1. Build Detail 2006, 2. trespass, 3. Relieving the Sore Minds Quiet Mouths, 4. Quilting the Discomfort of His Past, 5. Arbor, 6. Shield 300 portraits combined into one, 7. Not Here Pansy, 8. Broken detail, 9. Liquid Albinism detail #2

Business and Exhibition Contact: Keith Perelli through sites.google.com/view/keithperelli-com/home

Keith Perelli b. 1968 New Orleans

Keith Perelli is a visual artist working in painting, printmaking and drawing. He received a Bachelors in Arts in Painting and Printmaking at The University of New Orleans and his Master in Fine Art from The University of Cincinnati in sculpture. His figurative work explores a variety of social political and personal issues. He has participated in numerous, national and international invitation and juried exhibitions. Mr. Perelli is a recipient of a SURDNA Foundation’s Arts Teacher Fellowship, a Louisiana Division of the Arts Fellowship, and a Foundazione Ratti Arts Fellowship. He has received five professional development grants from the Louisiana Division of the Arts. He was awarded a Downtown District Development /RTA commission for a public works project on Canal Street in New Orleans in 2009. He was selected as the juror for the September 23rd Competition at the Alexandria Museum of Arts in 2011.

Mr. Perelli has had solo exhibitions in New Orleans, Los Angeles and Houston. He studied in Italy with “Happenings” artist Alan Kaprow in 1997 through a scholarship awarded by the Ratti Foundation, Como Italy and artist Ron Pokrasso in Santa Fe New Mexico in 2008, which was awarded through the SURDNA Foundation, New York. His work was featured in the “University of New Orleans 3 Person Alumni Works on Paper,” Innsbruck, Austria and “Louisiana Artists,” Alexandria Museum of Art, LA. He was also featured at the Leslie Lohman Foundation Gallery in New York and an exhibit titled “Katrina, Catastrophe and Catharsis” at the Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO. He was awarded

Best of Show,” for the 22nd September Competition,” Alexandria Museum of Art, “Louisiana Artists” exhibition at the LSU Gallery, Baton Rouge and the 1st Place at the Wichita Arts Center Printmaking Exhibition in Kansas and the 1st Annual Print exhibition in Hammond, LA. A book of his work was created in Tianjin, China in 2012 as 12 part book series of 12 American contemporary figurative realist. A traveling mid-career survey of his work was exhibited at the Alexandria Museum of Art in Louisiana, Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, The Isaac Delgado Gallery at Delgado Community College in New Orleans and Gallery 308 in Muncie Indiana. His professional website is keithperelli.com

Keith Perelli b. 1968 New Orleans, LA

Professional Website sites.google.com/view/keithperelli-com/home Career Portfolio Catalog flickr.com/photos/perelli Gallery Representatives Gryder Gallery

EDUCATION

1994 MFA, Painting and Sculpture, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH

1991 BA, Painting and Printmaking, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA

CURRENT POSITION

1998-Present New Orleans Center for Creative Art, Drawing and Painting Instructor, NOCCA Specialization: Observational work, Figure Drawing and Painting, Level IV Thesis, critique, Student outreach workshops, and Special projects, Visual Arts Alumni Relations

MUSEUM EXHIBITION

2021 Monumental, Alexandria Museum of Art, Alexandria, LA 2015 The Art and Design of Mardi Gras, 2019 Exhibition, Work selected for the exhibit, Mobile Museum of Art Nov’14-May ’15 2014 Paper, Mobile Museum of Art, Group Exhibition, Mobile, AL

2013 Mobile Museum of Art, Front and Center Exhibition Space, Three Artists, Mobile, AL

2012 Keith Perelli: A survey of Figurative Works, Alexandria Museum, Alexandria, LA

2007-08 New Orleans Museum of Art, “Tightrope,” on Promised Loan by Brian Sands, New Orleans,LA

ONE PERSON COLLEGE EXHIBITIONS

2014 Of Paint and Paper; A Survey of Monotype Collage Paintings by Keith Perelli, 2011-Present, Isaac Delgado Gallery, Delgado Community College, New Orleans Campus, New Orleans, LA 2013 Southeastern Louisiana University Contemporary Art Gallery, “Process, Print and Paint: A Survey of Work by Keith Perelli” Hammond, LA

ONE PERSON GALLERY EXHIBITIONS

2020 Abstractions, The Constructed Painting, New Orleans Arts Center, NO, LA

2016 Contemporain Gallery, “Head Games” Solo Exhibition, Baton Rouge, LA

2013 Muncie Indiana, Keith Perelli, Works in Paint and Print. Muncie, IN

2012 Mosquito Muerto, Large Scale Monotype Collages, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA 2011 Perforate, Monotypes and Paintings, Nau-haus Art space, Houston, TX 2010 Empathy, Monotypes and Paintings, Nau-haus Art space, Houston, TX 2009 Monotypes, d.o.c.s. Gallery, New Orleans, LA

2008 Return and Profile Series, d.o.c.s. Gallery, New Orleans, LA (Gambit, Review)

2007 Return Series, Found Gallery, Los Angels, CA

2006 Empire Series, d.o.c.s. Gallery, New Orleans, LA

2003 Structures and Homeland Series, d.o.c.s. Gallery, New Orleans, LA 2001 Limbo, d.o.c.s. Gallery, New Orleans, LA

1999 Our Father’s Gifts, d.o.c.s. Gallery, New Orleans, LA

1997 Skein Series, d.o.c.s. Gallery, New Orleans, LA

1994 Myso-Physio-grams, Insitu Gallery, Cincinnati, OH Myso-Physio-grams Thesis Exhibit, Tangeman Gallery, Cincinnati, OH

GROUP EXHIBITION

2024 “RUS EN URBE: An Ode to Our Parks,” Gryder Gallery, Curated by Eddie Hebert, New Orleans, LA “Art of Drawing,” Group Exhibition, Curated by Eddie Hebert, Gryder Gallery “Just Us,” NOCCA Faculty Exhibition, 5 Press Gallery, Homer Plessy Way, New Orleans, LA 2023 “Botanicals,” Group Exhibition, Curated by Garland Gryder, Gryder Gallery “On Portraiture,” Group Exhibition, Curated by Garland Gryder, 2020-2019“Mother’s Day’ Pop-Up” Studio Waveland, Curated by Kristina Juran, Waveland MS

“Twin Steeples Art Fair,” New Orleans Arts Center Booth, Twin Steeples, Hammond LA

“Portraits of Man,” New Orleans Art Center, Curator Kristina Juran, New Orleans, LA “Feel the Magic,” New Orleans Art Center, Curator, Kristina Juran, New Orleans, LA “Fresh,” New Orleans Art Center, Curator, Kristina Juran, New Orleans, LA

“Fall Group Show,” Contemporain Gallery, Baton Rouge, LA 2010-19 NOCCA Faculty Exhibition, Kirschman Art Space, New Orleans, LA 2016 Contemporain Gallery, January Exhibition, Baton Rouge, LA 2015 Contemporain Gallery, Inaugural Exhibition, Baton Rouge, LA

2010 Bento Box/ NOCCA Faculty exhibition, Delgado Community College, New Orleans, LA

2010 ’08, ‘06, ‘04, ‘02, ‘99, ‘98 d.o.c.s. Gallery Group Exhibition, D.O.C.S. Gallery, New Orleans, LA 2009 The Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2001 NOCCA Exchange, Vaclav Art School, Prague, Czechoslovakia

1998 And She Series, SOHO Gallery, Featured Artist Exhibition, Pensacola, FL

1997 Fondazioni Ratti, Course Exhibition, Ex Church of San Francesco, Como, Italy

1996 The She Series, Carols Corner Café, Cincinnati, OH

1995 Awareness ’95, Cage Galley, Cincinnati, OH

1994 DAAP Works, Wolfson Gallery, Cincinnati, OH Art in the Square, Cincinnati, OH

1992 Eye-dentification, Machine Shop Gallery, Cincinnati, Oh Annual Post Cards Show, Carnegie Art Center, Covington, KY

Be my Valentine, One Edwards Center, University of Cincinnati, OH

INVITATIONAL EXHIBITION

2024, Gallery Huracan, Emre Karaoglu Curator, New Orleans, LA 2020 The Front Gallery, “Invitational Exhibit,” Ron Bechet Curator, New Orleans, LA 2019 “Paper White,” 5 Press Gallery, NOCCA, New Orleans, LA

Process,” Kirshman Art Space, NOCCA, Curator, NOCCA Alum Maddie Stratton, N.O.LA

2018 “ Black Light Show,” Studio Waveland and Gallery, Curator, Erica Larkin Gaudet, Waveland,MS.

2017 Paper Menagerie, 5 Press Gallery, NOCCA, New Orleans, LA

2015 Bywater Biennial, New Orleans Art Center, Saint Claude, New Orleans, LA

2014 True Colors, LGBT Inaugural Pride Exhibition, Antenna Gallery, St. Claude St., New Orleans, LA 2013 True Colors, LGBT Inaugural Pride Exhibition, University of New Orleans St. Claude Gallery, NO.LA

2012 Wax On, Works by Louisiana Encaustic Painters, St, Tammany Art Association, Covington, LA 2011 Conscience, Laura Richens Curator, Tulane University, Newcomb Art Cent. New Orleans, LA 2010 Figurative Works, New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts, New Orleans, LA

2008 40 Days and 40 Nights, Group Exhibit, Louisiana State Archives, Baton Rouge, LA 2007 Katrina, Catastrophe and Catharsis, Curator, Michael DeMarsche, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, CO 2006 Culture of Queer, Curator, David Ruben, Leslie/Lowman Collection, NY, NY

2005 Culture of Queer, Curator, David Ruben, CAC, New Orleans, LA

2004 3 UNO Alumni Works on Paper, Curator, Doyle Gertjajensen, Innsbruck, Austria

2003 River fest Exhibition, Curator, Preston Gilchrest, Alexandria Museum of Art, Alexandria, LA 1997 Foundation Ratti Exhibition, Curator, Allan Kaprow, Via Farini Gallery, Milan, Italy 1996 "29th Anniversary, Contemporary Art Center," New Orleans, LA

Create and Collect, Curators UC Faculty, Tangeman Gallery, Cincinnati, OH 1995 Strange Angels, Curator, Marion Wilson, Syracuse, NY

1994 AIDS Remembrance and Tribute, Tangeman Gallery, Cincinnati, OH

1993 Artists React to Issue #3, Curator, Robert Brasier, Insitu Gallery, Cincinnati, OH

JURIED EXHIBITION

2024-25 Southeastern University of LA, President’s Residence Yearlong Exhibition, Curator, Eric Huckabee 2022 “Metamorphosis,” Arabi Visual Arts Center,” Juried Show, Arabi, LA 2019-20 Southeastern University of LA, President’s Residence Yearlong Exhibition, Curator, Dale Newkirk, Hammond, LA 2017 Art Melt 2017, Baton Rouge State Museum, Baton Rouge, LA

2016-17 Southeastern University of LA, President’s Residence Yearlong Exhibition, Curator, Dale Newkirk, Hammond, LA

2015-16 Southeastern University of LA, President’s Residence Yearlong Exhibition, Curator, Dale, Newkirk, Hammond, LA

Louisiana Open, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA Wichita Arts Center, Printmaking Annual, Wichita, KS 2014 Louisiana Open, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA

Surreal Salon 6, Baton Rouge Gallery, Greg Escalante, Juror, Baton Rouge, LA Southeastern University of LA, President’s Residence Yearlong Exhibition, Curator, Dale Newkirk, Hammond, LA 2010 Art melt 2010, Louisiana State Museum, Baton Rouge, LA

1st Annual Print Show, Louisiana Artworks, New Orleans, LA

Southern Printmakers, Hammond Regional Arts Center, Hammond, LA 2010-11 Southeastern University of LA, President’s Residence Yearlong Exhibition, Curator, Dale Newkirk, Hammond, LA 2009 22nd September Exhibition, Curators 1st Place Award, Alexandria Museum of Art, LA Studio Visit, Juried Catalog of US Artists, Open Studios Press, Boston, MA

2009-10 Southeastern University of LA, President’s Residence Yearlong Exhibition, Curator, Dale Newkirk, Hammond, LA 2008 20" x 20" x 20" Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge LA. 2004 Louisiana Artists, Louisiana State University Gallery, Baton Rouge, LA 2005 Louisiana Open, Curator, Deborah Haas, CAC, New Orleans

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Artists Statement:

I respond to the political, environmental, personal and sexual natures of man. While I am not a photographer, I wanted to share my artistic work. I have taught for over 20 years with an emphasis on observational drawing and painting.

The images here focus on my work primarily as a painter. I mix media in an effort to fuse the depth of an idea with the language of the materials. I create images through an imagined space but often observe myself or sometimes others to understand the manner in which light and color affect the figure. For the past five years my work has focused on politics in a post 9/11 world. The work ranged from references to airport security, chemical weapons to war and the politics of "fighting for freedom." I guess I try to use logic to digest and think of logical conflict resolution. The work featured here is just a sample of my work. Each Bi-annual show that I produce usually features 30 works, but there were countless "failures....AKA learning expereiences." As artists we must look, aborb and then respond to the world around us. We must know when to edit before exposing every intamacy of what we find captivating. Sensational work does not always linger like poetry. Enjoy.