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Peter Saul

(American, born 1934)

Peter Saul

Politcs, 1985

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Peter Saul

Shicago Justus (Chicago Justice) from Conspiracy: The Artist as Witness, 1971

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Peter Saul

Golden Gate Bridge, 1968

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Biography

Timeline

1934: Born in San Francisco, CA
1950 - 1952: California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
1952 - 1956: BFA, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
1956 - 1964: Lived in Holland, Paris, and Rome
1964 - 1974: Returned to United States and settled in Mill Valley, CA
1964: Copley Foundation Award
: New Talent Award, Art in America
1975 - 1981: Lived in Chappaqua, NY
1981 - 2000: Lived in Austin, TX; Taught at the University of Texas
1993: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
2000: Moved to New York, NY
2001: Academy Award for Art, American Academy of Arts and Letters
2010: American Academy of Arts and Letters Inductee
2013: Francis J. Greenburger Award
: Currently lives and works in New York State
: National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artist Grant, 1979, 1985

Exhibitions

2013: VW (VeneKlasen/Werner), Berlin (solo)
: Mary Boone Gallery, New York (solo)
: "Peter Saul: Radical Figure, Paintings and Drawings from the 1960s and 1970s" George Adams Gallery, New York (solo)
: “Peter Saul/Jim Shaw: Drawings,” Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
2012 - 2013: “Sinister Pop,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: “Abstract Drawings,” Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
: “Under the Influence: The Comics,” Edith Alstchul Lehman College Gallery, Bronx, NY
: Fondation Salomon Art Contemporain, Alex, France (solo)
2012: “RAW,” Homespace Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2011: Stupid Arguments, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago (solo)
: “Pretty on the Inside,” Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY
: “Masters of Reality,” Gering & Lopez Gallery, New York, NY
: “Anxiety’s Edge,” The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
: “MAKE Skateboards,” I-20 Gallery, New York, NY
: “Circle of Friends: Paintings, Drawings, and Sculptures by Robert Arneson, Joan Brown, Roy DeForest, Peter Saul, and William T. Wiley,” George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
2010 - 2011: Peter Saul, Haunch of Venison, New York, NY (solo)
: Desire, Curated by Annette DiMeo Carlozzi, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX
: Nature, Once Removed, Lehman College of Art Gallery, Bronx, NY
: “Ordinary Madness,” Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
: Summer Group Show: New and Classic, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
2010: Sheer Terror, Nolan Judin, Berlin, Germany (solo)
: The Visible Vagina, David Nolan Gallery, New York, NY
2009: Summer Group Show, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
: Consider the Lobster, The Center for Curatorial Studies and Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College, Annandale-on-Husdon, New York, NY
: The New Yorkers, Curated by Todd James, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
: Until the End of the World, Curated by Max Henry, AMP, Athens, Greece
: N’importe Quoi, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Lyon, France
: Exile on Main Street: Humor, Exaggeration & Anti-Authoritarianism in American Art, Bonnefatenmuseum, Maastricht, The Netherlands
: New Paintings, David Nolan Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
: Peter Saul: Drawings and Prints 1960-1975, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2008 - 2009: Looking for Mushrooms: Beat Poets, Hippies, Funk and Minimal Art, Art and Counterculture in San Francisco 1955-68, The Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany
2008: Action/Abstraction: Abstract Expressionism and Postwar America, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
: Peter Saul, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA; traveled to the Pennsylvania Academy of Arts, Philadelphia, PA (solo)
2007: Mr. President, University Art Museum at Albany, NY
: Humor’s Lines, Maier Museum of Art, Randolph-Macon Women’s College, Lynchburg, VA
: Galerie Charlotte Moser, Geneva, Switzerland (solo)
2006: Peter Saul, David Nolan Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
: Peter Saul, Leo Koenig Inc., New York, NY (solo)
: Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
: Twice Drawn, Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
: The Artful Jester, The Painting Center, New York, NY; Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, VT
2005 - 2006: Art of Engagement: Paintings, Drawings, Prints and Sculpture, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA
: Body Language, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
: Peintures, 1985 – 2005, Musée Paul Valèry, Sète, France (solo)
2005: Looking at Words, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY
: Post War Draughtswomen and 1 Monitor, Meyer Riegger Gallery, Karlsruhe, Germany
2004 - 2005: Disparities and Deformities: Our Grotesque, Site Santa Fe, NM
2004: Suburbia: Paintings and Drawings, 1965-69, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
: Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2003: As time goes by, Leo Koenig Inc., New York, NY
: Drawings, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
2002: The Sixties, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
: Galerie Charlotte Moser, Geneva, Switzerland (solo)
: Jokes, Musée d`Art moderne et contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
: Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Cologne, Germany (solo)
2001: Open Ends, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
: Heads: 1986-2000, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
: Galerie du Centre, Paris, France (solo)
2000: Face to Face, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1999: Peter Sual: Ptgs, 1987-1999, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
: Musée de l`Abbaye Sainte-Croix, Les Sables d`Olonne, France
: Artists for Mumia 911, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
1998: Peter Saul, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1997: Alliance for Contemp. Art:Auction '98, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
: Face à l`histoire, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
1996 - 1997: Art in Chicago: 1945-1995, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
: Old & New: On Canvas & on Paper, Galerie Bonnier, Geneva, Switzerland
: Whitney Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1995: Grotesque, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1991: Galerie Thomas R. Monahan Chicago, IL
: Un Touch Suisse, Galerie Bonnier, Geneva, Switzerland
1990: Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA
1989: Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
1988: Pop Apocalypse, Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York, NY
1987: Repulsion: Aesthetics of Grotesque, Alternative Museum, New York, NY
: Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1986: Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL
: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1985: Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY
1981: Retrospective Exhibition, Kilcawley Center Youngstown State University, OH
1980: Figurative Tradition&Whitney Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1977: Images of Horror and Fanstasy, Bronx Museum of Art, New York, NY
1973: Galerie Klang, Cologne, Germany
1969: Violence in Recent American Art, Museum of Contemp. Art, Chicago, IL
: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1968: The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
: San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
: Paris Biennale International, Museum of Modern Art, Paris, France
1963 - 1964: Rolf Nelson Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1963: New Directions, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

Public Collections

: Sintra Museum of Modern Art, Portugal
: Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris, France
: Di Rosa Art Preserve, Napa, CA
: Dallas Art Museum, Dallas, TX
: Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
: Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
: Becht Collection, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
: Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
: Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
: Museum of Art, University of California, Berkeley, CA
: Museum of Art, Honolulu, HI
: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
: Madison Art Center, Madison, WI
: Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA
: Krannert Museum, Champaign, IL
: Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
: Huntington Gallery, University of Texas, Austin, TX
: Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
: Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
: Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, VT
: Weatherspoon Art Gallery, UNC, Greensboro, SC
: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington, DC
: Smart Museum, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
: Musee Cantini, Marseilles, France
: FRAC Region Nord, Lille, France
: Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC

Peter Saul

(American, born 1934)

Peter Saul

Peter Saul

Peter Saul

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Public Collections

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