Biography |
| 1934 | Born August 16 in San Francisco |
| 1950-52 | Attends California School of Fine Arts |
| 1952-56 | Attends Washington University School of Fine Arts in St. Louis |
| 1956-64 | Lives in Holland, Paris, and Rome |
| 1964-74 | Returns to the United States and settles in Mill Valley |
| 1964 | Receives Art in America “New Talent” Award and Copley Foundation Award |
| 1961-87 | Exhibits regularly at Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York and Chicago |
| 1975-81 | Lives in Chappaqua, New York |
| 1989-95 | Exhibits regularly at Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York |
| 1981-00 | Lives in Austin, Texas; teaches at the University of Texas |
| 2000 | Moves to New York in July |
| 2001 | Academy Award for Art, American Academy of Arts and Letters |
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| Currently lives and works in New York. |
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Selected Solo Exhibitions |
| 2009 | Peter Saul: New Paintings, David Nolan Gallery, New York |
| Praz-Delavallade, Paris |
| Retrospective, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans |
| Oeuvres 1968 – 1971, Galerie Darthea Speyer, Paris |
| Five New Pictures, Patrick Painter Gallery, Los Angeles |
| 2008 | Retrospective, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach |
| Retrospective, 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, Cologne |
| The Sixties, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York |
| Galerie Charlotte Moser, Geneva |
| 2000 | Heads: 1986-2000, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York |
| Galerie du Centre, Paris |
| 1999-00 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 1993 | Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York |
| 1992 | Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York |
| 1991 | Krannert Art Museum, Champagne, Illinois |
| Political Paintings, Washington University, St. Louis |
| Galerie du Centre, Paris |
| 1990 | Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans |
| Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin |
| Texas Gallery, Houston |
| Galerie Bonnier, Geneva |
| Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York |
| 1989 | Aspen Art Museum, Aspen |
| Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago |
| Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York |
| 1987 | Texas Gallery, Houston |
| 1986 | Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco |
| Texas Gallery, Houston |
| 1985 | Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago |
| 1981 | Kilcawley Center, Youngstown State University, Youngstown |
| 1980-81 | Retrospective, University of Illinois, DeKalb; Madison Art Center, Wisconsin |
| 1976 | Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport |
| 1973 | California State University, Sacramento |
| Galerie Klang, Cologne |
| 1972 | Galerie Darthea Speyer, Paris |
| 1971 | Musée dʼart et dʼindustrie, Saint-Étienne, France |
| 1969 | Galerie Darthea Speyer, Paris |
| 1968 | San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco |
| California College of Arts and Crafts Gallery, Oakland |
| Reed College, Portland |
| 1967 | Galerie di Foscherari 60, Bologna |
| Contemporary Gallery, Kansas City |
| Galerie Breteau, Paris |
| 1965 | Anne Aebels Gallery, Cologne |
| 1964 | Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago |
| Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York |
| Notizie Gallery, Turin |
| 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 |
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Selected Group Exhibitions |
| 2010 | The Visible Vagina, David Nolan, New York |
| Desire, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin |
| 2009 | Consider the Lobster, The Center for Curatorial Studies and Hessel Museum of The New Yorkers, curated by Todd James, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen |
| Until the End of the World, curated by Max Henry, AMP, Athens |
| Art at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York |
| N'importe quoi, Musée d'Art Contemporain Lyon |
| Exile on Main Street: Humour, exaggeration & anti-authoritarianism in American art, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht |
| 2008 | Looking for mushrooms: Beat Poets, Hippies, Funk und Minimal Art: Kunst und Counterculture in San Francisco um 1968, Museum Ludwig, Cologne |
| Lone Star Legacy II: The Bartlett Collection of Contemporary Texas Art, Dallas Museum of Art |
| Second Thoughts, Hessel Museum of Art & Center for Curatorial Studies Galleries at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York |
| Freaks, Privateer Gallery, Brooklyn |
| 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 |
| Lots of Things Like This, Apexart, New York |
| 2007 | Paradise, Patrick Painter Inc., Santa Monica |
| 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 |
| Refugees of Group Selection, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York |
| Humor's Lines, Maier Museum of Art, Randolph-Macon Women's College |
| Rouge baiseri, Fonds régional d'art contemporain des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou |
| 2006 | Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro |
| Twice Drawn, Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs |
| The Artful Jester, The Painting Center, New York; Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Vermont |
| 2005-06 | 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 |
| Body Language, George Adams Gallery, New York |
| 2004-05 | Disparities and Deformities: Our Grotesque, Site Santa Fe |
| 2004 | The Anxious Image, The Painting Center, New York |
| Bush-Whack!, George Adams Gallery, New York |
| 2003-04 | The Not-So-Still Life: A Century of California Painting and Sculpture, San Jose Museum of Art |
| 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 dʼart 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 |
| 1988 | Different Drummers, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington |
| Pop Apocalypse, Gracie Mansion, New York |
| 1987 | Comic Iconoclasm, Institute of Contemporary Art, London |
| Made in USA: Art from the 50s and 60s, 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 |
| Pop, etc., Museum des 20.Jahrhunderts, Schweizergarten, Vienna |
| The New Realism, Municipal Museum, The Hague |
| 67th Annual American Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago |
| 1963 | Forum, Abbey Saint-Pierre, Ghent |
| 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 |
| The Society of Contemporary American Art, The Art Institute of Chicago |
| 1961 | International Selection, The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton |
| 1959 | Salon de Jeune Peinture, Paris |
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Selected Public Collections |
| Art Institute of Chicago |
| Becht Collection, Amsterdam |
| Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh |
| Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris |
| Di Rosa Art Preserve, Napa, California |
| Fonds National d'Art Contemporain, Paris |
| FRAC Region Nord, Lille, France |
| Greenville County Museum of Art, South Carolina. |
| Huntington Gallery, University of Texas, Austin |
| Kansas City Art Institute |
| Krannert Museum, Champaign, Illinois |
| Los Angeles County Museum |
| Madison Art Center, Wisconsin |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City |
| Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
| Musee Cantini, Marseilles |
| Museum of Art, Honolulu |
| Museum of Art, University of California, Berkeley |
| Museum Ludwig, Cologne |
| Museum of Modern Art, New York City |
| San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |
| Sintra Museum of Modern Art, Portugal |
| Smart Museum, University of Chicago |
| Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam |
| Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City |
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Publications |
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Monographs and Catalogues |
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| 2009 | Peter Saul: New Paintings, David Nolan Gallery. |
| 2008 | Dan Cameron, Michael Duncan, Robert Storr, Peter Sau: A Retrospective, Hatje Cantz. |
| 2006 | Benoit Decron, Robert Storr, Anne Tronche, Peter Saul, Somogy. |
| Brooks Adams and Peter Saul, Peter Saul: Recent Works, David Nolan Gallery and Leo Koenig Inc. |
| 2002 | Ellen FT. Johnson, Peter Saul: The Sixties, David Nolan Gallery. |
| 2001 | Christiaan Braun, Eye Infection: Robert Crumb, Mike Kelley, Jim Nutt, Peter Saul, H C Westermann, Richter Verlag Düsseldorf. |
| 2000 | Carroll Dunham, Peter Saul: Heads 1986-2000, David Nolan Gallery. |
| 1989 | Peter Saul, Aspen Art Museum. |
| 1980 | Peter Saul: Swen Parson Gallery, Nov. 3-30, 1980, Madison Art Center, Feb. 1-Mar. 29, 1981, Swen Parson Gallery. |
| 1964 | Peter Saul, New Paintings and Works on Paper, Allan Frumkin Gallery. |
