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Biography - Peter Doig

Born

1959 Edinburgh, Scotland

Education

1979 – 80 Wimbledon School of Art
1980 – 83 St. Martin’s School of Art, BFA
1989 – 90 Chelsea School of Art, MFA
1995 – 2000 Trustee of Tate Gallery, London

Solo Exhibitions

2008 “Peter Doig: Retrospective”, Tate Britain, London England; traveling to the Musee d’Art Moderne, Paris, France and the Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
2006 “Go West Young Man”, Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig
“Peter Doig: Studiofilmclub 2003 – 2006”, Ballroom, Marfa/Texas
2005 “Peter Doig: Works on Paper”, (traveling) Dallas Museum of Art, The
Gallery at Windsor, Art Gallery of Ontario, Museum Ludwig, Kunsthalle
Zurich
“Peter Doig-Studio Film Club, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
2004 “Metropolitain”, Pinakothek Der Moderne, Munich, Germany
“Kestnergellchaft”, Hanover, Germany
“Charley’s Space”, Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, Netherlands
2003 “Peter Doig”, The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2002 “100 years ago,” Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England
“Peter Doig the Prints,” The Bailey Collection, Toronto
2001 “Peter Doig,” Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver (travels to National Gallery of Canada, Ottowa, Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto) (cat.)
2000 “Echo-Lake,” Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA (traveled to Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL; St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO)
“Almost Grown,” The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
1999 “wing-mirror,” Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York, NY
“version (drawings),” Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York, NY
“version,” Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus, Switzerland (cat.)
“country-rock,” Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
Fruitmarket Gallery (with Udomsak Krisanamis), Edinburgh, Scotland
1998 “Arnolfini (with Udomansk Krisanamis), Bristol, England (cat.)
“Blizzard seventy-seven,” Kunsthalle Nurnberg, Germany (toured to Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Germany; Whitechapel Art Galllery, London, England) (cat.) Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
“Buffalo Station,” Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England
1996 Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York, NY
“Freestyle,” Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England
“Homely,” Gesellschaft fur Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, Germany (cat.)
“Small Paintings,” Riding House Editions, London, England
1995 “Blotter,” Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany (cat.)
1994 Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York, NY
“Concrete Cabins,” Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England
1991 “Whitechapel Artist Award,” Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England
1990 “Articule,” Montreal Quebec, Canada
1986 “The Naked City,” Air Gallery, London, England
1984 Metropolitan Gallery, London, England

Group Exhibitions

2006 “In den Alpen”, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich
“The Secret Public - The Last Days of the British Underground 1978-88”, Kunstverein München, Munich; ICA, London
“Eye on Europe”, Museum of Modern Art, New York
“Essential Painting”, The National Museum of Art, Osaka
“Surprise, Surprise”, ICA London
2005 “Rene Daniels, Peter Doig, Silke Otto-Knapp”, Gavin Browns enterprise, New York, New York
“Ideal Worlds; New Romanticism in Contemporary Art”, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
“The Triumph of Painting-Part 1”, The Saatchi Gallery, London, England
2004 “Peter Doig-Jochen Klein, Galerie Daniel Buccholz, Cologne, Germany
“Huts” The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
“The Undiscovered Country”, Hammer Museum, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
“Carnegie International”, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PN
“Bearings: Landscapes from the IMMA Collection”, Irish Museum of
Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
2003 “Pittura/Painting: From Rauschenberg to Murakami 1964-2003, Venice
Biennale, Venice, Italy
“Happiness”, The Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2002 “The Galleries Show”, Royal Academy of Art, London, England
“Art + Mountains: conquistadors of the useless”, The Apline Club, London, England
“Cavepainting” Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
“Dear Painter…Paint Me,” Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France, touring to Kunsthalle Wien and Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt
“Cavepainting,” Santa Monica Museum of Modern Art, with Chris Ofili and Laura Owens, Santa Monica, CA
2001 “Fig-1, 50 projects in 50 weeks,” conceived and developed by Mark Francis and Jay Jopling, London, England (cat.)
“Hier ist dort,” Peter Doig, Lisa Milroy, Anna Meyer, Salzburger Kunstverein, Austria
“Camera Works: The Photographic Impulse in Contemporary Art,” Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY
“The Way I See It, ” Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris, France
“Works on Paper,” The Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
“”Extended Painting,” Monica de Cardenas, Milan, Italy
“EU,” Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
“About the Bayberry Bush,” The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
“Works on Paper from Acconci to Zittel,” Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England
2000 “From a Distance: Approaching Landscape,” The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
“Twisted: Urban and Visionary Landscapes in contemporary Painting,” Van Abbemuseum, Eindhover, Netherlands
“Spot On,” Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England
“00,” Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY (cat.)
1999 “River Deep Mountain High,” Gallery Westland Place, London, England (curated by Kelly Taylor)
Anthony Wilkinson Gallery, London, England (curated by Matthew Higgs)
“Contemplating Pollock,” Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England
“Go away—artists travel,” Royal College of Art, London, England
Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France
“Peter Doig and Udomsak Krisanamis,” The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland and Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, England
“Examining Pictures,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL (cat.)
“Group Show,” Bonakdar Jancou Gallery, New York, NY
1998 “Sunday,” Cabinet Gallery, London, England
“About Vision: New British Paintings in the 1990,” Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle
1997-98 “New Found Landscape,” Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
1997 “Alpenblick,” Kunsthalle, Wien, Austria (curated by Wolfgang Kos)
“Malerei4,” Galerie Monika Spruth, Dusseldorf, Germany
“About Vision: New British Paintings in the 1990,” Christchurch Mansion, Ipswich
“Package Holiday, New British Art in the Ophiuchus Collection,” The Hydra Workshop, Hydra, Greece
1996 “Drawings from the M.A.B. Library,” AC Project Room
Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France
“There’s a painting on the wall,” a collaboration with Matthew Higgs, Anthony Wilkinson Fine Art, London, England
“Answered Prayers,” Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany.
“Belladonna,” ICA, London, England
“Faustrecht der Freiheit,” Kunstsammlung Gera, Neues Museum Weserberg, Bremen, Germany
“About Vision: New British Painting in the 90’s,” Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England
“About Vision: New British Paintings in the 1990,” The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
1995 “Zombie Golf,” Burbage House, London, England (curated by BANK)
1994 “The Turner Prize Exhibition,” Tate Gallery, London, England
“Moyra Davey, Peter Doig,” Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York, NY
“Unbound: Possibilities in Painting,” Hayward Gallery, London, England (cat.) (curated by Adrian Searle and Greg Hilty)
“Prix Eliette von Karajan,” Tour: Salzburg, Vienne, Paris (1st prize winner) (cat.)
“New Voices,” British Council touring exhibition (cat.)
Imprint 93, Cabinet Gallery, London, curated by Matthew Higgs
“Here and Now,” Serpentine Gallery, London, England
Victoria Miro Gallery, Group Painting Exhibition, London, England
1993 “Moving into View,” Royal Festival Hall, London, England
“Twelve Stars,” Barbican Center, London, England
“Project Unite Firminy,” Firminy Vert, France
John Moores Exhibition 18, Liverpool, England (1st prize winner)
1992 “Inside a Microcosm,” curated by Gareth Jones, Laure Genillard Gallery, London, England
“New Voices,” Centre Albert Borschette, Brussels, Belgium
1991 “Barclays Young Artist Award,” Serpentine Gallery, London, England
1990 “Into the Nineties,” Mall Galleries, London, England
1985 “Things as They Are,” Riverside Studios, London, England
1983 “New Contemporaries,” I.C.A., London, England
1982 “New Contemporaries,” I.C.A., London, England

Bibliography

2005 Wege, Astrid, “Peter Doig”, Artforum, November 2005
Lubbock, Tom “The Triumph of Painting” That’s a pretty rich claim”
The Independent, 25 January 2005
2003 Higgs, Matthew “Peter Doig: Arts Club of Chicago”, Artforum, October 2003
2002 Brown, Robert. Review, Contemporary, June/July/August, p. 161.
Higgie, Jennifer. Review, Frieze, June/July/August, pp. 102-103.
Searle, Adrian. “Wild Blue Yonder,” Guardian Unlimited, April 16.
2001 Milroy, Sarah. “The big one the got away,” globeandmail.com.
2000 Doig, Peter. Canadian Art, Fall, p. 66.
Hill, Joe. “Review,” Art In America, No. 4, April, pp. 151-152.
Ziolkowski, Thad. “Review,” Artforum, February, p. 119.
Pollack, Barbara. “New York Reviews,” Art News, February, p. 164.
Rawsthron, Alice. “Peter Doig—Scanning the post-conceptual landscape,” Elle Décor, December-January, pp. 96-99.
Turner, Elisa. “Touch of the Movies,” The Miami Herald, September 24.
1999 Johnson, Ken. “Art in Review,” The New York Times, Friday, December 10.
Saltz, Jerry. “Out of the Fog,” Village Voice, December 21, page 123.
1998 Pietsch, Hans. “Ausstellungs-Vorschau, Kiel: Peter Doig. Die Natur besiegt de GroBstadt,” Art, pp. 80-81.
Doig, Peter. Whitechapel Art Gallery—Preview,” Artforum, May p. 69.
1998 Edelstein, Leo. “Peter Doig, Losing Oneself in the Looking,” Flash Art, May-June pp. 84-86.
Murphy, Anna. “A picture of a man looking in a puddle. Just how deep is it?” Observer Life, June 24, p. 23.
Hilton, Tim. “Have I seen you somewhere before?” Independent, June
Greengerg, Sarah. “Doig’s View,” Elle Decoration, June.
Searle, Adrian. “Nature of the Beast,” The Guardian (Art, Visual Arts section), June 16, pp. 10-11.
Cork, Richard. “Cold comfort in a land of snow,” The Times (Arts), June 23.
Lubbock, Tom. “anything possible on the road to excess,” The Independent (the Tuesdsay review), June 16.
Feaver, William, “Darkest Canada,” The Observer Review, June 21.
Gisbourne, Mark. “Mark Gisbourne on the narrative of North, siksi, summer.
Moszynska, Anna. “Daytime Astronomy,” Tate, summer, pp. 30-35.
1997 Bailey, W. Bruce C., “Cabin Fever,” Canadian Art, Vol. 14, Spring.
1996 Cotter, Holland. “Peter Doig,” The New York Times, December 3.
Hilton, Tim. “The Best Painting in Britaim, “The Independent, November 17, p. 30.
Fricke, Harald. “Mit einem Van Gogh Film in der Kamera,” dei tageszeitung, August 6.
Strange, Raimar. “Peter Doig in der Gesellschaft fur Aktuelle Kunst,” Neue Bildendede Kunst, July/August, p. 37.
Gisbourne, Mark. “Peter Doig/Victoria Miro,” Untitled, No. 10, Spring
Cruz, Juan. “Peter Doig,” review in Art Monthly, March.
McEwan, John. “Critics Choice,” No. 56, The Sunday Telegraph, February 11.
Bevan, Roger. “Peters Friends,” The Art Newspaper, No. 56, February, p.31.
Carlisle, Isabel. “Peter Doig on—What the Genius of Cezanne means to us,” The Times, Monday, February 5, p. 14
Collings, Matthew. Diary: “A Shuffle on the Wild Side,” Modern Painters, Spring, No.1, Vol. 9, pp 61-62
Doig, Peter. “A Brush With Genius: Peter Doig on Edward Hopper,” The Guardian, Tuesday, March 5, p. 8
Searle, Adrian. “Peter Doig/Victoria Miro,” TimeOut, February, No. 1330, pp14-21
Wright, Michael. Interview with Peter Doig, “A Week In The Arts,” The Daily Telegraph, Saturday, January 13
Hersteuth, Peter. “Peter Doig: Contemporary Fine Arts,” Flash Art International, No. 186, January/February, pp. 108-9
1995 Pietsch, Hans. “Visionen einter inneren Wildnis,” Art, No. 10, October
Schreiber, Susanne. “Sinnliche Malerei und Kuehle Installation,” Handelsblatt, June 23, p. G4
Lubbock, Tom. “Anything’s possible on the road to excess,” The Independent, June 16
Fricke, Harald. “Abgesenkter Klassifkationsdrang,” Die Tageszeitung, June 17, p. 29
Berg, Roland. “Die ewig nackte Sirene,” Der Tagesspiegel, June 10, p. 22
Tanner, Christoph, “Peter Doig, Auftakt Fruehkritik,” Radio Brandenburg, May.
Lillington, David, “Invervalste Romantiek,” Metropolis M, February, No. 1 (interview).
1994 Searle, Adrian. “The Twilight Zone,” The Independent, October 21.
Smith, Roberta. “Peter Doig,” The New York Times, September 20, Art in Review.
Bonaventura, Paul. “Hunter in the Snow,” Artefactum, September.
Roberts, Alison. “What’s the betting on the Turner,” July 21, Evening Standard.
Lillington, David. “Zeit Geist,” TimeOut London, September 3.
Pile, Stephen. “Outrage at the Tate,” The Daily Telegraph, July 23, pp. 18, 28-29.
A.T. “A Figurative Aberration, ” Financial Times, July 20.
Herbert, Susannah. “‘Real’ art is back in fashion as Turner Prize jury makes a break with oddball tradition,” The Daily Telegraph, July 20.
Jury, Louise. “Body moulder builds big lead in Turner Prize line-up,” The Guardian, July 20.
Feaver, William. Review, ArtNews, May.
Norman, Geraldine. “The Contemporary Capital,” The Independent, March 13.
McKay, Ian. “Back to Basics,” March 23.
Packer, William. “Hidebound by Rhetoric,” Financial Times, March 15
“Sort of, almost, in a way, nearly,” The Independent, March 13
Januszczak, Waldemar. “A State of Confusion,” The Times, March 13, p. 28.
Auty, Giles. “A Tug on the Chain,” Spectator, March 12.
Hall, James. “Repetitve Art. Come Again?” The Guardian, January 31.
Feaver, William, “Chorus line of long faces from Pigalle,” The Observer, January 16.
Grant, Simon. “Rising Star, Peter Doig,” ES Magazine, January 7.
Milner, Catherine. “A Brighter Picture,” Times Magazine, January 29.
1993 Wilson, Andrew. “Wet Paint,” Royal Academy Magazine, #41, Winter.
Hilton, Tim. “Moores the merrier, but for how long?” The Independent on Sunday, October 24.
Packer, William. “A prize commitment to painting,” Financial Times, November 2.
Feaver, William. “Congratulations to a blotter on the landscape,” The Observer, October 24.
1992 Jones, Gareth. “Weird Places, Strange Folk,” Frieze, Issue 6, September/October.

Catalogues and Books

2002 “Art Now,” published by Taschen, edited by Uta Grosenick and Burkhard Riemschneider, text by Rochelle Steiner, Koln
“DEAR PAINTER…Paint Me,” published by the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
“Cavepainting,” published by the Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
2001 “Peter Doig, ” Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
2000 “Almost Grown, Paintings by Peter Doig,” Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland and Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England
1999 “Examining Pictures,” Whitechapel Gallery, London
“Peter Doig version,” Kunsthaus Glarus, Switzerland
1998 “Peter Doig/Udomsak Krisanamis,” Arnolfini, Bristol, England, texts by Ian Hunt and Jake Chapman
“Blizzard Seventy-Seven,” Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kunsthalle Nuernberg, Whitechapel Art Gallery, texts by Eva Meyer-Hermann, Felicity Lunn, Hans-WernerSchmidt, and Terry Myers
1997 “The Turner Prize,” Virginia Button, Tate Gallery Publishing Ltd., London, England
“Alpenblick. Die zeitgenoessische Kunst und das Alpine,” Wolfgang Kos und Kunsthalle Wien
1996 “Homely,” Gesellschaft Fur Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, text by Eva Schmidt
1995 “Peter Doig: Blotter,” published by Contemporary Fine Art, Berlin, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England
1994 Prix eliette von Karajan ‘94, Preise Osterfestspiele Salzberg, Brandl/Doig, text by Norman Rosenthal
“Unbound: Possibilities in Painting,” Hayward Gallery, London, England, texts by Adrian Searle and Greg Hilty.
“New Voice,” British Council

Public Collections

Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Contemporary Arts Society, London, England
John Moores Collection, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, England
British Council, London, England
European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium
Tate Gallery, London, England
Arts Council of Great Britain
Provinzial, Düsseldorf, Germany
Collection Berardo, Sintra, Portugal