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Born in 1951 in Brooklyn, NY, USA


1975: MFA, Queens College, NY

1973: BFA, Boston University, Boston, MA


"Composing for me, is putting into an order a certain number of interval relationships. The faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation. The least accident holds his interest and guides his operations...One does not contrive an accident, one observes it to draw inspirations therefrom."

Igor Stravinsky

"Every artist knows there is no such thing as 'freedom' in art. The first thing an artist does when he begins a new work is to lay down the barriers and limitations; he decides upon a certain composition, a certain key, a certain relation of creatures or objects to each other. He is never free, and the more splendid his imagination, the more intense his feelings, the farther he goes from general truth and general emotion. Nobody can paint the sun, or sunlight. He can only paint the trick that shadows play with it, or what it does to forms. He cannot even paint those relations of light and shade-he can only paint some emotion they give him, some man-made arrangement of them that happens to give him that happens to give him personal delight-a conception of cloud over distant mesas that makes one nerve in him thrill and tremble."

Willa Cather

"Stravinksky and Cather have expressed my process of working clearly and concisely."

Peri Schwartz, March 2001

  • Selected Solo Exhibitions
    • 2001: The Clark Gallery, Lexington, MA

    • 1995: Gallery A, Chicago, IL


  • Selected Group Exhibitions since 1990
    • 2001: Bristol-Myers Squibb, Princeton, NJ, Contemporary Still Life: Vanitas to Veritas

    • 2000:
        The Clark Gallery, Lexington, MA, The Salon Exhibition

        Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, NY, Recess

        Concordia College, Bronxville, NY, Face to Face: Contemporary Portraits

        Eleanor Bliss Center for the Arts, Steamboat Springs, COSelf as Metaphor

    • 1998:
        Krasdale Foods Corporate Headquarters, White Plains, NY, Self Revelation: Artistic Confrontation

        New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ, International Juried Show '98

    • 1997:
        Gallery 84, New York, NY, National Juried Exhibition

        Boston Public Library, Boston, NY, The Boston Printmakers: Fifty Years

    • 1996: Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY

    • 1995:
        18th Annual Art on Paper Exhibition, Annapolis, MD

        Boston University, Boston, MA, Alumni Drawings

    • 1994: Gallery A, Chicago, IL

    • 1992:
        Stiebel Modern, New York, NY, a quiet place/STILL LIFES

        National Academy of Design, New York, NY, 167th Annual Exhibition

    • 1991: Elaine Benson Gallery, East Hampton, NY, "New Generation" Exhibition

    • 1990: Stedman Art Gallery, Camden, NJ, Rutgers National '90 Works on Paper


  • Public and Corporate Collections
  • Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
  • The Fogg Art Museum, Boston, MA
  • The Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
  • The Library of Congress, Washington, DC
  • The New York Public Library, New York, NY
  • The Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
  • The Boston Public Library, Boston, MA
  • BankAmerica
  • Fidelity Investments
  • Wellington Management
  • Clorox Corporation
  • Pfizer Inc.
  • The British Museum
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    Selection of works from Peri Schwartz

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    • 1998:
        Merit Award, Ceres Gallery, Third National Juried Exhibition

        Merit Award, International Juried Show '98

    • 1997:
        The Grumbacher Award, The 48th Annual Art of the Northeast USA

        SUNY Purchase Continuing Education Outstanding Faculty Award, Purchase, NY

    • 1990: Purchase Prize, Rutgers National Works on Paper

    • 2000:
        Rich Langer, Irina. "Painting Self as Link to Masters," The New York Times, February.

        Pludrzynski, Andrew. "Peri Schwartz Visits the Straight and Narrow," Women's Issues, March.

    • 1998: Zimmer, William. "Recognizing Self-Portraits by Americans," The New York Times, February.

    • 1997:
        Zimmer, William. "A Certain Coherence for 115 Works," The New York Times, June.

        Jennings, Kate. "Silvermine's Art of the Northeast Packed with Surprises," Darien News, Review, May.

    • 1995: "Drawing Attention," Bostonia, Summer.

    • 1994: "New Exhibit Opens at Emanuel," Great Neck Record, October.