Sandra Bacchi is a Brazilian-American visual artist based in Pittsburgh. 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.
After earning a degree in photography in 1997, Bacchi worked in the Brazilian film industry. In 2012, she moved to the US and turned her focus to her artistic career. Since then, she has shown her work nationally and internationally, including at the McDonough Museum of Art, Griffin Museum of Photography, and Houston Center for Photography, and reviewed in publications including LensCratch, Float Photo Magazine, and A Curator. In addition, she has attended several portfolio reviews, including the Review Santa Fe.
In 2019–2020, Bacchi was an artist in residence at the Pittsburgh Glass Center (PGC) creating new works to be part of The United Exhibition. She has been serving on PGC’s board since 2021. Also in 2020, Bacchi co-founded the Transforme Seu Olhar (To See Beyond), a live and online experience for a Brazilian audience that uses emotional intelligence and photography principles to broaden the participant's creative repertoire.
In 2021, Bacchi was selected as Photolucida Critical Mass top 200 and her short film “Seeking Nowhere” was screened during the "Glass, Meet the Future 2021 Film Festival" at the Toyama Glass Art Museum, Japan, and the Museum of Arts and Design, New York. In 2022, Bacchi’s photobook Watermelons Are Not Strawberries was published by Yoffy Press, with essay by Sarah Kennel, and exhibited as a solo show at Concept Art Gallery in Pittsburgh.
Bacchi serves on the board of the Pittsburgh Glass Center and is a member of the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh. In 2025, Bacchi is exhibiting in The Outwin: American Portraiture Today at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery. She is completing two permanent public art installations and in post-production on Be the Best Tree, a short documentary about youth theater and connection. She serves on the board of the Pittsburgh Glass Center and is a member of the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh.
