Live performance, including puppetry, theater, dance, music, and spoken word poetry, etc.
Digital / lighting / projection art
Literary arts, including poetry, creative writing, fiction, and non-fiction
Pittsburgh Creative Corps Artist Directory
David Bernabo
Primary Discipline
Artistic Practice
Audio / sound recording
Digital / photography
Painting/works on paper/printmaking
Reiki + Drone, 2024-present, live performance series that includes sound score and reiki.
Lightlab Performance Series, 2013-2019, public event series for dance and performance art co-founded with taylor knight.
Chance Resolution, 2012, video projection, customized software, figure 8 ball, sound score. Exhibited as part of First Night Pittsburgh with collaborations by Link Clark and Emily Walley.
Art Lubetz Walking Tour, 2025, public event, zine. Led in partnership with Paper + Dirt.
Formalism, 2010, single copy of a CD, CD player, reading materials, comment card.
About the Artist
David Bernabo is a musician, artist, and independent filmmaker. His art practice encompasses installation, video, painting, printmaking, and performance works. Recent works include a series of 8 ft. x 4.5 ft. paintings, exhibited at The Union Hall and two-plate letterpress works, exhibited at Bottom Feeder Books. He performs in the bands Watererer, House Music, and How Things Are Made. His film work documents western Pennsylvania food systems, climate change, the studio practices of composers and artists, and the histories of iconic arts institutions like the Mattress Factory. He is most noted for Moundsville, a documentary co-directed with former Wall Street Journal writer John W. Miller, which screened on PBS for three years, and the biographical documentary Just For The Record about avant-garde composer “Blue” Gene Tyranny.
His work is preserved in the Mattress Factory Archives, UbuWeb, and The Thomas & Katherine Detre Library & Archives at the Senator John Heinz History Center.
He is a founding partner at Bright Archives. He holds a B.S. in Business Administration from Carnegie Mellon University.
Photo courtesy of the artist
Web
Provides Fabrication Services to Other Artists
Yes
Teaching Artist
Yes, ages 18 and up
Joined the Directory
May 2026
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PROJECT
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Designed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Pittsburgh Creative Corps initiative engages artists and creative workers to activate the public realm while providing economic opportunity.
“Many of my projects are collaborations. Each collaborator is an integral part of the work, and the work wouldn’t exist without each person involved.”
David Bernabo
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PROJECT
Pittsburgh Creative Corps
Designed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Pittsburgh Creative Corps initiative engages artists and creative workers to activate the public realm while providing economic opportunity.
