BIOGRAPHY
Sibylle Peretti is an artist who lives and works in New Orleans USA and Cologne Germany. She received her MFA in Sculpture and Painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Cologne and a Master in Glass Making and Design from the State School of Glass in Zwiesel, Germany.
She is the recipient of numerous awards including grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Joan Mitchell Foundation and most recently Sibylle Peretti was awarded the United States Artists Friends Fellowship.
Born 1964 in Muelheim an der Ruhr, Germany Lives and works in New Orleans, USA and Cologne, Germany
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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
2020 Artist Residency Corning Museum of Glass Artist Residency, Wheaton Arts, Millville, NJ
2019 Instructor, Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY
2018 Artist Residency, North Lands Creative, Lybster, Scottland 2017 Visiting Artist and Lecturer, Ball State University, IN
Panel Discussion “Fired Up- women in contemporary glass”, Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC 2016 Artist Residency, Bullseye Projects, Portland, OR
Lecture at the Renwick Gallery, Distinguish Artist Series
Artist Lecture North Lands Glass Conference, Edinburgh 2015 Demonstrating Artist, Urban Glass Brooklyn, NY
Instructor, Urban Glass, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Artist Residency, Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA, USA
2013 Visiting Artist, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY,USA
2012 United 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
2024 Callan Contemporary, New Orleans, LA
2021 Callan Contemporary, New Orleans, LA
2020 Backwater, Heller Gallery, New york, NY
2019 Connections- the work of Sibylle Peretti & Stephen Paul Day, Huntsville Museum of Art, AL
2018 Solo exhibition, The Chrysler Museum of Art, Northfolk, VA
Solo exhibition, The Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL
2017 "It Was Such A Beautiful Promise", Callan Contemporary, New Orleans, LA, USA
2015 "The Land Behind", Heller Gallery, NY, NY, USA
2014 "I Search in Snow", Callan Contemporary, New Orleans, LA, USA
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
1096 “ Arbeiten auf Papier”, BBK, Cologne, Germany
TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2014 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
Art Miami, Heller Gallery, Miami, USA
2009 “ 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
1994 “ Die Begehbarkeit des Unvermeidlichen “, Kunsthaus Ostbayern, Viechtach, Germany
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015 "Reverb", Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA
2014 "Glass Today: 21century Innovations", New Britain Museum of American Art, CT
"Remix", Satellite Speed, Louisville, KY
"Guns in the Hands of Artists", Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, LA
“Face to Face”, Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT, USA
2011 “ The Glass Canvas”, Het Glazen Huis, Lommel Belgium
“ The Wall”, Friesen Gallery, Seattle/Sun Valley, USA
“ Art Miami”, Heller Gallery, Miami, FL
2010 “ Glass Uprising”, Zephyr Gallery, Louisville KY, USA
“Art Miami, Heller Gallery, NY, NY
2008 “ Human Nature –Social Construct “, Louisiana Art Works, New Orleans, USA
2007/08 “ Und Immer Sehnt Sich Fort Das Herz “, Alexander Tutsek Foundation,
Munich, Germany
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 “ Scmerzschatten “, 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
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Contemporary Kiln Cast Glass, Keith Cummings, GB
Liz Swinburne, Catalog,” XX”, Glasmusem Ebeltoft, Denmark
Dr, Sabine Runde, “ Magically Mysterious “, Sibylle Peretti, Neues Glas / New Glass, Winter, 2005 ( 4 /05 ), pp.18- 23
Gediminas Gasparavicius, “Angeles And Insects “, Sibylle Peretti seeks to heal
humanity’s severed connection to the natural world, Glass Quarterly, summer 2001
Laura Tuley, “ The Hybrid “, Art Papers, Sep/ Oct. 2005 pp. 43
Susanne K. Frantz, “ Through the Looking Glass “, Catalog Turtle Bay Museum,
Reading CA, Catalog Marc S. Price, Sibylle Peretti, Stephen Paul Day,Club S&S “1822”, CAC New Orleans,
Sculpture Magazine, July/August 2003
Simeon Hunter, Sibylle Peretti at Sylvia Schmidt Gallery, Art In America, April, 2002pp. 41
Geoffry Wichert, “Together”, Sibylle Peretti and Stephen Paul Day, Urban Glass
Quarterly, Spring 1997
Elisabeth R. Raphael’s Founder’s Prize, Transformation, Catalog,1997
Christiane Sellner, “Test Tube Babies”, Sibylle Peretti, Neues Glas?New
Glass,winter,1997,pp.40-45
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