Site-specific and integrated art
2-D art, including murals, photography, etc.
Community Engagement and Social Justice
Pittsburgh Creative Corps Artist Directory
Sandra Bacchi
Sandra Bacchi LLC
Primary Discipline
Artistic Practice
Digital / Photography
Glass
Video
Moments of Serenity, 2025. Installed in the West Entry hallway at UPMC Shadyside Hospital, this suspended sculpture is composed of 26 wave-shaped glass pieces. As visitors move along the corridor, the translucent colors shift and overlap, creating gentle rhythms of flow and stillness.
Synergy, 2025. Composed of 330 glass pieces fused with photographic decals sourced from over 23,000 archival images, this commission commemorates the rich history of glassmaking in the region and the community fostered by Pittsburgh Glass Center since its opening in 2001.
The House We Live In, 2023. Glass and photographic decal. 14′ x 6.’ Work made in collaboration with seven people who were invited to curate photographs from their family albums in response to the prompt “What makes you who you are?”
We Are All in This Together, 2016. Photographic series documenting the nuances of public and private life through candid observations of subway passengers, highlighting the complexity of human interaction in shared spaces.
Watermelons Are Not Strawberries, 2014-20. Photographic series blending conceptual and documentary photography to capture the emotional landscape of motherhood and self-discovery. Image from the solo exhibition at Concept Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, 2022.
About the Artist
Sandra Bacchi is a Brazilian-American visual artist based in Pittsburgh, PA. Working with photography, video, and glass, her documentary and conceptual works weave together fiction and truth to tell more open-ended stories about how human beings find common ground. Bacchi believes that when we take the time to value others’ differences, we are more open to exposing the differences in ourselves and living a more full and expressed life.
After earning a degree in photography at Escola Panamericana de Artes in 1997, Bacchi worked in the Brazilian film industry. Between 2002 and 2012, Bacchi was the executive producer of a video production company based in São Paulo, Brazil. In 2012, she moved to the US and turned her focus to her artistic career. Since then, Bacchi has shown her work nationally and internationally, including at the Pittsburgh Glass Center, McDonough Museum of Art, and Houston Center for Photography. In 2022, her Watermelons Are Not Strawberries series was published as a photobook by Yoffy Press, with an essay by Sarah Kennel and exhibited as a solo show at the Concept Gallery in Pittsburgh.
Bacchi is a member of the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh, a Pittsburgh Glass Center board member, and was an artist-in-residence at the 2022-2023 Distillery residency Program at Brew House Association in Pittsburgh.
Bacchi is currently working on a permanent mural for the Pittsburgh Glass Center’s new building, fusing photographs and glass and producing a short documentary on building life skills through performing art.
Photo by Kitoko Chargois
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Accreditations, Certifications, and/or Awards
- Board member at the Pittsburgh Glass Center, 2021 – present
- Member at the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh, 2021 – present
- Member at Disabled Artists Creative Cohort at The Greater Pittsburgh
Arts Council, 2023 – present - Residency, Brew House Association, Pittsburgh, PA, 2022-2023
- Member at the Center for Women’s Entrepreneurship, 2021 -2022
- Member at the Center for Women’s Entrepreneurship, 2021 -2022
- Award, Critical Mass 2021 top 200 finalist, Photolucida, 2021
- Award, “Paraty em Foco” – Third Place at Paraty em Foco Festival,
Paraty, Brazil, 2020 - Residency, Pittsburgh Glass Center, Pittsburgh, PA. 2019-2020
- Marketing and advertising consultant at COESA – Brazilian Association in
Pittsburgh, 2019 – 2020
Provides Fabrication Services to Other Artists
Yes
Teaching Artist
No
Joined the Directory
May 2024
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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 am drawn to the idea that public art can shift people’s perceptions, help open diverse conversations and experiences, provide free art in mindful ways, and, maybe, give the audience a pause to escape from reality.”
Sandra Bacchi
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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.
