Peanut Ricky

Northside Studio Resident, April-October 2025

Peanut Ricky is an Iowa City native and a recent graduate of the University of Iowa where they received a BFA in Painting and a BA in Art History—Peanut works in acrylic and oil paints, as well as wood and paper-mâché. They enjoy humor, puppets, portraiture, absurdity, camp, kitsch, infrastructural bricks, and bathroom floors.
Peanut will spend their residency creating a collection of small informational pamphlets on local history, and a series of paintings inspired by their fixation with a back-to-the-land ideology, the chasm between modern living and the production of necessities, and the doom all these thoughts beget.