The University of Pittsburgh Art Gallery is an open, flexible, and immersive laboratory for studying and displaying how art and visual objects generate knowledge and understanding of the world. Exhibitions and lectures from across multiple disciplines, student and faculty art shows, and museum studies courses foreground the Gallery as a showcase of innovative research, creativity, and experiential learning that involves and engages the entire academic community and general public.
The University Art Gallery is the major repository of art at the University of Pittsburgh, with a collection of 3,000 objects from around the world that includes some valuable holdings in American painting, Old Master prints, and Chinese and Japanese art. The gallery is a unique space that serves as a laboratory for pedagogical and scholarly initiatives across departments. It showcases the work of the Studio Arts department, museum studies courses in the history of art, and special exhibitions on a variety of themes from contemporary Chinese art to Pittsburgh’s changing urban landscape.