Bio:
Peggy Gyulai’s large abstract paintings are inspired by the lyrical qualities of music. Her work is in more than 85 collections in the US and Europe including SAP America, Neiman Marcus, ARCO Chemical, Royal Bank of Ontario, The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts and Vanguard Funds. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in Biological Anthropology, she studied painting, drawing and sculpture at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

Gyulai has been appointed Painter-in-Residence with the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra for 2010 and 2011, following a residency with the The Music Institute of Chicago in 2009. “Tone Interludes”, a solo exhibition in 2008 in San Francisco, introduced her recent series of large, jazz-inspired paintings. SFMoMa’s Artists Gallery featured her work in “Banzai/Godzilla: Japanese Influences on American Artists” in August 2007. Her solo exhibition “16 Atmospheres for piano and paint” was created in collaboration with pianist Rieko Aizawa for Pentimenti Gallery in Philadelphia in 2005. In 2003, the Philadelphia Museum of Jewish Art commissioned the series “Dreams and Prayers”, inspired by Jewish Ukrananian cantorial music and contemporary music by Argentine composer Osvaldo Golijov. In 2002, her exhibition “Parallel Play: New Paintings, New Music” was inspired by contemporary classical composers John Adams and Tina Davidson.

Gyulai was an Artist-in-Residence at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 2002. In 1999-2000 she was commissioned to create a series of paintings for performances of The Philadelphia Orchestra at the Academy of Music to celebrate their centennial season. Gyulai has also created multimedia commissions for live symphony performances. Her work has been featured in the Philadelphia Inquirer, ABC news, Philadelphia Style magazine, City Paper and WRTI’s “Tempo” magazine and on WRTI broadcasts.