Jim Peters was born in Syracuse, NY, in 1945. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD in 1967 (BS, Atomic Physics), and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA in 1969 (MS, Nuclear Engineering). He began painting while serving on the aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy and, using the G. I. bill, graduated from Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD in 1977 (MFA, Painting). A painter and constructionist, he exhibits regularly at CDS Gallery, NYC (since 1986) and at the artSTRAND gallery in Provincetown, MA, of which he is a founding member and co-owner. Awards include Fellowships at Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown (1982-83 and 1983-84), Massachusetts Artists Grants (1985 and 1988), Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Fellowship (1999), and Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship (2002). He has work in many collections world wide including William Benton Museum, University of Connecticut, Flint Institute of Art, and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NYC. Jim Peters lives and works in Pawtucket, RI with the writer Kate Carr.

Jim Peters is the Chair of the Visual Arts Committee at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. He teaches painting and drawing at the Museum School at Provincetown Art Association and Museum and the Fine Arts Work Center Summer Program.

“My work is a search for a domestic space and a domestic sensuality. I paint from my mind and my imagination. I paint where we live or want to live. The work is a constant revision, changing and honing images until fantasy and reality meet. I love constructing, building, creating space both illusionary and real. I add elements such as wood, wire, metal to the pieces in an attempt to create a tension between 2-D illusion and 3-D reality. I want the work to be both an object and an illusion.......like passion ?.”