Peter Wowkowych is an artist, curator and architect living in Santa Monica, California.  Peter has been the campus architect at Sony Pictures Entertainment in Los Angeles, California for almost 30 years. He has also been a practicing artist for the last 15 years.  Born and raised in upstate New York, Peter received his Bachelor of Architecture Degree from the University of Notre Dame, including a year aboard, studying in Rome, Italy. 

 

Early in his career, he was awarded an internship at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection Venice Italy, and two years later at the American Pavilion of the Venice Biennale. These two pivotal internships solidified his desire to explore creative endeavors in both art and architecture.

 

In the early 1990's Peter ventured out to Los Angeles, California to get his Master of Architecture Degree from the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI Arc).

 

In the early 2000s Peter spent time in the Himalayan mountains of Nepal. During this period, he co-founded a non-profit, Restoration Works International, where he and his team worked for 10 years to restore a 300-year old Tibetan Buddhist monastery and restored the ancient wall frescoes in this monastery. This 10-year project affected him deeply, working to restore the social and spiritual center of this remote Nepali community. The Himalayan mountains, the rooftop of the world, have long been a mythical spiritual place for Peter. He continues to look for ways to rebuild communities and connect with other cultures through their art and architecture.

 

Peter’s art practice focuses on exploring LGBTQ identity issues, as well as climate change issues that affect our physical environment. Peter explores the physical and psychological boundaries between people, the places they inhabit, and the dichotomy between the world we inhabit, and another world we wish to escape to. His focus is how people and places, shape who we become.