Peter Doig

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Born: 1959 Born Edinburgh, Scotland
Lives: Trinidad ( since 2002)

Education
1979 - 80 Wimbledon School of Art
1980 - 83 St Martin's School of Art, BFA
1989 - 90 Chelsea School of Art, MFA

Solo Exhibitions
2009
Gavin Brown�s enterprise and Michael Werner Gallery, New York
�Peter Doig: Not for Sale,� Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin

2008
Tate Britain, London, UK (travels to Musee d�Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris,
France; Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Germany)

2006
�Go West Young Man,� Museum der Bildenden Kunste, Leipzig
�StudioFilmClub�, Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX

2005
�Works on Paper�, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX; tours Gallery of Windsor,
Florida (cat.)
�StudioFilmClub�, Ludwig Museum, Koln; Kunsthalle Zurich
Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Koln (with Jochen Klein)

2004
�Metropolitain,� Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich; Kestnergellschaft, Hannover,
Germany (cat.)

2003
�Charley�s Space,� Bonnefanten, Maastricht, Netherlands
�Charley�s Space,� Carre d�Art Contemporain, Nimes, France
The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL

2002
�100 years ago�, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK
�Peter Doig: Works on Paper,� Michael Werner Gallery, New York
�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, N.Y.
"version (drawings)", Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York, N.Y.
"version", Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus, Switzerland (cat.)
"country-rock", Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
Fruitmarket Gallery (with Udomsak Krisanamis), Edinburgh, Scotland.

1998
Arnolfini (with Udomsak Krisanamis), Bristol, England (cat)
�Blizzard seventy-seven", Kunsthalle Nurnberg, Germany (toured to Kunsthalle
zu Kiel, Germany; Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England) (cat.)
"Buffalo Station", Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England

1996
Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York, N.Y.
"Freestyle", Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK
"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


COLLECTIONS

Arts Council of Great Britain
Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht
British Council, London
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Collection Berardo Sintra, Portugal
Contemporary Arts Society, London
European Parliament, Brussels
John Moores Collection, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
Provinzial, Dusseldorf, Germany
Tate Gallery, London
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago


Group Exhibitions
2008
�Marlon Brando, Pocahontas, and Me,� Aspen Art Museum, CO, curated by
Jeremy Deller

2007
�The Painting of Modern Life,� Hayward Gallery, London, UK (cat.)
�Very Abstract and Hyper Figurative,� Thomas Dane Gallery, London, curated by
Jens Hoffmann
�Hunky Dory,� Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Moscow

2006
�Altered Image,� Equinox Gallery, Vancouver
�Secret Public. The Last Days of the British Underground 1978-1988,�
Kunstverein Munich
SITE Santa Fe Biennial, Sante Fe, New Mexico
�Whitney Biennial: Day For NIght� Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Tate Triennial, Tate, London
�Surprise, Surprise,� Institute of Contemporary Art, London

2005
�Rene Daniels, Peter Doig, Silke Otto-Knapp,� Gavin Brown�s enterprise, New York
�Looking at Words: The Formal Presence of Text in Modern and Contemporary
Works on Paper,� Andrea Rosen Gallery
�Ideal Worlds: New Romanticism in Contemporary Art,� Schirn Kunsthalle,
Frankfurt, Germany
�The Big Bang,� Centre Pompidou , Paris
�The Triumph of Painting,� Saatchi Gallery. London, England (cat.)

2004
�Huts� Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin Ireland (cat.)
Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, PA (cat.)
�Contemporary Painting,� Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME, curated
by Alex Katz (cat.)

2003
�Pittura/Painting: From Rauschenberg to Murakami 1964-2003,� 50th Venice
Biennale, Venice, Italy (cat.)
�Days Like These,� Tate Triennale Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Tate Britain,
London

2002
�DEAR PAINTER�Paint Me,� Centre G. Pompidou, Paris, touring to Kunsthalle
Wien, Vienna and Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt (cat.)
�Art + Mountains: Conquistadors of the Useless,� The Alpine Club, London,
England
�Cavepainting�, Santa Monica Museum of Modern Art, with Chris Ofili and Laura
Owens, Santa Monica, CA (cat.)

2001
�Fig-1, 50 projects in 50 weeks,� conceived and developed by Mark Francis and
Jay Jopling, London (cat.)
�Camera Works: The Photographic Impulse in Contemporary Art�, Marianne
Boesky Gallery, New York
�The Way I See It�, Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris
�Works on Paper�, The Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
�Extended Painting�, Monica de Cardenas, Milan, Italy
�EU�, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
�About the Bayberry Bush�, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
�Works on Paper from Acconci to Zittel�, Victoria Miro Gallery, London

2000
�From a Distance: Approaching Landscape�, The Institute of Contemporary Art,
Boston
�Peter Doig, Michael Raedecker,� Raucci/Santamaria Gallery, Naples, Italy
�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
�From A-B and Back Again,� Royal College of Art, London
"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
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 "
New Found Landscape", Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
"Alpenblick", Kunsthalle, Wien, Austria (curated by Wolfgang Kos)
"Malerei 4", 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, Vienna, 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
RECENT

2008
Solway, Diane, �Peter Doig,� W Magazine, November, p. 266-279
Schwabsky, Barry, �Glimpses Beyond the Edge,� Art in America, May, p. 168-173
Stonard, John-Paul, Review, Artforum, April, p. 361
Hensher, Philip, �A Landscape Painter of Humanity,� Mail on Sunday, April 20
Falconer, Morgan, �Modern Romance,� Art World, February, p. 32-39
Darwent, Charles, �Painting Found in Art Gallery. Whatever Next?� The
Independent, Feb. 10, p. 55
Cumming, Laura, �Landscape as seen by a Visionary,� The Observer, Feb. 10
Wullschagler, Jackie, �Canvases Light and Lethal,� Financial Times, Feb. 9, p. 16
Lewis, Ben, �Old Doig with New Tricks,� Evening Standard, Feb. 8, p. 41-42
Searle, Adrian, �Stillness in a Trembling World,� The Guardian, Feb. 5, p. 23-25
Sooke, Alastair, �Journey to the Edge of Abstraction,� Daily Telegraph, Feb. 5
Campbell-Johnston, Rachel, �It�s a Doig-Eat-Doig World,� The Times (London),
February 5
�Local Color,� Modern Painters, Feburary 2008, p. 34
Laughlin, Nicholas, �Inspirational Island,� Culture + Travel, Jan/Feb 2008
Cottam, F.G., �A Perfectionist in Paradise,� The Independent, Jan. 31, p. 12-13
Adams, Tim, �Peter Doig,� The Observer, Jan. 27, p. 8-9

2007
Ellis, Patricia, �The 11.3 Million Dollar Man,� Spike Art Quarterly, Fall, p. 84-91
Herbert, Martin, �Book Reviews: Peter Doig,� Artreview, April, p. 151
2006 �Another Thing I Wanted to Tell You, by Elizabeth Peyton, Artist,� Another
Magazine, Spring/Summer, p. 114
Schmidt, Hans-Werner; and Rudi Fuchs, �Peter Doig: Go West Young Man,�
published by Museum der Bildenden Kunste, Leipzig
Lindeman, Adam, et. Al, �Collecting Contemporary,� published by Taschen,
Cologne, p. 206
Ruf, Beatrix, �Tate Triennial: New British Art,� published by Tate, London, 2006
Peter Plagens, �The Art of the Deal,� Newsweek, March 6, pp.56-58
Saltz, Jerry, �Biennial in Babylon,� Village Voice, March 1
Iles, Chrissie and Philippe Vergne, Whitney Biennial: Day For Night, exhibition
catalog, published by The Whitney Museum of American Art, 2006
Dorment, Richard, �Haunted by Concepts of the Past,� Daily Telegraph, March 7
Bailey, David, �Keeping It Real: Interview with Peter Doig,� Modern Painters,
March, pp. 66-71

2005
Wege, Astrid, Review, Artforum, November, pp. 264-65
Galloway, David, Review, Artnews, April 2005, p.138
Saltz, Jerry, �The Richter Resolution,� Modern Painters, April pp. 28-29
Wright. Karen. �Gallery� Modern Painters, February p. 116
Trainor, James, Review: �Back -2004 Carnegie Int�l,� Frieze, Jan./Feb. p. 109
Siegel, Katie, �Review: 2004 Carnegie Int�l,� Artforum, January, p. 175
2004
Knight, Christopher, �A Global Cacophony [Carnegie International],� Los Angeles
Times
2004 Milroy, Sarah, Review: Carnegie International, The Globe and Mail, November 6,
pp. V1,V8
Johnson, Ken, �Pittsburgh Rounds Up a Globe Full of Work Made in Novel
Ways,� The New York Times, November 4, pp. 1,6
Schwalb, Harry, �Up Now: Carnegie International,� alb, Harry, �Up Now: Carnegie
International,� Artnews
Nimes Carre d�Art � Musee d�Art Contemporain de Nimes, Contemporary, Issue
60 March, p. 68
2003 Parkett, No. 67, pp. 65-85
Stange, Raimar, Zuruck in die Kunst, Rogner & Bernhard bei Zweitasendeins, p.
173
�The 80�s�, Artforum, March, p. 58
Days Like These, Tate Triennial Exhibition of Contemporary British Art, pp. 80-85
(catalogue)
Morton, Tom, �Days Like These,� Tate, March/April, pp. 74-77
Artner, Alan G., Review, Chicago Tribune, February 6
Halle, Howard, Review, Time Out New York, January 16-23. p. 55

2002
Dexter, Emma, Vitamin P, Phaidon Press, London, pp. 92-95
Mack, Gerhard, Art, April, No. 4, pp. 32-43
Brown, Robert, Review, Contemporary, June-July-August, p. 161
Cunning, Laura, �Painting on Thin Ice,� The Observer, April 14
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
Sheir, Reid, Art + Text, May-June, No. 73

2000
Peter Doig, Canadian Art, fall, p. 66
Sloane, Johanne, �Rainbows and Other Ruins,� Afterall, Issue No.1, February,
pp. 84 � 94
Richter, Daniel, �Dots on Doig,� Afterall, Issue No. 1, February, pp. 95 - 96
Hill, Joe, �Review�, Art In America, No. 4, April, pp. 151-152
Ziolkowski, Thad, "Review" Artforum, Feb. p. 119
Pollack, Barbara, " New York Reviews", Art News, Feb. p. 164

1999
Rawsthorn, Alice, "Peter Doig - Scanning the post-conceptual landscape", Elle
Decor, December-January, pp. 96-99
Turner, Elisa, �Touch of the Movies�, The Miami Herald, September 24
Johnson, Ken, "Art in Review", The New York Times Friday, Dec. 10
Saltz, Jerry, " Out of the Fog" Village Voice , Dec. 21, p.123

1998
Pietsch, Hans, "Ausstellungs-Vorschau, Kiel: Peter Doig. Die Natur besiegt de
GroBstadt", Art, pp. 80-81
"Petre Doig, Whitechapel Art Gallery - Preview", Artforum, May, p.69
Edelstein, Leo, "Peter Doig, Losing Oneself in the Looking", Flash Art, May-
June, pp. 84-86

Publications
Catalogues and books
2008
Nesbitt, Judith, �Peter Doig,� published by Tate Publishing, London

2007
Searle, Adrian, Kitty Scott, and Catherine Grenier, �Peter Doig,� published by Phaidon,
London/New York

2006
Nakanishi, Hiroyuki, �Essential Painting,� published by The Naitonal Museum of Art
Osaka, Osaka
Richer, Francesca and Matthew Rosenzweig, �No. 1: First Works by 362 Artists,�
published by D.A.P., New York
Ruf, Beatrix, �Tate Triennial: New British Art,� published by Tate, London, 2006
Iles, Chrissie and Philippe Vergne, Whitney Biennial: Day For Night, exhibition catalog,
published by The Whitney Museum of American Art, 2006

2005
Grosenick, Uta, Art Now: Vol. 2, published by Taschen, Cologne
�Peter Doig: Works On Paper,� published by Windsor Press, Vero Beach, London
Hutchinson, John, and Tal R, �Huts� published by The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
Koegel, Alice; Laughlin, Nicholas, �STUDIOFILMCLUB,� published by Museum Ludwig
and Walther Koenig, Koln
�Peter Doig, Jochen Klein,� text: Manfred Hermes, published by Galerie Daniel Buchholz,
Cologne, 2005

2004
Hoptman, Laura, et. Al, �54th Carnegie International,� published by Carnegie Museum of
Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 2004
�Metropolitain,� published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig, Koln, Germany
�Contemporary Painting,� published by Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME

2003
�Days Like These,� Tate Triennale Exhibition of Contemporary British Art, Tate Britain,
London
�Charley�s Space,� Hatje Cantz publishers, Germany

2002
�100 Years Ago,� published by Victoria Miro Gallery, London
�Art Now,� published by Taschen, edited by Uta Grosenick and Burkhard Riemschneider,
text by Rochelle Steiner, Koln
�DEAR PAINTER�Paint Me,� pubblished by the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
�Cavepainting,� published by the Santa Mnica 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 and Victoria Miro
Gallery, London
�Landscape,� published by The British Council, London, 2000

1999
�Examining Pictures�, Whitechapel Gallery, London
"Peter Doig version", Kunsthaus Glarus, Switzerland

1998
"Peter Doig / Udomsak Krisanamis", Arnolfini, Bristol, UK, 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 R.
Myers

1997
"The Turner Prize", Virginia Button, Tate Gallery Publishing Ltd., London
"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

1994
Prix eliette von Karajan'94, Preise Osterfestspiele Salzberg, Brandl/Doig, text by
Norman Rosenthal
" Unbound: Possibilities In Painting", Hayward gallery, London, texts by Adrian Searle
and Greg Hilty.
"New Voices", British Council