Past Exhibitions

April 5-27, 2024 University of Pittsburgh Studio Art Senior Exhibition

October 12-March 24, 2024 This student-curated exhibition showcases a selection of original silk screen posters from the instituto de cultura puertorriqueña (ICP).

September 23-March 24, 2024 Through video, sculpture and sound, artists iliana Emilia García and Scherezade García explore the historical and social construction of the fabric of Las Americas through a maritime culture.

September 12-March 24, 2024 This exhibition presents a selection of contemporary work inspired by Alejo Carpentier’s historical novel, The Kingdom of This World, which recounts the Haitian revolution and its profound impact on the emergent nation.

March 31-April 30, 2023 University of Pittsburgh Studio Art Senior Exhibition

January 20-March 3, 2023 University Art Gallery Studio Art Senior Exhibition

September 16, 2022 – December 9, 2022 Drawn from Lankton’s archive at the Mattress Factory, this exhibition explores how Greer Lankton’s sculptures and drawings imagine subjects that live beyond the male-female binary.

October 21, 2022 – December 9, 2022 This exhibition explores the life and art of Andrey Avinoff (1884-1949), the émigré artist, scientist, professor, and museum director whose scholarly rigor and flamboyant creativity left an indelible mark on Pittsburgh’s cultural landscape.

March 31, 2022 - April 30, 2022 University Art Gallery Exhibition Studio Art Senior Exhibition.

October 21 2021 – February 25, 2022 Founded in 1981, Women of Visions (WOV) is believed to be the longest-running collective of Black women artists in the United States.

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.

February 15 - March 21, 2019 The first of its kind, this exhibition celebrates the lives and accomplishments of Sidis through a series of photographic reproductions of paintings and photographs.

October 26 - December 7, 2018 Drawn from the University Art Gallery collection, this exhibition brings together works from the 17th century to the present that engage with shifting cultural norms of gender.

September 14 - October 12, 2018 Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Department of Studio Arts.

March 30 - April 28, 2018 This exhibition displays exceptional works by graduating students in various Studio Arts courses, both majors and non-majors.

February 23 - March 14, 2018 This exhibition displays installations by students who take the Studio Arts Sculpture Projects: Installation course.

January 19 - February 9, 2018 Highlighting student work from the Studio Arts Research Fellows program.

November 10 - December 8, 2017 Featuring objects, documents, and watercolors by Andrey Avinoff, this exhibition considers the memories of immigrants whose experiences informed the Nationality Rooms.

September 13 - December 8, 2017 With a focus on the binary of nature and human, this exhibition features works by Pittsburgh artists that depict agricultural, urban, and industrial landscapes.

September 13 - October 27, 2017 Presenting the works of Canadian photographer Isabelle Hayeur, this exhibition exposes human alterations of the environment.

April 6 - April 29, 2017 This exhibition displays exceptional works by Class of 2017 students in various Studio Arts courses, both majors and non-majors.

February 9 - March 23, 2017 Interdisciplinary artist Sophia Sobers explores the evolution and transformation of plants in a special Rotunda installation.

February 9 - March 23, 2017 This exhibition, created by Eleanor Aldrich and Barbara Weissberger, explores the relationship between physical reality and illusion.

January 13 - February 3, 2017 This exhibition highlights the work of students who participated in the 2016 Creative Research Exhibition in Wyoming.