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The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust and Carnegie Mellon University are pleased to present an exhibition featuring the work of first- and second-year MFA students from Carnegie Mellon's School of Art. This exhibition highlights a dynamic range of contemporary art practices from emerging artists experimenting across media, concepts, and themes. This exhibition offers a unique opportunity to engage with the next generation of influential artists as they expand their creative practices within Pittsburgh's vibrant cultural landscape.  

Evoking the associative and often unpredictable logic of dreams, Dream Sequence brings together eleven artists from Carnegie Mellon University’s Master of Fine Arts program. This collection of new works move through memory, orientation, and play, tracing how images, materials, and technologies carry stories across time. Informed by the artists’ varied studio practices, which span artificial intelligence, photography, filmic and virtual space, and tactile media, these works form a loose constellation of questions that don’t settle into fixed answers. They reach toward myth and speculative worlds, attend to touch and trace, and move through personal and familial histories. This exhibition invites viewers into a space where meaning forms through drift, association, and intuitive connection.

Artists

• Sarah Al-Sarraj (MFA ‘28)
• Anne Chen (MFA ‘27)
• Amber N. Ford (MFA ‘28)
• Aleena Akbar Khan (MFA ‘27)
• Logan Larsen (MFA ‘27)
• Ashley A. Ross (MFA ‘27)
• Morgan Thomas Shankweiler (MFA ‘27)
• Walter Smits (MFA ‘28)
• Morgan Strahorn (MFA ‘28)
• Yiying Wang (MFA ‘28)
• Stefanie Zito (MFA ‘28)
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Dream Sequence is presented by the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust in collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University. Special thanks to MFA Director Lyndon Barrois Jr., Professor of Art Jon Rubin, Visiting MFA Core Faculty Shikeith, Head of the School of Art Charlie White, Assistant Director Wendy Willis, Assistant Professor of Art Alisha Wormsley, and the College of Fine Arts at Carnegie Mellon University. Additional thanks to the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust team: Davine Byon, Kennedy Deen, George Dun, Anastasia James, Jacquet Kehm, Josh Rievel, and Tyler Thompson.

Photo: Courtesy the artists and Carnegie Mellon University School of Art.