Recipient Information
Location
Birmingham, Alabama
Year of Award
2017
Grant or Fellowship
Southern Prize and State Fellowship
Grant Amount
$5,000
Artist Biography
Pete Schulte (b. 1970, Rock Island, Illinois) received an MFA in painting and drawing from The University of Iowa in 2008. He has held solo exhibitions at Jeff Bailey Gallery, Hudson New York, Whitespace, Atlanta, Luise Ross Gallery, New York City, Biggin Gallery at Auburn University, and The Visual Arts Gallery at The University of Alabama-Birmingham. His work has been in recent group exhibitions at Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, The Musuem of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Transmitter Gallery, Brooklyn, Looke&Listen in Saint-Chamas, France, and at Jeff Bailey Gallery in New York City. Schulte has been awarded residencies at the Hambidge Center For Creative Arts, Yaddo, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Atlantic Center For Art, and Threewalls. Art in America, World Sculpture News, Burnaway, and The New Art Examiner have reviewed his work, among other publications.
Pete Schulte lives in Birmingham, Alabama and teaches in the Department of Art & Art History at The University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. In 2013 he co-founded The Fuel And Lumber Company curatorial initiative with artist Amy Pleasant. His work is represented by Jeff Bailey Gallery in Hudson, New York and Whitespace in Atlanta.
Dark Corner / For No Witness
As Within / So Without
Dark Day
The Belletrist
The Braid III (No More Snake Oil Blues)
Blixa
Cosmic American Music
As Above/ So Below
Gallis Pole
School of Athens (Splitting pt.V)
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