About

Marianna Peragallo is a Brazilian-American artist based in New York, NY. Her recent anthropomorphic sculptures re-imagine everyday objects that are designed for human consumption or disposal. She creates sculptures of garbage bags, plastic shopping bags, and rubber cleaning gloves, but makes them humorously misbehave or subvert their assigned roles. Some sculptures are containers for plants, making us collaborators in sustaining new life and shifting the dynamic from consumption to care. Objects like lamps role-play as flowers, engaging in their own playful portrayal of botanical life. Each sculpture, expressing a multitude of emotions and gestures, speaks to the potential for acceptance, care, and love for even the most peripheral things.

​​Peragallo has recently exhibited at Cleo the Project Space, (Savannah, GA), McColl Center (Charlotte, NC), Torrance Art Museum (Los Angeles, CA), Spring/Break Art Show in New York and LA, Bravin Lee Gallery (New York, NY), Wassaic Project (Wassaic, NY), RegularNormal (New York, NY), Transmitter Gallery (Brooklyn, NY), and A.I.R. Gallery (Brooklyn, NY), among others. She has had solo exhibitions at Smith College (Northampton, MA), Here Arts (New York, NY), and Winston’s (Los Angeles, CA). Peragallo was an artist in residence at the Byrdcliffe Arts Colony (Woodstock, NY) in 2014, Mass MoCA’s Assets for Artists residency (North Adams, MA) in 2019, Wassaic Project (Wassaic, NY) in 2019 and 2022, and Stove Works in 2023. She was in residence at the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program from 2021-2022. Marianna received a BFA from the University of the Arts, Philadelphia, and an MFA from The School of Visual Arts, New York.