Southampton African American Museum
Explore thought provoking and inspiring art created by African American artists Sanford Biggers, Melvin Edwards, Theaster Gates, Glenn Ligon, & Kara Walker from the private collection of architect and collector Peter Marino.
Peter Marino is the Principal of Peter Marino Architect PLLC, the New York-based architecture firm he founded in 1978. Marino is internationally renowned for his design process that integrates architecture and art. His diverse body of work covers all scales and typologies expanding beyond architecture’s boundaries to include commissioning over 300 works of art for his buildings and their interiors, the design of exhibitions, galleries, furniture, Murano glass sculptures, an opera, and sculpted bronze boxes.
Throughout his career, Peter Marino has proven an avid philanthropist and art collector. During the summer of 2021, Marino plans to open an art foundation in Southampton, New York, having restored and renovated the former Rogers Memorial Library in the process. The Peter Marino Art Foundation will feature rotating shows from guest artists and collaborators as well as a permanent public exhibition of artworks from Marino’s collection which includes Renaissance and Baroque bronzes, 19th-century French ceramics, and hundreds of paintings, photographs, sculptures, and mixed-media pieces by some of the most notable artists of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
In 2012 Marino was named a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French Ministry of Culture was honored with the insignia of Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters in 2017 for his work in art and architecture. Marino is chairman of Venetian Heritage which recently celebrated its 20th anniversary. Marino has also dedicated over 25 years of support for Young Concert Artists, having served as its chairman for 10 years and establishing the annual Peter Marino Concert annual concert series.
Having first studied painting and sculpture before graduating from Cornell University’s College of Architecture, Art, and Planning, Marino began his career at Skidmore Owings & Merrill, George Nelson, and I.M. Pei/Cossutta & Ponte.
