American interdisciplinary artist
Peter D. Gerakaris in front of Tropicália Installation
Peter D. Gerakaris (born 1981) is an American interdisciplinary artist. His work often addresses nature-culture themes through installations, paintings, works on paper, and origami accordion sculptures.
Biography
He was born in Lebanon, New Hampshire , to Mary and Dimitri Gerakaris. Dimitri is an artist-blacksmith who co-founded ABANA and has created many public art commissions. Peter Gerakaris received a BFA from Cornell University 's College of Architecture, Art, & Planning in 2003 and an MFA from Hunter College of the City University of New York in 2009.[ 1] [ 2]
Career
Peter D. Gerakaris' artwork has been exhibited in both solo and group shows around the globe at the Mykonos Biennale , Wave Hill , the Bronx Museum of the Arts , the iSolAIR Program
[ 3]
in collaboration with the U.S. Embassy Praia (Cape Verde ), and the National Academy Museum and School , in addition to galleries such as the Loretta Howard Gallery[ 4] (NYC), the Daniel Weinberg Gallery[ 5] (Los Angeles), and Gallery Nine5
[ 6] (NYC). His artwork is included in notable permanent collections such as the National Museum of Wildlife Art , the U.S. Department of State Art in Embassies Program
[ 7] (Libreville, Gabon), the Schomburg Center , the Warwick Hotel Paradise Island (Bahamas), the Waskowmium and Citibank , in addition to many private collections.
Commissions
Gerakaris has created large-scale, site-specific installations for Cornell Tech
[ 8] [ 9] [ 10] to commemorate the campus groundbreaking on Roosevelt Island , the Warwick Hotel Paradise Island Permanent Collection (Bahamas), the Surrey Hotel's private rooftop garden
[ 11] [ 12] (the Denihan Hospitality Group ) for Frieze Week New York (2016) , and Bergdorf Goodman Building windows on Fifth Avenue in NYC curated by Linda Fargo and Kyle DeWoody .
[ 13] [ 14] [ 15] He has also been awarded a large-scale public art commission to be permanently installed at PS101 (Brooklyn) in 2018 through the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs Percent for Art Program .
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