Elizabeth Peyton

Sadie Coles HQ at the Royal Academy of Art, London
Elizabeth Peyton, an American artist who has been represented by Sadie Coles HQ since 1997, continues to select the subjects for her emotional portraits from amongst both her friends and figures in the public eye. As well as painting fellow artists and her new puppy, the intriguingly eclectic roll call of celebrity subjects in the new work ranges from the institutional figures of Prince Harry and the Queen to the controversial rap star Eminem.  While drawn in by their charisma, Peyton bypasses their aura of fame to respond to details of their personal history, extending to them the tenderness with which she paints those close to her and creating portraits which are utterly devoid of the voyeurism and intrusive gaze of the media. Rather than being coerced into blindly accepting Peyton’s interpretation, the humanism that lies at the core of these portraits offers us instead a clean slate and affords us the opportunity to reevaluate our own responses to these people.

The beautiful rooms of the Royal Academy, with all their associations of traditional portraiture from Sir Joshua Reynolds on, throw into relief Peyton’s relationship to portraiture and her distinctly twenty-first century approach to subject matter, celebrity, and love.

1965 Born Danbury (CT)
Lives and works in New York
1984-87 BFA from School of Visual Arts, New York

Solo Exhibitions
2007 Regen Projects, Los Angeles
2006 Elizabeth Peyton, Paintings 1994 – 2002, 41 East 65th Street, New York
Neugerriemschneider, Berlin
Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton (NY)
2005 Sadie Coles HQ, London
2004 Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York
2003 neugerriemschneider, Berlin
The Wrong Gallery, New York
Elizabeth Peyton: opere su carta, Roma roma roma, Rome
Regen Projects, Los Angeles (CA)
Elizabeth Peyton and Tony Just, New Works on Paper, Orient Historical
Society, Orient, NY
2002 Sadie Coles HQ at the Royal Academy of Art, London (cat.)
neugerriemschneider, Berlin
Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria
2001 Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York
Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany (cat.)
2000 Sadie Coles HQ, London
Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York
Westfalischer Kunstverein, Munster, Germany (cat.)
Aspen Art Museum, Aspen (CO) (cat.)
1999 Regen Projects, Los Angeles (CA)
Castello di Rivoli – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy
neugerriemschneider, Berlin
Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York
1998 Georg Kargl, Vienna
Galleria Il Capricorno, Venice, Italy
Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg, Germany (travelled to Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland) (cat.)
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle (WA)
Sadie Coles HQ, London
1997 Gallery Side 2, Tokyo
Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany
St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis (MO)
Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York
Regen Projects, Los Angeles (CA)
1996 Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York
Galleria Il Capricorno, Venice, Italy
neugerriemschneider, Berlin
1995 Cabinet Gallery at the Prince Albert, London
Burkhard Riemschneider, Cologne, Germany
Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York
1993 Room 828, Hotel Chelsea, New York
1992 Water Closet, Novocento, New York
1987 Althea Viafore, New York

Group Exhibitions

2007 Still Life & Kicking, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York (curated by Dodie Kazanjian)
Old School, Hauser & Wirth Colnaghi, London (traveling to Zwirner & Wirth, New York)
Very Abstract and Hyper Figurative, Thomas Dane Gallery, London (curated by Jens Hoffman)
2006 Craig Robins Collection, curated by Karola Grässlin, Miami (FL)
Surprise, Surprise, ICA., London
The Name of This Show is not Gay Art Now, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
Painting Codes: I Codici della Pittura, Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea di Monfalcone, Monafalcone, Italy
2005 Girls on Film, curated by Kristine Bell, Zwriner and Wirth Gallery, New York
Superstars: From Warhol to Madonna, Kunsthalle Wien and Kunstforum Wien, Vienna, Austria (cat.)
25 Deutsche Bank Collection, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin (cat.)
2004 Works from the Boros collection (Werke aus der Sammlung Boros), Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe (cat.)
Now Is a Good Time, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
2004 Whitney Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
North Fork/South Fork: East End Art Now, The Parrish Art Museum,
Southampton, New York
Contemporary Painting, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville (ME)
Beginning Here: 101 Ways, Visual Arts Gallery, New York
2003 Inaugural Exhibition, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York
The Fourth Sex: Adolescent Extremes, Pitti Imagine Discovery, Milan (cat.)
Faces and Figures, Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami (cat.)
Il Quarto Sesso, Stazione Leopolda, Florence
Under Pressure: Prints from Two Palm Press, The Cooper Union School of Art, New York
Inaugural Exhibition, Regen Projects, Los Angeles (CA)
2002 The Galleries Show: Contemporary Art in London, The Royal Academy of Arts, London (cat.)
DEAR PAINTER,… Paint Me, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (cat.)
Remix: Contemporary Art & Pop,Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, England (cat.)
Carpenter Centre for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge (MA) (booklet)
Painting on the Move, Kunstmuseum Basel; Museum für Gegenwartskunst Basel; Kunstalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland (cat.)
Drawing Now: Eight Propositions, Museum of Modern Art, New York (cat.)
2001 New to the Modern: Recent Acquisitions from the Department of Drawing, Museum of Modern Art, New York
ABBILD Recent Portraiture and Depiction, Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria (cat.)
Azerty, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Beautiful Productions: Art to Play, Art to Wear, Art to Own, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
Collaborations with Parkett: 184 to Now, Museum of Modern Art, New York (cat.)
About Face: Selections from the Prints and Illustrated Books Departments, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris
Longing and Memory, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles (CA)
Lens and Paper: The Beauty of Intimacy, Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, The Netherlands; Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany; Museum Haus am Waldsee, Berlin (cat.)
Ohne Zögern – Without Hesitation: Views of the Olbricht Collection, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany (cat.)
Freestyle: Werke aus der Sammlung Boros, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany (cat.)
2000 American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York
Interventions, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee (WI) (cat.)
Greater New York, P.S.1, New York
Présumés Innocents, capc Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
1999 ef1ny999, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
Malerei, INIT Kunsthalle, Berlin
Gesammalte Werke 1, Zeitgenossische Kunst
Seit 1968, Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg, Germany
anAzonas Kunstlerbucher, Villa Minimo, Hanover, Germany
Free Coke, Greene Naftali, New York
Village Disco, Cabinet, London
Examining Pictures, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (II); UCLA at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (CA) (cat.)
Parallel Lines: Mix and Match, Karen McCready Fine Art, New York
1998 Sisi, Sisimus, Sisimen, Galerie Menotti, Baden, Austria (cat.)
Hanging, Galeria Camargo Vilaca, São Paulo, Brazil
Young Americans II, Saatchi Gallery, London (cat.)
Tell Me A Story, Magasin - Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Grenoble, France (cat.)
People II, Monica de Cardenas, Milan, Italy
Exterminating Angel, Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris
Auf der Spur, Kunsthalle, Zurich, Switzerland
Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany
1997 Coming Home Again, Visual Arts Gallery, New York (cat.)
Kunst…Arbeit, Sudwest LB, Stuttgart, Germany (cat.)
Truce: Echoes of Art in an Age of Endless Conclusions,
Site Sante Fe, Santa Fe (NM)
St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis (MO)
Center for Curatorial Studies, Annandale-on-Hudson (NY) (cat.)
Projects 60 (with Luc Tuymans & John Currin), Museum of Modern Art, New York
Antlitz, Max-Gandolph-Bibliothek, Salzburg, Austria
New Work: Drawings Today, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco (CA)
Heaven, P.S.1, New York
Hirsch Farm Project, Hirsch Foundation, Northbrook (IL)
Longing and Memory, Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles (CA)
1996 Ein Stuck von Himmel, Kunsthalle, Nuremberg, Germany; South London Gallery, London; Southhampton City Art Gallery, Southampton, England; Cornerhouse Gallery, Manchester, England (cat.)
a-drift, Bard College, New York (cat.)
Universalis, São Paulo Bienal, São Paulo, Brazil
Wunderbar, Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany; Kunstraum, Vienna (cat.)
Victoria Miro Gallery, London
Stefano Basilico Fine Art, New York
Screen, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
1995 Campo, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Space Odyssey, Koreneou Gallery, Athens
The Enthusiast, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York
1994 Swan, Tom Cugliani Gallery, New York
Don’t Postpone Joy of Collecting Can Be Fun, Austrian Cultural Institute, New York
1993 Okay Behaviour, 303 Gallery, New York
Little Thing, Randolph St Gallery, Chicago (IL); Delta Arts Axis, Memphis (TN); Art in General, New York

Awards

2006 14th Annual Larry Aldrich Award

Collections

Carnegie Museum of Arts, Pittsburgh (PA)
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg, Germany
Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MA)
Museum of Modern Art, New York
New Museum, New York
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco (CA)
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle (WA)
St. Louis Art Museum, St Louis (MO)
Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis (MN)
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York