Peter Gallo

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Peter Gallo (b. 1959), Rutland, VT is a reclusive artist and writer who lives in Hyde Park, VT and Montreal, Quebec. Gallo attended Middlebury College and Concordia University. His work has been exhibited throughout the U. S. and Europe, including White Columns, Freight and Volume Gallery, Steven Kasher Galler, and Sunday L.E.S., all in New York, Wendy Cooper Gallery in Chicago, Anthony Reynolds Gallery in London, Galerie Staub Kohler in Zurich, among others.

Gallo is known for his mixed media works which often combine a variety of unconventional materials – including dental floss, toothpicks, chicken bones, buttons, found photographs, philosophical and literary texts. In 2005 Matthew Higgs, writing for Frieze Magazine cited Gallo as the most significant emerging American artist of that year, and likened his DIY mixed media sensibility to Ree Morton and to the legendary post-punk band Joy Division. His essays and reviews have appeared in Art in America.