Pier Luigi Consagra
Born in Rome, Italy where he lived until attending The Rhode Island School of Design, and then Brown University. Following graduation from Brown, Pier showed with the Jamie Wolf Gallery on the Lower East Side of New York City. He received an NEA in painting and two NYFA awards, -- the first for painting the second for sculpture – while showing in SoHo with Barbara Toll Fine Arts and then The Holly Solomon Gallery, with whom he published a catalogue. Pier was awarded the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for Fine Art in 2014.
Pier’s work has been shown in numerous group exhibitions and has been reviewed and appeared in The New Yorker The New York Times, The Paris Review, Art in America, Town and Country among other publications.
Pier taught at Columbia University from 1992 to 2005 and Pratt Institute from 2005 to the present. Other colleges include, Bard College, Bennington College, and The Cooper Union.
He helped start and ran a drawing workshop at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from 2005 to 2009, where he also created and lectured on the ‘Vertical Wheel’ an historical overview of the figure’s cyclical patterns from the museum’s permanent collection.
Pier has served on panels on varying subjects Including: American Folk Art Museum: Discussions on Adolf Wolfli; CAA New York on Drawing.