About Peter Doig - British Painter

1959: Born in Edinburgh, lives in Trinidad
1960-79: Lived in Trinidad, Canada, London
1979-80: Wimbledon School of Art
1980-83: St Martin's School of Art, BA
1989-90: Chelsea School of Art, MA
1995-2000: Trustee of Tate Gallery, London

Peter Doig in a British painter who was born in Edinburgh in 1959. He was raised in Canada before moving to London in 1979 to study art. He initially studied at the Wimbledon School of Art (1979-80). Subsequently Doig graduated from St. Martins School of Art (1980-83) and the Chelsea School of Art (1989-90).

He then moved to Trinidad, where he now lives and works.

In terms of public recognition for his work:
* In 1991 he won the Whitechapel Art Gallery's Artist Award;
* In 1993 he was awarded first prize at the John Moores Liverpool Exhibition.
* He was short-listed for the 1994 Turner Prize.
* He has acted as a trustee for the Tate Gallery, London since 1995.
* His work has appeared in group shows at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, Kunsthalle Wien and the Serpentine Gallery and was included in the 2006 Whitney Biennial.
* In 2007, his painting White Canoe broke auction records for the value of a painting sold by a living artist

Other venues for his solo shows have included the Whitechapel Gallery, Gavin Brown's Enterprise, the National Gallery of Canada and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Miami.

2008: Tate Britain retrospective
2006: Art Gallery of Ontario
2005: Dallas Museum of Art; The Gallery of Windsor
2004: Metropolitain Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich; Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover
2003: Charley's Space Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht ; Carré d'Art contemporain de Nîmes, France
2002: 100 Years Ago Victoria Miro Gallery, London
2001: Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
2000: Echo Lake Matrix, University of California, Berkeley; Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami; Saint Louis Art Museum,
Missouri; Almost Grown The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
1999: Version Kunsthaus, Glarus, Switzerland wing-mirror, Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York
1998: Peter Doig: Blizzard seventy-seven Kunsthalle Kiel; Kunsthalle Nürnberg; Whitechapel Gallery, London
1996: Homely Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, Germany
1994: Concrete Cabins Victoria Miro Gallery, London

Peter Doig: Charley's Space, exh. cat., Maastricht, 2003, n.p. (illustrated in color).
Parkett, vol. 67, Zürich and New York, 2003 (illustrated in color on the back cover).
A. Searle, K. Scott and C. Grenier, eds., Peter Doig, London, 2007, p. 11, 158 (illustrated in color).
K. A. Fitzgerald, "Peter Doig, A Mid-Career Retrospective at Tate Britain," Culture 24, 5 February 2008 (illustrated in color).
C. Darwent, "Peter Doig, Tate Britain, London," The Independent, 10 February 2008, p. 55 (illustrated in color).
B. Schwabsky, "Glimpses Beyond the Edge," Art in America, vol. 96, no. 5, May 2008, p. 171 (illustrated in color).
M. Farine, "Peter Doig, ses peintures atmospheriques," L'oeil, June 2008, p. 35 (illustrated in color).
L'object d'art, June 2008, p. 35 (illustrated in color).
B. Louis, "Peter Doig," Monopol, no. 3, 2008, p. 101 (illustrated in color).