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Education
1981 MFA, Rochester Institute
of Technology, School for American Craftsmen, Rochester, NY
1977 BA, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
Selected One Person Exhibitions
2004
Mario Petrirena, Presidents Gallery, Brenau University, Gainesville,
Georgia
two sides of the same coin/new and old work, Sandler Hudson
Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
2000
Hoping, Sandler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
1999
Portraits, Sandler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
1998
Mario Petrirena, Mayor's Office, City Hall, Atlanta, Georgia
1997
Private Territory, Sandler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
1994
Mario Petrirena, Recent Clay Sculpture, Sandler Hudson Gallery,
Atlanta, Georgia
1993
Mario Petrirena, Recent Work, Sandler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta,
Georgia
Mario Petrirena, Clayton State College, Morrow, Georgia
1992
Mario Petrirena, Recent Sculpture, Sandler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta,
Georgia
1991
Mario Petrirena, Recent Work, Sandler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta,
Georgia
1990
Mario Petrirena, Recent Clay Sculpture, Sandler Hudson Gallery,
Atlanta, Georgia
1989
Mario Petrirena, Recent Work, Sandler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta,
Georgia
1985
Engraved in Our Minds, Studio D-1, TULA, Atlanta, Georgia
1981
Mixed-Media, Original Gallery, Rochester Institute of Technology,
Rochester, New York
Selected Group Exhibitions
2004-2005
Shades of Clay, Bergstrom-Mahler Museum, Neenah, Wisconsin
J. Wayne Stark Gallery, College Station, Texas
2004 Redefining Georgia: Perspectivas
en Arte Contemporaneo, The Columbus Museum, Columbus, Georgia
Tender Landscapes, Dalton Gallery Agnes Scott College, Decatur,
Georgia
2003
The Story of the South: Art and Culture, 1890-2003, Ogden Museum
of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA
2002-2003
Clay, Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, GA
Georgia Triennial, City Gallery East, Atlanta, GA; Museum of
Arts and Sciences
2003
Macon, GA; Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA; Albany Museum
of Art, Albany, GA
2002
Celebrating Exhibition of the Permanent Collection, The Museum
of Contemporary at of Georgia, Atlanta, GA
2001
Belonging/Pertenecer,City Gallery East, Atlanta, Georgia
2001 New Orleans Triennial, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans,
Louisiana
1999
Vanitas: reflections of conceit & desire, Dalton Gallery,
Agnes Scott College, Atlanta, GA
The Paul Jones Collection, Marietta/Cobb Museum of Art, Marietta,
Georgia
1998
Connections and Contradictions; Modern and Contemporary Art
from Atlanta Collections, Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory Universtiy,
Atlanta, Georgia
Altered Beliefs: Rethinking the Black Aesthetic, City Gallery
East, Atlanta, Georgia
1997-1998
Breaking Barriers, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
1998 Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa,
Florida
1996
Defying the Southern Sterotype; Seven Contempary Visions, Sandler
Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
Multi-Visions, Quinlan Art Center, Gainesville, Georgia
XIX LaGrange National Biennial, Lamar Dodd Art Center,LaGrange,
Georgia
Nellie Mae Rowe, Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, Georgia
1995
Gallery Artist: Group Show, Sandler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta,
Georgia
1994
Wishing Place, Bathhouse, Arts Festival of Atlanta, Atlanta,
Georgia
1993
Remnants: Installation by Five Cuban American Artist, Florida
Gulf Coast Art Center, Bellair, Florida
Crosscurrents: Rethinking 20th Century Art, High Museum of Art,
Atlanta, Georgia
Fiesta for Life, Latin American Artist Fight Aids, Cavin Morris
Gallery, New York, New York
Hispanic Imprints, Brenau University Gallery, Gainesville, Georgia
1992
Angry Love, Taboo, Pavilion, Arts Festival of Atlanta, Atlanta,
Georgia; Space One Eleven, Birmingham, Alabama
1991-1992
CUBA/USA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
Fondo del Sol, Washington, D.C.
The Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul, Minnesota
The Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, Florida
Nexus, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa,
Florida
1991
Art of Our Time, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
1990
Recent Acquisitions, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
Ecos del Espiritu/Echoes of the Spirit, The Atlanta College
of Art Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
Gesture/Fluidity/The Stroke, Chastain Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
1989
Interference, NTID Switzer Gallery, Rochester, New York
The Assembled Object, The Atlanta College of Art Gallery, Atlanta,
Georgia
Installations, Nexus Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
Birmingham Biennial, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama
1988
Southern Expressions: A Sense of Self, High Museum of Art, Atlanta,
Georgia
Georgia Artist, Nexus Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
Latin American Artist of the Southeast Coastal Region, Contemporary
Arts Center, New Orleans, Louisiana; Art and Culture Center,
Hollywood, Florida
The Figure and Clay, Pewabic Pottery, Detroit, Michigan
1987
Vault Series IV, Club Rio, Atlanta, Georgia
Mattress Factory Show, Atlanta, Georgia
Nexus Artists, Chattahoochee Valley Art Association, LaGrange,
Georgia
Spotlight '87: Southeast Crafts, Arrowmont Gallery, Gatlinberg,
Tennessee
Atlanta Artist, Arts Festival of Atlanta, Pavilion, Atlanta,
Georgia
1987-1989
27th National Exhibition: American Ceramics Now, Everson Museum
of Art, Syracuse, New York
American Craft Museum, New York, New York
Art Museum, Sacramento, California
Decordava and Dana Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts Butler Institute
of Art, Youngstown, Ohio
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska-Lincoln,
Lincoln, Nebraska
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama
Outside Cuba/Fuera de Cuba Jane Zimmeali Art Museum, Rutgers
University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Arts, New York, NY
Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, Ohio
Museo de Arte de Ponce, Ponce, Puerto Rico
Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, Florida
The Atlanta College of Art/New Vision, Atlanta, Georgia
1986
Latin American Art, Etowah Arts Gallery, Cartersville, Georgia
A Sense of Humor and Subversion, Nexus Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
1985
The Total Tomato, Alexander Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
The Alternative Biennial of 1985, Nexus Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
Vietnam and Its Aftermath, Nexus Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
1984
The Body and Its Function, Nexus Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
1982
America Now, NTID Switzer Gallery, Rochester, New York
1981
Marietta Craft National '81, Marietta, Ohio
Thesis II, Bevier Gallery, RIT, Rochester, New York
Awards
1991
Cintas Fellowship, Institute of International Education, New
York, New York
1990
Individual Artist Grant, Georgia Council for the Arts
1988
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
1987
Jurors Award of Excellence, Spotlight '87: Southeast Crafts,
Juror, Paul Smith, Director, American Craft Museum
1986
Cintas Fellowship, Institute of International Education, New
York, New York
Selected Collections
Alston and Byrd, Atlanta, GA
The Carter Presidential Center, Atlanta, GA
Clark Atlanta University, Atlanta, GA
Cintas Foundation, New York, New York
Clayton State College, Morrow, Georgia
Hartsfield International Airport, Atlanta, GA
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
Hyatt Regency, Atlanta, Georgia
Hyatt Regency, Puerto Rico
Intercontinental Hotel, Atlanta, Georgia
Paul Jones Collection at the University of Delaware
Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA
King and Spalding, Atlanta, Georgia
Macon Museum of Art and Sciences, Macon, Georgia
Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida
Sprint Corporation, ATC
The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, GA
John Weiland Homes, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia
Selected Catalogues
2003
New American Paintings, Juried Exhibition-in-Print Number 46
2002
Georgia Triennial: 2002/2003,Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah,
GA
2001
The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, GA
2000
2001 New Orleans Triennial, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans,
Louisiana
1999
The Paul Jones Collection, Marietta/Cobb Museum of Art, Marietta,
Georgia
1998
Connections and Contradictions; Modern and Contemporary Art
from Atlanta Collections, Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory Universtiy,
Atlanta, Georgia
Altered Beleifs: Rethingking the Black Aesthetic, City Gallery
East, Atlanta, Georgia
1997
Breaking Barriers: Selections from the Museum of Art's Permanet
Contemporary
Cuban Colletion, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
1993
Remnants: Installations by Five Cuban American Artist, Florida
Gulf Coast Art Center, Bellair, Florida
1991
Cuba/USA, Fondo del Sol, Washington, D.C.
1989
Outside Cuba/Fuera de Cuba, Jane Zimmeali Art Museum, Rutgers
University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
1988
The Figure and Clay, Pewabic Pottery, Detroit, Michigan
Southern Expressions: A Sense of Self, High Museum of Art, Atlanta,
Georgia
1987
American Ceramics Now, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
Selected Bibliography
06/13/04 Catherine Fox, “Back
Story,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution
09/27/02 Catherine Fox, “State of the art,” Atlanta
Journal-Constitution
11/01 Frances Colpitt, “Southern Sensibilities,” Art
in America
10/6/00 Catherine Fox, “Elusive celebration of hope….,”
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
11/13/99 Felicia Feaster, “Vanity Fair,” Creative
Loafing
8/28/98 Catherine Fox, “Carlos show gives Atlanta big-time
glow,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution
7-8/98 Thomas Ramsey, “Mario Petrirena: Private Territory,”
Art Papers
01/2/98 Catherine Fox, “Cuban immigrant instill sense of
loss…,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution
10/22/93 Catherine Fox, “Mario Petrirena's collage distill
layers…,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution
04/05/91 Jerry Cullum, “Mario Petrirena,” Atlanta
Journal-Constitution
070/6/90 Catherine Fox, “Petrirena: Home is where inspiration
is,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution
04/18/89 Catherine Fox, “Artist Bravely Exposes Soul in
Work,” Atlanta Journal-Consitiution
09/08/89 Helen L. Kohen, “Center bats one for two on shows,”
Miami Herald
10/89 Amy Jinker-Lloyed, “Mario Petrirena at Sandler Hudson,
Art in America
8-9/87 Edward Lebow, “American Ceramics Now: The 27th Ceramic
National, American Craft
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