Cliffton Peacock received his M.F.A. degree from Boston University in 1977. His teachers there included James Weeks, John Wilson and Philip Guston. He has been the recipient of numerous awards, including three National Endowment for the Arts grants; three Massachusetts Artist Fellowship awards; an Englehard Foundation grant; a Louis Comfort Tiffany Fellowship; Visual Arts grants sponsored by the Equitable Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art; the Prix de Rome from the American Academy in Rome; a South Carolina Individual Artist Fellowship; and, most recently, a 2001 fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation.

Professor Peacock has exhibited his paintings nationally many times since 1980 and has had one-person exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; the Greenville Museum of Art, Greenville, SC; and the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC.

His work is in the collections of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Hood Museum of Art, among others. He has been an Associate Professor of Fine Arts at the College of Charleston since 1996.

Professor Peacock’s work was featured in a recent (August 25-October 11, 2003) exhibit at the College of Charleston’s Halsey Gallery titled “Recent Paintings.” This exhibition featured paintings completed by Peacock during his recent two-year sojourn in New York City. According to Halsey Gallery Director, Mark Sloan, Peacock is “a gifted painter with a fresh approach to figuration. His paintings infer rather than describe their subjects.”