Cyd Peroni

Cyd Peroni is a fine art photographer 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. Her images hold details that tug instinctively at something deeper than reason and logic. 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 Art Intersection, ArtLink Phoenix, and Los Angeles Center for 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 Eye Lounge (Phoenix, AZ); The Halide Project (Philadelphia, PA); Medium Festival of Photography (San Diego, CA); A Smith Gallery (Johnson City, TX); Light Art Space (Silver City, NM); The Flinn Foundation (Phoenix, AZ); Art Intersection (Gilbert, AZ); Found:RE Hotel (Phoenix, AZ); 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.