Born 1961, Jersey City, New Jersey
Lives and works in Atlanta, Georgia

[EDUCATION]
1995 MFA, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
1983 BFA, University of Georgia, Athens, GA

[GRANTS AND AWARDS]
2005 Juror Choice Award, Pass the Ammunition, Ninth Annual Arizona State University Art Museum Short Film and Video Festival, Tempe, AZ
2003 Juror Choice Award, Three Small Deaths, Seventh Annual Arizona State University Art Museum Short Film and Video Festival, Tempe, AZ
2002 Art In America 2001 in Review: Highlighted Public Art Projects "Brute Neighbors," Commissioned by Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport.
Atlanta Urban Design Committee, Award of Excellence in Public Art
1998-2002 The Atlanta Contemporary Art Center Studio Program, Atlanta, GA
1997 Fulton County Arts Commission, Atlanta, GA
1982 Ford Foundation

[SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS]
2010 Nature Porn Etc., Solomon Projects, Atlanta, GA
2009 Site Specific 09', Islip Museum of Art, Carriage House Gallery, West Islip, NY
2007 Forever and Ever, Solomon Projects, Atlanta, GA
Correspondence: In Relation to Goya, University of Arizona Art Museum, Tuscon, AZ
Tanner Hill Gallery, Chattanooga, TN
2005 Hell on Wheels, Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art, Nashville, NY
Hell on Wheels, Solomon Projects, Atlanta, GA
2004 New Media Lounge, Palm Beach ICA, Palm Beach, FL
2003 GrounDhog DAY, Shed Space, Atlanta, GA
2002 Small Deaths, Solomon Projects, Atlanta, GA
1999 Bedtime Stories, Solomon Projects, Atlanta, GA
1998 Brute Neighbors, Gallery at Green Street, Boston, MA
1997 My Big Back Yard, Art in General, New York, NY
1996 My Big Back Yard, Nancy Solomon Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Flea Bitten, Georgia State University Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1995 University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL

[SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS]
2011 Watching Hands: Artists Responding to Keeping Well. David J. Sencer CDC Museum, Atlanta, GA.
Something Along the Lines of Rock 'n' Roll, Solomon Projects, Atlanta GA

2010 Limitless, Dalton Gallery, Agnes Scott College, Atlanta, GA
Everything and the Space between Everything, Agnes Scott College, McCain Library, Round Wall Gallery, Decatur GA 2008 Hollywould, Freewaves 11th Festival of Experimental Media Arts,
Los Angeles, CA
The Bottle Project (with Pam Longobardi and Craig Dongowski) in A (new) Genre Landscape, The City of Atlanta Office of Cultural Affairs Public Art Program, Atlanta, GA
Hand to Hand: 100 Artists' Comments on the Iraq War, Spruill Gallery,
Atlanta, GA

2007 Eudora Welty Project, Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design Gallery,
Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA

2006 Run for Your Lives!, Diverse Works, Houston, TX

2005 Looks Good on Paper, Spruill Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Gas, Food and Lodging: Imagining Escape, Georgia State University Gallery, Atlanta, GA
SouthXeast: Contemporary Southeastern Art, University Galleries,
Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL

2004 Art for City Spaces, Atlanta Bureau of Cultural Affairs, City Gallery East, Atlanta, GA
Running Rampant, Fe Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
Three Small Deaths, 27th Annual Atlanta Film Festival, Animation Extravaganza, Atlanta, GA
Film/Video: Georgia, Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia, Atlanta, GA

2003 Animation Impulse: Video Art and the Generated Image, Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN
Three Small Deaths, Seventh Annual Arizona State University Art Museum Short Film and Video Festival, Tempe, AZ
Looks Good on Paper, Second Edition, Spruill Gallery, Atlanta, GA

2002 Georgia Triennial, City Gallery East, Atlanta, GA; Museum of Arts and Sciences, Macon, GA; Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA; Albany Museum of Art, Albany, GA (catalogue)
Wild Life: The Other Tradition, Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL (brochure)

2001 Art and Science International Exhibition, National Gallery of Art, Beijing, China
Hardware, Eyedrum, Atlanta, GA

2000 Do It, curated by Rebecca Dimling-Cochran, Atlanta College of Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Cute, Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
Here Kitty, Kitty, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA (brochure)

1998 Boy Toys, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA (brochure)
Scale, Relatively Speaking, Art in General, New York, NY

1997 Preview, Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York, NY
Summer Selections, Nancy Solomon Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Toy as Metaphor, Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York, NY
Works on Paper, Emmie Smock Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1996 Inaugural Exhibition, Emmie Smock Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Atlanta Biennial, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA

1995 Paper Works, Nancy Solomon Gallery, Atlanta, GA

1994 Albany Museum of Art, Albany, GA.

1993 The Exquisite Corpse, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
Works on Paper, Trinity Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Scale, Relatively Speaking, Art in General, New York, NY
Preview, Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York, NY

1990 Reflections, SoHo Center for the Visual Arts, New York, NY

1987 Works on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC

1984 Wallworks, Artcore Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

[SELECTED ART PROJECTS]
2009 Intelligent Designs, collaboration with Nick Demos, performed April 7, 2009, Florence Kopleff Recital Hall, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
Intelligent Designs, 18th International Review of Composers on November 16, 2009 at the Hall of the National Bank of Serbia, Belgrade, SERBIA

[BIBLIOGRAPHY]
2010 Fox, Catherine. "Joseph Peragine and Nature Porn," www.AccessAtlanta.com, April 3, 2010

2009 Tauches, Karen. "What's wrong with being a local artist?" www.burnaway.org, July 1.
Fox, Catherine. "Connect the dots at Contemporary's 'More Mergers and Aquisitions,"www.AccessAtlanta.com, Dec 16, 2009
Fox, Catherine. "More Mergers and Acquisitions a delight to behold," The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Monday, Dec 14, 2009

2008 Super Forest, citation on weblog, http://www.superforest.org/2008/09/sunken-garden-park-atlanta-bottle.html
WABE – NPR, audio broadcast, http://www.blueocean.org/programs/art-poetry/art-view?id=2
PBA.Org Programming, citation on website, http://www.pba.org/programming/programs/newgenre/2152/
Design Public, citation on weblog, http://blog.designpublic.com/2008/09/02/more-bottle-recycling-ideas/
Visualized Whirled Peas, citation on weblog, http://river2sea72.wordpress.com/

2007 Fox, Catherine. "Back Story: Artist Joseph Peragine: A lasting look at 'forever'," The Atlanta Journal Constitution, October 27, p. L10.

2005 Cullum, Jerry. "Tank sculpture express fragile quality of life," The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, February 27, p. L10.
McClintock, Diana. Art Papers, May – June, p.42.
"Hell on Wheels", Classic Military Vehicle, May, p. 12.

2002 Cullum, Jerry. "Stripping the mask from fear", The Atlanta Journal Constitution, November. 29, p. Q3.
Feaster, Felicia. "Life and Death", Creative Loafing, Nov. 20.
Public Art: 2001 in Review, Art in America 2002/2003 Gallery Guide
August, p. 43.
Nelson, Charles. Art Papers, July-Aug. p.36.

2000 Feaster, Felicia. "Artists Deal With 9/11", Creative Loafing, Nov., p.41

2001 Fox, Catherine. "The Art Afterward," The Atlanta Journal Constitution
Dec. 30, Section L, p.1, 10.
Feaster, Felicia. "The Year in Arts," Creative Loafing, Dec. 26, p.39.
Cullum, Jerry. "Two Shows Flirt With Sentimental Excess," The Atlanta Journal Constitution, Section Q, p.8
"Best of Atlanta, Best of Social Commentary" for Brute Neighbors at
Atlanta Hartsfield Airport, Atlanta Magazine, Dec, p. 128.

2001 Fox, Catherine. "Where Public Art Works," The Atlanta Journal Constitution, Feb. 4, Section L, p. 1,7.

2000 Fox, Catherine. " Sketches: Art as Intimacy," The Atlanta Journal
Constitution, Dec. 15, Section Q, p.8
New American Paintings, Wellesley, Massachusetts, No. 22
Byrd, Cathy. "Joe Peragine," Art Papers, March - April, p. 34

1999 Cullum, Jerry. "Hopping into Another Dimension," The Atlanta Journal Constitution, October 8, p. R8.
Feaster, Felicia. "Bunny Hop: Vulnerability at the Root of Bedtime Stories," Creative Loafing, October 9, p. 45-46.
Dimling-Cochran, Rebecca. "The Scorned White Male Finally Has His Day," Flash Art, March/ April, Vol. XXXII, p. 39, 43.

1998 Cullum, Jerry. "Guy Art," The Atlanta Journal Constitution, Nov. 20.
Feaster, Felicia. "Snips and Snails: Nexus Turns Up the Testosterone with Boy Toys Exhibit," Creative Loafing, November 11, p. 37-38.

1997 Boy Toys, Exhibition catalogue, Nexus Contemporary Art Center

1996 Cullum, Jerry. "Trompe l'oeil triumphs," The Atlanta Journal Constitution, December 27: P1, P11.
Locke, Donald. "Pros & Icons," Creative Loafing, August 10: 28,33.

1995 Cullum, Jerry. "Cutting-edge Gallery offers paper surprises," The Atlanta Journal Constitution, November 20: P.

1994 Leonard, Pamela Blume. "Surfaces anything but superficial,"
The Atlanta Journal and Constitution, December 16: 1, 20.
Cullum, Jerry. "1994 Atlanta Biennial," Art Papers, May/June: 50-1.

[SELECTED COMMISSIONS]
2008 Cincinnati Zoo, Rain Forest Pavilion, Cincinnati OH
2007 Wells Capital, Atlanta, GA
2006 Municipal Court of Atlanta, Atlanta GA
2001 Atlanta Hartsfield International Airport, Atlanta, GA
1995 Marietta Centennial Park Sculpture Commission, Corporation for Olympic Development in Atlanta, Marietta, GA