Art galleries in Pittsburgh

Looking for art in Pittsburgh, PA? There are 7 galleries mapped here. That's 7 galleries mapped around Pittsburgh. The exhibition schedule matters more than the count: a small gallery with a great current show beats a big one between exhibitions. Ask the gallerist what's on — they're usually delighted someone asked.

This guide covers every art gallery we could verify in and around Pittsburgh (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include South Hills Art Center and World West Galleries, plus 707 Penn Gallery. If a gallery's missing from Pittsburgh's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Pittsburgh gallery lineup

7 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about art galleries in Pittsburgh

2 of the 7 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — galleries keep proper public hours, so plan around the listed times.

3 have websites listed. That's where the current exhibition is announced — the one thing worth checking before you visit.

3 galleries list websites — that's where the current exhibition is announced, and it's the one thing worth checking before you visit.

The Pittsburgh gallery walk

The efficient Pittsburgh gallery walk strings these together: South Hills Art Center, World West Galleries, 707 Penn Gallery, Cantellops Art Gallery, Carnegie Museum of Art on 4400 Forbes Avenue, Trust Oasis on 133 7th Street, and GalleriE CHIZ on 5831 Ellsworth Avenue — 7 stops, one logical order.

Gallery tips for Pittsburgh

How the regulars do Pittsburgh's galleries:

• Check the gift shop at South Hills Art Center. Prints, artist books, and the occasional affordable original. The gift shop funds the programming.
• Visit twice if it moves you at World West Galleries. A second visit to a strong show is never wasted. You see completely different work the second time.
• Take the long way through. Galleries reward slow looking. One extra lap always reveals something the first pass missed.
• Kids are welcome (usually). Most galleries are fine with children; the contemporary ones especially. Call ahead if you're unsure.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Pittsburgh — that covers the town itself plus the surrounding communities you'd reasonably drive to. Listings come from OpenStreetMap, mapped by local volunteers, so a brand-new art gallery in Pittsburgh can take a while to appear. Spotted a closure among the 7, or a art gallery we missed entirely? The map is the source of truth here — one OpenStreetMap edit corrects it for everyone.

We don't review exhibitions — shows change too fast. What we list is the where: real galleries, verified by real mappers.

If you run one of the 7 listed here and something's wrong — a closure, a move, new hours — the fix is the same: update the shop on OpenStreetMap and the correction flows through to this page on the next daily refresh.