Sculptural art
Site-specific and integrated art
Environmental and landscape art
Pittsburgh Creative Corps Artist Directory
Justin Emmanuel Dumas
Primary Discipline
Artistic Practice
Assemblage, including found objects, multimedia
Fabrication, including wood, metal, glass
Textile / fabric / weaving
0 Zero, Z Axis, 2023, rabbit skin glue, gesso, image transfer and charcoal on linen, leather, hardware, encaustic silk, hemp twine, antique level, 22.75″ x 18.25.”
Good / Bones (Membrane), 2021, furniture and architectural remnants, washboard, ballistics gelatin, stainless steel sutures, wicker caning, hardware.
FRMWRK/001 (Perpetual Prototype – V.2), 2024, ballistic gelatin, metal lath, hardware, spirit level, reinforced glass shelf, gesso, 18″ x 24″ x 12.”
Still Water Runoff, 2025, hardware, copper mesh, aluminum sheet, salvaged silk screen, thread, fishing line, latex milk, ammonia, 23″ x 19.”
Sheer Strata Compress, 2023, encaustic on sewn silk, canvas, and linen, stitched hemp twine, indigo dye, buffalo jaw bone, copper nails, friction transfer, oil paint, gesso, rabbit skin glue, military netting on canvas, 29″ x 49.”
About the Artist
Justin Emmanuel Dumas (b.1994) lives and works in Pittsburgh PA, utilizing the material conditions of a post-industrial landscape in order to gather and collage fragments, creating works which exist between painting and sculpture. In doing so, Dumas contextualizes the body and architecture in terms of boundary and container, enacting a metabolic studio process which engages across scalar differences, as architecture and the body become slippery containers, boundaries, and occupied spaces alike.
Justin attended Duquesne University for communications philosophy and art history, and graduated with an MFA in painting and print making from Yale, in 2024. He has attended residencies at the Fountainhead and Bunker projects, and was a William E. Strickland Fellow at Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild. The artist has participated in group shows at David Castillo, Yossi Milo, Spurs Gallery, the Mattress Factory, the Carnegie Museum of Art and more.
Photo by Xavier Scott Marshall
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Accreditations, Certifications, and/or Awards
William E. Strickland Fellowship, 2025
Provides Fabrication Services to Other Artists
No
Teaching Artist
Yes, ages 14 and up
Joined the Directory
November 2025
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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.
“I feel public art represents the chance to consider ourselves as collective, rather than solely as individuals.”
Justin Emmanuel Dumas
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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.
