Peter Cusack is an artist, editor, and curator. He is the founder of COCOA: The Journal of Cornwall Contemporary Art and has degrees from Syracuse University and Ecole Albert Dufois in France. His work is included in the permanent collections of the Museum of American Illustration, the New York Transit Museum, and the United States Air Force. His work has also appeared in Architectural Digest, New England Home, Cool Hunting, Litchfield Magazine, and Aspire Magazine. His work has been include in exhibitions held at Mary MacGill in Germantown, NY, Judy Black Memorial Park and Gardens in Washington Depot, CT, and Craven Contemporary in Kent, CT.
RECENT PARTNERSHIPS
Tempest ‘20, was included in Architectural Digest, November 2022
Commissioned by Ateliers Courbet (Melanie Courbet) to create 3 large scale figurative paintings
Rice paper ink drawings available at Pierogi Gallery in Williamsburg Brooklyn
Featured Artist in Isele Magazine November 2023
In Conversation, Mieke ten Have. "Bringing Nature to Interiors with Art", July, 2024
CONTACT
19 Water Street
Torrington, CT 06796
(646) 842-2683
peter@petercusack.com
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Solo Exhibitions
2024 Meet Me Here, Open studion and conversation with Mieke ten Have
2023 A Letter to Zola, MacNider Art Museum, Mason City, Iowa
2022 A Painter Among Poets, The Cornwall Library, Cornwall, CT
2021 A Leter to Zola, Judy Black Memorial Park, Washington Depot, CT
2020 American Dream, Mary G. Hardin Center for Cultural Arts, Gadsden, AL
New Paintings, Old Ideas, Studio Exhibition, Torrington, CT
2019 American Dream, Five Point Gallery Annex, Torrington, CT
The Pageant of Summer, Oliver Walcott Library, Litchfield, CT
2014 From Life, Cornwall Bridge Gallery, West Cornwall, CT
Group Exhibitions
2024, Art Slam After Grace, Macaire Kristoph, West Cornwall, CT
2024, The Arty Party, Benefit Exhibition, The White Hart Inn, Salisbury, CT
2024, About Printmaking, Washington Art Association, Curated by Tony Kirk, Watchington, CT
2023, Embodied Era, Mary MacGill, Germantown, NY
2022 Art Mix, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder CO
2021 Rose Algrant Show, West Cornwall, CT
2020 Summer Stock, Craven Contemporary, Kent CT
2019 Rose Algrant Show, West Cornwall, CT
2018 Mana Open, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ
2017 Mana Open, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ
2016 Mana Open, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ
2015 Washington Arts Association, Washington Depot, CT
(Curated by William Bailey)
2011 The Fragile Earth, Society of Illustrators, New York, NY
Members Open, Society of Illustrators, New York, NY
2009 Faculty Exhibition, St John’s University, Queens, NY
Members Open, Society of Illustrators, New York, NY
2008 The Rose Algrant Show, West Cornwall, Connecticut
2007 The Still Life, Westmont College, Santa Barbara, CA
Society of Illustrators 49th Annual Juried Exhibition, New York, NY
Members Open, Society of Illustrators, New York, NY
2006 Society of Illustrators 48th Annual Juried Exhibition, New York, NY
Members Open, Society of Illustrators, New York, NY
Iron Works Gallery, New York, NY
2004 Syracuse University Graduate Show, Lowe Art Gallery, Syracuse, NY
2002 Bronxville Art Center and Gallery, Bronxville, NY
2001 Bruno Billard, (France, Saudi Arabia, Syria]
2000 Paul Toner Gallery, NYC
1999 Student Show, L’ Ecole Albert Dufois, France
Collections
The New York Transit Museum, NY
United States Air Force Collection, Washing DC
Museum of American Illustration at the Society of Illustrators, NY
Publications
The Visual Artist at Work, Michael Fleishman
Illustrated Life: Drawing Inspiration from the Private Sketchbooks of Artists, Illustrators and Designers, Danny Gregory
Illustrators 48, Illustrators 49, Illo8, illo9, illo10
Education
Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, 2004, MA, Illustration
State University of New York at Albany, Albany, New York, 1994 ,BA, English, Art History
Arts Students League, New York, 2001-2004
L’ Ecole Albert Dufois, Les Cerqueux Sous Passavant, France, 1998
Private Study 1997-1999, Andrew Reiss, Painter