Born 1934 in San Francisco, California
Lives and works in New York
Education
1952
Washington University School of Fine Arts of St. Louis
1950
California School of Fine Arts
Solo Exhibitions
2020
Art History is Wrong, Almine Rech, Paris
Pop, Funk, Bad Painting and More, Le Delta, Namur, Belgium
Peter Saul : Crime and Punishment, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
2019
Pop, Funk, Bad Painting and More, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse
2018
Peter Saul: Prints | 1966–2017, Pace Prints, New York
2017
Peter Saul, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
Fake News, Mary Boone Gallery, New York
Peter Saul, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
2016
You Better Call Saul, Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Inc., Moscow
Some Terrible Problems, Michael Werner Gallery, London
2015
Mary Boone Gallery, New York
Hall Art Foundation, Vermont
Some Crazy Pictures, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles
From Pop to Punk: Peter Saul, Paintings from the 60’s and 70’s,
Venus Over Manhattan, New York
Relax in Electric Chair: Peter Saul at di Rosa, di Rosa, Napa
2014
Figaro, The Arnold and Marie Schwartz Gallery Met, Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, New York
2013
Holy Moly, Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg
Neptune and the Octopus Painter, VW (VeneKlasen/Werner), Berlin
Mary Boone Gallery, New York
2012
Fondation Salomon Art Contemporain, Alex, France
Mary Boone Gallery, New York
2011
Stupid Arguments, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago
2010
Fifty Years of Painting, Haunch of Venison, New York
Sheer Terror, Nolan Judin, Berlin
2009
David Nolan Gallery, New York
Praz-Delavallade, Paris
Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans
2008
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach
2007
Galerie Charlotte Moser, Geneva
2006
David Nolan Gallery, New York
Leo Koenig Gallery, 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, California
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
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dole, France
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Mons, Belgium
1999
Musée de l’Abbaye Sainte-Croix, Les Sables d’Olonne, France
Musée de l’Hôtel Bertrand, Châteauroux, France
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
1996
Art World Portraits, Smart Museum of Art, Chicago
Texas Gallery, Houston
George Adams Gallery, New York
1995
Turner, Byrne and Runyon, Dallas
Don’t Kiss Ass, Ynglingagatan I, Stockholm, Sweden.
Castro’s Mother Destroys Miami and Related Drawings,
Frumkin/Adams Gallery, NY
Old and New, On Canvas and Paper, Galerie Bonnier, Geneva
1994
Herbert Palmer Gallery, Los Angeles
Martin-Rathburn Gallery, San Antonio
1993
Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York
1992
Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York
1991
Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, Illinois
Political Paintings, Washington University, Saint Louis,
Missouri Galerie du Centre, Paris
Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York
1990
Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans
Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin
Texas Gallery, Houston
1989
Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
1986
Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco
1984
Frumkin and Struve Gallery, Chicago
1983
Galerie Darthea Speyer, Paris
1981
Kilcawley Center, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, Ohio
1980
University of Illinois, DeKalb, Illinois
Madison Art Center, Madison, Wisconsin
1976
Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, Connecticut
1973
California State University, Sacramento
Galerie Klang, Cologne
1972
Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago
Galerie Darthea Speyer, Paris
1971
Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York
Musée d’Art et d’Industrie, Saint-Etienne, France
1969
Galerie Darthea Speyer, Paris
Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago
Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York
1968
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco
California College of Arts and Crafts Gallery, Oakland
1967
Galerie de’Foscherari 60, Bologna
Wanamaker’s, Philadelphia
Contemporary Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
Galerie Breteau, Paris
1966
Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago
Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York
1965
Anne Aebels Gallery, Cologne
1964
Galerie Breteau, Paris
Notizie Gallery, Turin
Rolf Nelson Gallery, Los Angeles
Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York
1963
LaTartaruga Gallery, Rome
Rolf Nelson Gallery, Los Angeles
Galerie Breteau, Paris
Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York
1962
Galerie Breteau, Paris
Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York
1961
Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago
Group exhibitions
2022
‘Dark Light : Realism in the Age of Post-Truths’, Aishti Foundation, Lebanon
2021
‘Different strokes’, Almine Rech, London
2019
Peter Saul and Erik Parker, Nanzuka, Tokyo
Body/Object, George Adams Gallery, New York
Landscapes Without Boundaries, Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at University of California
Artists Respond: American Art and the Vietnam War, 1965-1975, Minneapolis Institute of Art
Naturally Naked, Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Moscow
The Mid Century Modern Aesthetic, Alpha 137 Gallery
2018
Original Behavior, Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln
Vile Bodies, Michael Werner Gallery, New York
Four Rooms, Blum & Poe, New York
Political Art, Alpha 137 Gallery
2017
Reconstitution, LAXART, Los Angeles
In Paper We Trust, The Dot Project, London
Make America Great Again, Blondeau & Cie, Geneva
Marcel Duchamp FOUNTAIN An Homage, Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, New York
Piss and Vinegar, New York Academy of Art, New York
2016
Based on a True Story: Highlights from the di Rosa Collection, di Rosa, Napa
2015
MUTATED REALITY, Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Moscow
2013
Tumesence, Michael Werner Gallery, New York
2011
Masters of Reality, Gering & Lopez Gallery, New York
Pretty on the Inside, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
2010
Ordinary Madness, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
Touch and Go: Ray Yoshida and his Spheres of Influence,
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago
The Visible Vagina, David Nolan Gallery, New York
Nature Once Removed, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx
Desire, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin
2009
Consider the Lobster, Center for Curatorial Studies & Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
Image Matter, Mary Boone Gallery, New York
The New Yorkers, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen
Until the End of the World, AMP, Athens
N’importe quoi, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Lyon
Exile on Main St., Bonnefantenmuseum, Maaastricht
Looking for Mushrooms. Beat Poets, Hippies, Radio and
Minimal Art: Art and Counter Culture in San Francisco Around 1968,
Museum Ludwig, Cologne
2008
Bad Painting, Good Art, Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna
Jekyll Island, Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Action/Abstraction, The Jewish Museum, New York; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
Figuration Narrative, 1960-72, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris
Lots of Things Like This, Apexart, New York
2007
Mr. President, University Art Museum at Albany, Albany, New York
Summer of Love, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Exhibitionism: An exhibition of exhibitions of works from the Marieluise
Hessel Collection, CCS Bard Hessel Museum, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
Automatic, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York
Refugees of Group Selection, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York
Paradise, Patrick Painter Gallery, Los Angeles
Il était une fois Walt Disney, Musée des Beaux Arts de Montréal, Montreal
2006
Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina
The Artful Jester, The Painting Center, New York; Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Brattleboro, Vermont
Il était une fois Walt Disney, Grand Palais, Paris
Antisocial, Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain d’Auvergne, Auvergne
2005
Looking at Words, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
Post War Draughtwomen and 1 Monitor, Meyer Riegger Gallery, Karlsruhe
Body Language, George Adams Gallery, New York
2004
Disparities and Deformations: Our Grotesque, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe
The Anxious Image, The Painting Center, New York
Bush-Whack!, George Adams Gallery, New York
2003
The Not-So-Still Life: A Century of California Painting and Sculpture, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose
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, New York
2002
Eye Infection, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Jokes, Musée d’art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva
2001
Self Made Men, D.C. Moore Gallery, New York
Open Ends, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
2000
Drawings 2000, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
Face to Face, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
1998
View: Three, 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, Thread Waxing Space, New York
1994
Hand Painted Pop: 1958-1962, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles;
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1989
Reagan: American Icon, Bucknell University, Lewiston, Pennsylvania
1988
Different Drummers, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC
Pop Apocalypse, Gracie Mansion, New York
1987
Comic Iconoclasm, Institute of Contemporary Art, London
Made in U.S.A: Art from the ‘50s and ‘60s, University of California, Berkeley; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 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 Fumkin Gallery, New York
1978
Art About Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1976
72nd American Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
1971
American Painting and Sculpture 1948-1969, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign
1968
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, Waltham, Massachusetts
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
Galleria La Tartaruga, Rome
1st Salon International de Galleries-Pilotes, Musée Cantolan, Lausanne
A New Realist Supplement, The 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, Chicago
1961
International Selection, The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio
1959
Salon de Jeune Peinture, Paris
Collections
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Sintra Museum of Modern Art, Portugal
Musee Cantini, Marseilles, France
Smart Museum, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington, DC
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, UNC, Greensboro, SC
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, VT
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Huntington Gallery, University of Texas, Austin, TX
Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
Krannert Museum, Champaign, IL
Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Madison Art Center, Madison, WI
Museum of Art, Honolulu, HI
Museum of Art, University of California, Berkeley, CA
Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
Becht Collection, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
Dallas Art Museum, Dallas, TX
Di Rosa Art Preserve, Napa, CA
Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris, France
FRAC Region Nord, Lille, France
Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC
