Jaanika Peerna

Born in Estonia on October 6, 1971

Lives and works mainly in New York (USA), but also in Berlin (Germany) and Tallinn (Estonia).

Jaanika Peerna Studio

Jaanika Peerna is a drawing and performance artist. She has taken part in numerous exhibitions, including Real Art Ways in Hartford (Connecticut, USA), Glacial Elegy at Artdepoo Gallery and Vana-Wõromaa Cultural Center (Estonia), Salon b in Montreal (Quebec) and Light Matter at Kentler International Drawing Space in New York (USA). She has also taken part in numerous performances, notably at the Bronx Museum in New York and the Hudson Valley Centre of Contemporary Art in New York.

His works are part of international collections, including the Bennetton Collection (Italy), the Fonds national d’art contemporain in Paris (France), the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery in Swansea (Wales), the Garrison Art Center in New York (USA) and the Novosibirsk Art Museum in Russia.

The monograph of his work Glacier Elegies will be published in autumn 2021.

PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS (selection)

2019 – Cold Love, Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut, United States

2018 – Liustike Eleegia / Glacier Elegy, Artdepoo Gallery and Vana-Wõromaa Cultural Center, Estonia

2017 – Glacier Elegy, Salon b, Montreal, Quebec

2016 – Not So Silent Waves of Gravity, Espronceda Center for Art and Culture, Barcelona, Spain

2015 – Light Matter, Kentler International Drawing Space, New York, United States

2002 – Lines in Silence, Garrison Art Center, Garrison, New York, USA

COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS (selection)

2021 – Music as Art and Methaphor, curated by David Houston and Florence Neal, Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art, Biloxi, MS & Bartlett Center, Columbus, Georgia.
Artists: Herbert Brün, Beth Caspar, Phillip Chen, Abby Goldstein, Takuji Hamanaka, Keiko Hara, robin holder, Richard Howe, Hannah Israel, Mary Judge, Ralph Kiggell, Rosalinda Kolb, Jiří Kornatovský, Robert Lansden, Simon Lewandowski, Jim Napierala, Florence Neal, Margaret Neill, Kazuhiro Nishijima , Morgan O’Hara, Gahae Park, Jaanika Peerna, Scott Pfaffman, Orlando Richards, Viviane Rombaldi Seppey, Susan Schwalb, Molly Snyder-Fink, Hugh Williams

2021 – Variations in Black and White, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, New York, USA.
Artists: Herbert Brün, Takuji Hamanaka, Keiko Hara, Richard Howe, Hannah Israel, Jiří Kornatovský, Margaret Neill, Jaanika Peerna, Susan Schwalb, Hugh Williams

2020 – ReRouted Flight, with Siim-Tanel Annus, Haus Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia

2018 – These Waters Have Stories to Tell, curated by Celina Jeffery, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, Wales.
Artists Julia Davis, Alexander Duncan, Shiraz Bayjoo, Jaanika Peerna, Sylvia Safdie, Christian Sardet and the Macronauts

2015 – Line Describing a Cone, curated by Eva Respini (MOMA), Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York, USA