Peter Doig

The works of Peter Doig are characterized by their universal relevance and contemporary atmosphere. With his fiercely eclectic style, the painter is able to impressively depict diverse motifs – from winter sports in the Swiss Alps to carefree life in the Caribbean. His emotional imagery combined with his ability to skillfully stage subjects never fails to impact the viewer. Both landscapes and figures come into focus as Doig intertwines art historical and personal references into his compositions. The Zermatt series was not Doig’s first exploration of winter motifs – he painted snowy Canadian landscapes in the 1990s. His enthusiasm for the alpine village of Zermatt and his friendship with Swiss artist Heinz Julen resulted in an extended stay between 2020 and 2021. He drew inspiration from his surroundings as well as ski resort advertisements to create his own interpretation of winter activities.

Intuition is at the heart of Peter Doig’s work process. He describes his approach as a journey whose destination is unknown. That said, a variety of sources – such as film and music – play an equally important role in the creation of his works. Tropical motifs, as seen in the Fischerman, are present in Doig’s most famous compositions. Having lived on the Caribbean Island of Trinidad with his family for many years, the origin of such themes is traceable.

Scottish-born painter Peter Doig is celebrated as one of the most important representational painters working today. Not only have his works been auctioned for millions, but they’ve also been exhibited in the world’s most notable museums, such as Museum of Modern Art in New York and the British Museum in London. Doig has served on the Tate Gallery's artistic board of directors in London and worked as an adjunct professor of painting at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.

Solo Exhibitions

2017	Peter Doig | Cabins and Canoes: The Unreasonable Silence of the World, Faurschou Foundation, New York, USA
2015	Peter Doig, Michael Werner Gallery, New York, USA
	Peter Doig, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, at the Palazzetto Tito, Venice, Italy
2014	Peter Doig, Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland, Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
2013	Peter Doig: Early Works, Michael Werner Gallery, New York, USA; London, UK
	No Foreign Lands, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, UK, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montreal, Montreal, Canada
2012	Peter Doig: New Paintings, Michael Werner Gallery, London, UK
2011	Siegfried + Poster Project, Gallery Met at the Metropolitan Opera, New York; Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
2009	Not for Sale, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
	Peter Doig: New Paintings, Michael Werner Gallery, New York & Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York, USA
2008	Peter Doig, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Germany
	Peter Doig, ARC / Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, France
	Peter Doig, Tate Britain, London, UK
2006	Peter Doig: Studiofilmclub 2003 – 2006, Ballroom Marfa, Texas, USA
	Go West Young Man, Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig, Germany
2005	Peter Doig: Works on Paper, Dallas Museum of Art, Texas; The Gallery at Windsor, Florida, USA; Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada
	Peter Doig. Studio Film Club, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany; Kunsthalle Zürich, Switzerland
2004	Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
	Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany
2003	Charley's Space Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, Netherlands
	Carré d'Art contemporain de Nîmes, France
2000	Echo Lake Matrix, University of California, Berkeley, USA
	Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, USA
	Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri, USA
1999	Version Kunsthaus, Glarus, Switzerland
1998	Peter Doig: Blizzard seventy-seven, Kunsthalle Kiel, Germany
	Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Germany
	Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
1996	Homely, Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, Germany

Group Exhibitions

2022	RAW Editions at London Art Fair 2023, London, UK
	YBA Prints, Lougher Contemporary, Bristol, UK
	Figura Humana: Modern Representations of the Human Form, Kwiat Art, Los Angeles, USA
	Häuser - Houses, Galerie Boisseree, Cologne, Germany
	RAW Editions at London Original Print Fair 2022, London, UK
	The Drama of Life or the Drama of Representation, Jill Newhouse Gallery, New York, USA
2021	ART FOR HAPPINESS, Ludorff, Düsseldorf, Germany
	Icons & Vandals, West Chelsea Contemporary, New York, USA
2020	British Editions, Galerie Maximillian, London, UK
2019	RAW Editions : The Christmas Edit, RAW Editions, London, UK
	Contemporary British Editions, Galerie Maximillian, London, UK
	Away in the Hill, GRIMM, London, UK
2018	Peindre la nuit, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France
2017	Landscape: Urban & Rural, Crown Point Press, San Francisco, USA
	House Work, Victoria Miro, London, UK
2016	Winter Group Show, Crown Point Press, San Francisco, USA
2015	Body Shop, Michael Werner Gallery, London, UK
	Forces in Nature, Victoria Miro, London, UK
	Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Selects from the V-A-C collection: Natures, Natural and Unnatural, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
2014	Private Utopia: Contemporary Art from the British Council Collection, Toyko Station Gallery; Itami City Museum of Art; Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art; Kochi Museum of Art, Japan; Dunedin Public Art Gallery, New Zealand
	Imaginary Portraits: Prince Igor, Gallery Met at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, USA
2013	Tumescence: Peter Doig, Sigmar Polke, Peter Saul, Michael Williams, Michael Werner, New York, USA
	Cloud Illusions I Recall, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
2012	Spectral Landscape, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Ontario, Canada
	A ciel ouvert. Le Nouveau Pleinairisme, Musée national des beaux-arts, Quebec; Canada
	Rendez-vous der Maler II: Malerei an der Kunstakademie Düsseldorf von 1986 bis heute, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf; Germany
2012	BLICKWECHSEL ' Landschaft zwischen Bedrohung & Idylle. Von der Neuen Sachlichkeit bis heute, Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck, Austria
	Exquisite Corpses: Drawing and Disfiguration, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
	The World as Will and Wallpaper, Le Consortium, Dijon, France
	Juwelen im Rheingold: 10 Jahre Sammlung Rheingold, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany
2011	Flowers for Summer, Michael Werner Gallery, New York 2011 Perfect Man II, White Columns, New York, USA
2010	In the Company of Alice, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK
2009	Peter Doig and Stephen Hough, Collaboration at Westminster Cathedral, London, UK
2008	Series Drawing: An exhibition of works on paper, Michael Werner Gallery, New York, USA
	Serial Works on Paper, Julius Werner Berlin, Berlin, Germany
	A Guest of Honour. From Francis Bacon to Peter Doig, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria
	Marlon Brando, Pocahontas and Me, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado, USA
	…same as it ever was Painting at Chelsea 1990 – 2007, University of the Arts, London, USA
2007	The Painting of Modern Life, The Hayward Gallery, London, UK
	Fast Forward: Contemporary Collections for the Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, USA
	Der Symbolismus und die Kunst der Gegenwart, Van der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal, Germany
	Very Abstract and Hyper Figurative, The Thomas Dane Gallery, London, UK
	Leerraume des Erzahlens, Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisberg, Germany
	The Secret Public – The Last Days of the British Underground 1978 – 88, ICA, London, UK
	Rockers Island – Olbricht Collection, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
2006	Eye on Europe, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
	In the Alps, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
	Essential Painting, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Osaka, Japan
	How to Improve the World, 60 Years of British Art, Arts Council Collection, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
	Surprise, surprise, ICA, London, UK
	Still Points of the Turning World, Site Santa Fe’s 6th International Biennial, Site Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
	Once Upon a Time in the West – Part One, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
	Whitney Biennial 2006, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
	Tate Triennial 2006: New British Art, Tate Britain, London, UK
2005	Black and White: Drawings for Summer, Michael Werner Gallery, New York, USA
	René Daniels, Peter Doig, Silke Otto-Knapp, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York, USA
	Ideal Worlds; New Romanticism in Contemporary Art, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
	The Triumph of Painting – Part 1, The Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
	The Big Bang, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
2004
	The Undiscovered Country, Hammer Museum, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
2004
	54th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA
2004
	Bearings: Landscapes from the IMMA Collection, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
2003	Days Like These, Triennial Exhibition of Contemporary British Art, Tate Britain, London, UK
2002	Lieber Maler, male mir… (Dear Painter, paint me), Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
	Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
2001	Hier ist dort, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria
2000	Twisted: Urban and Visionary Landscapes in Contemporary Painting, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
1997	Alpenblick, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
1996	About Vision: New British Painting in the 1990s, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
	Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK
1994	Here and Now, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
	The Turner Prize Exhibition, Tate Gallery, London, UK
	Unbound: Possibilities in Painting, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
1993	Twelve Stars, Barbican Centre, London, UK
1991	Barclays' Young Artist Award, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
1982	New Contemporaries, ICA, London, UK