Peregrine Honig

Peregrine Honig

Peregrine Honig

Peregrine Honig was born in San Francisco, California, in 1976, and studied at the Kansas City Art Institute. She began drawing as a child and has never stopped.

Honig has had solo exhibitions at Dwight Hackett Projects in Santa Fe, Geschiedle Gallery in Chicago, and Byron Cohen Gallery in Kansas City. Her work has been included in numerous group exhibitions, including The Dianne and Sandy Besser Collection ( San Francisco de Young Museum of Art ); The Random and the Ordered: New Prints(International Print Center, New York); Comic Release: Negotiating Identity for A New Generation (Regina Gouger Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh); and The Perception of Appearance: A Decade of Contemporary American Figure Drawing (Frye Art Museum, Seattle).

Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Albright Knox, Buffalo, NY; Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.; the Milwaukee Art Museum; the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C.; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut.

In her home city of Kansas City, Honig is the recipient of an Avenue of the Arts public arts project grant and a Charlotte Street Fund award. She is the owner/director of the Fahrenheit Gallery, an alternative exhibition space, and the co-owner of birdies, a lingerie shop.