Artist

Peter Doig

Born in Edinburgh, 1959 and lives in Trinidad

Peter Doig (Scottish, born April 12, 1959) is a painter renowned for his landscapes, inspired by his own itinerant lifestyle, and by the physical progressions of modern society. Born in Edinburgh, Doig lived in Trinidad, London, and Canada in his youth. While studying painting at Central Saint Martins and at the Chelsea School of Art in London, he developed his unique approach; in works evoking the tradition of romantic landscape painting, Doig drew attention to the act of applying paint to the canvas by combining abstracted elements with ordinary subject matter.
Doig paints from photographic sources, such as his own pictures of landscapes, film stills, and images from newspapers and magazines. He does not seek to replicate these images in his paintings, instead, he uses them as a tool to create works that draw from both individual and collective memories of place. In 1994, Doig was nominated for the prestigious Turner Prize, launching him to fame in the international art community. His works, which depict scenes ranging from urban, rural, and wooded landscapes to artists’ studios and lone figures in fishing boats, concentrate on the illusionistic properties of paint. In his most recent works featuring scenes of Trinidad, Doig revisits one of his childhood homes; the artist now has a studio in Trinidad, and also teaches painting at the School of Art in Düsseldorf, Germany.

Exhibitions
Exhibitions
Peter Doig: Reflections of the Century
Peter Doig is regarded as one of the greatest living painters. For this remarkable counterpoint to works from Musée d’Orsay’s collections, he’s chosen a number of his own major canvases that relate to modernist concerns to do with perspective, colour, place and decoration.
17 Oct 2023 - 21 Jan 2024
Musée d’Orsay
Paris
Exhibitions
Life Between Islands
A landmark exhibition exploring and celebrating the relationship between the Caribbean and Britain in art from the 1950s to today.
01 Dec 2021 - 03 Apr 2022
Tate Britain
London
Exhibitions
Mixing It Up: Painting Today
An exhibition celebrating the diversity of painting in the UK
09 Sep 2021 - 12 Dec 2021
Hayward Gallery
London
Exhibitions
Youth Forum selects from the Hiscox collection
During the lockdown, while confined in their homes, Whitechapel Gallery’s Youth Forum, Duchamp &...
31 Aug 2020 - 03 Jan 2021
Whitechapel Gallery
London
Exhibitions
Among the Trees
Hayward Gallery presents in London the group exhibition "Among the Trees", to explore our relationship with nature
04 Mar 2020 - 17 May 2020
Hayward Gallery
London
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