Wood Street Galleries

Wood Street Galleries The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust operates Wood Street Galleries, which features multi-disciplinary artists from all over the world.
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Through an agreement with the Port Authority of Pittsburgh, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust leases the upper floors of the former Max Azen Company building above the Wood Street subway station and operates the Wood Street Galleries. Opened in 1992, the galleries feature two floors of exhibition and performance space, and subsidized office space for emerging performing arts organizations throughout P

ittsburgh. Wood Street Galleries feature primarily digital media, film, video, robotic, and new media installations. Recent Wood Street Galleries exhibitions featured work by artists Bill Vorn and Louis-Philippe Demers (2014); Alexandre Burton and Edwin van der Heide (2014); Erwin Redl (2014); Kurt Hentschläger (2013); Chang-Jin Lee (2013); Ryoji Ikeda (2013, 2016); Martin Messier (2016); Jennifer Angus (2016); and Tessa Farmer (2016).

Charlie Wallace has a new exhibition coming to 707 gallery in late October. We’re beyond excited for his new works. Let’...
08/21/2026

Charlie Wallace has a new exhibition coming to 707 gallery in late October. We’re beyond excited for his new works. Let’s not give too much away yet :)

But he’s hard at work designing a billboard for the Tito way alley!

You can find more via the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust website.

Thanks to Chris Uhren for the photos from the last crawl and the opening of our brand new exhibition from Hprizm Pionee...
08/04/2026

Thanks to Chris Uhren for the photos from the last crawl and the opening of our brand new exhibition from Hprizm Pioneer Works Pittsburgh Cultural Trust

Check our website for more information and upcoming events.

New exhibition opening for the next crawl! Sound of the City is an immersive audio installation and listening environmen...
07/17/2026

New exhibition opening for the next crawl!

Sound of the City is an immersive audio installation and listening environment by NYC born
artist and composer Hprizm, whose practice spans a wide array of genres, including music,
performance and multimedia installations. He is a co-founder of the seminal hip-hop group
Antipop Consortium, an experimental collective known for their lyrical approach to electronic
music.

As a composer, his works have been presented at venues such as the Whitney Museum of
American Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, MoMA PS1, the Walker Museum, the
New Museum, SXSW and CalArts.

Hprizm: Sound of the City is organized by Pioneer Works and adapted for presentation at Wood
Street Galleries by the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust. The original presentation was made possible, in
part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in Partnership with
the City Council, as well as the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office
of the Governor and the New Yorks State Legislature.

Flyer design and instagram layout by the talented Tyler Jacob Thompson

THIS FRIDAY FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC The Whitney Review of New Writing presents readings, performances, music, and vi...
05/26/2026

THIS FRIDAY FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

The Whitney Review of New Writing presents readings, performances, music, and video inside Marianne Vitale’s On Liberty: A Summoning at SPACE gallery, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust.

Join us for an evening of live performances by:
S*M
Precious Okoyomon
Lisa Carver
Maya Martinez
Mani Mekala
Charlie Markbreiter

And a program of video art curated by Molly Soda features work by Michel Auder, Mike Kelley, Lauren Cook, Isaiah Davis, Kembra Pfahler, Cruz Valdez, John Pilson, Jacob Ciocci, and E. Jane.

The Whitney Review of New Writing is an independent journal of literary criticism based in New York City. Each issue features interviews, essays, poetry, and short-format reviews. At once a place of discovery—guiding readers toward their next book—it also stands as a record of the zeitgeist, connecting cultures of reading to art, design, performance, music, nightlife, and fashion, brought to life through its live programming and collaborative events.

The new seventh issue of The Whitney Review marks three years of the project’s evolving interdisciplinary approach to literary criticism. It will be available for sale, alongside printed matter and ephemera courtesy of the featured performers.

The Whitney Review


Readings & Performances
S*M
Precious Okoyomon
Lisa Carver
Maya Martinez
Mani Mekala
Charlie Markbreiter

Video art program curated by Molly Soda
Michel Auder
Mike Kelley
Lauren Cook
Isaiah Davis and Kembra Pfahler
Cruz Valdez
John Pilson
Jacob Ciocci
E. Jane

On Friday, May 29, The Whitney Review of New Writing presents readings, performances, music, and video inside Marianne V...
05/13/2026

On Friday, May 29, The Whitney Review of New Writing presents readings, performances, music, and video inside Marianne Vitale’s On Liberty: A Summoning at SPACE gallery, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust.

Join us for an evening of live performances by:
S*M
Precious Okoyomon
Lisa Carver
Maya Martinez
Mani Mekala
Charlie Markbreiter

And a program of video art curated by Molly Soda features work by Michel Auder, Mike Kelley, Lauren Cook, Isaiah Davis, Kembra Pfahler, Cruz Valdez, John Pilson, Jacob Ciocci, and E. Jane.

The Whitney Review of New Writing is an independent journal of literary criticism based in New York City. Each issue features interviews, essays, poetry, and short-format reviews. At once a place of discovery—guiding readers toward their next book—it also stands as a record of the zeitgeist, connecting cultures of reading to art, design, performance, music, nightlife, and fashion, brought to life through its live programming and collaborative events.

The new seventh issue of The Whitney Review marks three years of the project’s evolving interdisciplinary approach to literary criticism. It will be available for sale, alongside printed matter and ephemera courtesy of the featured performers.

The Whitney Review


Readings & Performances
S*M
Precious Okoyomon
Lisa Carver
Maya Martinez
Mani Mekala
Charlie Markbreiter

Video art program curated by Molly Soda
Michel Auder
Mike Kelley
Lauren Cook
Isaiah Davis and Kembra Pfahler
Cruz Valdez
John Pilson
Jacob Ciocci
E. Jane

This Thursday April 30th at 7pm 🎶🎺🎷🍸Please join us to celebrate the opening of: MARIANNE VITALE ON LIBERTY: A Summoning ...
04/27/2026

This Thursday April 30th at 7pm 🎶🎺🎷🍸

Please join us to celebrate the opening of:

MARIANNE VITALE
ON LIBERTY:
A Summoning

🗓️ April 30– October 11, 2026
📍 SPACE gallery, 812 Liberty Ave.
🍸 Opening: Reception: Thursday April 30th doors at 7pm. Performance starts at 8pm

FREE

The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust is excited to announce the opening of: Marianne Vitale – On Liberty: A Summoning.

Opening night performance hosted by
Michael Portoy
featuring
Kiko Soiree
Alex Tatarsky .biz
Sis Thee Doll
and
Peter Drungle his Slippery Sextet 🎺🎷
Patrick Breiner
Tommy Lehman
John Shannon
Tony De Paolis
David Throckmorton
and Ben Opie

On Liberty: A Summoning is a site-responsive exhibition and performance project by the contemporary artist Marianne Vitale rooted in the layered social and cultural history of 812/818 Liberty Avenue. Over the twentieth century, the building housed a succession of influential nightlife and performance venues, including The Liberty Theater, The Music Box, The Staircase Lounge, Villa Madrid, The Pin Up Lounge, The Twilight Room, Lenny Litman’s Copa, and Pegasus which functioned as radically open spaces for music, performance, q***r nightlife, and gathering. Vitale reanimates this history through sculpture, performance, film, and printed matter, creating a project that operates simultaneously as a formal exhibition and a series of live, time-based activations. Installed within a bar-and-stage framework referencing the site’s former nightclub configurations, the exhibition remains open daily as a sculptural environment and transforms into a functioning club during the Cultural Trust’s Final Fridays Gallery Crawls between May and October.

Marianne Vitale On Liberty: A Summoning is guest curated by Benjamin Tischer in collaboration with the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust.

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601 Wood Street
Pittsburgh, PA
15222

Opening Hours

Wednesday 11am - 6pm
Thursday 11am - 6pm
Friday 11am - 8pm
Saturday 11am - 8pm
Sunday 11am - 5pm

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