Beat the summer heat with these top art shows in 2025 from museums and galleries in Pittsburgh’s rich cultural scene. Your body will cool down even as your mind heats up.
Your Must-See 2025 Gallery and Museum Art Shows in Pittsburgh
Gala Porras-Kim: The reflection at the threshold of a categorical division
Carnegie Museum of Art, 4400 Forbes Avenue, Oakland
Gala Porras-Kim dives provocatively into the Carnegie’s many collections, where she pokes fun at the fact that museums have objects which never see the light of day. Porras-Kim’s lofty concept is combined with her technical skill and acerbic sense of humor, making her work a must-see. Through July 27, 2025.
Fiberart International 2025
Contemporary Craft, 5645 Butler Street, Lawrenceville
Fiberart International 2025 (Fi2025) is an international open call, juried by Jojo Abot, Louis Ho and Tamara Kostianovsky. This iteration features 36 established and emerging artists from eight different countries. The triennial show seeks to examine where innovation and tradition intersect through fiber art. Additional works will be viewable at Brew House Arts on the South Side. June 20 – August 30.
Fellowship 2025
Silver Eye Center for Photography, 4808 Penn Avenue, Bloomfield
Silver Eye’s fellowship program calls six lens-based artists from all over the world to bring work that pushes boundaries and provokes thought. This year features Ramona Jingru Wang, Alana Perino, Brett Davis, Sobia Ahmad, Paolo Morales, and Clare Sheedy with themes of mysticism, parenthood, and American identity in the photography selected. Through August 2, 2025.
Tasneem Sarkez
Romance, 5429 Howe Street, Shadyside
Romance announced a solo show with Libyan American artist Tasneem Sarkez, whose work explores “Arab kitsch” and nostalgic pop culture visuals from her cross-cultural childhood. Sarkez is represented by London’s Rose Easton Gallery and had her first solo show in January, at only age 23. Her work will be an exciting addition to Pittsburgh’s fall calendar. September – October 2025.
Marc Vilanova
The Mattress Factory, 500 Sampsonia Way, North Side
Sound artist Marc VIlanova has created a meditative space on The Mattress Factory’s fourth floor. The work experiments with sound frequencies human beings can’t hear, physically represented through fiber optic cables. Vilanova implores people to spend time listening and experiencing the exhibition with their body and meditating on what they can’t understand. Through March 29, 2026.
Rebecca Shapass
The Mattress Factory, 500 Sampsonia Way, North Side
Rebecca Shapass, one of the winners of the Mattress Factory’s artist residency, is a documentary filmmaker who straddles the line between still images and movement in her filmmaking. She’s spent the past few months working on a new installation for the Mattress Factory’s Sampsonia Way building, debuting this summer. Through June 29, 2026.
Good Business: Andy Warhol’s Screenprints
The Andy Warhol Museum, 117 Sandusky Street, North Side
A new show at the Warhol delves into one of Warhol’s most prolific techniques, his repetition of images using the medium of screen printing. The show also touches on how Warhol’s prints allowed him to make a living as an artist. “Commercialism” is often taboo in the art world, but Warhol eschewed any judgment of his commitment to selling his work, declaring that good business is good art. May 23 – September 1, 2025.
Imin Yeh & Paul Mullins
Bottom Feeder Books, 415 Gettysburg Street, Point Breeze
This eclectic artbook-focused store also has a gallery space where local, national, and international artists can display their work. This summer, a dual show between interdisciplinary artist Imin Yeh and painter and collage artist Paul Mullins. Both work in the Carnegie Mellon art department and have collaborated creatively in the past, so this show promises to be a celebration of friendship and creative partnership. July 5 – July 26, 2025.
Sue Abramson
Bottom Feeder Books, 415 Gettysburg Street, Point Breeze
Photographer Sue Abramson isn’t afraid to get her hands dirty. She frequently must crawl through the dirt to get the shots of the natural world she wants. The result is well worth it. Abramson has exhibited at Phipps Conservatory, Silver Eye Center for Photography, Carnegie Museum of Art, Miller Institute of Art, and at the Ilon Gallery. She will be debuting new work for this show at Bottom Feeder over the summer. August 2 – August 30, 2025.
Alix Van Der Donckt-Ferrand
April April, 409 South Trenton Avenue, Regent Square
Because gallerist Lucas Regazzi is originally from Toronto, April April often brings in artists from our northern neighbor, including Alix Van Der Donckt-Ferrand of Montréal. This summer’s solo exhibition of two-dimensional pencil work will be Van Der Donckt-Ferrand’s first time in Pittsburgh. June – August 2025.
Raymond Saunders: Flowers from a Black Garden
Carnegie Museum of Art, 4400 Forbes Avenue, Oakland
The Carnegie Museum of Art will be staging the first retrospective exhibition at a major American museum of Pittsburgh-born Raymond Saunders’ work. With some 35 works, Flowers from a Black Garden dive deep into the artist’s decades-long career, which began in the Saturday art classes at the Carnegie Museum itself, a full-circle moment. March 22 – July 13, 2025.
Fault Lines: Art, Imperialism, and the Atlantic World
Carnegie Museum of Art, 4400 Forbes Avenue, Oakland
In the Scaife Galleries, Curator of European Art Marie-Stéphanie Delamaire will be re-contextualizing works from the Enlightenment period to highlight the undercurrents of imperialism and violence. Though the art is beautiful, this exhibition will ask viewers to understand which stories get obscured by that beauty. July 12, 2025 – January 2026.
Charles Harlan
Carnegie Museum of Art, 4400 Forbes Avenue, Oakland
In the 91st iteration of the Carnegie’s Forum Gallery series, which celebrates work by living artists, Georgia-based sculptor Charles Harlan will be bringing engagement with industrial, agricultural, and domestic materials into the space. Harlan balances our connotations with objects’ functional uses by transforming them into art objects. August 22, 2025 – February 2026.
Melike Konur: Women I’ve Been
820 Liberty Gallery, 820 Liberty Avenue, Downtown
This solo exhibition by Melike Konur, curated by Jessica Gaynelle Moss, explores the women who have shaped Konur’s life, including ancestors, mentors, and her own multifaceted views of herself. A public art project in nearby Tito Way also serves to entice pedestrians to walk into the gallery. Through July 20, 2025.
2025 New Member Exhibition
Associated Artists of Pittsburgh, 100 43rd Street, Lawrenceville
Every year, the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh (AAP) shows off what its new members are working on in its gallery space in Lawrenceville. AAP is the oldest local artist collective in the country, and its exhibitions always provide an interesting opportunity to see what artists in the community are creating. July 11 – August 22, 2025.
A Fountain of Forms: The Rise of the American Woman Sculptor, 1910–1929
The Westmoreland Museum of American Art, 221 N Main St, Greensburg
In keeping with a recent effort to show more women artists, the Westmoreland Museum of American Art has a retrospective of work by women sculptors from the turn of the 20th century. Despite societal constraints, artists like Harriet Whitney Frishmuth, Malvina Hoffman, and Janet Scudder — who were queer women — used their focus on the nude human figure to assert their individuality and autonomy in an age of increasing, rapid mechanization and patriarchal control. April 11 – December 31, 2025.
Gilded, Not Golden
The Frick Pittsburgh, 7227 Reynolds Street, Point Breeze
Though the Frick’s galleries don’t have new artwork on view over the summer, it’s a perfect time to take their award-winning Gilded, Not Golden tour of Henry Clay Frick’s historic Clayton house. The docents lead you through the history of the Gilded Age, with both its golden exterior and its dark underbelly. It’s eerily relevant in today’s world but also provides an opportunity to see beautiful objects in the Frick’s collection.
Story by Emma Riva
Featured Photo Courtesy of Tom Little
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