Born: 1950
Studied: Stanford University, Stanford, CA: MFA Painting; University of Iowa, Des Moines, IA: MA Painting; Drake University, Des Moines, IA: BFA Painting; University of California at San Diego: BA Literature
Currently lives and works in Bolinas and San Francisco, CA

Brooke relates her work to nature and architecture in her desire, through her paintings, to create a space for the viewer to contemplate. Inspired by her environs in Northern California and Pont-Aven, France she views light falling on water as visual metaphor for the fleeting quality of experience as a central theme of her work.

Brooke also spends time in Pont-Aven, France, the site of her video/poems, which are a parallel practice to her paintings. She is a professor at the San Francisco Art Institute.

Pegan Brooke’s paintings have been exhibited for many years, including exhibitions at the Guggenheim Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Oakland Museum, San Diego Museum of Art, Des Moines Art Center and Museum, Sao Paulo Biennale and the Monterey Museum of Art. Brooke has received awards and honors, which include a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Artist Grant, two Marin Arts Council Grants, and an alternate award for the Prix de Rome. She was also awarded Artist in Residency fellowships at the Millay colony for the Arts in New York and five residencies at the Pont-Aven School of Contemporary Art in France.
Brooke’s paintings have been reviewed in numerous publications, including The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Examiner, The New York Times and Art in America.

Pegan Brooke’s work is held in public and private collections, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, U.S. Embassies in Sri Lanka and Bolivia, Mills College, University of Nebraska Art Museum, State of Iowa Capitol Building, Bank of America International Headquarters, Standard Oil Corporation, Prudential Insurance Company, Security Pacific Bank, Oracle Headquarters, Meredith Corporation, McDonald Corporation, The Principal Financial Group, Unocal Corporation, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Anderson Collection, Roselyn Swig Collection, Charles R. Schwab, and Steven Chase Collection.