Born in Muelheim an der Ruhr, Germany, Sibylle Peretti first studied glassmaking & design at the State School for Glass in Zwiesel and continued her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cologne, Germany, where she received her MFA in Sculpture and Painting in 1993.
Peretti is using two-dimensional kiln-formed glass panels that she combines with painting, photography and drawing. She often pairs them with three-dimensional lost-wax castings.
The works are narratives about the beautiful and poetic yet disrupted relationship between humans and the natural world. Her panels and sculptures are an affirmation of life, as well as a warning of the impending loss—societal & environmental—that she has witnessed in the industrial wastelands of her native Germany and the eroding and increasingly flooded lowlands of her adopted Louisiana home.
Peretti has won numerous awards and endorsements, including grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and the Joan Mitchell Foundation. In 2012/13 she received a United States Artist Fellowship.
She was a residence artist at the Arts/ Industry Program at Kohler Art Center in Sheboygan WI. And was awarded 4 residencies at Wheaton Arts in Milleville NJ.
In 2018 her work was featured in a solo exhibition Promise and Perception: The Enchanted landscapes of Sibylle Peretti,at the Chrysler Museum of Art.
Peretti’s work is included in the collection of the Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo OH, The Barry Art Museum, Norfolk VA, Corning Museum of Glass, Corning NY, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg PA, Speed Museum, Louisville KY, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada, Museum of Applied Arts, Frankfurt GER, Imagine Museum, St. Petersburg FL ,Alexander–Tutsek Foundation, Munich GER, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans LA, Shanghai Museum of Glass, China, Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga TN, The Ringling Museum, Sarasota FL, among others.