Dr. Samuel Peralta
Physicist and entrepreneur, Dr. Samuel Peralta is well-recognized in realist art circles as a collector and curator. Profiled in Fine Art Connoisseur, Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, PoetsArtists and elsewhere, Dr. Peralta has curated exhibits with 33 Contemporary Gallery, artNXTlevel, Artsy.net, the Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Zhou B Art Center.
Dr. Peralta and his wife are named sponsors of the Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirrored Room at the Art Gallery of Ontario and their collection featured in art publications worldwide. In addition to Figuratieve Kunst Vandaag’s International FiKVA Award, he has served as a judge for the International ARC Salon for the Art Renewal Center. He is also a visual artist, with work in contemporary neoplasticism debuting at the CONTEXT / Art Miami / Art Basel international art fair.
In other cultural areas, Dr. Peralta is also an award-winning author, poet and filmmaker. His recognition includes a Palanca Memorial Award for Literature, accolades from the UK Poetry Society and the BBC, two Golden Globe® nominations, and an Emmy® Award.
Dr. Peralta’s most significant arts project is the Lunar Codex, launching over 200,000 works of art, writing, music, and film from 254 countries, territories, and Indigenous nations from Earth to space, to the Moon, and beyond, in tandem with NASA’s Artemis program. One of the first of these archives landed on the Moon in February 2024, the first successful US landing in over 50 years. Its contents, laser-etched on nickel microfiche, are expected to last up to a billion years. The camera on the lunar lander Odysseus which took all the photos of the historic landing was officially named “Lunar Codex” in honor of this cultural heritage project.
