Peregrine Honig

Peregrine Honig

Peregrine Honig (born 1976 in San Francisco, CA) is an American artist whose work is concerned with the relationship between pop culture, sexual vulnerability, social anxieties, the ethics of luxury and trends in consumerism. Honig appeared on season one of Bravo’s artist reality television show, Work of Art: The Next Great Artist, which aired from June 9–August 11, 2010.

Career

Born in San Francisco and raised in The Castro and in Project Artaud, Honig moved to Kansas City, Missouri, at 17 to attend the Kansas City Art Institute.[1] At age 22, Honig was the youngest living artist to have work acquired by the Whitney Museum of Art’s permanent collection.

Solo exhibitions include Loser at Dwight Hackett Projects in Santa Fe, New Mexico; Pretty Babies at Gescheidle Gallery in Chicago; and Albocracy at Jet Art Works in Washington DC. Significant recent group shows include Talk Dirty to Me at Larissa Goldston Gallery (2009), Transfigure at Kemper Museum, Kansas City, Missouri (2008), Diane and Sandy Besser Collection at the de Young Museum in San Francisco, California (2007). Her work has been show internationally with Gallery Akinci in Amsterdam and Gallery Arcaute in Monterey, Mexico.

Honig’s work is included in private and public collections, including: The Art Institute of Chicago, Yale University Art Gallery, The Fogg Art Museum, Milwaukee Art Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, 21c Museum Hotel, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, The Diane and Sandy Besser Collection, and Ball State University Museum of Art.

In 1997, Honig started Fahrenheit Gallery, an artist-run space in Kansas City's industrial West Bottoms, where she showed artists with national and international reputations and inspired other young Kansas City artists to do the same.[2]

Honig is represented by Dwight Hackett Projects in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Haw Contemporary in Kansas City, Missouri.

Honig also owns a lingerie and swimwear boutique, Birdies, which opened in 2003, and is located in the Crossroads Section of Kansas City, Missouri.

Works

Early sexual awakenings, the visual manifestation of disease, and the social anxieties of realized and fictional characters reveal themselves through Peregrine Honig’s drawings and paintings.

Projects

Influences

Artists

Essays

Publications

References

  1. "2 views of beauty". Kansas City Star. January 23, 2004. Archived from the original on December 1, 2004. Retrieved October 4, 2013.
  2. Miller, Mike (February 2010). "Peregrine Honig's Widow a First for Art Publisher Landfall Press".
  3. "Peregrine Honig, courtesy Foley Gallery - Father Gander". flickr.com. Retrieved October 4, 2013.
  4. Rinchen Lhamo, "Peregrine Honig: Fashism," THE Magazine, June 5, 2008. http://www.santafe.com/articles/peregrine-honig-fashism/ Archived May 17, 2013, at the Wayback Machine.
  5. "exposed by peregrine honig". fancyseeingyouhere.com. Retrieved October 4, 2013.
  6. "Peregrine Honig: Loser at Dwight Hackett Projects". Art ReserveArt Reserve. October 12, 2010.
  7. Dixson, Melissa. "Taxidermist: Peregrine Honig's Twin Fawns".
  8. "Widow". Widow Magazine. Retrieved October 2013. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
  9. Barb Shelly, Kansas City.com
  10. Molla, Rani (October 13, 2010). "As Not Seen on TV". Santa Fe Reporter.
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