JoAnn Peralta crossed over from illustration to fine art in 2004. Since then, she’s captured historical figures, cowboy Western, Native Americans, as well as Southwestern Americans with her unique style of oil painting.

A feature article was written about her in Western Art Collector February 2022, and a feature interview for The American Art Collective podcast in 2022 received a “Top-twenty Notable Podcast Viewership Award.”

Peralta pursued her education at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California where, upon entrance, she was awarded a full scholarship. Her canvasses have also been featured in publications such as Art Business News, Art of the West, Fine Art Connoisseur, International Art, International Artist, Southwest Art and a feature in Western Art & Architecture.

Peralta’s original paintings have been collected by many Forbes Fortune 500 collectors as well as entertainment industry personalities, an NFL billionaire team owner, and one of the largest land owner families on the southwestern American landscape, amongst many others.

Her favorite experience happened when an itinerant farm worker came up to her during a museum show and said his family owned one of her paintings from when she first began. He was teary-eyed.

Spectrum News 1 interviewed Joann for a short online video which was produced through the Autry Museum. It highlighted her historical Western painting “Peace in the Valley, Treaty Between The Kitchens Ranch and Cochise, Tucson, 1873” which sold for $40,000 at the Masters of the America West show in February 2020.

Peralta has participated in Masters of the American West Exhibition & Sale from 2010 - 2023. She was awarded the “Artist’s Choice Award” for her painting “Spanish Shawl ll” in 2019, the second of only two women to receive that honor at that time. She also exhibits at Small Works, Great Wonders show held annually at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City.

JoAnn’s first book, Math Face, received the distinction of being invited into the Library of Congress as well as their special program for education. She has a feature documentary, Spanish Americans: the Fine Art of JoAnn Peralta, and her works can be found on Instagram and Facebook as well as her website jperalta.com. JoAnn Peralta is represented by J. Watson Fine Art.