Born in Danbury, Connecticut, 1965.
Lives and works in New York.
Education: School of Visual Arts, New York, BFA 1984-87
Awards: Guild Hall Academy of the Arts Lifetime Achievement Award, 2011
The Larry Aldrich Award, 2006
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2013
"Klara 13 Pictures 2009 - 2012," Michael Werner Gallery, New York, NY, April 19 - June 15, 2013
"Elizabeth Peyton," Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York, NY, March 29 - May 14, 2013
2012
"Elizabeth Peyton," Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, April 5- May 12, 2012
2011
"Elizabeth Peyton," Gagosian Gallery, Paris, France, May 27 – July 28, 2011
"Wagner,"Gallery Metropolitan Opera, New York, February 25- May 15, 2011
"Ghost," Opelvillen Russelsheim Zentrum Fur Kunst, Russelsheim, Germany; travels to Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, January 28 – April 18, 2011
2010
Neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Germany
2009
"Elizabeth Peyton: New Drawings," Gladstone Gallery, Brussels, Belgium, November 20 – December 23, 2009
"Elizabeth Peyton: Reading and Writing," Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin,
Ireland, March 31 –June 21, 2009
Foundation Project Space, Hydra, Greece
Sadie Coles HQ, London, England
2008
"Live Forever: Elizabeth Peyton," The New Museum, New York, October 8, 2008
– January 11, 2009; travels to: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, February 14-June 14, 2009; Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, July 9- September 20, 2009; and Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastticht, The Netherlands, October 20, 2009 – March 21, 2010
"Elizabeth Peyton: Portrait of an Artist," The Aldrich Contemporary Art
Museum, Ridgefield, CT, June 22 – November 16, 2008
"Drawings and Paintings," Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York, NY, April 18 – May 17, 2008
2007
Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, March 10 – April 7, 2007
2006
Neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Germany, April 28 – May 2006
"Elizabeth Peyton: Paintings 1994-2002," Gavin Brown's enterprise, Sadie Coles HQ, Barbara Gladstone, at Jane Holzer's apartment, New York
"Elizabeth Peyton: Prints 1998-2006," Guild Hall, Easthampton, NY
2005
Sadie Coles HQ, London, England, March 3 - April 2, 2005
Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, East Hampton, NY
2004
Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York, NY, April 17 – May 15, 2004
2003
"Elizabeth Peyton: New Paintings," Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, May 27 – June 21
"Elizabeth Peyton: New Paintings," Roma Roma Roma, Rome, Italy
Neugerriemshneider, Berlin, Germany, November 8-December 20, 2003
"Elizabeth Peyton and Tony Just: New Works on Paper," Orient Historical Society, Orient, NY
2002
Sadie Coles HQ, London, England, September 14 - October 12
"Elizabeth Peyton," neugeriemschneider, Berlin, Germany, May 25 - June 29
"Elizabeth Peyton: New Monotypes and Etchings," Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York , NY, May 11 - June 22, cat.
2001
"Elizabeth Peyton," Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York, NY, October 20
"Elizabeth Peyton," Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany, September 28 -
January 13, 2002, cat.
2000
"Elizabeth Peyton: Tony sleeping," Westfalischen Kunstverein Munster,
Germany, July 14 - August 27, 2000, cat.
Sadie Coles HQ, London, England, March 22 – April 29
Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York, NY, March 17 – April 15
1999
Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, October 28 - December 3, 1999
neuger/riemschneider, Berlin, Germany, June 5 - July 17, 1999
Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York, NY, March 25 - May 1, 1999
1998
Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg, Germany (catalogue)
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington (catalogue)
Sadie Coles HQ, London, England
Galeria II Capricorno, Venice, Italy
Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland (catalogue)
Georg Kargl, "Elizabeth Peyton,"November 13 - December 9, Vienna, Austria
1997
Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Side 2 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Koln, Germany
Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York, NY
The Saint Louis Art Museum, "Currents 71: Elizabeth Peyton", October 7- December 7; Seattle Art Museum, December 13-March 22, 1998
1996
Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York, NY
Galleria Il Capricorno, Venice, Italy
neuger/riemschneider, Berlin, Germany
1995
Cabinet Gallery at The Prince Albert, London, England
Burkhard Riemschnieder, Koln, Germany
Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York, NY
1993
Hotel Chelsea, Rm. 828, New York, NY
1992
Water Closet, Novocento, New York, NY
1987
Althea Viafora, New York, NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2013
"Blood of Two," Sharjah Biennial 11, March 13—May 13, 2013
"Women's Art Now," Leslie Sacks Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA, January 19 - February 25, 2013
"NYC 1993," New Museum, New York, NY, February 13 - May 26, 2013
2012
"Inaugural Exhibition by Gallery Artists," Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, September 22 – October 27, 2012
"now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern," Bortolami, New York, NY, September 13, 2012
"Regarding Warhol; Fifty Artists, Fifty Years," Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
"Contemporary painting, 1960 to the Present: Selections from the Collection," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, May 18- August 12, 2012
2011
"Sentimental Education," Gavlak Gallery, Palm Beach, FL, November 22, 2011 – January 7, 2012
"Nothing in the World But Youth," Turner Contemporary, Kent, United Kingdom, September 17, 2011 - January 8, 2012
"American Portraits: Treasure from the Parrish Art Museum," Parrish Art Museum, South Hampton, NY, October 16 – November 27, 2011
"About Painting," Art Berlin Contemporary, Berlin, September 7 – 11, 2011
"Faces," Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX, June 18 – July 20, 2011
"Face Off: Portraits by Contemporary Artists," Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, CT, April 10 – September 18, 2011.
"L'INSOUTENABLE LÉGÈRETÉ DE L'ÊTRE," Yvon Lambert, New York, January 20 – February 19, 2011, Paris, January 26 – March 3, 2011
"Jack Smith: 'Thanks for Explaining Me'," Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
"Kompass—Zeichnungern aus dem MoMA," New York, Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany
"Age of Innocence," Yvonne Lambert Gallery, New York
"Invitation to the Voyage," Algus Greenspon, New York
2010
"At Home/ Not At Home: Works from the Collection of Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg," Hessel Museum of Art, CCS Bard, NY, June 26 – December 19, 2010
"In the Company of Alice," Victoria Miro Gallery, London, June 22 – July 30, 2010
"Kurt," Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, May 13- September 6, 2010
"On Publications, Portraits, Public Art and Performance," The Modern Institute/ Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow, Scotland
"Compass in Hand: Selections from the Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection," Museum of Modern Art, New York
2009
"Blood of Two: Matthew Barney & Elizabeth Peyton," Slaughterhouse, DESTE Foundation Project Space, Hydra, Greece, June 16, 2009 – Spring 2010
"Landscape," Armory, New York
"Something About Mary," Gallery Met, The Metropolitan Opera, New York
"The living and the dead," Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York
"Modern Modern," Chelsea Art Museum, New York
2008
"Depreciation and Devastation," curated by Darren Bader, Gavin Brown, and Tony Just, GBE @ Passerby, New York, NY, March 7, 2008
"New Acquistion- [Sanbi Shosha] Ueda Collection," Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan
2007
"Makers and Modelers: Works in Ceramic," Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY, September 8 – October 13, 2007
"Old School," Hauser & Wirth Colnaghi, London, England, May 11 – June 9,2007
"Still Life & Kicking," Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY May 10 – June 8, 2007
"Very Abstract and Hyper Figurative," curated by Jens Hoffmann, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, England, March 15 – April 14, 2007
"Like color in pictures," Aspen Art Museum, Colorado, February 16 – April 15, 2007; cat.
"Fast Forward: Contemporary Collections for the Dallas Museum of Art," Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, February 11 – May 20, 2007; cat.
"Essential Painting," National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan, October 3 – December 24, 2007
2006
"Surprise Surprise," Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England, August 2 – September 10, 2006
"The Name of the Show Is Not 'Gay Art Now," Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
"Good Vibrations," Papesse Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena, Italy
"Contemporary Masterworks: Saint Louis Collects," Contemporary Art Museum of St. Louis, MO
"Garden Paradise," The Arsenal Gallery in Central Park, New York
"Likeness: Portraits of Artists By Other Artists," Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art & Design , Calgary, Alberta, Canada
2005
"After Cézanne," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, November 20, 2005 – June 19, 2006
"Vogue Nudes," Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY, November 18 – December 23, 2005
"Drawing from the Modern , 1975 - 2005," Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, September 14, 2005 – January 9, 2006
"Likeness: Portraits of Artists by Other Artists," University Art Museum, California State University Long Beach, CA, August 30 – October 30, 2005
"Nick Mauss and Elizabeth Peyton," Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, East Hampton, NY August 13 – September 14, 2005
"Drunk vs. Stoned 2," co-produced by Gavin Brown's enterprise and General Store of Milwaukee, Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York, NY, August 4 – September 7, 2005
"Girls on Film," curated by Kristine Bell, Zwiner and Wirth Gallery, New York, NY, July 7 – September 2, 2005
"Bidibidobidiboo," Foundazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy, 2005, catalogue
"Getting Emotional," Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, May 19 – September 4, 2005
2004
"Direct Painting -- Die Neue Kunsthalle IV," Kunsthalle Mannheim,
Mannheim, Germany, November 6, 2004 – May 1, 2005
"Eye of the Needle," Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, CA, October 23 – November 13, 2004
"North Fork / South Fork: East End Art Now," The Parrish Art Museum,
Southhampton, NY, Part 1: May 23 – July 18, 2004 & Part 2: July 25 – September 12, 2004, cat.
"The Whitney Biennial," The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, March 10-May 30, 2004, cat.
"Likeness: Portraits of Artists by Other Artists," CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco, CA, Februay 27 – May 8, 2004
"Treasure Island: 10 Years Collection Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg," Kunstmuseum Woflsburg, Germany, February 7 – April 18, 2004
2003
"Inaugural Exhibition," Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, January 25 - March 8
"Portraiture," Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, CA April 26 – May 24
"Painting Pictures," Kuntsmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany, March 1 – June 29
"Reverie: Works from the Collection of Douglas Kramer," Speed Art Museum,
Louisville, KY, July 22-October 5, 2003
"Pittura/Painting," la Biennale di Venezia, curated by Francesco Bonami,
Venice, Italy, catalogue
2002
"Lieber Maler, male mir...," Kunsthalle wien, September 20 - January 3, cat.
"Drawing Now: Eight Propositions," Museum of Modern Art, New York, October 17 - January 6, 2003
"Remix," Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, England
2001
"Drawings," Regen Projects, Los Angeles, May 26 - July 21
"Sammlung Hauser und Wirth," St. Gallen, May 13 - October 14
"The Way I See It," Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris, France, March 10-April 21
2000
"00," Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY, July 6 - August 5, cat.
"Interventions," Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI, January 21 - April 23
1999
"Village Disco," Cabinet, London, England, December 11, 1999 - January 15, 2000
"Gesammelte Werke 1: Zeitgenossische Kunst seit 1968," Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany, July 16 -October 3, 1999
"Examining Pictures," White Chapel Art Gallery, London, England
Karen McCready Fine Art, New York, NY
1998
"Sisi, Sisimus, Sisimen," Galerie Menotti, Baden, Austria(catalogue)
"Hanging," Galeria Camargo Vilaca, Sao Paulo, Brazil (catalogue)
"Young Americans II," Saatchi Gallery, London, England
"Tell me a Story," Centre National d'Art Contemporain de Grenoble, France
"People II," Monica de Cardenas, Milan, Italy
"Magasin," Centre National d'Art Contemporain de Grenoble, France
"Exterminating Angel," curated by Joshua Decter, Ghislaine Husenot Gallery, Paris, France
Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Koln, Germany
1997
"The Most Contemporary Picture Show: Rene Daniels and Elizabeth Peyton," Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany, September 12-January 3, 1999
"Contemporary Projects: Longing and Memory", curated by Lynn Zelevansky, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, -thru September 7
"Projects 60", The Museum of Modern Art, NY, June 24 - September 8
"Kunst...Arbeit: Aus der Sammlung Seudwest LB," Sudwestdeutsche Landesbank, Stuttgart, Germany
"Coming Home Again," Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY
Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
"Antlitz," Max-Gandolph-Bibliothek, Salzburg, Austria
"New Work: Drawings Today," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
"Heaven," P.S.1, New York, NY
"Hirsch Farm Project," Hirsch Foundation, Northbrook, IL
1996
"Ein Stuck von Himmel," Kunsthalle Nurnberg, Germany; traveled to South London Gallery, London, England; Southampton Art Gallery, Southampton, England; Cornerhouse, Manchester, England (catalogue)
"a-drift", curated by Joshua Decter, Bard College, NY
Universalis, Sao Paulo Bienal, Sao Paulo, Brasil
"Wunderbar", Kunsterverien Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England
"Screen", curated by Joshua Decter, Fredrich Petzel Gallery, NY
1995
"Campo", curated by Francesco Bonami, Venice Biennale, Italy
"Space Odyssey", Koreneou Gallery, Athens, Greece
1994
"Swan", Tom Cugliani Gallery, New York, NY
"Don't Postpone Joy of Collecting Can Be Fun" Austrian Cultural Institute, New York, NY
1993
"Okay Behaviour", curated by Gavin Brown and Gareth Jones, 303 Gallery, New York, NY
"Little Thing", curated by Laura Hoptman, Randolph St. Gallery, Chicago, IL; Delta Arts Axis, Memphis, TN; Art in General, New York, NY