Cliff Peacock

Position: Assistant Professor, Studio Art
Department: Studio Art

Teaching this Semester :

• On Sabbatical

BIO

Cliffton Peacock received his M.F.A. degree from Boston University in 1977. His teachers there included: James Weeks, John Wilson and Philip Guston. He has been the recipient of numerous awards, including three National Endowment for the Arts grants; three Massachusetts Artist Fellowship awards; an Englehard Foundation grant; a Louis Comfort Tiffany Fellowship; and Awards in the Visual Arts grants, sponsored by the Equitable Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the national Endowment for the Arts and the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art; the Prix de Rome from the American Academy in Rome; a South Carolina Individual Artist Fellowship; a 2001 fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation; a 2007 grant from the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, Inc.; a finalist position in the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2009, hosted by the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery; and, most recently, the 2009 College of Fine Arts Distinguished Alumni Award from Boston College.

Peacock has exhibited his paintings nationally many times since 1980 and has had one-person exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; the Greenville Museum of Art, Greenville, SC; and the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC. His work is in the collections of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Hood Museum of Art, among others. He has been a Professor of Fine Arts at he College of Charleston’s School of the Arts since 1996.