56. ELIZABETH PEYTON



56. ELIZABETH PEYTON
 
 (Self Portrait) Berlin, 2011,

oil on board,
  (38.1 × 27.9 cm)


Parsifal (Jonas Kaufmann and Katarina Dalayman), 2013

Oil on panel
 (30.5 x 22.9 cm)


Tim (Profile), 2013

Pastel on paper
 29.8 x 23.5 cm



BIO & STEPS



Born:  
In  1965 in Danbury, Connecticut (USA)

Nowadays:
Lives and works in New York and Berlin

Studies: 
         In 1987, she obtained  her BFA at the School of Visual Arts, New York (USA)
Themes and style: 
         The focus of Peyton’s work has been the small-scale portrait. She cites as inspiration the studio portraiture of Nadar, Alfred Stieglitz and Robert Mapplethorpe, who all photographed their friends and intimates. Her work is most often executed in oil paint, applied with washy glazes that are sometimes allowed or encouraged to drip, but also in watercolour, pencil, and etching. Her paintings are characterized by elongated, slender figures with androgynous features. Sexually ambiguous, feminine qualities are regularly emphasised.Her work at times resembles fashion illustration. The artist, interviewed in the catalogue for the exhibition The Painter of Modern Life at the Hayward Gallery in London in 2007, has indeed acknowledged the importance of photography as an inspiration source for her art. She thus usually works from photographs. Before switching to a digital camera in 2002, Peyton shot her subjects with either a standard 35-millimeter or a Polaroid camera — with little attention to composition or lighting. Several of them are blurred or slightly out of focus.

Techniques:      
She usually works in oil painting
Solo Exhibitions
2014
“Dark Incandescence,” Gladstone Gallery, Brussels
“Elizabeth Peyton,” Neugerriemschneider, Berlin

2013
"Elizabeth Peyton: Here She Comes Now," Kunsthalle Baden Baden, Baden Baden, Germany
"Klara 13 Pictures," Michael Werner Gallery, New York
"Elizabeth Peyton," Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York

2012
"Secret Life," Sadie Coles, London
"Elizabeth Peyton," Regen Projects, Los Angeles

2011
“Elizabeth Peyton,” Opelvillen Russelsheim Zentrum Fur Kunst, Russelsheim, Germany
“Elizabeth Peyton,” Gagosian, Paris
“Elizabeth Peyton,” Metropolitan Opera, New York
“Ghost,” Opelvillen Rüsselsheim Zentrum Für Kunst, Rüsselsheim, Germany [travdled to: Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, St. Louis, Washington]
“Elizabeth Peyton,” Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St.  Louis, St. Louis, Missouri

2010
“Elizabeth Peyton,” Nuegerriemschneider, Berlin

2009
“Elizabeth Peyton,” Gladstone Gallery, Brussels
“Live Forever: Elizabeth Peyton,” Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, The Netherlands
“Blood of Two: Matthew Barney and Elizabeth Peyton,” Slaughterhouse, DESTE Foundation Project Space, Hydra, Greece
“Elizabeth Peyton,” Sadie Coles HQ, London
“Elizabeth Peyton: Reading & Writing,” Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin

2008
"Live Forever: Elizabeth Peyton," New Museum, New York [traveled to: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Whitechapel, London; Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, Netherlands]
“Elizabeth Peyton: Portrait of an Artist,” Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut
“Elizabeth Peyton,” Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York

2007
“Elizabeth Peyton,” Regen Projects, Los Angeles

2006
“Elizabeth Peyton: Paintings 1994-2002.” Gavin Brown’s enterprise
“Elizabeth Peyton: Prints 1998-2006,” Guild Hall, Easthampton
“Elizabeth Peyton,” Neugerriemschneider, Berlin
“Elizabeth Peyton: 1994-2006, A Special Exhibition,” New York

2005
“Elizabeth Peyton,” Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, East Hampton, New York
"Elizabeth Peyton,” Sadie Coles HQ, London

2004
“Elizabeth Peyton,” Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York, NY

2003
“Elizabeth Peyton,” Neugerriemschneider, Berlin
“Elizabeth Peyton,” Regen Projects, Los Angeles
“Elizabeth Peyton,” Elizabeth Peyton and Tony Just, New Works on Paper, Orient Historical Society, Orient, New York
“Elizabeth Peyton,” Roma Roma Roma, Rome

2002
“Elizabeth Peyton,” Royal Academy, London
“Elizabeth Peyton,” Neugerriemschneider, Berlin
“Elizabeth Peyton,” Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria

2001
“Elizabeth Peyton,” Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York
“Elizabeth Peyton,” Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany

2000
“Elizabeth Peyton,” Westfalischer Kunstverein, Munster, Germany
“Elizabeth Peyton,” Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado
“Elizabeth Peyton,” Sadie Coles HQ, London
“Elizabeth Peyton,” Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York

1999
“Elizabeth Peyton,” Regen Projects, Los Angeles
“Elizabeth Peyton,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Castello di Rivoli, Torino, Italy 
“Elizabeth Peyton,” Neugerriemschneider, Berlin
“Elizabeth Peyton,” Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York

1998
“Elizabeth Peyton,” Georg Kargl, Vienna
“Elizabeth Peyton,” Galleria Il Capricorno, Venice, Italy
“Elizabeth Peyton,” Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany [travelled to:
Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland]
“Elizabeth Peyton,” Seattle Art Museum, Seattle
"Elizabeth Peyton,” Sadie Coles HQ, London

1997
“Elizabeth Peyton,” Gallery Side 2, Tokyo
“Elizabeth Peyton,” Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany
“Elizabeth Peyton,” St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
“Elizabeth Peyton,” Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York
“Elizabeth Peyton,” Regen Projects, Los Angeles

1996
“Elizabeth Peyton,” Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York
“Elizabeth Peyton,” Galleria Il Capricorno, Venice, Italy
“Elizabeth Peyton,” Neugerriemschneider, Berlin

1995
“Elizabeth Peyton,” Cabinet Gallery at The Prince Albert, London
“Elizabeth Peyton,” Burkhard Riemschneider, Cologne, Germany
“Elizabeth Peyton,” Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York

1993
“Elizabeth Peyton,” Gavin Brown’s enterprise at Hotel Chelsea, Room 828, New York

Group Exhibitions

2015
“Come As You Are: Art of the 1990s,” Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey [traveled to: Telfair Museums, Savannah, Georgia; University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin (2016)]
“True Monotypes,” International Print Center New York, New York
"Love for Three Oranges," Gladstone Gallery, Brussels
"America is Hard to See," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
“Popular Images,” Karma, Amagansett, New York
“UGO RONDINONE: I JOHN GIORNO,” Palais de Tokyo, Paris

2014
“Artists for Artists: 51st Anniversary Exhibition to Benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Arts,” Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
“Paint New York: Painting from the American East Coast,” Kunstforeningen GL Strand, Copenhagen, Denmark
“Van Gogh Live!,” Fondation Vincent Van Gogh Arles, Arles, France
“Dries Van Noten- Inspirations,” Les Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France [traveling to: Mode Museum (MoMu), Antwerp]
“Imaginary Portraits: Prince Igor,” Gallery Met, The Metropolitan Opera, New York
“Rockaway!,” conceived by MoMA PS1, Fort Tilden and Rockaway Beach, New York

2013
“Moby Dick-Whale Language,” Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
“The Cat Show” White Columns, New York
“NYC Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star 1993,” New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
“The Human Touch,” Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale
“Les Trois Grâces,” Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris

2012
“Inaugural Exhibition by Gallery Artists,” Regen Projects, Los Angeles
“We The People,” Rauschenberg Foundation, New York
“Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern,” Bortolami, New York
“Regarding Warhol: Fifty Artists, Fifty Years,” The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York [traveled to: The Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh (2013)]
“Biennial of Painting: The Image of Man,: Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Flanders, Belgium
“Contemporary Painting, 1960 to the Present: Selections from the Collection,” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
“Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts,” American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York

2011
“Sentimental Education,” Galvak Gallery, Palm Beach
“Nothing in the World but Youth,” Turner Contemporary Margate, UK
“American Euberance,” Rubell Family Collection/Contemporary Arts Foundation, Miami
“American Portraits: Treasure from the Parrish Art Museum,” South Hampton
“About Painting,” Art Berlin Contemporary, Berlin
“Faces,” Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston
“Thanks for Explaining Me,” Gladstone Gallery, New York
“Kompass-Zeichnungern aus dem MoMA,” New York
 “L’Insoutenable Légereté de l’Etre,” Yvon Lambert Gallery, New York
“Invitation to the Voyage,” Algus Greenspon, New York
 "Age of Innocence," Yvonne Lambert Gallery, New York

2010
"At Home/Not at Home," Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson,
New York
“From NY with Love,” Don’t Projects, Paris
“On Publications, Portraits, Public Art and Performance,” The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow, UK
“Compass In Hand: Selections from the Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection,” Valencia Institute of Modern Art, Valencia, Spain
“Kurt,” Seattle Art Museum, Seattle
“UltraMegaLore,” Modemuseum Hasselt, Belgium
“Fine Line,” George Kargle Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria
“Size Does Matter,” FLAG Art Foundation, New York
“THE EPHEMERAL,” Galerie van Gleder, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
“SUR LE DANDYSME AUJOURD’HUI: From Shop Window Mannequin to Media Star,” Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
“In The Company of Alice,” Victoria Miro Gallery, London

2009
“Undeniably Me,” Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
“Don’t Panic! I’m Selling My Collection,” Rental Gallery, New York
“Landscape,” Armory, New York
“Blookd of Two: Matthew Barney and Elizabeth Peyton,” Slaughterhouse, DESTE Foundation Project Space, Hydra, Greece
“15 Years of Collecting Against the Gran,” Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
“Something about Mary,” Gallery Met, The Metropolitan Opera, New York
“The living and the dead,” Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York
“Modern Modern,” Chelsea Art Museum, New York
“Compass In Hand: Selections from the Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection,” Museum of Modern Art, New York [traveled to: Institut Valencia
d'Art Modern, Valencia, Spain]

2008
“System Mensh:Works from the Collection of the MdM Salzburg,” Museum der
Moderne Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
“Group Show,” Galerie Leu, Munich, Germany
“Permanent Presentation,” white8 Galerie, Villach, Austria
“Pretty Ugly,” Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York
“The OLYMP-Works on Paper,” Burkhard Eikelmann Galerie, Dusseldorf, Germany
“Attention to Detail,” FLAG Art Foundation, New York
“The Painting of Modern Life,” Museum d’arte contemporanea Caastello di Rivoli,
Turin, Italy
“Mixed Emotions: Apuntes para una colección del siglo XXI,” Domus Artium 2002,
Salamanca, Spain
“Deception and Devastation,” Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York
"New Acquisition-[Sanbi Shosha] Ueda Collection,” Museum of Contemporary Art,
Tokyo

2007
“True Romance: Allegories of Love from the Renaissance to the Present,” Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
“Contemporary and Modern Masters,” Richard Gray Gallery, Boston
 “People Take Pictures of Each Other,” LaMontagne Gallery, Boston
“News on Paper,” Burkhard Eikelmann Galerie, Dusseldorf, Germany
“Rocker’s Island,” Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
“Paper Trail: A Decade of Acquisitions,” Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
“Very Abstract and Hyper Figurative,” Thomas Dane Gallery, London, UK
“Like color in pictures,” Aspen Art Museum, Aspen
“Overdrive,” Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston
Institut im Glaspavillon, Berlin
“The Painting of Modern Life,” The Hayward Gallery, London
“Makers and Modelers,” Gladstone Gallery, New York
"Old School," Hauser & Wirth, London
"The Painted Lady: Images of Women in Art, 1945-Present," Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York
 "Still Life & Kicking," Paula Cooper Gallery, New York

2006
“SURreal,” Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria
“Essential Painting,” The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
“Faster! Bigger! Better!,” Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlruhe, Germany
“Lifestyle,” Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland
“Good Vibrations,” Papesse Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena, Italy
“Surprise, Surprise,” Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK
“Summer Show 2006,” Sadie Coles HQ, London
“Figures of the Player: The Paradox of the Actor,” Collection Lambert, Avignon, France
“Contemporary Masterworks: Saint Louis Collects,” Contemporary Art Museum of St. Louis, St. Louis
“Garden Paradies,” The Arsenal Gallery in Central Park, New York
“The Name of the Show is not ‘Gay Art Now’,” Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
“Painting Codes: I Codici della Pintura,” Galleria Comunal d’Arte Contemporanea di Monfalcone, Monfalcone, Italy
“Likeness: Portraits of Artists By Other Artists,” Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta
Canada [traveled to: Alberta College of Art & Design Calgary, Alberta, Canada]
“Andy Warhol and Elizabeth Peyton,” Guild Hall, East Hampton, New York

2005
“Vogue Nudes,” Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York
“Drunk vs. Stoned 2,” Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York
“girls on film,” Zwirner & Wirth, New York
“Always Crashing in the Same Car,” Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen
“Looking at Words,” Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
“The Early Show,” White Columns, New York
“GREATER THAN THE SUM: Selections from the Craig Robins Collection of Contemporary Art,” Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, Florida
“Discovery and Ownership: Insights into Private Austrian Collections,” Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna, Austria
“Generation X,” Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
“25 Deutsche Bank Collection,” Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany
“Bidibidobidiboo: Works from Collezione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo,” Turin, Italy
“Superstars: from Warhol to Madonna,” Vienna Kunstforum/Vienna Kusthalle, Vienna
“Getting Emotional,” Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
“Mother & Child,” Ferragamo, New York                 
"Important, Modern and Contemporary Art," Gary Nader, Miami
“North Fork/South Fork East End Art Now,” Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York

2004
“15 Years Anniversary of Regen Projects,” Regen Projects, Los Angeles
“Likeness: Portraits of Artists By Other Artists,” California College of Arts Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco [traveled to: McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, North Carolina; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Dalhousie University Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; University Art Museum, California State University at Long Beach, Long Beach, California (2005)]
“Contemporary Painting,” Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine
“Beginning Here: 101 Ways,” Visual Arts Gallery, New York
“North Fork/South Fork: East End Art Now,” Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York
“De leur temps: Collections privées Francaises,” Muba Eugéne Leroy, Tourcoing, France
“Works from the Boros Collection,” Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe, Germany
“Arbeiten auf papier/Grafiken (Part 1),” Galerie Fahnemann, Berlin
“Sammlung Plum,” Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve, Germany
“Was Marlerei heute ist,” Opelvillen, Rüsselsheim, Germany
“Treasure Island: 10 Years Collection Kunstmuseum,” Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
“Now is a Good Time,” Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
“THE MUSE,” Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

2003
“Inaugural Exhibition,” Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York
“The Fourth Sex: Adolescent Extremes,” Pitti Imagine Discovery, Milan, Italy
“Faces and Figures,” Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami
“Il Quarto Sesso,” Stazione Leopolda, Florence, Italy
“Under Pressure: Prints from Two Palm Press,” The Cooper Union School of Art, New York
“Inaugural Exhibition,” Regen Projects, Los Angeles

2002
The Galleries Show: Contemporary Art in London,” The Royal Academy of Arts, London
“Painting on the Move,” Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland [traveled to: Museum für Gegenwartskunst Basel, Switzerland; Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Swtizerland]
“Drawing Now: Eight Propositions,” Museum of Modern Art, New York
“DEAR PAINTER,…Paint Me,” Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
“Remix,” Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, England
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

2001
“Lens and Paper: The Beauty of Intimacy,” Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, The Netherlands [traveled to: Staaliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany; Museum haus am Waldsee, Berlin]
“New to the Modern; Recent Acquisition from the Department of Drawing,” Museum Modern Art, New York
“Abbild recent portraiture and depiction,” Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria
“Azerty,” Musee National d’Art Modene, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
“Beautiful Productions: Art to Play, Art to Wear, Art to Own,” The White Chapel Art Gallery, London
“Collaborations with Parkett; 184 to now,” Museum of Modern Art, New York
“About Face: Selections from the prints and illustrated books department,” Museum of modern Art , New York
“The Way I See It,” Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris
“Longing and Memory,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles

2000
"American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture,” American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York
"Interventions,” Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
"Greater New York,” PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York

1999
“ef1ny999,” Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
“Malerei,” INIT-Kunsthalle, Berlin
“1968,” Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
“anAzonas Kunstlerbucher,” Villa Minimo, Hanover, Germany
“Free Coke,” Greene Naftali, New York
"Village Disco,” Cabinet, London
"Examining Pictures,” Whitechapel Art Gallery, London [traveled to: Museum of
Contemporary Art, Chicago; Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles]
"Parallel Lines: Mix and Match," Karen McCready Fine Art, New York

1998
"Sisi, Sisimus, Sisismen,” Galerie Menotti, Baden, Austria
“Hanging,” Galeria Camargo Vilaca, Sao Paulo
“Young Americans II,” Saatchi Gallery, London
“Tell Me a Story,” Magasin, Grenoble, France
 “People II,” Monica de Cardenas, Milan, Italy
“Exterminating Angel,” Ghislaine Hussenot Gallery, Paris
“Auf der Spur,’” Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

1997
“Coming Home Again,” Visual Arts Gallery, New York
“Kunst…Arbeit,” Südwest LB, Stuttgart, Germany
“Truce: Echoes of Art in an Age of Engless Conclusions,” SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe
“Projects 60,” Museum of Modern Art, New York
 “Antlitz,” Max-Gandolph-Bibliothek, Salzburg, Austria
 “Heaven,” MoMA PS1, New York
“Hirsch Farm Project,” Hirsch Foundation, Northbrook

1996
“Longing and Memory,” Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles
“Ein Stück von Himmel,” Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Germany [traveled to: South London Gallery, London; Southhampton Art Gallery, Southhampton; Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK]
“a-drift,” Bard College, New York
“Universalis,” Sao Paulo Bienal, Sao Paulo, Brazil
“Wunderbar,” Kunstverien Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany [traveled to: Kunstraum Vienna, Vienna, Austria]
Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK
Stefano Basilico Fine Art, New York
“Screen,” Fredrich 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 Behavior,” 303 Gallery, New York
“Little Thing,” Randolph St. Gallery, Chicago [traveled to: Delta Arts Axis, Memphis; Art in General, New York]

Collections:
Centre Pompidou in Paris
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
Kunstmuseum Basel
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
 Saint Louis Art Museum
 Seattle Art Museum
 Boros Collection, Berlin
 Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
 Museum of Modern Art in New York
In her own words:
“I don’t know if my pictures are emblems to creativity. I do want to single out certain moments, to emphasize something. But it’s kind of what I want to see, also. I would like a picture of this so then I make a picture. When I started there weren’t pictures of Napoléon that I wanted to see. You really can’t find them. There are a lot of stories you can read, but actually seeing pictures of it — they just don’t exist. So I thought, “I’ll just make them myself.”

Representative Galleries:

Gagosian
Gladstone Gallery


For more Information:

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