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Peter Reginato (born August 19, 1945), is an American abstract
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and painter.


Biography

Reginato was born on August 19, 1945, in
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, and grew up in
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. He attended the San Francisco Art Institute, from 1963 to 1966. 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
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.


Exhibitions

His work has been shown at: * The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio


Collections

Reginato has work in the permanent collections of the following: * Allen Art Center, Houston, Texas *
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*
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* Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. *
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* The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art * Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art at
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* Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Massachusetts *
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* Mint Museum of Art *
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References


External links


Official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Reginato, Peter 1945 births American contemporary artists 20th-century American sculptors 20th-century American male artists 21st-century American sculptors 21st-century American male artists American male sculptors Living people Art Students League of New York faculty San Francisco Art Institute alumni Artists from Manhattan Sculptors from New York (state) Artists from Berkeley, California