Peter Cochrane

Title: In 1639, Hans Bollongier Painted Still Life with Flowers, an Economic Impossibility Containing Fifteen Semper augustus Tulips, as Commentary on the Dutch Tulip Market Collapse of 1637

Date: 2024

Medium: Archival Pigment Print

Dimensions: 15"x20" Image on 17"x22" Paper

Peter Cochrane (b. San Diego, CA) is a multimedia artist who depicts stories of resilience and metamorphosis through the lenses of horticulture, art history, science fiction, and autobiography. Working with sculptural materials such as metals and botanical matter, to digital imaging and experimental darkroom photographic techniques, he builds elaborate narrative set pieces and objects that explore fundamental questions of human existence and cosmic time.

He received his BA from San Francisco State University (2011), and his MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University (2019). His work has appeared in Headmaster, The San Francisco Chronicle, Vast Magazine, Hyperallergic, Brink, Artslant, the MoCP lecture series, the de Young Museum, the Vermont Center for Photography, the Tokyo International Photo Awards, and others. He is a recipient of the Snider Prize and has been a finalist for many awards including the Hopper Prize, the Fine Art Photography Award, the Exposure Award, and the Kodak Photo Film Award. In 2022, he was nominated for The Shpilman International Prize for Excellence in Photography. He has held several solo exhibitions nationally, and his work is in public and private collections including Capital One and the Museum of Contemporary Photography.