ARTIST STATEMENT
In my work I explore the lack of harmony between human beings, nature, and our inability of achieving a unity with the natural world. I strive to uncover hidden worlds in which harmony can exist and heal. Children, who represent vulnerability are placed in a diaphanous universe of potential solutions and revived through a .....
ARTIST STATEMENT
In my work I explore the lack of harmony between human beings, nature, and our inability of achieving a unity with the natural world. I strive to uncover hidden worlds in which harmony can exist and heal. Children, who represent vulnerability are placed in a diaphanous universe of potential solutions and revived through a new and intimate, perhaps mystical reconnection to nature.
While my work hovers between subjects of scientific curiosity, fairy tales and dreams, I use images of children to open our eyes to a mysterious sensibility we may have lost. My children- protagonists are immaculate in their innocence, transmitting a savage view of our own isolation. I examine the child’s identity in a world of adverse layers. The overlay and containment of irreconcilable natures – of disease and beauty, of intimacy and of distance and of innocence and knowledge – have typified the search I have found most important in my work.
Recently I am interested in landscapes which present the inter zone between urban and rural space.. I see them as territories where reality conjures illusions. As the closest landscape to us they function as a refuge and escape where wilderness enshrines, but traces of humans are evident. They are spaces of emotions, memories and solitude. The work invites us to journey into an unknown, undefined place of possibility, mystery and beauty where we find moments of clarity and introspection and may find answers about our own identity and how we experience our selves in the world.
Born 1964 in Muelheim an der Ruhr, Germany
Lives and works in New Orleans, USA www.sibylleperetti.com
EDUCATION
1993 MFA in Sculpture and Painting , Academy for Art and Design, Cologne, Germany
1987-93 Studies under Prof. Karl Marx and Prof. Renate Lewandowski, Academy for Fine Arts, Cologne Germany
1984- 87 Training as a Glass Designer, State School for Glassmaking. Zwiesel, Germany
GRANTS, PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2022 Artist Residency, Corning Museum of Glass, Corning NY 2016 Artist in Residence at Bullseye Projects, Portland OR 2014 Artist Residency, Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA, USA
Visiting Artist, University of Louisville, KY, USA
2013 Visiting Artist, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY,USA 2012 United States Artists, Friends Fellowship Grant
2010 Artist Residency, Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA, USA
Visiting Artist, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA USA 2009 Guest Artist, Wheaton Arts, Millville, N.J, USA
Studio Residency, Louisiana Art Works, New Orleans, USA 2008 Professional Career Grant Joan Mitchell Foundation, NY, NY
Juror, “European Glass Context”, Bornholm, Denmark
2007 Residency John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI,USA
Juror, “Raphael Founder’s Prize”, Society of Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
2006 Joan Mitchell Foundation, Emergency Grant
Pollock- Krasner Grant
Grant Houston Art Museum
2004,1997,1992 Artist in Residence, CGCA, Milleville, NJ, USA
2004 Visiting Artist, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, USA 2002 Teacher, Mixed Media Sculpture, Pilchuck School of Glass, WA, USA
Teacher, Mixed Media Sculpture, Penland School of Crafts, NC, USA
Andy Warhol Grant, Artist in Residence, Penland School of Crafts, NC, USA 2000 Formation of Club S&S, Art Group Stephen Paul Day and Sibylle Peretti
1999 Teacher, Glass Casting, Mixed Media,Musee- Atelier Du Verre, Sars Potteries, France
Visiting Artist, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
1998 Teacher, Interdisciplinary Model Glass, Bild Werk, Frauenau, Germany
1997 Raphael Founder’s Price, Society of Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh,PA USA 1991-93 Teacher, Mixed Media, Bild Werk Frauenau, Germany
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 Loveland, Callan Contemporary, New Orleans, LA
2020 Backwater, Heller Gallery, NY, NY
2018 Promise and Perception- The Enchanted Landscapes of Sibylle Peretti, Chrysler
Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA
2017 It was such a beautiful Promise, Callan Contemporary, New Orleans, LA2015 2016 The Land Behind, Heller Gallery, NY, NY
2014 I search in Snow. Callan Contemporary, New Orelans, LA
2012 Thaw, Heller Gallery, NY, NY
2010 A Thin Silver Lining, Heller Gallery, NY, NY
2009 The Unusual Kind, Gallery Bienvenu, New Orleans, USA
2008 Silent Springs, Heller Gallery, New York, New York, USA
2005 Silent Chilldren , Galerie B, Sinzheim, Germany
2004 First Lessons In Beekeeping, Sylvia Schmidt Gallery, New Orleans,USA 2001 Silent Children, Sylvia Schmidt Gallery, New Orleans, USA
1999 Hairsute, Sylvia Schmidt Gallery, New Orleans, USA
1997 Kompanions, Sylvia Schmidt Gallery, New Orleans, USA
1996 Arbeiten auf Papier, BBK, Cologne, Germany
TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2019 Connections, Sibylle Peretti & Stephen Paul Day, Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL
2014 Schneeschmelze,Galerie Hirschmann, Club S&S, Berlin Germany 2011 The Suicide Notes, Club S&S, Galerie Hirschmann, Berlin Germany 2010 Diluvial Hood, Club S&S, Freies Museum Berlin, Germany
Mobile Memorabilia Museum, Club S& S Installation during Prospect.1, New Orleans,USA
Suicide Notes, Club S&S, AC-Chappel Gallery, NY, NY
2008 Spielplatz, Sibylle Peretti, Stephen Paul Day, John Michael Kohler Art
Center, Sheboygan WI, USA
2007 Twins, Trees and Tails, Sibylle Perettti, Stephen Paul Day, William Traver Gallery, Seattle, USA
How To Stay Alive In The Woods, Club S & S (Sibylle Peretti, Stephen Paul Day), Shaw Center for the Arts, Baton Rouge, USA
2006 New Work, Sibylle Peretti, Carmen Lozar, D&A Fine Arts, Los Angeles, USA
New Work, Sibylle Peretti, Stephen Paul Day, William Traver Gallery, Tacoma, USA
2005 New Work, Sibylle Peretti, Lieve van Stappen, Museum Alter Hof Herding, Coesfeld, Germany
Lucy’s Room to Breathe, Sibylle Peretti, Stephen Paul Day, DU- AG, Munich, Germany
2002 1822, Sibylle Peretti, Stephen Paul Day, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, USA
History of Desire, Sibylle Peretti, Stephen Paul Day William, Traver Gallery, Seattle, USA
1998 Zirkus, Sibylle Peretti, Stephen Paul Day, William Traver Gallery, Seattle, USA
1996 Y Mythos, Sibylle Peretti, Stephen Paul Day, William Traver Gallery, Seattle, USA
1995 Fairy Tales, Sibylle Peretti, Stephen Paul Day, Bubba Mavis Gallery, Seattle USA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION
2020/21 Unbreakable- Women in Glass, Glasstress Fondazione Berengo, Murano, Italy
2019/20 Global Conversations:Art in Dialoue, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH 2016/17 Fired up”, women in contemporary glass, The Mint Museum, Charlotte,NC
2015 Reverb, Contemporary Art Center New Orleans, LA (curated by Isolde Brielmaier)
Guns in the Hands of Artists, Des Lee Gallery, St. Louis, MO 2014 Remix, Satellite Speed, Lousville, KY
Guns in the Hands of Artists, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Face to Face, Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT, USA
Glass Today: 21century Innovations, New Britain Museum of American Art, CT
2013 In the Name of Love, Alexander Tutsek Foundation, Munich GER
2011 The Glass Canvas, Het Glazen Huis, Lommel Belgium
2012 Glass Uprising, Zephyr Gallery, Louisville KY, USA
2008 Human Nature –Social Construct, Louisiana Art Works, New Orleans, LA 2007 The Heart Forever Yearns Away, Alexander Tutsek Foundation, Munic, GER 2006 Coburger Glaspreis, Veste Coburg, Coburg, Germany
XX, Glasmuseet, Ebeltoft, Denmark
2005 Hybrid, Palma Gallery, New Orleans, USA
2004 Glass In The Bigger Picture, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, USA
Vitreous Matters, Sylvia Schmidt Gallery New Orleans, USA
2003 Through the looking Glass, Turtle Bay Museum, Redding, CA, USA
Corporal Identity MAK Frankfurt, Germany / Museum for Art and Design, New York, USA
Muelheimer Kuenstler, Museum Alte Post, Muelheim a. d. Ruhr, Germany 2002 Schmerzschatten, Kulturbunker Ehrenfeld, Cologne, Germany
2000 8. Triennale fuer Form und Inhalte, MAK Frankfurt,Germany, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
1998 Manifestatie State of Art, Art Company, Eindhoven, Netherlands 1995 Breakpoint, Alden Biesen, Belgium
1988 Koeln Kunst, Josef-Haubrich Kunsthalle, Cologne, Germany
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Montreal Art Museum, Montreal, Canada
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA
Museum fuer Angewandte Kunst, MAK Frankfurt, Germany
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, USA
Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, USA
The Ernsting Collection, Museum Alter Hof Herding, Coesfeld, Germany Museum der Stadt Muelheim an der Ruhr, Germany
Baden Wuerthenbergische Landesmuseum, Stuttgart, Germany
Badische Landesmuseum Karlsruhe, Germany
Sammlung Wuerth, Schwaebisch Hall, Germany
American Glass Museum Milleville, USA
Alexander Tutsek Stiftung, Munich, Germany
Glasmuseum Frauenau, Frauenau Germany
Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN
Het Glazen Huis, Lommel, Belgium
21c Museum, Louisville, KY
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
Barry Art Museum, Norfolk VA
Tacoma Museum of Glass, Tacoma WA
Shanghai Museum of Glass, Shanghai China
Musee Verre, Sars-Poterie, France
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