The Mattress Factory is an artist-centered museum, international residency program and renowned producer and presenter of installation art. We say “yes” to artists, offering time and space to dream and realize projects in our hometown, Pittsburgh, PA. We invite audiences from around the world and around the corner to step inside, immerse and connect with the artistic process.
The Greer Lankton Collection is organized by material and is separated into eight series; Correspondence, Ephemera and Administrative Papers, Journals, Periodicals, Photo Albums, Photographs, Slides and Negatives, and Artwork.
Equal parts architectural intervention, minimalist earthwork, and meditative environment, the installation encourages reflection on the invisible forces that bind us together.
Asim Waqif
Waqif invites viewers into a collaborative dynamic and playful installation that challenges our ideas on authorship and the preciousness of artwork, pushing against the formality we come to expect from typical museum experiences.
Andrea Peña
In "States of Transmutation," Andrea Peña melds sculpture, choreography, and sound into a “universe” that explores the tension of a posthuman epoch from a queer and embodied perspective.
Lydia Rosenberg
My project is writing a novel as a physical act of making, a novel-as-sculpture. How is a book made? What are the materials? I am using this fiction space to experiment with the exchange between the making of things and the act of describing them.
Katie Bullock
Bullock brings an ongoing archive of videos interspersed with diagrammatic drawings to life – offering the opportunity to tell us her stories and to merge the personal with the universal.
Dove Bradshaw
Ground, a rectangular form of white drywall, acts as a reflection of the effects that light, air and time have on the space in which it is installed.
sarah huny young
This is a place for Black women and femmes, especially the m/others, the queers, the outcasts, the sex workers, the misunderstood, and the overlooked, to be at careless play, at deserved rest, deep in thought, and rooted in joy with their mothers.
Doreen Chan
Chan sets into motion a system for gathering and sharing the ephemeral, idiosyncratic dreams of the collective, transforming them into artwork with the participants, and asking visitors to reflect on their own dream memories.
Lenka Clayton & Phillip Andrew Lewis
Mary Martin
LaKeisha Wolf
It’s necessary to be reminded of how deep our connection is with this Earth and environment, as it truly represents a mother who provides all you need to grow, learn, and maximize your life-force purposefully.
Bullock brings an ongoing archive of videos interspersed with diagrammatic drawings to life – offering the opportunity to tell us her stories and to merge the personal with the universal.
Mary Martin
A Constant Struggle for Reciprocity
2022
Bekezela Mguni
I come from a holy place
2022
Mguni uses text, found objects, flowers, video, and print media to carve out space for Black presence and to offer affirmation in a world that continues its violent attempts to erase, devalue, and disappear Black people.
Veronika Rudyeva-Ryazantseva
Under the table
2022
"Under the table" is a reflection on the inner and outer, about man and power, about the fact that history is always happening, constantly and we are also participants and observers of what is happening.
Andréa Stanislav
Surmatants - Mars Rising
2021
David Beattie
Reflector
2010
David Beattie
Latent Weight
2010
Jane Haskell
Prescience 97'
2002
James Turrell
Eye of the Crater (model)
2002
James Turrell
East Portal (model)
2002
Walking up the incline of the 854-foot East Alpha Tunnel, the visitor experiences an intense round glow at the end of the tunnel.
Tom Sarver
Happy Birthday 2003
2002
The artist has constructed mechanical carousels from which a host of characters and objects rotate and dangle.
ROY
Towers of Pittsburgh
2002
Using brass, iron and steel, the artist creates a small, precisionist, and industrial landscape.