Born in Berlin, 1974 | |
Lives and works in Glasgow (GB) | |
www.mickpeter.com |
Education
2008 | PhD: Glasgow School of Art (GB) |
2000 | MFA: Glasgow School of Art (GB) |
1997 | BA: Ruskin School of Fine Art, Oxford (GB) |
Solo Exhibitions
2023 | Six Scenes, La Halle au Blé, Alençon (FR) |
2022 | Old Ghosts, The Holburne Museum, Bath (GB) |
2021 | Gerroff!! (Or User Feedback), Hospitalfield House, Arbroath (GB) |
2020 | Bonington Vitrines #15: Nomadic Vitrine with Mick Peter, Bonington Gallery, Nottingham (GB) |
2019 | To Me, To You, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead (GB) |
2018 | Breaking News Deborah Bowmann, Brussels (BE) |
The Regenerators, Glasgow International Director’s Programme, Glasgow (GB) | |
2017 | Cuts and Tears, Crèvecoeur, Paris (FR) |
110%, Workplace gallery, Gateshead (GB) | |
Those Pesky Kids, Gallery Celine, Glasgow (GB) | |
2016 | Pyramid Selling, Drawing Room, London (GB) |
2015 | Pyramid Selling, Tramway, Glasgow (GB) |
2014 | Porcine Lout, Crèvecoeur, Paris (FR) |
Popcorn Plaza, Jupiter Artland, Part of GENERATION: 25 years of Contemporary Art in Scotland, Edinburgh (GB) | |
Almost Cut My Hair, Tramway Hidden Gardens, Part of GENERATION: 25 years of Contemporary Art in Scotland, Glasgow (GB) | |
2013 | Trademark Horizon, SWG, Glasgow (GB) |
2012 | Lying and Liar, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh (GB) |
2011 | Tao Foam, Grimm, Amsterdam (NL) |
Two Nots, Galerie Crèvecoeur, Paris (FR) | |
2010 | The Nose: Epilogue, Cell Projects, London (GB) |
Dr Syntax versus the Paperweight, The Changing Room, Stirling (GB) | |
The Nose, La Salle de bains, Lyon (FR) | |
2009 | The Lumber Room, Crèvecoeur, Paris (GB) |
Harmonielehre, Zoo Galerie, Nantes (FR) | |
2008 | Harmonielehre, Generator Projects, Dundee (GB) |
Galerie de Multiples, Paris (FR) | |
Moldenke Fiddles On, Glasgow Project Room, Glasgow (GB) | |
2007 | Yussopov Park, Fortescue Avenue/Jonathan Viner, London (GB) |
2006 | Transmission Gallery, Glasgow (GB) |
2005 | Galerie Nomadenoase at Fortescue Avenue/Jonathan Viner, London (GB) |
2004 | They Made Nests Inside Men’s Sunday Hats, GSS Gallery, Glasgow (GB) |
2003 | Vathek Print Works, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow (GB) |
Group Exhibitions
2021 | Dark Matter, group show, Workplace Foundation, Newcastle (GB) |
Drawing Biennial 2021, Drawing Room, London (GB) | |
2020 | Pangonline, online video project, Les Bains-Douches, Alençon (FR) |
2019 | Everything Must Go (Pt 2), Workplace Foundation, Gateshead (GB) |
Touching From a Distance, Workplace Foundation at the Conduit, Gateshead (GB) | |
2018 | Voyage au long cours, FRAC Normandie Caen, Caen (FR) |
Vol au vent, FRAC Normandie Caen, Caen (FR) | |
Push it push it again and again push it through, The Modern Institute, Glasgow (GB) | |
2017 | WHY DO ALL YOUR MANTRAS START WITH AN “I” & Other Drawings, 16 Nicholson St. Glasgow, Glasgow (UK) |
2016 | Corps narratifs, Domaine départemental de Chamarande, Chamarande (FR) |
Natural Selection, Galerie 5, Angers (FR) | |
Micromegas: Vagabond Flux, Project Space Plus, University of Lincoln, Lincolm (GB) | |
2015 | Telephone Conversation, Maison départementale des Solidarités Espace Pyramide, Athis – Mons (FR) |
Alptraum, Goa, Salon de Lirio, Fine Art Association, Velim Saclete-Goa | |
Micromegas: Vagabond Flux, Lille 3 University, Lille & Maison de la Culture de Tournai, Tournai (FR) | |
2014 | Puddle, pothole, portal, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, New York (US) |
L’Echo, (a Bruno Peinado project), HAB Galerie - FRAC des Pays de la Loire, Nantes (GB) | |
Monument, FRAC Basse-Normandie, Caen (FR) | |
Alptraum, UGM Maribor Art Gallery, museum for modern and contemporary art, Maribor (SI) | |
2013 | Art from Britain and Poland since 1990, Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw (PL) |
What’s the first thing you’re going to do when you get your new arms put on?, Crèvecœur, Paris (FR) | |
The Universal Addressability of Dumb Things, curated by Marc Leckey, Hayward Touring: the Bluecoat, Liverpool / Nottingham Contemporary / De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea, Everyday, GOMA, Glasgow (GB) | |
De belles sculptures contemporaines, HAB Galerie, Nantes (FR) | |
Le jour d’avant, Domaine Départemental de la Garenne Lemot, FRAC Pays de la Loire (FR) | |
2012 | Easy Living, curated by Joey Villemont and Camille Le Houezec, Less is More Projects, Paris (FR) |
Entrance, Entrance, curated by Isobel Harbison, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin (GB) | |
Who Decides?, Kunstverein Mannheim (DE) | |
Curators Egg, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London (GB) | |
Looping et Boomerang, collection FRAC Basse-Normandie, Les Bains-Douches, Alençon, 2011 Hypercolon, curated by Nathaniel Mellors, SMART Projects, Amsterdam (NL) | |
Le Vent des forêts, public sculpture commission, France (GB) | |
Art Brussels, Art in the City (BE) | |
Les Innommables grotesques, curated by Marie Bechetoille, L MD galerie. Paris (FR) | |
The British Art Show 7, curated by Lisa Le Feuvre and Tom Morton, Tramway, GOMA & CCA, Glasgow (GB) | |
The British Art Show 7, curated by Lisa Le Feuvre and Tom Morton, The Hayward Gallery, London (UK) | |
Keep Floors and Passages Clear, White Columns, New York (US) | |
Alptraum, Cell Projects, London, Transformer, Washington DC (US) | |
Projektraum Deutscher Kunstlerbund e.v. Berlin, The Company, Los Angeles & Blank Projects, Cape Town (ZA) | |
2010 | Recent British Sculpture, curated by Tom Morton, Grimm, Amsterdam (NL) |
The British Art Show 7, curated by Lisa Le Feuvre and Tom Morton, Nottingham Castle Museum & Art Gallery (GB) | |
Rubble Stir, The Glue Factory, Glasgow (GB) | |
Monsieur Miroir, curated by Emilie Renard, Fondation d’entreprise Ricard, Prix Ricard (FR) | |
2009 | The Lobb, Cell Projects, London (GB) |
Insiders - pratiques, usages, savoir-faire, CAPC, Bordeaux (FR) | |
L’Espirit des Lieux, Artistes en Résidence(s), Domaine Départemental de Chamarande, France (FR) | |
Overlap, Crèvecoeur, Paris (FR) | |
Talking Yoghurt, LOG, Bergamo (IT) | |
Tropical Truth, Circuit, Lausanne (CH) | |
N’importe Quoi, Museé d’Art Contemporain Lyon (FR) | |
2008 | Outpost, Norwich, Kunstwerk Bazaar selected by Andrew Hunt. FIAC, Paris (FR) |
2007 | Freak Show, Museé d’Art Contemporain Lyon (FR) |
Der Ficker, Fortescue Avenue/Jonathan Viner, London (GB) | |
2006 | 1, 2, 3, 4., Workplace Gallery, Newcastle (GB) |
Flim Flam, Cell Project Space, London (GB) | |
Down With You, Bankley Studios Gallery, Manchester (GB) | |
Liste 06, Basel, w. Jonathan Viner (CH) | |
2005 | Like It Matters, CCA, Glasgow (GB) |
Re-Escape, Hamburg with Transmission Gallery (DE) | |
Open Garden, Fortescue Avenue/Jonathan Viner, London (GB) | |
The Thinkables, Flaca, London (GB) | |
2004 | The Rings of Saturn, The Changing Room, Stirling (GB) |
Frieze Art Fair with Transmission Gallery (GB) | |
Spacemakers, Lothringer Dreizehn, Munich Universal Outstretch, Flaca, London (GB) | |
The Late Escape, Kaiserpassage, Karlsruhe (DE) | |
Darling Trees Do You Need Telling, Switch Space, Glasgow (GB) | |
2003 | Nursery World, Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris (FR) |
Special Dedicace, .Musée Départemental de Rochechouart, Rochechouart (FR) |
Works in institutional collections
CAPC Bordeaux (FR) | |
Arts Council (GB) | |
Domaine Départemental de Chamarande (FR) | |
Artothèque de Caen (FR) | |
FRAC Normandie Caen (FR) | |
FRAC Pays de la Loire (FR) | |
Vent des Forêts, Espace rural d’art contemporain (FR) |
Publications, press
2018 | The Generous Landscape: Ten Years of Jupiter Artland Foundation, Jupiter Artland Foundation, 208 pages |
Catalogue de la Collection du Frac Normandie Caen, Frac Normadie Caen/Éditions Dilecta, 420 pages | |
The Regenerators, Œ Editions and Glasgow International, 100 Pages | |
2017 | Torn Drawings Drawings, The Drawer n° 12 – Untitled, 60 pages |
2016 | BRITISH BRITISH POLISH POLISH: Art from Europe’s Edges in the Long ’90s and Today. CCA Ujazdowski Castle. Polish and English; 208 x 270 mm, 428 pages |
Oliver Basciano, “Mick Peter”. The Guardian, 15th January | |
2015 | Skye Sherwin, “Mick Peter”. The Guardian, 25th April |
Moira Jeffrey, “Mick Peter – Pyramid Selling”. Four stars. 23rd May | |
Laura Campbell, “Mick Peter – Pyramid Selling, Deceptive and enigmatic exhibition at Tramway challenges the assumptions of its audience. Five Stars”. The List, 27th April | |
2014 | Ken Johnson, “The Art of Funny: Cartoon Imagery, Often With an Edge”, The New York Times, 10th October |
Generation: 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Scotland, National Galleries of Scotland/Glasgow Life,Two vols: 168 & 220 pages | |
2013 | Art Review, Issue 69, Summer 2013, “Mick Peter: Trademark Horizon”, by Susannah Thompson |
La Salle de bains – Depuis 1999, Lyon, Les Presses du Réel, 416 pages | |
Susannah Thompson, Mick Peter: Trademark Horizon, Art Review, Issue 69 Summer | |
Moira Jeffrey, “Laura Aldridge, Mick Peter, Niall Macdonald”, Scotland on Sunday, 14th April | |
2012 | Frieze, “Philip Guston/Mick Peter” by Mark Sadler |
Rong Rong magazine, vol1. №1 October 2011. As Is Press, Amsterdam | |
2011 | Recent British Sculpture, Grimm Amsterdam, 120 pages, 2HB, CCA Glasgow |
The British Art Show 7, Hayward Gallery Publishing, 192 pages | |
2010 | Monsieur Miroir, Prix Fondation d’Entreprise Ricard catalogue |
Map Magazine artists’ commission, MAP, #23 Autumn 2010 | |
Arifa Akbar and Jonathan Brown ‘YBAs: the next generation on show’ & ‘Five to Watch’, The Indepedent | |
Insiders. CAPC Bordeaux and Lyon Presses du Réel, 160 pages | |
Caroline Soyez-Petithomme, “Mick Peter”. Zero Deux, №3 Spring | |
Manon Lefort, “Le nez de Mick Peter”. Liberation (blog), 9th March | |
2009 | Collective 1984-2009, Revolver VVV, 160 pages |
N’importe Quoi. Musée d’Art Contemporain Lyon & Lyon Presses du Réel. , 112 pages | |
Charles Barachon, ‘Mick Peter, La Beauté du Laid’, Technikart, July/August | |
Harmonielehre, Generator Projects | |
2008 | Susan Mansfield , “Mick Peter, Harmonielehre”. The Scotsman, 14th November |
2007 | Freak Show, Musée d’Art Contemporain & Lyon Presses du Réel. 160 pages |
Kate Cowcher, “Mick Peter”, Map, Summer | |
Untitled, publication accompanying solo show at Transmission Gallery | |
Uncle Chop Chop # 3, published by John Beagles and Graham Ramsay | |
2006 | Tom Morton, “Mick Peter: Phygrian Bonnets and Dunces Caps; Dice, Cards and Concrete” Frieze, Focus piece, November |
Beck’s Futures 2006, ICA Exhibitions | |
Matt Price, “Starting Up’”, Flash Art, October | |
David Barrett, “Flimflam”, Art Monthly, March | |
2005 | John Calcutt, “Made in Glasgow”, Map, Winter |
Slimvolume, poster publication edited by Andrew Hunt | |
Jalouse Magazine (Russia), Feature on drawing, №43 | |
Catriona Black, “Like It Matters”, Sunday Herald, 25th September | |
Alexander Kennedy, “Like It Matters Review”, The List, September Frieze Art Fair Yearbook | |
Armpit of the Mole, Fundacion Trenta Quilometres Per Segon, Spain | |
2004 | Ladies Gents, Switchspace Publication White Collar №2 |
Critical/ Catalogue writing
2018 | Julien Carreyn, Photographies du soir, Shelter Press |
Saâdane Afif, Paroles, WIELS & Triangle Books | |
2017 | Saâdane Afif, Seal of Quality “L’Éternité”, Lyrics Record |
Saâdane Afif, Mount Moon “The Busker Updated”, Lyrics Records LP | |
Saâdane Afif, Augustin Maurs, Anna Clementi, Clemens Hungöschel “Vice de forme: Das Kabarett”, Lyrics Record LP | |
2016 | Saâdane Afif, Threads: A Fantasmagoria About Distance, Lyrics Records LP |
2015 | Text for Frieze Masters 4, Artist’s Artists feature |
2014 | Text for Saâdane Afif Là-bas/Ici, Spector Books |
2012 | Text for Natalie Czech,Je n’ai rien à dire. Seulement à montrer, Spector Books |
Text for Bruno Peinado monograph published with Casino, Luxemburg | |
2010 | Text for Book A or MEGACOLON or For & Against Language, Onomatopee, Eindhoven |
2009 | Nathaniel Mellors text for M08 Arte e Investigacion Montehermoso Rebecca Warren text for Petunia, France |
Vice de Forme. Text for Saadane Afif at Mehdi Chouakri Gallery, Berlin | |
Textes. Paris, Éditions Loevenbruck. Daniel Dewar and Vincent Giquel catalogue text | |
2008 | Frieze, Smiling Through My Teeth review. August |
Frieze (online), Rodney Graham Band review | |
Frieze, Alan Michael review, April | |
Last Thing I Need Is The Shakes, Tony Swain text, Köln, Dumont. 67 pages | |
2007 | Frieze, Torsten Lauschmann ‘Focus’ piece, November |
Frieze, Ian Hetherington and Lynn Hynd review, October | |
Untitled, Lindsay Anderson review, Summer | |
Untitled, Lucy McKenzie review, Spring | |
2006 | Frieze, Tony Swain review, October |
Frieze, Julian Goethe review, Spring | |
Untitled, Sara Ogilvie review, Spring | |
C Magazine, Canada, February | |
2005 | Untitled, Kim Fisher review. December |
One Million bpm, commissioned jointly by Saadane Afif and Cimaise et Portique, Albi (FR) | |
Lyrics Textes, Palais de Tokyo, Paris | |
Frieze, Rachel Harrison review, July | |
Frieze, Michael Stumpf review, March | |
2004 | No-How, commissioned by the Collective Gallery |
2003 | Interremoteness For Everyday Life, David Sherry publication commissioned by GOMA, Glasgow |