Gary Petersen (b.1956, Staten Island, NY) received his B.S. degree from The Pennsylvania State University and an M.F.A. from The School of Visual Arts. He has exhibited widely in New York City and throughout the United States and Europe since the early 1990s. Petersen's work has been reviewed in many publications including Hyperallergic, Artnews, Art in America and The New York Times. His paintings and drawings are in numerous private, corporate, and public collections including The Dallas Museum of Art, New York’s Jewish Museum, the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, NJ, and the US Department of State. Awards received include The Bogliasco Foundation Residency Fellowship, The Barnett and Annalee Newman Foundation Grant-Award, The MacDowell Colony Fellowship, The American Academy of Arts and Letters Purchase Award, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts Painting Fellowship, the Sharpe-Walentas Space Program, and the Edward F. Albee Fellowship. Petersen currently has a studio in Brooklyn and resides in Hoboken, New Jersey.