Peter Kaplan

Peter Kaplan was born in New York City, attended The High School of Music and Art, studied fine art at Carnegie Mellon University, and graduated from The Cooper Union with a major in painting. He studied painting and design with the distinguished artists Will Barnet and Wolf Kahn. After graduation, he opened his own photography business and for the next 25 years his work appeared in print periodicals and annual reports. He returned to painting in 1995 and reintegrated photography into new works in oil,collage,acrylic mediums and began extensive use of the encaustic (wax) process in panels and monotypes.Peter Kaplan lives and works in New York's beautiful Hudson Valley.

High School of Music and Art
Carnegie Mellon
Cooper Union,New York City

2012 “ Artist of the Month” R & F Paints website
2012 LaGrange Museum juried show. Purchase by museum
2008 F Collective – Selected Works – Hudson, New York
2008 New Work – Collages Deborah Davis Fine Arts
2008 One- Man Show Viridian Gallery NYC
2007 Group Show –Viridian Gallery NYC
2006 “New Reality” Group Show Viridian Gallery
2005 Deborah Davis Fine Arts, Works on Paper
2004 The Artful Mind – Group show,Naoussa Gallery, Tyrinham,Ma.
2004 Deborah Davis Gallery, Hudson,N.Y.
2002 Invitational Group Exhibition. Musee D’Ecole,East Nassau,N.Y.
2002 Old Chatham Country Store – One man show
2002 Deborah Davis Fine Arts 2 Man Show
2001 Inclusion of “9-11” Painting Deborah Davis Fine Arts
2001 Viridian Gallery/Group Show/ NYC
2001 Period Gallery/Omaha Nebraska
2001 Pasadena Art institute Group Show,Pasadena,Ca.