
1959
Born in Edinburgh
1960
Moves to Trinidad
1966
Moves to Canada
1979
Moves to London
1979-80
Wimbledon School of Art
1980-83
St. Martin’s School of Art, B.A.
1986
Moves to Montreal
1989
Moves to London
1989-90
Chelsea School of Art, M.A.
1994
Turner Prize nominee
1st prize, Prix Elliette von Karajan
1995-2000
1995-2001 Trustee of Tate Gallery, London
2002
Moves to Trinidad
2008
Awarded Wolfgang Hahn Prize from the Society for Modern Art at
the Museum Ludwig in Cologne
SOLO 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; “Drifter”, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York
1995
“Blotter,” Contemporary Fine Art, Berlin
1996
“Freestyle,” Victoria Miro Gallery, London; Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen; 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; Cabinet Gallery, London
1999
“Country-rock,” Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin; “Version,” Kunsthaus Glarus, Switzerland; “Wing-mirror,” Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York
2000
“Echo Lake,” Matrix, University of California,
Berkeley; “Echo Lake,” Museum of Contemporary Art,
Miami; “Echo Lake,” The Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri; “Almost Grown,” The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2001
“Peter Doig”, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
2001-02
“Almost Grown,” The Power Plant Gallery, Toronto
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; “Cavepainting”, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica
2003
"Peter Doig", The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago; “Charley's Space", Bonnfantenmuseum, Maastricht; Carré D'Art contemporain de Nimes; "Peter Doig: Painter as Printmaker", James Hyman Fine Art, London
2004
"Peter Doig, Metropolitain", Pinakothek der Moderne, München; Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover
2005
“Peter Doig STUDIOFILMCLUB”, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Kunsthalle
Zurich, “Peter Doig: Works on Paper”, Dallas Museum of Art, Texas, “Peter Doig: Works on Paper”, Gallery at Windsor, Vero Beach, Florida
2006
“Peter Doig: Works on Paper”, The Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada; “Peter Doig: Go West Young Man”, Museum der Bildenden Kunste, Leipzig; “Peter Doig: Studiofilmclub 2003-2006”, Ballroom Marfa, TX
2008
“Peter Doig Retrospective”, Tate Modern, London, travelling to
Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
2008-09
Continuation of “Peter Doig Retrospective”, Schirn Kunsthalle,
Frankfurt
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1982
“New Contemporaries,” I.C.A., London
1983
“New Contemporaries,” I.C.A., London; “On Parade”, St. Martin’s School of Art, London
1985
“Things as They Are,” Riverside Studios, London
1990
“Into the Nineties,” Mall Galleries, London
1991
“Barclays’ Young Artist Award,” Serpentine Gallery, London
1992
“Inside a Microcosm,” Laure Genillard Gallery, London; “New Voices,” Centre Albert Borschette, Brussels
1993
“Moving into View,” Royal Festival Hall, London; “Twelve Stars,” Barbican Centre, London; “Project Unité Firminy,” Ferminy Vert, France; “1st Prize Exhibition 18,” John Moore’s Prize, Liverpool, Victoria Miro Gallery, London
1994
1st Prize, Prix Elliette von Karajan, touring exhibition Salzburg, Vienna, Paris; “Unbound: Possibilities in Painting,”
Hayward Gallery, London curated by Adrian Searle & Greg Hilty;
“New Voices,” British Council Touring Exhibition, Santa Monica,
Barcelona, Spain; Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York; “Imprint “93,” Cabinet Gallery, London, curated by Mathew Higgs; “Here and Now,” Serpentine Gallery, London; “The Turner Prize Exhibition,” Tate Gallery, London; Victoria Miro Gallery, group painting exhibition; “Peter Doig/Moira Davie”, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York
1995
“Zombie Golf,” Burbage House, London
1996
Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris; “There’s a painting on the wall,” a collaboration with Matthew Higgs, Anthony Wilkinson Fine Art, London; “Answered Prayers,” with John Currin, Richard Patterson, Raymond Pettibon, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin;
“Belladonna,” ICA, London; “About Vision: New British Painting in the 1990s, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburg; “Faustrecht der Freiheit, Kunstsammlung Gera,” Neues Museum Weserberg, Bremen; “About Vision: New British Painting in the 1990s,” Museum of Modern Art, Oxford; “Drawings from the M.A.B. Library”, AC Project Room, New York; “Belladonna”, ICA, London
1997
“Malerei 4,” Galerie Monika Sprüth, Düsseldorf; “Package Holiday, New British Art in the Ophiuchus Collection” The Hydra Workshop, Hydra, Greece; “About Vision: New British Painting in the 1990s,” Christchurch Mansion, Ipswich; “Alpenblick,” Kunsthalle Wien (curated by Wolfgang Kos)
1997-98
“New found landscape,” Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
1998
“About Vision: New British Painting in the 1990s,” Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle; “Sunday,” Cabinet Gallery, London; “Peter Doig and Udomsak Krisanamis,” Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol; “UK- Maximum Diversity”, Gallery Krinzinger im Benger-Areal, Bregenz; Galerie Krinzinger im Semperdepot, Wein
1999
“Peter Doig and Udomsak Krisanamis,” The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh; Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris; “From A-B and Back Again,” The Royal College of Art,London; “Contemplating Pollock,” Victoria Miro Gallery, London (Curated by Matthew Higgs); Anthony Wilkinson Gallery, London; “Version (drawings),” in Rikrit Tirivanija’s apartment; “River Deep Mountain High,” curated by Kelly Taylor,Gallery Westland Place, London; Cooper Gallery, Dundee; “Examining Pictures”, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
2000
“Spot On,” Victoria Miro Gallery, London; “Peter Doig, Michael Raedecker,” Raucci/Santamaria Gallery, Naples; “Twisted: Urban and Visionary Landscapes in Contemporary Painting,” Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands; “From a Distance: Approaching Landscape,” The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; “Examining Pictures”, Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles
2001
“The way I see it,” Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris, France; “Extended Painting,” Monica de Cardenas, Milan, Italy; “Camera Works: The Photographic Impulse in Contemporary Art,” Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York; “Works on Paper from Acconci to Zittel,” Victoria Miro Gallery, London; “Work on Paper,” The
Kerlin Gallery, Dublin; “Hier ist dort,” Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg; “EU,” Stephen Friedman Gallery, London; “Peter Doig”, National Gallery of Canada – Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
2002
“Cavepainting,” Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica;“Cher peintre - Peintures figuratives depuis l’ultime Picabia,” Centre Pompidou, Paris, touring to Kunsthalle, Wien (Sep 20 - Jan 1, 2003) and Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (June 14 - April 6, 2003); “Peter Doig: 100 Years Ago”, Victoria Miro Gallery, London; “The Galleries Show”, Royal Academy of Art, London; “Art and Mountains: conquistadors of the useless”, The Alpine Club, London
2003
"Pittura/Painting: From Rauschenberg to Murakami 1964-2003. 50 International Art Exhibition", Musei Civici Veneziani/La Biennale di Venezia; "Days Like These", Tate Triennal Exhibition of Contemporary British Art, Tate Britain, London"Unheimlich", Städtische Galerie Delmenhorst, Delmenhorst; "Happiness", The Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; County Hall Exhibition Rooms, The Saatchi Gallery, London
2004-05
“2004 Carnegie International” , Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh; “The Undiscovered Country”, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; “Huts” The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin;
"Contemporary Painting", Colby College Museum of Art,(curated by Alex Katz), “Peter Doig – Jochen Klein”, Galerie Daniel Bucholz, Cologne; “Bearings: Landscapes from the IMMA Collection”, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
2005
"The Triumph of Painting Part 1", Saatchi Gallery, London; “Ideal Worlds: New Romanticism in Contemporary Art”, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany; “Works on Paper: Georg Baselitz, Peter Doig, Jörg Immendorff, Per Kirkeby”, Michael Werner Gallery, New York; Rene Daniels | Peter Doig | Silke Otto-Knapp, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York
2005
“The Whitney Biennial: Day for Night”, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; “Black and White: Drawings for Summer”, Michael Werner Gallery, New York; “Eye on Europe: Prints, Books & Multiples/1960 to Now”, Museum of Modern Art, New York
2006-07
“Still Points of the Turning World”, SITE Santa Fe’s Sixth International Biennial, Santa Fe
2007
“Fast Forward: Contemporary Collections for the Dallas Museum of Art”, Dallas Museum of Art, Texas; “The Painting of Modern Life”, The Hayward Gallery, London
2007-2008
“The Painting of Modern Life”, Castello di Rivoli, Turin; “A Guest of Honor: From Francis Bacon to Peter Doig”, Museum der Moderne Salzburg
2008
“Serial Works on Paper”, Julius Werner Berlin, Berlin; “Series Drawings”, Michael Werner Gallery, New York;
Peter Doig currently lives and works in Trinidad.
