition,
diff --git a/core/dbt/contracts/graph/model_config.py b/core/dbt/contracts/graph/model_config.py
index a2fc7801d8d..b266c52c395 100644
--- a/core/dbt/contracts/graph/model_config.py
+++ b/core/dbt/contracts/graph/model_config.py
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 from typing_extensions import Annotated
 
 from dbt.artifacts.resources import (
+    ExposureConfig,
     MetricConfig,
     SavedQueryConfig,
     SemanticModelConfig,
@@ -53,11 +54,6 @@ class Hook(dbtClassMixin, Replaceable):
     index: Optional[int] = None
 
 
-@dataclass
-class ExposureConfig(BaseConfig):
-    enabled: bool = True
-
-
 @dataclass
 class SourceConfig(BaseConfig):
     enabled: bool = True
diff --git a/core/dbt/contracts/graph/nodes.py b/core/dbt/contracts/graph/nodes.py
index 28d8bd34142..3561ba146da 100644
--- a/core/dbt/contracts/graph/nodes.py
+++ b/core/dbt/contracts/graph/nodes.py
@@ -31,12 +31,9 @@
 from dbt_common.clients.system import write_file
 from dbt.contracts.files import FileHash
 from dbt.contracts.graph.unparsed import (
-    ExposureType,
     ExternalTable,
     FreshnessThreshold,
     HasYamlMetadata,
-    MaturityType,
-    Owner,
     Quoting,
     TestDef,
     UnparsedSourceDefinition,
@@ -74,7 +71,6 @@
     SeedConfig,
     TestConfig,
     SourceConfig,
-    ExposureConfig,
     EmptySnapshotConfig,
     SnapshotConfig,
     UnitTestConfig,
@@ -85,6 +81,7 @@
     BaseResource,
     DependsOn,
     Docs,
+    Exposure as ExposureResource,
     MacroDependsOn,
     MacroArgument,
     Documentation as DocumentationResource,
@@ -1378,24 +1375,7 @@ def group(self):
 
 
 @dataclass
-class Exposure(GraphNode[GraphResource]):
-    type: ExposureType
-    owner: Owner
-    resource_type: Literal[NodeType.Exposure]
-    description: str = ""
-    label: Optional[str] = None
-    maturity: Optional[MaturityType] = None
-    meta: Dict[str, Any] = field(default_factory=dict)
-    tags: List[str] = field(default_factory=list)
-    config: ExposureConfig = field(default_factory=ExposureConfig)
-    unrendered_config: Dict[str, Any] = field(default_factory=dict)
-    url: Optional[str] = None
-    depends_on: DependsOn = field(default_factory=DependsOn)
-    refs: List[RefArgsResource] = field(default_factory=list)
-    sources: List[List[str]] = field(default_factory=list)
-    metrics: List[List[str]] = field(default_factory=list)
-    created_at: float = field(default_factory=lambda: time.time())
-
+class Exposure(GraphNode[ExposureResource], ExposureResource):
     @property
     def depends_on_nodes(self):
         return self.depends_on.nodes
diff --git a/core/dbt/contracts/graph/unparsed.py b/core/dbt/contracts/graph/unparsed.py
index 852c747dedc..a5ddf70560b 100644
--- a/core/dbt/contracts/graph/unparsed.py
+++ b/core/dbt/contracts/graph/unparsed.py
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@
 from dbt.artifacts.resources import (
     Defaults,
     DimensionValidityParams,
+    ExposureType,
+    MaturityType,
     MeasureAggregationParameters,
 )
 from dbt.contracts.util import (
@@ -506,20 +508,6 @@ def __le__(self, other):
         return self == other or self < other
 
 
-class ExposureType(StrEnum):
-    Dashboard = "dashboard"
-    Notebook = "notebook"
-    Analysis = "analysis"
-    ML = "ml"
-    Application = "application"
-
-
-class MaturityType(StrEnum):
-    Low = "low"
-    Medium = "medium"
-    High = "high"
-
-
 @dataclass
 class UnparsedExposure(dbtClassMixin, Replaceable):
     name: str
diff --git a/core/dbt/graph/selector_methods.py b/core/dbt/graph/selector_methods.py
index cd2c3af934f..10403ba04fc 100644
--- a/core/dbt/graph/selector_methods.py
+++ b/core/dbt/graph/selector_methods.py
@@ -735,7 +735,7 @@ def search(self, included_nodes: Set[UniqueId], selector: str) -> Iterator[Uniqu
             elif unique_id in manifest.sources:
                 previous_node = manifest.sources[unique_id]
             elif unique_id in manifest.exposures:
-                previous_node = manifest.exposures[unique_id]
+                previous_node = Exposure.from_resource(manifest.exposures[unique_id])
             elif unique_id in manifest.metrics:
                 previous_node = Metric.from_resource(manifest.metrics[unique_id])
             elif unique_id in manifest.semantic_models:
diff --git a/core/dbt/parser/schema_yaml_readers.py b/core/dbt/parser/schema_yaml_readers.py
index 2b64312bf87..6d73913f8c4 100644
--- a/core/dbt/parser/schema_yaml_readers.py
+++ b/core/dbt/parser/schema_yaml_readers.py
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
     Entity,
     Export,
     ExportConfig,
+    ExposureConfig,
     Measure,
     MetricConfig,
     MetricInput,
@@ -49,7 +50,6 @@
 from dbt.exceptions import YamlParseDictError, JSONValidationError
 from dbt.context.providers import generate_parse_exposure, generate_parse_semantic_models
 
-from dbt.contracts.graph.model_config import ExposureConfig
 from dbt.context.context_config import (
     BaseContextConfigGenerator,
     ContextConfigGenerator,
diff --git a/tests/functional/exposures/test_exposure_configs.py b/tests/functional/exposures/test_exposure_configs.py
index f01147e276e..8f60778e058 100644
--- a/tests/functional/exposures/test_exposure_configs.py
+++ b/tests/functional/exposures/test_exposure_configs.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import pytest
-from dbt_common.dataclass_schema import ValidationError
 
-from dbt.contracts.graph.model_config import ExposureConfig
+from dbt.artifacts.resources import ExposureConfig
+from dbt_common.dataclass_schema import ValidationError
 
 from dbt.tests.util import run_dbt, update_config_file, get_manifest
 from tests.functional.exposures.fixtures import (
diff --git a/tests/unit/test_contracts_graph_parsed.py b/tests/unit/test_contracts_graph_parsed.py
index f3cf839731f..0dfc74e8909 100644
--- a/tests/unit/test_contracts_graph_parsed.py
+++ b/tests/unit/test_contracts_graph_parsed.py
@@ -7,9 +7,13 @@
 from dbt.artifacts.resources import (
     Dimension,
     Entity,
+    ExposureConfig,
+    ExposureType,
+    MaturityType,
     Measure,
     MetricInputMeasure,
     MetricTypeParams,
+    Owner,
     RefArgs,
 )
 from dbt.node_types import NodeType, AccessType
@@ -21,7 +25,6 @@
     TestConfig,
     SnapshotConfig,
     SourceConfig,
-    ExposureConfig,
     EmptySnapshotConfig,
     Hook,
 )
@@ -41,14 +44,11 @@
     SourceDefinition,
     Documentation,
     HookNode,
-    Owner,
     TestMetadata,
     SemanticModel,
 )
 from dbt.contracts.graph.unparsed import (
-    ExposureType,
     FreshnessThreshold,
-    MaturityType,
     Quoting,
     Time,
     TimePeriod,
diff --git a/tests/unit/test_contracts_graph_unparsed.py b/tests/unit/test_contracts_graph_unparsed.py
index 2a6d55a20c7..d6f86466fe0 100644
--- a/tests/unit/test_contracts_graph_unparsed.py
+++ b/tests/unit/test_contracts_graph_unparsed.py
@@ -18,14 +18,12 @@
     UnparsedModelUpdate,
     Docs,
     UnparsedExposure,
-    MaturityType,
-    Owner,
-    ExposureType,
     UnparsedMetric,
     UnparsedMetricTypeParams,
     UnparsedMetricInputMeasure,
     UnparsedVersion,
 )
+from dbt.artifacts.resources import ExposureType, MaturityType, Owner
 from dbt.artifacts.schemas.results import FreshnessStatus
 from dbt.node_types import NodeType
 from .utils import ContractTestCase
diff --git a/tests/unit/test_graph_selector_methods.py b/tests/unit/test_graph_selector_methods.py
index 2b06a1dbdb8..e1aaacc810b 100644
--- a/tests/unit/test_graph_selector_methods.py
+++ b/tests/unit/test_graph_selector_methods.py
@@ -29,14 +29,14 @@
 )
 from dbt.contracts.graph.manifest import Manifest, ManifestMetadata
 from dbt.artifacts.resources import (
+    ExposureType,
     MetricInputMeasure,
     MetricTypeParams,
     NodeRelation,
+    Owner,
     QueryParams,
 )
 from dbt.contracts.graph.unparsed import (
-    ExposureType,
-    Owner,
     UnitTestInputFixture,
     UnitTestOutputFixture,
 )
diff --git a/tests/unit/test_manifest.py b/tests/unit/test_manifest.py
index 94f1f94a91b..36232576e3a 100644
--- a/tests/unit/test_manifest.py
+++ b/tests/unit/test_manifest.py
@@ -27,17 +27,15 @@
     Group,
 )
 from dbt.artifacts.resources import (
+    ExposureType,
+    MaturityType,
     MetricInputMeasure,
     MetricTypeParams,
+    Owner,
     RefArgs,
     WhereFilter,
     WhereFilterIntersection,
 )
-from dbt.contracts.graph.unparsed import (
-    ExposureType,
-    Owner,
-    MaturityType,
-)
 import dbt_common.invocation
 from dbt_common.events.functions import reset_metadata_vars
 from dbt.exceptions import AmbiguousResourceNameRefError