Peter Reginato (born August 19, 1945), is an American abstract
sculptor
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and painter.
Reginato was born in
Dallas, Texas
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, but grew up in the hills outside
Oakland, California
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, attending the
San Francisco Art Institute from 1963 to 1966.
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
*
The Corcoran Gallery of Art
*
The Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
*
IBM Corporation
*
The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art
*
Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art at
Northwestern University
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Charte ...
* The Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Massachusetts
*
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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* The Mint Museum of Art
*
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
*
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
References
External links
Official website
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1945 births
Artists from New York City
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
People from Manhattan
Sculptors from New York (state)