Peregrine Honig is an American artist. Honig's work is concerned with the relationship between popular culture, sexual vulnerability, Social anxiety, the ethics of luxury, and trends in consumerism.
Early life and education
Honig was born in
San Francisco,
California in 1976.
She attended the Kansas City Art Institute.
Career
In 1997, Honig started Fahrenheit Gallery, an
artist-run space in Kansas City's industrial West Bottoms, where she showed artists with national and international reputations and inspired other young Kansas City artists to do the same.
Honig appeared on season one of Bravo's artist reality television show, , which aired from June 9–August 11, 2010, finishing in second place. She advanced to the final round, where she took second place after winner Abdi Farah and second runner-up, Miles Mendenhall.
Works
Early sexual awakenings, the visual manifestation of disease, and the social anxieties of realized and fictional characters reveal themselves through Peregrine Honig's drawings and paintings.
Her work is in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago,
and the Buffalo AKG Art Museum.