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Matteo Pericoli was born in Milan, where he graduated from the Polytechnic School of Architecture. He moved to New York in 1995, where he has worked as an architect, illustrator, author, journalist, and teacher.
From 1997 to 2000 he worked at the architectural firm Richard Meier & Partners as the project architect for the Jubilee Church in Rome. His drawings have been published in various newspapers and magazines, in the US, in Italy, and elsewhere—including The New York Times, The New Yorker, Conde' Nast Traveler, Travel & Leisure, Il Corriere della Sera, and La Stampa, among others. He has written for the Italian newspapers L'Unità and La Stampa. In 2007 he completed Skyline of the World, a 397-foot-long panoramic mural for American Airlines' new International Terminal at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York.
He teaches architecture and illustration at Saint Ann’s School in Brooklyn, NY.
Published Books:
Manhattan Unfurled (Random House, 2001), Manhattan Within (Random House, 2003), See the City: the Journey of Manhattan Unfurled (Knopf for Young Readers, 2004), The True Story of Stellina (Knopf for Young Readers, 2006), and New York e altri disegni (Quodlibet, IT, 2005).
In Progress:
Tommaso and the Missing Line (Knopf for Young Readers, fall 2008), New York City Window Views (Simon & Schuster, 2009), and World Unfurled (Chronicle, 2008).
Exhibitions:
Basilica of S. Alessandro
in Fiesole (Florence), Italy, “New York e altri disegni,” April 2005 - July 2005
XXXVIII Prix International d’Art Contemporain de Monte-Carlo, Monaco June 2004 - July 2004
The New Yorker Magazine, New York City, “The Geometry of Light” (group exhibit), February 2004 - March 2004
Municipal Art Society, New York City, “Manhattan Within,” December 2003 - January 2004
Galleria Il Gabbiano, Rome, Italy, November 2003 - December 2003
New-York Historical Society, New York City, “Manhattan Unfurled,” October 2001 - January 2002
Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò of NY University, New York City, “Manhattan Unfurled & other works,” December 1999 - January 2000
Italian Cultural Institute, New York City, “Manhattan Unfurled,” October 1999
Awards:
AIGA, Borders Group, Inc. (nomination for “2006 Original Voices Award”), Cooper-Hewitt - National Design Awards (nomination for “Architecture Design Award”), Gryphon Award, Municipal Art Society (nomination for “Brendan Gill Award”), NY Book Show, NY Bookbinders Guild, NY Public Library, Pewter Award, Society of Illustrators.
