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Peter Edlund
 

 

 
Born: Hartford, CT, 1959.  Lives and works in New York.

 

Solo Exhibitions:

2004 Homeland Security, Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art, Boston
2001/2 Primal Visions: Albert Bierstadt ‘Discovers’ America: (traveling)
  Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
  Columbus Art Museum, Columbus, Ohio
  Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
2001 Another America, GAGA, NYC
2000 Majestic America  Jack Shainman Gallery, NYC,
  Real Art Ways in conjunction with the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford
1998 Jack Shainman Gallery, NYC
1996 Jack Shainman Gallery, NYC
1995 White Columns, NYC
1992 District of Columbia Arts Center, Washington, DC
1991 Mincher-Wilcox Gallery, San Francisco
1990 Sweet Dreams New Langton Arts, San Francisco
1989 In This House, Southern Exposure, San Francisco
1986 XS Gallery, Carson City, Nevada

 

Group Exhibitions:

 

2008 Ornithology: Looking at Birds, University of Connecticut, Contemporary Art Galleries, Storrs, CT
  Repositioning the Landscape, Westport Arts Center, Westport, CT
2007 The Power of Place, Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art, Boston
  Emily Dickinson Rendered, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY
2006 On Reservation: Native American History and Culture in Contemporary Art, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT
2004 Images of Time and Place: Contemporary Views of Landscape, Lehman College Art Gallery, CUNY
  Birdspace: A Post-Audubon Artists Aviary : Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans; Frederick Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine Univ., Malibu; McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown State Univ., Youngstown OH
2003 Fast Forward: 20 Years of White Rooms, White Columns, NYC
  Hothouse, NY Academy of Sciences, NYC
  20 Years/20 Artists, The Lab, San Francisco
  After Matisse-Picasso, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Queens, NY
  Tainted Landscape, Wesleyan University Art Gallery, Middletown CT
  Whiteness: A Wayward Construction, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
2002 Judy Ann Goldman Fine Arts, Boston, Postmodern Pastoral
  Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, Sweet and Wild
  Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, States of the Union
2001 Glyndor Gallery, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY.
1999/01 Botanica: Contemporary Art and the World of Plants (traveling show) Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota; Illinois State University;Carleton College, Northfield, MN;Alexandria Museum of Art, Alexandria, LA; Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University; Chicago Cultural Center; University Gallery, University of Delaware; Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University; Western Gallery, Western Washington University; Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville; Selby Botanical Gardens, Sarasota, FL; Robert Hull Fleming Museum, University of VT
2000 Gardens of Pleasure, Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
  Transcending Earth and Sky, University Art Gallery, San Diego State University
  The Swamp: On the Edge of Eden, Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville
1998 Flora, Elise Goodheart Fine Arts, Sag Harbor, NY (curated by Douglas Maxwell)
  Diving Nature, Southeastern Center of Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC
1997 Better Color Through Chemistry, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY
1996 Destiny Manifest: American Landscape Painting in the Nineties, Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville
  Untitled, Jack Shainman Gallery, NYC
  Matters of the Heart, Haines Gallery, San Francisco
  Incestuous, Thread Waxing Space, NYC
  Shadow Play, Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose
1995 Update White Columns, NYC,
  Fairytales Do Come True Summer Song Gallery, Seattle
  Art Without Borders Ecole du Versant, Larouche, Quebec, Canada
  Project Exhibit Meyerhoff Gallery, Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore
1994 Some Like it Hot  Jack Shainman Gallery, NYC
  Promising Suspects Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
  Blessed Virgin Rubber Company (Collaborative Installation with Jay Critchley) Boston Center for the Arts, Boston;DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
  Intimate Observations, Baxter Gallery, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
  Wary Still, Highways Exhibition Space, Santa Monica
  20th Aniversary Show, Southern Exposure, San Francisco
 

Winter Salon, Lee Arthur Studio, NYC

  New Old Masters Center for the Arts, San Francisco
1993 Body Parts, Haines Gallery, San Francisco
  Urgent Nostagia Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle
1992 Transformations Fine Art Studio, NYC
  Perverse Nature Mincher-Wilcox Gallery, San Francisco
  Still Lives, Zen Center Hospice Guest House, San Francisco
  Corollaries of Apprehension: West Coast Painting, Oliver Art Center, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland
1991 Erotic Drawing, San Francisco Art Space
  Viscera, Southern Exposure, San Francisco
  Personal Mythologies, Marc Richards Gallery, Santa Monica
  Art and the Forbidden, Student Union Gallery, San Francisco State University
  Dark Ages, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery
1990 AIDS-SIDA, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT (curated by Anne Pasternak)
  Inside-Out: Voices from Home, Walter-McBean Gallery, San Francisco Institute of Art
  Sweat Dreams, New Langton Arts, San Francisco
  Think Tank, San Francisco

 

Bibliography:
2003 Gomez, Edward M., "Reimagining the Landscape," Art & Antiques, October
  Goldner, Liz, "What's White" Orange County Metro Magazine, Summer
  Campbell, Clayton, "The Last White Art Show" Flash Art, Oct/Nov
  Carasso, Roberta, "Whiteness: A Wayward Constructon", Artweek, June
  Roediger, David, "I Came for the Art", Art Papers Magazine, May/June
  Myers, Holly, "White Noise", LA Weekly, April 24
2002 McQuaid, Cate, "Artists don't gloss over Nature", Boston Globe, June 19
  Sozanski, Edward, "Works that imitate or exploit nature", Philadelphia Enquirer, Feb 9
  Hackett, Regina, "Contemporary Visions...", Seattle Post-Intelligencer March 15
  Farr, Sheila, "Kucera again shows knack...", Seattle Times, March 15
2001 Sheets, Hillarie, “Paradise Lost? Artists Reinvent the Landscape" Art News, March
  “Tainted History”, Time Out New York, August 2
  Chambers, Christopher, "Picks", NY Arts, November
2000 Bagg, Mary, “Ah, Wilderness!”, The Valley Advocate, August 31
  Zimmer, William, “Summer Exhibitions, Ghosts, and Wee Folk” The New York Times, August 27
  McNally, Owen, “The Good Old Days?” The Hartford Courant, June 15
  Pincus, Robert, “Landscapes: Old Passion with New, Darker Side” The San Diego Union-Tribune, April 23.
  Dannatt, Adrian, “Our Choice of New York Contemporary Galleries” The Art Newspaper, February
  Korotkin, Joyce, “Majestic America at Jack Shainman” The New York Art World, February
  "Transcending Earth and Sky", Exhibition catalogue, San Diego State University Art Gallery
  "The Swamp: On the Edge of Eden", Exhibition catalogue, Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville
1999 "Botanica: Contemporary Art and the World of Plants", Exhibition catalogue, Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota
1998 Shottendirk, Dena, “Letter from New York (Peter Edlund at Jack Shainman)” C Magazine September-November
  Dougherty, Linda Johnson, “Diving Nature” Art Papers, September-October
1997 Gomez, Edward M., "Greenhouse Effect: Under Peter Edlund’s Care, Paintings Bloom", Art & Antiques, March
1996 Arning, Bill, “Peter Edlund at Jack Shainman” Time Out New York, June 19
1995 Helfand, Glen, “Gardens of Decay” Men’s Style, March/April
1994 Zimmer, William, “In Ridgefield, Works by 15 Painters and Sculptors”  New York Times, December 18
  Levi-Strauss, David, “Take As Needed:Theraputic Art and Images in Context” Art Issues, October
  Rosenberg, Barry, “Promising Suspects” Exhibition catalogue
  Baker, Kenneth. “Celebrating the Alternative” San Francisco Chronicle, June 5
  Bonetti, David,  San Francisco Examiner, April 29
  Hawley-Ruppel, Wendy, “New Old Masters”, Exhibition catalogue
  Tanner, Marcia, “Usable Past”, Artweek, May 19
1993 Frohman, Mark, “Without” Public News, Houston, TX, March 3
  Levi-Strauss, David, “Without” Art Forum, Summer Edition
  Sprinkle, Susan, Northern California Home and Gardens, January

Awards:

2006 Pollock Krasner Award
2005 MacDowell Colony, Artists Resdence
1999 MacDowell Colony, Artists Resdence
1998 MacDowell Colony, Artists Resdence
1997 Milton Avery Fellowship
1997 MacDowell Colony, Artists Resdence
1995 Artists Fellowship, Inc. Grant