Peter Reginato (born August 19, 1945), is an American abstract
sculptor
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and painter.
Biography
Reginato was born on August 19, 1945, in
Dallas, Texas
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, and grew up in
Berkeley, California
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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
Whitney Biennial
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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
*
Brown University
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*
Corcoran Gallery of Art
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Founded in 1869 by philanthropist William Wilson Corco ...
*
Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
*
IBM Corporation
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*
The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art
*
Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art at
Northwestern University
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* Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Massachusetts
*
Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Mint Museum of Art
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
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References
External links
Official website
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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