Pittsburgh Botanic Garden regularly features the work of artists from the Pittsburgh area and beyond in the Welcome Center and outdoor spaces. These inspiring exhibitions provide visitors from all ages and walks of life with unique insights on garden design and the natural world from an artist’s perspective. Get a more in-depth understanding of the artist’s inspiration and creative process at our artist talks and exhibition receptions. Art exhibitions are included with admission to the Garden.
Current Exhibitions
Dates: April 11 – October 31
Artist: Dale Lewis
Embark on a journey through time and discover 14 large-scale sculptures roaming the landscape at Pittsburgh Botanic Garden. This exhibition of artwork by Dale Lewis brings dinosaurs and prehistoric creatures back from ancient history, reimagining them using repurposed scrap metal and found objects. Learn about these fascinating relics of the past, their connections to the modern world, and the significance of recycling to support environmental health.
Upcoming Exhibitions
Healing the Earth: The Perfect Garden
Date: July 9 – October 25, 2026
Artist: Caroline Garrett Hardy
About the Exhibition:
I make life-sized kimonos as objects of art. The kimono shape and its Japanese aesthetic both resonate strongly with me. Unlike real Japanese kimonos, my kimonos are made of paper. They integrate the beauty of handmade papers with found materials, revealing fragments of stories that appear and disappear within the collaged materials, offering the viewer many different—and often incomplete—narratives. The concept of mottainai is a guiding principle. Mottainai is a Japanese term for wasting not, combining humility, respect, and gratitude for one’s resources. This concept is essential to the rationale behind Healing the Earth: The Perfect Garden. I present here a diversity of gardens, aiming to inspire you with our ability to heal the earth by respecting our resources as we nurture earth’s beauty and cooperate with her capacity to regenerate, even to create the perfect garden.
Learn more about Caroline Garrett Hardy’s work on her website, CarolineGHardy.com.
