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Mario Petrirena

b. November 1953 in Union de Reqes, Cuba

Mario Petrirena has shown his mixed media works all over the world. A Cuban native, Petrirena attended the Rochester Institute of Technology School for American Craftsmen and the University of Florida. Petrirena has received both a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Pollack-Krasner Foundation Grant. His work is held in the collections of the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; the Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, FL; Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, The Cintas Foundation, NY; the Carter Presidential Center, the Paul Jones Collection at the University of Delaware; MOCA GA, the Ogden Museum in New Orleans and numerous private collections. He has had solo exhibitions with Sandler Hudson Gallery, City Gallery East, the President’s Gallery at Brenau University, and most recently at the Ogden Museum in New Orleans.

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Mario Petrirena

How Could They?, 1985

Ceramic

13 x 19 x 8 inches

Gift of CGR Advisors

Accession #2001.153

Founding Collection

   

Mario Petrirena

Trials of Faith, 1996

Mixed media

collage on paper

11.5 x 9 inches

24.25 x 21 inches framed

Gift of David S. Golden

Accession #2001.224

Founding Collection

   

Mario Petrirena

Untitled, 2005

Ceramic dome

Gift of Anthony C. Murphy

Accession #2006.021

   

Mario Petrirena

Untitled, 2007

Ceramic

9.5 x 13 x 13 inches

Gift of Helen Eisemann Alexander

Accession #2008.033

   

Mario Petrirena

Untitled (Three Cone Forms)

2008

Ceramic

22 x 6 x 6 inches

Gift of David S. Golden

Accession #2010.029

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