From intimate collaborations and material experimentation to reflections on local history, Pittsburgh’s galleries and museums offer a rich slate of exhibitions to catch before winter gives way to spring. February 2026’s roundup highlights exhibitions where attention to scale, surface, as well as archive shapes the experience of looking.
Pittsburgh Art Exhibitions Hitting Galleries in February 2026
Atlas by Owen Westberg
april april, 409 South Trenton Avenue, Regent Square
Through February 28, 2026
In his first solo exhibition in Pittsburgh, Westberg rethinks still life and landscape as sites of perceptual drift, where familiar scenes hover at the edge of abstraction. Light, memory, and material sensation take precedence over depiction, treating painting as a temporary zone of engagement rather than a fixed record.
LOT paintings by Al Svoboda
april april, 409 South Trenton Avenue, Regent Square
Through February 28, 2026
Installed in the gallery’s Dining Room, Svoboda presents four closely related paintings built from strips of color that divide and then hold the surface. Using repetition and uniformity as a point of departure, the works reflect on allocation, storage, as well as value, allowing structure and material to quietly shape the experience of looking.
Picturing Pittsburgh
Westmoreland Museum of American Art, 221 N Main St, Greensburg
January 22–June 14, 2026
Drawn from the collection of Bruce and Sheryl K. Wolf, Picturing Pittsburgh brings together works on paper that reflect on daily life during the city’s industrial era. The exhibition invites a quieter form of looking, where scenes of labor and infrastructure become sites of memory shaped by long-term collecting and also regional attachment.
vinaigrette by Sasha Miasnikova and Zora Moniz
Romance, 155 N Craig St, Suite 110, North Oakland
January 24–March 8, 2026
Co-presented with Iowa (Brooklyn), vinaigrette unfolds across two cities in a call-and-response collaboration that treats exchange as both method and subject. Drawing on scent, play, and improvised systems of display, Miasnikova and Moniz translate personal archives into something shared.
Found Featuring Alli Lemon, Jamie Earnest, Natalie Moffitt, and Zoë Welsh
Concept Art Gallery (Upstairs Gallery), 1031 S Braddock Ave, Regent Square
January 31–April 4, 2026
Found brings together artists whose practices work with found imagery as both material and metaphor, tracing subtle movements between searching and recognition. Across varied approaches, the exhibition frames “finding” not only as a method, but as an emotional state shaped by quiet discovery.
Chronic Uncertainty by Joseph Lupo
Concept Art Gallery (Annex Gallery), 1031 S Braddock Ave, Regent Square
January 31–April 4, 2026
Working with appropriated imagery from early twentieth-century comic books, Lupo’s prints dwell on moments when bodies falter and meaning slips. What initially reads as slapstick gradually sharpens into a meditation on instability and the precariousness of control.
Sue Abramson – The Painted Planet: Hand Colored Photographs, 1984–1989
Bottom Feeder Books, 415 Gettysburg Street, Point Breeze
January 31–February 28, 2026
Abramson’s hand-colored photographs from the 1980s explore the slippage between photographic record and painterly intervention. By layering pigment directly onto her photographs, the photographer slows the act of looking and foregrounds the image as something deliberately made rather than passively recorded.
Peregrination: Xiaojing Yan 闫晓静
Contemporary Craft (Main Lawrenceville Gallery), 5645 Butler St, Lawrenceville
February 6–May 2, 2026
Part of the 2026 Tomayko Solo Artist Elevation Series, Peregrination draws on Yan’s experience of migration to explore how identity and cultural memory shift over time. Reworking Chinese myth and folklore through craft, her work then imagines nature as a symbolic passage between past and present, grounding personal transformation in a dreamlike landscape.
Dream Sequence
Carnegie Mellon University 1st and 2nd Year MFA Exhibition SPACE
February 13–April 5, 2026
Presented by the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust in collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University, Dream Sequence brings together new work by first- and second-year MFA students that unfolds according to the associative logic of dreams.
Lewis Hine Pictures America
The Frick Pittsburgh, 7227 Reynolds Street, Point Breeze
February 21–May 17, 2026
Drawn from a private collection, this exhibition brings together rare vintage photographs that trace Hine’s commitment to social reform through the camera. From Ellis Island to Pittsburgh’s steel mills, the works frame photography as a civic tool—shaped by Hine’s background in sociology as well as education—to confront the human costs of industrial modernity.
Story by Shawn Simmons
Featured Photo Art Courtesy of Joseph Lupo, Chronic Uncertainty 3, 2025, silkscreen
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