Events . Dream Sequence: CMU MFA Exhibition

Dream Sequence: CMU MFA Exhibition

MFA group show from Carnegie Mellon's School of Art at SPACE Gallery.
Art Opening
Space 812 Liberty Ave. Pittsburgh
All Ages

Exhibition Announcement 📣🎉

Dream Sequence: Carnegie Mellon University 1st and 2nd Year MFA Exhibition

🗓️ February 13 – April 5, 2026
📍 SPACE gallery
Opening Reception: Friday February 27, 2026 5 – 7pm

For the third consecutive year, 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 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.

Artists:
Sarah Al-Sarraj (MFA ‘28) @ssaarraahj
Anne Chen (MFA ‘27) @naturalrealnotfake
Amber N. Ford (MFA ‘28) @ambern.ford
Aleena Akbar Khan (MFA ‘27) @aleenaakbarkhan
Logan Larsen (MFA ‘27) @ltlarsen
Ashley A. Ross (MFA ‘27) @_ashleyaross
Morgan Thomas Shankweiler (MFA ‘27) @morganthomasshankweiler
Walter Smits (MFA ‘28) @kookylemur
Morgan Strahorn (MFA ‘28) @mrgnstrhrn
Yiying Wang (MFA ‘28) @yiyingwang_
Stefanie Zito (MFA ‘28) @_stefaniezito_studio

Related Entities: SPACE Gallery
Tags: Art