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Peter Doig
Peter Doig
Gasthof 2004
Private Collection
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Peter Doig paints from photographic sources using both found
images and his own photographs. For example - a work currently on display
in the Triennial - Gasthof, is based
on a snapshot of Doig and a friend dressed in extra's costumes,
which they slipped into while working as dressers at the
London Coliseum.
Doig is interested in images that have a universal familiarity and
tap into our collective sense of memory. His paintings often seem
strangely familiar, highlighting the fact that in the modern age
memories have become photographic. Seldom can clear distinctions
be made between memories based on direct experience and those
that are mechanically mediated.
Biography
Born in 1959 in Edinburgh
1989–1990 Chelsea School of Art, London
1980–1983 Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London
1979–1980 Wimbledon School of Art, London
Selected Solo Exhibitions
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2005 – 2006
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Peter Doig: Works on Paper, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas
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2004
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Metropolitain, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
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2003 – 2004
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Charley's Space, Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, Netherlands
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1998
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Peter Doig: Blizzard Seventy-Seven, Kunsthalle Kiel, Germany
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Selected Group Exhibitions
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2004
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Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA
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2003
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Pittura / Painting: From
Rauschenberg to Murakami, 1964–2003, Dreams and Conflicts – The Dictatorship of the Viewer, 50th Venice Biennale
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2002
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Cavepainting, Santa Monica Museum of Art, California, USA
Cher peintre – Peintures figuratives depuis l'ultime Picabia, Centre Pompidou, Paris
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Lives and works in Trinidad
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