Peter Scheidt’s creative studio work is research and concept-driven yet firmly grounded in the craft of furniture and woodworking. He earned a BA from Brown University in Providence, RI with dual concentrations in Modern Culture and Media and Visual Art before receiving an MFA in Furniture Design and Woodworking from San Diego State University. He has exhibited widely in juried, group and solo exhibition at venues including the Wharton Esherick Museum (PA), Space4Art (CA), SooVAC (MN), St. Louis Artist’s Guild (MO), and Sulfur Studios (GA).
Scheidt lives in Ames, IA where he teaches Wood + Material Studies for the Art and Visual Culture Department in the College of Design at Iowa State University.
Contact Peter for a full C.V.
Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions
2025 Solo exhibition, James Wegner Gallery, Riverland Community College, Austin, MN (forthcoming)
Solo exhibition, Artlink, Auer Center for Arts and Culture, Fort Wayne, IN (forthcoming)
Solo exhibition, Joyce Paddock Bliss Gallery, Carroll University, Waukesha, WI (forthcoming)
2024 Double Take, Fitton Center for Creative Arts, Hamilton, OH
Steven Labadessa and Peter Scheidt, Burnell R. Roberts Triangle Gallery, Sinclair Community College, Dayton, OH
2022 [non]functional, ASU Beebe England Center Art Gallery, Beebe, AR
2017 Mobile Services, San Diego State University Gallery, San Diego, CA (MFA thesis exhibition)
2009 Honors Thesis Solo Show, List Art Center, Providence, RI (Honors BA thesis exhibition)
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 Open Door 19, Rosalux Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Where the Artificial Ends: an Iowa Pop Art exhibition, CSPS Hall, Cedar Rapids, IA
2023 Currents: AVC Faculty Exhibition, Gallery 181, Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Craft: A Force in Contemporary Art, online, SITE:Brooklyn Gallery*
Telling Tales: 29th Annual Juried Woodworking Exhibition, online, Wharton Esherick Museum, Malvern, PA
FS23 Member’s Exhibition, Loyola Diboll Gallery, Loyola University, New Orleans, LA
Untitled 17, Soo Visual Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN
2022 2022 Faculty Biennial, UA Little Rock Brad Cushman Gallery, Little Rock, AR
Constructed Visions IV, St. Louis Artist’s Guild, Clayton, MO
2022 Annual Juried Art Competition, South Arkansas Arts Center, El Dorado, AR
Summer 2022 artWAYS Instructor Exhibit, UA Little Rock Brad Cushman Gallery, Little Rock, AR
Department of Art and Design Faculty Exhibit, UA Little Rock Downtown, Little Rock, AR
2021 2021 Faculty Biennial, UA Little Rock Ann Maners and Alex Pappas Gallery, Little Rock, AR
An Unbroken Circle, Historic Arkansas Museum, Little Rock, AR (3-person exhibition)
2020 Re::Claimed, Sulfur Studios, Savannah, GA
2018 I Love to Ride My Bicycle, San Diego State University Downtown Gallery, San Diego, CA
2018 Faculty Biennial, UA Little Rock Brad Cushman Gallery, Little Rock, AR
Academic Teaching
2023-pres. Assistant Professor of Wood + Material Studies, Iowa State University, Ames, IA
2018-2023 Windgate Assistant Professor of 3D/Furniture Design, University of Arkansas Little Rock, Little Rock, AR