Peregrine Honig
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Peregrine Honig | |
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| Born | October 3, 1976 San Francisco, California |
| Alma mater | Kansas City Art Institute, Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts |
| Known for | Work of Art: The Next Great Artist |
| Spouse | Mike Dillon |
Peregrine Honig (born October 3, 1976) is an American artist. Honig's work is concerned with the relationship between pop culture, sexual vulnerability, social anxieties, the ethics of luxury, and trends in consumerism.[1]
Honig was born in San Francisco, California[2] in 1976.[3] She attended the Kansas City Art Institute.[4]
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.[5] The gallery closed in 2010.
Honig appeared on season one of Bravo's artist reality television show, Work of Art: The Next Great Artist,[6] which aired from June 9–August 11, 2010.[7] She advanced to the final round, where she took second place after winner Abdi Farah and second runner-up, Miles Mendenhall.[8]
