Peter Reginato
{{short description|American sculptor and painter (born 1945)}}
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| birth_place = Dallas, Texas, United States
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| known_for = Abstract sculpture
Abstract painting
| training = San Francisco Art Institute
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Peter Reginato (born August 19, 1945), is an American abstract sculptor and painter.{{Cite web |last=Pincus-Witten |first=Robert |date=1971-03-01 |title=Peter Reginato |url=https://www.artforum.com/events/peter-reginato-2-233901/ |access-date=2024-04-01 |website=Artforum |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |date=2015-09-30 |title=Peter Reginato at Adelson Galleries |url=https://artcritical.com/2015/09/30/peter-reginato-at-adelson-galleries/ |access-date=2024-04-01 |website=Art Critical |language=en-US}}{{Cite news |last=Zimmer |first=William |date=1983-02-06 |title=Works That Fit The Settings |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/02/06/nyregion/works-that-fit-the-settings.html |access-date=2024-04-01 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite news |last=Kimmelman |first=Michael |date=1997-09-05 |title=Art in Review |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/09/05/arts/art-in-review-958131.html |access-date=2024-04-01 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}
Biography
Reginato was born on August 19, 1945, in Dallas, Texas, and grew up in Berkeley, California.{{Cite web |last=Ferraro |first=Tom |date=2017-11-13 |title=Column: Artist offers levity to commuters in Mineola - The Island Now Entertainment |url=https://islandnow.net/column-artist-offers-levity-commuters-mineola/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240401082515/https://islandnow.net/column-artist-offers-levity-commuters-mineola/ |url-status=usurped |archive-date=April 1, 2024 |access-date=2024-04-01 |website=The Island Now |language=en-US}} He attended the San Francisco Art Institute, from 1963 to 1966.{{Cite book |last= |first= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sK9NAAAAYAAJ |title=Peter Reginato, 1994: April 1 Through April 30, 1994 |date=1994 |publisher=Adelson Galleries |pages=1984 |language=en |type=exhibition |via=Google Books}}
After his first successful solo show in 1966 at the Open Theatre Gallery in Berkeley, where he showed mostly paintings, he decided he wanted to be a sculptor. He moved to New York City later that same year. In 1970 and in 1973, his work was included in the Whitney Biennial.{{citation needed|date=July 2022}}
Exhibitions
His work has been shown at:
- The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio{{citation needed|date=July 2022}}
Collections
Reginato has work in the permanent collections of the following:
- Allen Art Center, Houston, Texas
- Brown University
- Corcoran Gallery of Art
- Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
- IBM Corporation
- The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art
- Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University
- Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Massachusetts
- Metropolitan Museum of Art{{Cite web|url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/484752|title=Peter Reginato {{!}} Kingfish {{!}} The Met|website=The Metropolitan Museum of Art, i.e. The Met Museum|access-date=2018-03-29}}{{Cite news |date=1988-04-29 |title=20th-Century Sculpture At the Met Museum |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/04/29/arts/20th-century-sculpture-at-the-met-museum.html |access-date=2024-04-01 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}
- Mint Museum of Art
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
References
External links
- [http://www.peterreginato.com Official website]
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