Peter Evan Costas

Peter Evan Costas is a Colorado-based (formerly Chicago-based) artist who uses [REDACTED] materials to reconstruct and unearth memories and imagination. Through a combination of lens-based work, sound, sculpture, performance, [REDACTED], and painting his work drives to both communicate the submariner experience and use memory as a catalyst for fiction. Much of his practice relies on eliciting sensory experiences around sound and touch and how they affect our heavy reliance on the visual. Having served on submarines as a Sonar Technician in the US Navy from 2011 to 2016, his personal experience within the military is [REDACTED] and a constant totem of time, growth, humor, trauma, and secrecy. Peter Evan Costas received his Master of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2022 and is currently Assistant Professor of Art in Photography at Adams State University in Alamosa, Colorado.