Peter Veres

Peter Veres was born in 1938, and lived in Budapest, Hungary until 1949 when, having survived WW II, he and his family emigrated to the US and settled in New York City. There he went to the High School of Music and Art and Columbia College, graduating in 1961 with a BA and a major in art history.

That same year he married Ruth Cahn and moved to Cambridge, MA, to work with the sculptor Mirko Basaldella at Harvard. He earned an MAT degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and taught art and art history at the Newton College for Women.

In 1963 he moved to Berkeley, CA and taught, until 1978, at the San Francisco College for Women, later called Lone Mountain College. He also taught in the graduate school of San Francisco State College, 1965-1968.

In the Bay Area his work was in sculpture and graphic art. From 1969 to 1975 he created and performed in his own theater works. In 1977 he started making mosaics, which he continued until 1999.

In 1978 he moved with his family to Mendocino, CA, where he continued his work in mosaics, mostly for public places.

In 1993 he moved to San Francisco, where he still lives, working mostly on sculptures and making books.