Exhibitions

Peter Cain

 

Born: Orange, NJ, 1959

 

Education: School of Visual Arts, New York, 1980-1982

Parsons School of Design, New York, 1977-1980

 

Died: New York, 1997

 

One-Person Exhibitions

2017 

Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles (catalogue)

 

2016

Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (catalogue)

 

2005

The Sean Pictures, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

The Los Angeles Pictures, Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Cologne (catalogue)

 

2002            

More Courage and Less Oil, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (catalogue)

 

1997            

New Paintings and Drawings, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

 

1995            

Recent Paintings, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco

Paintings, Drawings, Photographs, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

 

1992

Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

 

1991                        

Simon Watson, New York

 

1990            

Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

 

1989            

Paintings and Drawings, Pat Hearn Gallery, New York 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2018

Running Wild, The Arts Club, London

 

2017

Strange Attractors: The Anthology of Interplanetary Folk Art Vol 1. Life on Earth, Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles

Fast Forward: Painting from the 1980s, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

 

2016

Pavlova's Dawg and Other Works by Gallery Artists, Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles

 

2015

Peter Cain, Robert Gober, Gary Hume, Tony Smith, Anne Truitt, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

 

2014

A Drawing Show, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York 

 

2013

NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star, New Museum, New York (catalogue)

Speak, Memory, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York

Ambach & Rice Presents: 40 Years at the Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles

 

2011

Legacy: The Emily Fisher Landau Collection, Whitney Museum of Art, New York. Traveled to Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida (2013); San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California (2014); and Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan (2014) (catalogue)

 

2010

Pastorale, 80WSE, New York (catalogue)

 

2009

WALL ROCKETS: Contemporary Artists and Ed Ruscha, FLAG Art Foundation, New York. Traveled to Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo (catalogue) 

 

2006

Twice Drawn, Part 2, The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY

Pop Art 1960’s->2000’s: From Lichtenstein, Warhol to the Current Generation, Seiji Togo Memorial Sompo Japan Museum of Art, Sompo, Japan

 

2005               

Drive: Automobili nell'arte contemporanea, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna (catalogue)

Contemporary American Art from the Misumi Collection, Tottori Prefectural Museum, Tottori, Japan (catalogue)

 

2004   

About Painting, Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY

 

2003   

Pop Thru Out, Arario Gallery, Cheonan, Korea (catalogue)

PKM Gallery, Seoul

We Love Painting, Contemporary American Art from the Misumi Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (catalogue)

my people were fair and had cum in their hair (but now they're content to spray stars from your boughs), Team Gallery, New York

Auto-nom: das Automobil in der zeitgenossischen Kunst, NRW-Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft, Düsseldorf (catalogue)

GameOver, Grimm|Rosenfeld, Munich

 

2002               

Drawings: Alan Saret and Peter Cain, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles

 

2001               

Camera Works: The Photographic Impulse in Modern Art, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York

Surrounding Interiors: Views Inside the Car, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL. Traveled to Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, MA, and Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (catalogue)   

A Work in Progress: Selections from the New Museum Collection, New Museum, New York

Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, 100 Drawings and Photographs, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (catalogue)

 

1999               

Painting Pictures: Rendering the (Photo)real, Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, PA

 

1998               

Painting Now and Forever: Part I, Matthew Marks Gallery and Pat Hearn Gallery, New York

Sea Change, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY (catalogue)

C, Elizabeth Cherry Contemporary Art, Tucson, AZ

 

1997               

Landscape: The Pastoral to the Urban, Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

Project Painting, Basilico Fine Arts, New York (catalogue)

Technological Drift, Lawing Gallery, Houston

American Art 1975-1995 from the Whitney Museum: Multiple Identity, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin (catalogue)

Heart, Mind, Body, Soul: American Art in the 1990s. Selections from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

 

1996               

Art at the End of the 20th Century, Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art, National Gallery, Alexandros Soutzos Museum, Athens. Traveled to Museu d’Art Contemporani, Barcelona, and Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany (catalogue)

Innovation: American Art of Today from the Misumi Art Collection, Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan (catalogue)

The Changing Image, Claudia Gian Ferrari Arte Contemporanea, Milan (catalogue)

Vehicle, Paolo Baldacci Gallery, New York

 

1995               

Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalogue)  

Richard Artschwager, Peter Cain, Vija Celmins, Chuck Close, Joseph Cornell, Robert Gober, George Stoll, Steve Wolf, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco

Summer Group Exhibition: Richmond Burton, Peter Cain, John Chamberlain, Andreas Gursky, Roni Horn, Gary Hume, Andy Warhol, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

Ross Bleckner, Peter Cain, Carroll Dunham, Judith Eisler, Jane Hammond, Albert Oehlen, Jack Pierson, Julian Trigo, Juan Usle, Christopher Wool, Galleri K, Oslo

25 Americans: Painting in the 90s, Milwaukee Art Museum (catalogue)

 

1994               

Desire (Visionaire/DIFFA Benefit Exhibition), Charles Cowles Gallery, New York

The Institute of Cultural Anxiety, Works from the Collection, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (catalogue)

 

1993               

Pittsburgh Collects, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalogue)

Drawing the Line Against AIDS, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice (under the aegis of the 45th Venice Biennale) (catalogue)

1993 Biennial Exhibition, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul

A Series of Anniversary Exhibitions: Part III, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

Art, Money & Myth, Palm Beach Community College Museum of Art, Lake Worth, FL

Everyday Life, Kim Light Gallery, Los Angeles

Slittamenti, Venice Biennale

The Return of the Cadavre Exquis, The Drawing Center, New York. Traveled to Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Santa Monica Museum of Art, CA; Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis; and American Center, Paris (catalogue)

 

1992

5th Anniversary Show, Karsten Schubert Ltd., London

Psycho, Kunsthall, New York

Nayland Blake, Richmond Burton, Peter Cain, and Gary Hume, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

 

1991

Something Pithier and More Psychological, Simon Watson, New York

Someone or Somebody, Meyers/Bloom Gallery, Los Angeles  

Paintings and Drawings, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

Vertigo: The Remake, Galerie Thaddeaus Ropac, Salzburg

Just What is it that Makes Today's Homes so Different, so Appealing?, The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY (catalogue)

(Dis)member, Simon Watson, New York

We've Lost E.T. but the Boy's Coming Back, Peter Cain, Michael Jenkins, Michael Landy, Karsten Schubert Ltd., London, (catalogue)

Act-Up, The AIDS Coalition to Unleash PowerBenefit Exhibition, Paula Cooper and Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

 

1990               

The Clinic, Simon Watson, New York

Pop 90, Postmasters, New York

The Children’s AIDS Project, A Benefit Exhibition, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

Vertigo, Galerie Thaddeaus Ropac, Paris (catalogue)