Cyd Peroni is a visual artist drawn to explore the Japanese concept of mono no aware, an awareness and appreciation of the impermanence of things and the transience of time. Her images are strongly influenced by poetry and the metaphors found in the natural world. Peroni searches for the often-unnoticed moments and their deeper spiritual and emotional meanings. Having lived in rural areas most of her life, she delves into the feelings of loneliness and sadness that are inextricably linked to the joys and fullness of life.
Peroni experiments with digital, traditional, and alternative photographic processes, along with a range of papers and materials such as precious metals and encaustic wax. She likes to convey the artist’s hand in her work and searches for the best combination of process and materials to communicate universal human emotions and stories.
She is an alumna of Eye Lounge, a contemporary art space established in 2001 committed to fostering emerging and established visual artists in downtown Phoenix; a founding member of the Arizona Photography Alliance; and a member of Shootapalooza, Art Intersection, ArtLink Phoenix, Artists in Arizona, Los Angeles Center for Photography, CENTER Santa Fe, and Griffin Museum of Photography.
Her work is held in private collections, has appeared in various publications, and has been shown nationally in solo and juried group exhibitions such as The Halide Project (Philadelphia, PA); Medium Festival of Photography (San Diego, CA); A Smith Gallery (Johnson City, TX); Art Intersection (Gilbert, AZ); Lenscratch Online Gallery; Oglebay Institute’s Stifel Fine Arts Center (Wheeling, WV); Schorr Gallery (West Jordan, UT); University of Utah Museum of Natural History (Salt Lake City, UT); and Kimball Arts Center (Park City, UT).
Peroni lives with her husband in the Sonoran Desert north of Phoenix, Arizona where she loves listening for the sound of owls in the darkness before sunrise and watching clouds form along the foothills before a monsoon rain.
Awards & Recognition
2024
Category Winner (Abstract/Still Life) 24th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards
Review Santa Fe Invitation
Arizona Photography Alliance Grant Recipient
Black & White Magazine - Special Issue 165, Single Image Winner, Nude/Body
2023
Critical Mass 2023 Finalist
Honorable Mention - Juror Crista Dix, Water 2023 at New York Center for Photographic Art
2022
18th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards
Honorable Mentions in Fine Art Series, Alternative Process Single Image, Abstract & Still Life Single Image, Nude & Figure Single Image, and Self Portrait Single Image; Jurors: KK DePaul, Isabela Pacini, N.A. Vague
Work selected for inclusion in the new edition of The Experimental Darkroom by Christina Anderson - Fall 2022 Release
Honorable Mention - Juror Elizabeth Opalenik, Light Sensitive Exhibition, Art Intersection
2021
Rfotofolio Portfolio Selection
Your Daily Photograph Selection
2019
Viewer’s Choice Award - No Strangers Exhibition, Art Intersection (Gilbert, AZ)
2018
Selected, Juried Member, Eye Lounge Artist Collective (Phoenix, AZ)
2017
Professional Development Grant - Arizona Commission on the Arts
2016
Honorable Mention - Desert Foothills Library Photography Exhibit & Competition (Cave Creek, AZ)
Selected - Juried Member, Sonoran Arts League (Cave Creek, AZ)
2007
Selected, Juried Member, Artworks Around Town Gallery (Wheeling, WV)
1996
First Prize - Schorr Gallery, West Jordan Arts Council Juried Exhibition (West Jordan, UT)
1995
Kimball Art Center (Park City UT), A Celebration, American Association of University Women, Juror: Ellen Garvens, “Mom with Hat Attitude” (Triptych - Solarized Gelatin Silver Prints) selected as one of 22 pieces from the group exhibit to travel the state for the Utah Arts Council Traveling Exhibits Program
Solo Exhibitions
2020 The Amber of the Moment, Eye Lounge (Phoenix, AZ)
2019 Loving What Won’t Last, Eye Lounge (Phoenix, AZ)
1996 In the Country, Lamb’s Restaurant (Salt Lake City, UT)
Two- and Three-Person Exhibitions
2025 Inside the Translucent Light, Shemer Art Center (Phoenix, AZ)
2025 Threes - triARC Architecture & Design
2024 Inside the Translucent Light, Project Space (Phoenix, AZ)
2023 Party Ice, ASU Gammage (Tempe, AZ)
2023 Inside the Translucent Light, Talon Art Gallery, Northland Pioneer College (Show Low, AZ)
2019 Geology of Spirit, Light Art Space (Silver City, NM)
2019 Geology of Spirit, Holland Gallery of Fine Art (Scottsdale, AZ)
2017 Near to Far: 3 Views of the World, Fearless Art Works Gallery (Carefree, AZ)
Juried Group Exhibitions (Selected)
2024
From Micro to Macro - Flinn Foundation (Phoenix, AZ)
ArtRx - Scottsdale Arts Learning & Innovation (Scottsdale, AZ)
Solace in Nature - Light Art Space (Silver City, NM) Juror: Christina Z. Anderson
Size Matters - Medium Festival of Photography (San Diego, CA) Juror: Crista Dix, Executive Director Griffin Museum
Words and Pictures - Online, Center for Fine Art Photography (Fort Collins, CO)
Night Vision - Phoenix Airport Museum, Terminal 4, Level 3
23rd Annual Artlink Juried Exhibition - FOUND:RE Hotel (Phoenix, AZ)
2023
Night Vision - Phoenix Airport Museum, Terminal 4, Level 3
Water 2023 - New York Center for Photographic Art (Online)
23rd Annual Artlink Juried Exhibition - FOUND:RE Hotel (Phoenix, AZ)
The Future of Printmaking: A Survey of the Graphic Arts, Mesa Community College Art Gallery (Mesa, AZ)
Arizona Photographic Alliance, Members Exhibition, mood room (Phoenix, AZ)
Botanical, A Smith Gallery (Online)
2022
Forces of Attraction, Art D’Core Gala Invitational (Phoenix, AZ)
Living Image, The Halide Project (Philadelphia, PA) Juror: Aline Smithson
Flinn Foundation, Inaugural Exhibition (Phoenix, AZ)
Five15Arts, Plus Two Invitational Exhibition (Phoenix,AZ)
FotoNostrum Gallery, 18th Julia Margaret Cameron Award Exhibition (Barcelona, Spain)
Art Intersection, Light Sensitive (Gilbert, AZ)
Mesa Community College, Phx Art Now IV (Mesa, AZ)
2021
XSCAPE, FOUND:RE Contemporary (Phoenix, AZ), Curator: Audrey Galat
Visions of Nature, Light Art Space (Silver City, NM), Juror: Diana H. Bloomfield
Unbound, A Smith Gallery (Johnson City, TX), Juror: Crista Dix
Light Sensitive, Art Intersection (Gilbert, AZ), Juror: Brian Taylor
Bound, Light Art Space (Silver City, NM), Jurors: Chip Thomas & Thea Gahr
Fragments, Eye Lounge (Phoenix, AZ)
Indexhibit Series 2, mood room (Phoenix, AZ)
The Inside of Outside, Eye Lounge, Art Detour 33 (Phoenix, AZ)
2020
Artlink 20th Annual Juried Exhibition, Park Central Mall (Phoenix, AZ)
Light Sensitive, Art Intersection (Gilbert, AZ), Juror: Brett Abbott
20 Years of Eye Lounge, ASU Northlight Gallery (Phoenix, AZ)
INsight, mood room, (Phoenix, AZ)
2019
Constructed/Deconstructed, Eye Lounge (Phoenix, AZ)
Triad Triptych, Shemer Art Center (Phoenix, AZ)
2019 Contemporary Art Exhibit, Desert Foothills Gallery (Cave Creek , AZ)
Art Detour 31, In the Blink of an Eye - Eye Lounge (Phoenix, AZ)
2018
Unique: Alternative Processes, A Smith Gallery (Johnson City, TX), Juror: Diana Bloomfield
Forgotten, A Smith Gallery (Johnson City, TX), Juror: Blue Mitchell
Light Sensitive, Art Intersection (Gilbert, AZ), Juror: scott b. davis
InFOCUS, Phoenix Art Museum Support Group, Members Exhibition - Found:RE Hotel (Phoenix, AZ)
Sparkle and Flash, Sonoran Arts League Gallery (Cave Creek, AZ)
2017
Little By Little, Art Intersection (Gilbert, AZ), Juror: Dr. Julie Sasse, Chief Curator & Curator of Modern, Contemporary, and Latin American Art, Tucson Museum of Art
Size Matters, Medium Festival of Photography (San Diego, CA), Juror: Katherine Ware, Curator of Photography at the New Mexico Museum of Art (Santa Fe)
Los Angeles Center of Photography, Members Show - Virtual Gallery, Juror: Paula Tognarelli
InFOCUS, Phoenix Art Museum Support Group, Members Exhibit - The University Club (Phoenix, AZ)
Light Sensitive 2017, Art Intersection (Gilbert, AZ), Juror: Ann M. Jastrab, Director, Rayko Photo Center
Anthem Public Art Project, City Building (Anthem, AZ), Juror: Mickey Meulenbeek
2016
No Strangers, Art Intersection (Gilbert, AZ)
Lenscratch, Signs of Life Online Exhibition
All Art Arizona, Art Intersection (Gilbert, AZ)
Hot Art/Cool Show, Desert Foothills Library (Cave Creek, AZ)
INFOCUS, Phoenix Art Museum Support Group, Members Exhibition
Sonoran Arts League Contemporary Art Exhibit (Cave Creek, AZ), Juror: Robrt Pela
2007
Artworks Around Town Gallery (Wheeling, WV), New Members Exhibition
Crosscurrents, Oglebay Institute’s Stifel Fine Arts Center (Wheeling, WV), Jurors: Bryan Rapp and Karen S. Honaker
1995-96
Photographic Print Society, Markosian Library, Salt Lake Community College (UT)
Schorr Gallery Annual, West Jordan Arts Council (UT)
Grantsville Historical Society (UT), Centennial Celebration Exhibition, Season Opening of Benson Grist Mill
Vital Arts Gallery (UT), Persona: The Human Image in Contemporary Utah Photography, Juror: Tim Gallagher
University of Utah Museum of Natural History, Traces: The Confluence of Nature & Humanity, Juror: Freeman Patterson
Kimball Art Center (Park City UT), A Celebration, American Association of University Women, Juror: Ellen Garvens
Publications
Black & White Magazine - Issue 165, Single Image Winner, Nude/Body
LensWork Publishing - Light, Glorious Light 2023
The Experimental Darkroom by Christina Anderson
Arizona Photography Alliance Limited Edition Portfolio Case 2022
Aeonian Magazine - Issue No. 5 (2021)
The HAND Magazine Issue 32 (April 2021)
The Revolution Relaunch (Premiere Issue 2019)
The HAND Magazine Issue 22 (October 2018)
saltfront magazine #5 Editorial images - February 2017
Southwest Graphics Magazine - March/April 2006 Front Cover
Artist Presentations
2024 “Collaboration” - Arizona Photography Alliance (Phoenix, AZ)
2023 The Halide Project Light Talk (Philadelphia, PA)
2022 Northland Pioneer College (Show Low, AZ)
2022 Arizona Photography Alliance (Phoenix, AZ)
2019 Osher Lifelong Learning Center, Arizona State University (Phoenix, AZ)
2019 Light Art Space (Silver City, NM)
2019 Black Mountain Community College (Cave Creek, AZ)
2018 Ryan Gallery (Gilbert, AZ)
Education
Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, Graduated Magna Cum Laude, University of Utah (Salt Lake City, UT); Associate of Science in Retail Marketing, Graduated Cum Laude, University of Cincinnati, (Cincinnati, OH)
Art Education
One-year mentorship with Elizabeth Stone Photography; Film Photography with Laurel Casjens at the University of Utah and Rodger Newbold at the Salt Lake Contemporary Arts Center; Digital Photography with Jerry Sieve at Black Mountain Community College; Workshops at Art Intersection (Gilbert, AZ): Photopolymer Gravure with Karen Hymer; Platinum/Palladium with Michael Puff; Taking Your Work to the Next Level with Christopher Colville; Hand Coloring with Kate Breakey, Gum Bichromate with Diana Bloomfield; Cyanotype and Pinhole Photography with James Hajicek and Carol Panaro-Smith; Collage with Andy Burgess; and Bookbinding with Jace Graf.