Pekoc teaches drawing at Case Western Reserve University. He has received five Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowships and an OAC sponsored two-month International Residency in the Czech Republic.
His work has appeared in more than 100 solo and group shows at institutions including the Cleveland Museum of Art, MOCA Cleveland, the Akron Art Museum, the National Gallery of Australia, the Ueda Gallery in Tokyo, and several galleries in New York City.
His work is also in permanent collections at the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Akron Art Museum, New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Czech Center of Photography, Houston’s Museum of Fine Arts, Harvard’s Fogg Art Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Ringling Museum in Sarasota, Florida, and the Progressive Insurance Art Collection. His late-1970s mural “Night Sky, Cleveland” looks down on the main hall of the Cleveland Public Library near Public Square.
