Born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1959, the artist Peter Doig spent his childhood and youth in Trinidad and Canada. He earned his MA from London’s Chelsea College of Art and Design in 1990 and was nominated for the Turner Prize in 1994. Peter Doig has been based in Port of Spain (Trinidad and Tobago) since 2002. He has had solo exhibitions at leading museums around the world, including Tate Britain (London), Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Scottish National Gallery (Edinburgh), Fondation Beyeler (Basel/Riehen), and Secession (Vienna). Influential among artists of his own generation and younger, Peter Doig is often referred to as the “painter of painters.”
Peter Doig’s works, composed of various paintings, seem like scenes we have seen somewhere and sometime before, and as such they serve to stimulate our imagination. Moreover, his motifs, such as canoes and human figures, appear in different colors and shapes in different works, and noting these motifs and finding connections between his works expands our imaginative horizons beyond the confines of a single painting.
His White Canoe is certainly the best known. The 1990-1991 painting, inspired by a horror film, was offered for sale at Sotheby’s in 2007 with an estimate of $1.5 million. In a bidding war, the price climbed to $11.3 million. The anonymous buyer was Boris Ivanishvili, a Russian collector whose fortune was made in ore mining and banking.
Peter Doig’s landscape depictions range from Canadian lakeshores to the seas of Trinidad and Tobago and even to the ski slopes of Niseko in Japan. He also uses movie stills as reference and has created paintings reminiscent of Ozu Yasujiro’s Tokyo Story.
SOLO SHOWS and EXHIBITIONS:
1984
Metropolitan Gallery, London
1986
The Naked City, Air Gallery, London
1990
Articule, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
1991
Whitechapel Artist Award, Whitechapel Gallery, London
1994
Concrete Cabins, Victoria Miro Gallery, London; Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York
1995
Blotter, Contemporary Fine Art, Berlin
1996
Freestyle, Victoria Miro Gallery, London
Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York
Homely, Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen
1998
Blizzard Seventy Seven, Kunsthalle, Kiel; Kunsthalle, Nürnberg;
Whitechapel Gallery, London
Buffalo Station, Victoria Miro Gallery, London
1999
Country-rock, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin
Version, Kunsthaus Glarus
Wing-mirror, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York
2000
Echo Lake, Matrix, University of California, Berkeley; Museum
of Contemporary Art, Miami; The Saint Louis Art Museum
Almost Grown, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin; The Power Plant Gallery, Toronto
2001
Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia;
Vancouver National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
2002
Peter Doig. The Prints, The Bailey Collection, Toronto
100 Years Ago, Victoria Miro Gallery, London
Peter Doig: Works on Paper, Michael Werner Gallery, New York
2003
Peter Doig: Painter as Printmaker, James Hyman Fine Art, London
Peter Doig, The Arts Club of Chicago
Charley’s Space, Bonnfantenmuseum, Maastricht; Carré D’Art Contemporain de Nimes
2004
Peter Doig, Metropolitain, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover
2005
Peter Doig STUDIOFILMCLUB, Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Kunsthalle, Zurich
Peter Doig: Works on Paper, Dallas Museum of Art; Gallery at Windsor, Vero Beach; The Art Gallery of Ontario
2006
Peter Doig: Go West Young Man, Museum der Bildenden Kunste, Leipzig
Peter Doig: Studiofilmclub 2003-2006, Ballroom Marfa, Texas
2008
Peter Doig Retrospective, Tate Britain, London; Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
2009
Peter Doig: Not for Sale, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin
Peter Doig: New Paintings, Michael Werner Gallery in Collaboration with Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York
2011
Siegfried + Poster Project, Gallery Met at the Metropolitan Opera, New York
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
2012
Michael Werner Gallery, London
2013
No Foreign Lands, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh; Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montreal, Montreal
Early Works, Michael Werner Gallery, New York
2014
Early Works, Michael Werner Gallery, London
Peter Doig, Fondation Beyeler, Basel
2015
Peter Doig, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek
Peter Doig, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Palazzetto Tito, Venice
Peter Doig, Michael Werner Gallery, New York
2017
Peter Doig: Cabins and Canoes, Faurschou Foundation, Beijing
Peter Doig: studiofilmclub, CAC Malaga, Malaga
Peter Doig, Michael Werner Gallery, New York
Peter Doig, Michael Werner Gallery, London
2019
Peter Doig, Vienna Secession, Vienna
Peter Doig, Paintings, Michael Werner Gallery, London
2020
Peter Doig, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
2022
Peter Doig, Kunsträume, Zermatt
Peter Doig, Studio Casoli, Filicudi
2023
Peter Doig, The Courtauld, London
Peter Doig: Reflets du siècle, Musée d’Orsay, Paris
2024
Tour of the PETER DOIG exhibition with curator Ulf Kuester.
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