Past Exhibitions

September 13, 2021-October 1, 2021 This installation in the UAG’s Rotunda asks viewers to reflect on the lives of Black women lost to racism and violence.

November 18, 2020 – May 15, 2021 The medieval manuscript is, by its very nature, a medium of reproduction. This digital exhibition explores illuminated manuscripts through print and digital copies.

February 13 – December 5, 2020 Explore the varied experiences of women artists in Pittsburgh through the work of Tina Williams Brewer, Sheila Cuellar-Shaffer and Fran Gialamas.

February 13 – March 28, 2020 From ration lines to entertainment in wartime, Mary Ethel McAuley’s paintings document life behind enemy lines in World War I Germany.

October 24 - December 6, 2019 Explore the fascinating collections of an aluminum industry pioneer whose interests across art and science made him something of a modern-day Renaissance man.

October 24 - December 6, 2019 Reflect on the histories of aluminum through a selection of objects and other original materials drawn from Pittsburgh collections.

September 5 - October 11, 2019 Exhibited in Pittsburgh for the first time, the work of five young Chinese video artists explore memory and forgetting in the contemporary world.

March 18 - 25, 2019 Featuring objects created in China between the 18th and 20th centuries, this display traces dynamic networks of mobility and exchange.

February 15 - March 21, 2019 Drawing on collections from across the University, this display explores the evolving histories, representations, and expressions of the African Diaspora.

February 15 - March 21, 2019 This exhibition highlights abstract paintings from the late 1950s and early 1960s by artists from Britain, Japan, India, Italy, and Venezuela.