Artists

Peter Saul


b. 1934, San Francisco

Artist Bio

1934
Born August 16 in San Francisco

1950-52
Attends California School of Fine Arts

1952-56
Attends Washington University School of Fine Arts of St. Louis

1956-64
Lives in Holland, Paris, and Rome

1964-1974
Returns to United States and settles in Mill Valley, California

1964
Receives Art in America "New Talent" Award and Copley Foundation Award

1961-1987
Exhibits regularly at Alan Frumkin Gallery, New York and Chicago

1975-1981
Lives in Chappaqua, New York

1989-1995
Exhibits regularly at Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York

1981-July '00
Lives in Austin, Texas; teaches at the University of Texas

2000
Moves to New York City

2001
Academy Award for Art, American Academy of Arts and Letters

Currently lives and works in New York


SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2010
Fifty Years of Painting, curated by Chris Byrne, Haunch of Venison, New York
Sheer Terror, Nolan Judin, Berlin

2009
New Paintings, David Nolan Gallery, New York
Praz-Delavallade, Paris

2008
Peter Saul: A Retrospective, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California; traveled to Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans

2007
Galerie Charlotte Moser, Geneva

2006
David Nolan Gallery, New York
Leo Koenig Inc., New York

2005
Peintures, 1985 – 2005, Musée Paul Valèry, Sète, France

2004
Homage to Dalì, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York
Suburbia: Paintings and Drawings, 1965-69, George Adams Gallery, New York

2003
Drawings, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco

2002
Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Köln, Germany
The Sixties, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York
Galerie Charlotte Moser, Geneva

2000
Heads: 1986-2000, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York
Galerie du Centre, Paris

1999-2000
Retrospective, Musée de l'Abbaye Sainte-Croix-Chateauroux, Les Sables d'Olonne, France; Musée de l'Hôtel Bertrand, Dole, France; Beaux-Arts Museum, Mons, Belgium

1998
Recent Drawings, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York
Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco
Paintings and Related Drawings 1960-64, George Adams Gallery, New York

1997
Galerie du Centre, Paris
Artpace, San Antonio, Texas

1996
Art World Portraits, Smart Museum of Art, Chicago
Texas Gallery, Houston, Texas
George Adams Gallery, New York

1995
Turner, Byrne and Runyon, Dallas, Texas
Herbert Palmer Gallery, Los Angeles
Ynglingagatan I, Stockholm
Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York
Galerie Bonnier, Geneva

1994
Herbert Palmer Gallery, Los Angeles
Martin-Rathburn Gallery Inc., San Antonio, Texas

1993
Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York

1992
Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York

1991
Krannert Art Museum, Champagne, Illinois
Political Paintings, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri
Galerie du Centre, Paris

1990
Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, Louisiana
Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas
Texas Gallery, Houston, Texas
Galerie Bonnier, Geneva, Switzerland
Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York

1989
Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York

1987
Texas Gallery, Houston, Texas

1986
Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, California
Texas Gallery, Houston, Texas

1985
Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago

1981
Kilcawley Center, Youngstown State University, Ohio

1980-81
Retrospective, University of Illinois, DeKalb; Madison Art Center, Wisconsin

1976
Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, Connecticut

1973
California State University, Sacramento, California
Galerie Klang, Köln, Germany

1972
Galerie Darthea Speyer, Paris

1971
Musée d'art et d'industrie, Saint-Étienne, France

1969
Galerie Darthea Speyer, Paris

1968
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco
California College of Arts and Crafts Gallery, Oakland, California
Reed College, Portland, Oregon

1967
Galerie di Foscherari 60, Bologna, Italy
Contemporary Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
Galerie Breteau, Paris

1965
Anne Aebels Gallery, Köln, Germany

1964
Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago
Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York
Notizie Gallery, Turin, Italy
Galerie Breteau, Paris

1963
Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York
Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago
La Tartartuga Gallery, Rome
Rolf Nelson Gallery, Los Angeles
Galerie Breteau, Paris

1962
Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York

1961
Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago
Galerie Breteau, Paris


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2010
Ordinary Madness, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
Touch and Go: Ray Yoshida and his Spheres of Influence, School of the Art Institute of Chicago Sullivan Galleries, Chicago
The Visible Vagina, David Nolan Gallery, New York
Nature, Once Removed, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY
Desire, curated by Annette DiMeo Carlozzi, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX

2009
Consider the Lobster, The Center for Curatorial Studies and Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
The New Yorkers, curated by Todd James, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen
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: Humour, exaggeration & anti-authoritarianism in American art, Bonnefantenmuseum. Maastricht, The Netherlands

2008
Looking for mushrooms: Beat Poets, Hippies, Funk und Minimal Art: Kunst und Counterculture in San Francisco um 1968, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Lone Star Legacy II: The Bartlett Collection of Contemporary Texas Art, Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
Second Thoughts, Hessel Museum of Art & Center for Curatorial Studies Galleries at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
Freaks, Privateer Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
In Your Face, Buia Gallery, New York
1968: Art and Politics in Chicago, DePaul University Art Museum, Chicago
Aaron Curry, Richard Hawkins, and Peter Saul, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles
Parfum d'été, Galerie Charlotte Moser, Geneva
Summer Group Exhibition, Derek Eller Gallery, New York
Bad Painting, Good Art, Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna
Jekyll Island, curated by Erik Parker and Max Henry, Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles
Figuration Narrative, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris
Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning and American Art, 1940-1976, The Jewish Museum, New York
Good Doll, Bad Doll, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, California
Lots of Things Like This, Apexart, New York

2007
Paradise, Patrick Painter Inc., Santa Monica, California
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now, Museum of Modern Art, New York
What is Love: Selections from the Permanent Collection, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Fine Arts Center
Mr. President, University Art Museum, Albany, New York
Refugees of Group Selection, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York
Humor's Lines, Maier Museum of Art, Randolph-Macon Women's College,Virginia
Rouge baiseri, Fonds régional d'art contemporain des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, France

2006
Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina
Twice Drawn, Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York
The Artful Jester, The Painting Center, New York; Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Vermont

2005-2006
Art of Engagement: Paintings, Drawings, Prints and Sculpture, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles

2005
Looking at Words, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
Post War Draughtswomen and 1 Monitor, Meyer Riegger Gallery, Karlsruhe, Germany
Body Language, George Adams Gallery, New York

2004-05
Disparities and Deformities: Our Grotesque, Site Santa Fe, New Mexico

2004
The Anxious Image, The Painting Center, New York
Bush-Whack!, George Adams Gallery, New York

2003-2004
The Not-So-Still Life: A Century of California Painting and Sculpture, San Jose Museum of Art, California

2003
Splat, Boom, Pow, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; ICA, Boston
Les Contemporains de 1960 à nos jours, Centre Pompidou, Paris
3 Pop Guys 40 Years After, Galerie du Centre, Paris
Funny Papers, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles
Grooves, Leo Koenig Inc., New York

2002
Eye Infection, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Jokes, Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Geneva

2001
Self Made Men, D.C. Moore Gallery, New York
Open Ends, Museum of Modern Art, New York

2000
Drawings 2000, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
Face to Face, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

1998
View 3, curated by Klaus Kertess, Mary Boone Gallery, New York

1997
Facing History, Centre Pompidou, Paris
A Show of Hands, George Adams Gallery, New York
Drawings, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York

1995
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Murder, curated by John Yau, Thread Waxing Space, New York

1994
Hand Painted Pop: 1958-1962, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; The Whitney Museum of Contemporary Art, New York

1989
Reagan: American Icon, Bucknell University, Lewiston, Pennsylvania

1988
Different Drummers, Hirschorn Museum, Washington, D.C.
Pop Apocalypse, Gracie Mansion, New York

1987
Comic Iconoclasm, Institute of Contemporary Art, London
Made in USA: Art from the '50's and '60's, University of California, Berkeley;
Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri; Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond

1986
American Renaissance: Painting and Sculpture Since 1940, Museum of Art,
Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Figure as Subject: The Last Decade, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

1983
Red Grooms/Peter Saul: The Early Sixties, Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York

1978-79
Art About Art, Whitney Museum, New York

1976
72nd American Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago

1971
American Painting and Sculpture 1948-1969, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Champaign

1968-69
Violence in Recent American Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

1967
Funk, University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley

1964
Recent American Drawings, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waitham, Massachusetts
Pop, etc., Museum des 20.Jahrhunderts, Schweizergarten, Vienna
The New Realism, Municipal Museum, The Hague, The Netherlands
67th Annual American Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

1963
Forum, Abbey Saint-Pierre, Ghent, Belgium
13 Pittori a Roma, Galleria La Tartargura, Rome
1st Salon International de Galleries-Pilotes, Musée Cantolan, Lausanne, Switzerland
A New Realist Supplement, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor
New Directions, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco

1962
The University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado
The Society of Contemporary American Art, The Art Institute of Chicago

1961
International Selection, The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio

1959
Salon de Jeune Peinture, Paris

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