At Zürcher Gallery
33 Bleecker Street, New York, NY 10012

Jaanika Peerna is an Estonian-born artist and educator living and working in New York since 1998. Her work encompasses drawing, installation and performance. Peerna’s “Glacier Elegy” is an ongoing series of performances, the most recent of which took place in Paris and on the waterfront in Venice, as well as Brooklyn, in Cold Spring, and Berlin. The performances, focused on the erosion of ice, are a reminder that it is our human actions that cause the destruction of glaciers; she encourages her audience to feel the touch of the ice with her.

 Peerna’s exhibitions include FRAC Picardie, France; Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT; Artdepoo Gallery, Estonia; Drawing Lab, Paris and Kentler International Drawing Space, New York. Together with this, her performances include: The Bronx Museum, New York; Hudson Valley Centre of Contemporary Art: Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT. Her work is in important international collections including The Bennetton Collection, Italy; Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris; Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, Wales; Garrison Art Center, New York;  Imago Mundi.

 Current exhibitions include Connecting the Drops: The Power of Water - a group exhibition focused on environmental justice and the vital importance of water at Stony Brook University.