Mark Pehanich is a painter and sculptor originally from Chicago. He has a BFA from Northern Illinois University and an MFA from Brooklyn College, where he studied with Lee Bontecou, Phillip Pearlstein, Alan D’Arcangelo, and Lennart Anderson. He has taught painting, drawing and sculpture at the Appomattox Regional Governors School and Richard Bland College. After living in Brooklyn for 18 years Mark moved to Petersburg, where he and his wife converted an old cotton and peanut warehouse into studio spaces.

Mark has exhibited his paintings and sculpture widely, including the BrooklynMuseum, Stamford Museum, Butler Institute of Art, El Paso Museum, Virginia Tech, and Kyoto Gallery in Japan. A former board member of the Sculptors Guild and the National Mural Society, he has created murals and large scale public sculpture in New York and Virginia. Mark is the recipient of numerous awards including the Charles G. Shaw award.