Artist: Peter Lenzo | Location: Columbia, SC
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Artist: Peter Lenzo | Location: Columbia, SC
Columbia, SC
Columbia, SC, resident Peter Lenzo (b. 1955) is a widely recognized ceramic sculptor with a national profile. The New York City native, who grew up in Detroit, was selected for the 1995 and 1998 South Carolina Triennial exhibitions at the South Carolina State Museum in Columbia; the 2011 exhibition Triennial Revisited and the 701 CCA South Carolina Biennial 2011, 2013 and 2017, all at 701 Center for Contemporary Art in Columbia; and Thresholds, a 2003 exhibition of Southeastern art dealing with religion and spirituality that traveled extensively throughout the Southeast. The June, 2015, exhibition Peter Lenzo; Joe Scotchie-Lenzo: Origins 2000–2002 at if ART Gallery in Columbia, S.C., presented the origins of Lenzo’s current work through two dozen sculptures he produced with his son, who was around five years old at the time the works were created.That same year, the same gallery also organized an exhibition of Lenzo’s new work, Peter Lenzo: New Works 2013 – 2015, also Lenzo’s most recent exhibition, In Memory Of My Memory, was earlier this year, at if ART Gallery. Lenzo’s work is in several museum collections, including at the South Carolina State Museum, the Mint Museum in Charlotte, N.C., and the Renwick Gallery at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, D.C. Lenzo and his work have been featured in numerous books, exhibition catalogues and articles about ceramic sculpture and Southern art. He holds an MFA from Wayne State University in Detroit.