Born, Staten Island, NY

EDUCATION

The School of Visual Arts, M.F.A. 1987
The Pennsylvania State University, B.S. 1978

AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES

2022
The Bogliasco Foundation, Residency Fellowship, Bogliasco, Italy.
2020
The Barnett and Annalee Newman Foundation Grant Award.
2017
The MacDowell Fellowship, Peterborough, New Hampshire.
2014
The American Academy of Arts and Letters, Art Purchase Fund Award.
The American Academy of Arts and Letters, Invitational Exhibiiton.
2011
New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Painting Fellowship Award.
2010
The Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program 2010-2011, Brooklyn, New York.
2003
Brodsky Center (Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper), Fellowship Award.
2002
New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Painting Fellowship Award.
2000-2015
The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, Studio Program Member, New York.
1993
The American Academy of Arts and Letters, Invitational Exhibiiton.
New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Painting Fellowship Award.
1988
Edward F. Albee Foundation, Visual Arts Fellowship, New York.

SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2022
McKenzie Fine Art, “Gary Petersen”, New York, New York.
2021
527 Madison Avenue, “Gary Petersen: 2014-2016”, New York, New York, curated by Jay Grimm Art Advisory.
2019
McKenzie Fine Art, “Just Hold On”, New York, New York.
2016
McKenzie Fine Art, “Gary Petersen: Back There Behind the Sun”, New York, New York.
Mount Airy Contemporary, “Anne Canfield and Gary Petersen”, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
2015
Theodore:Art, “Not Now, But Maybe Later”, Brooklyn, New York.
2014
C2C Project Space, “Seth Koen and Gary Petersen”, San Francisco,California.
Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, “tilting points”, Summit, New Jersey, curated by Mary Birmingham.
Tiger Strikes Asteroid, “zip line tow rope”, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, curated by Alexis Granwell.
2013
Curatorial Research Lab@ Winkleman Gallery, “OptikNerve, a Wall Painting”, New York, New York, organized by Doreen McCarthy.
2012
Storefront Bushwick Gallery, “Halsey Hathaway and Gary Petersen”, Brooklyn, New York.
2005
Michael Steinberg Fine Art, “Colossal Youth”, New York, New York.
2004
Fusebox, “Something Like Paradise”, Washington, D.C.
2002
Genovese/Sullivan Gallery, “Gary Petersen: New Work”, Boston, Massachusetts.
1999
Genovese/Sullivan Gallery, “Gary Petersen: New Paintings and Drawings”, Boston, Massachusetts.
1992
White Columns, “White Room Exhibition”, New York, New York.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022
Walter Storms Galerie, “Inventur”, Munich, Germany.
O’Flaherty’s, “The Patriot”, New York, New York.
Church of the Heavenly Rest, “Invisible Attraction”, New York, New York.
Zimmerli Art Museum, “American Stories”, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
2021
Pamela Salisbury Gallery, “All Small”, Hudson, New York.
McKenzie Fine Art, “Colored Pencil Redux”, New York, New York.
Hollis Taggart Gallery CT, “Unique Expressions”, Southport, Connecticut. Curated by Paul Efstathiou.
The Elizabeth Stone Harper Gallery, “The Idiosyncratic Pencil Redrafted”, Presbyterian College, South Carolina.
2020
Platform Project Space, “proust, time and 10 works on paper”, Brooklyn, New York. Curated by Franklin Evans.
2019
Theodore Art, “Houses in Motion”, Brooklyn, New York.
Hollis Taggart, “Highlight: The Highline”, New York, New York. Curated by Paul Efstathiou.
Mount Airy Contemporary, “Your Plus-One”, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
McKenzie Fine Art, “Colored Pencil”, New York, New York.
The Elizabeth Stone Harper Gallery, “The Idiosyncratic Pencil Resharpened”, Presbyterian College, South Carolina.
2018
Geoffrey Young Gallery, “Casheesh”, Great Barrington, Massachusetts.
Curator Gallery and MacDowell Office, “MacDowell Now: Recent Abstract Painting”, New York, New York. Curated by Mark Wehtli.
Mindy Solomon Gallery, “If You Would Just Shut Up and Listen”, Miami, Florida.
KunstPakhuset, “Geometric Behavior”, Ikast, Denmark. Curated by Katrine Hvid.
2017
Geoffrey Young Gallery, “Squared x 2”, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. Curated by Sue and Phil Knoll
McKenzie Fine Art, “Translucent”, New York, New York.
Bergen Community College, “Vibrant”, Paramus, New Jersey. Curated by Claire McConaughy.
The Curator Gallery, “New New York: Continuum”, New York, New York.
2016
The National Arts Club, “The Warmth of Winter”, New York, New York. Curated by Dee Shapiro.
Mckenzie Fine Art, “Drawings”, New York, New York.
Transmitter, “The Black & White Project”, Brooklyn, New York. Curated by Yifat Gat.
Carroll and Sons, “No Boys Allowed”, Boston, Massachusetts.
Vassar College, “If Color Could Kill”, Poughkeepsie, New York. Curated by Jeff Frederick.
Salena Gallery, Long Island University, “If Color Could Kill”, Brooklyn, New York. Curated by Jeff Frederick.
Herter Gallery, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, “50 Shades of Red”,
Amherst, Massachusetts.
Curator’s Office, “Geometrix:Line. Form, Subversion”, Washington, D.C.
2015
Eagle Studios, “Earth Dreams”, Greenpoint, New York. Curated by Alyssa E. Fanning.
University of Hawaii, Manoa Art Gallery, “New New York: Abstract Painting in the 21st Century”, Honolulu, Hawaii. Curated by Debra Drexler and Liam Davis.
David Klein Gallery, “First Show”, Detroit, Michigan.
Teckningsmuseet Museum, “Prime Matter”, Lahol, Sweden.
Circuit 12 Contemporary, “Non-Objective”, Dallas, Texas.
Selby Gallery, Ringling College of Art and Design “Defining Abstraction”, Sarasota, Florida. Curated by Mark Ormond.
Geoffrey Young Gallery, “PolySolaris”, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. Curated by Phil and Sue Knoll.
Madelyn Jordan Fine Art, “I Am What I Am Not Yet, A Survey of Brooklyn’s Moment”, Scarsdale, New York. Curated by Diana Buckley.
Morgan Lehman Gallery, “Twenty by Sixteen”, New York, New York, curated by Geoffrey Young.
Anna Kunz Studio, “(I’d Like to Suggest) Linger On”, Chicago, Illinois.
Herter Gallery, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, “Infinity Mirror”, Amherst, Massachusetts. Curated by Sean Greene.
20/20 Gallery at EFA, “This Color is You”, New York. New York. curated by Bill Carroll.
Look and Listen Gallery, “Noir/Blanc #2″, Saint-Chamas, France. curated by Yifat Gat.
2014
Jamie Brooks Fine Art,”Harmonized”, Costa Mesa, California.
David Klein Gallery, “Agree to Disagree: a survey in contemporary abstraction”, Birmingham, Michigan.
Geoffrey Young Gallery, “Twenty By Sixteen”, Great Barrington, Massachusetts.
Senaspace, “Prime Matter”, New York, New York curated by Chris Schade and Zoe Pettijohn.
Brian Morris Gallery, “spacematters”, New York, New York.
Elizabeth Harris Gallery, “Summer Invitational”, New York, New York.
The American Academy of Arts and Letters, “Exhibition of Newly Elected Members and Recipients of Honors and Awards”, New York, New York.
NARS Foundation, “Color Me Badd”, Brooklyn, New York, curated by Chris Bors.
The American Academy of Arts and Letters, “Invitational Exhibition 2014”, New York, New York.
The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, “Internal Dialogues”, New York, New York, curated by Natalia Nakazawa.
Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, “Paperazzi 3”, Brooklyn, New York.
Sideshow Gallery, “Nation II at The Alamo”, Brooklyn, New York.