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, France
Pop, Funk, Bad Painting and More, Le Delta, Namur, Belgium
Peter Saul : Crime and Punishment, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, US
2019
Pop, Funk, Bad Painting and More, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France
2018
Peter Saul: Prints | 1966–2017, Pace Prints, New York, US
2017
Peter Saul, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
Fake News, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, US
Peter Saul, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
2016
You Better Call Saul, Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Inc., Moscow, Russia
Some Terrible Problems, Michael Werner Gallery, London, UK
2015
Mary Boone Gallery, New York, US
Hall Art Foundation, Vermont, US
Some Crazy Pictures, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, US
From Pop to Punk: Peter Saul, Paintings from the 60’s and 70’s,
Venus Over Manhattan, New York, US
Relax in Electric Chair: Peter Saul at di Rosa, di Rosa, Napa, CA, US
2014
Figaro, The Arnold and Marie Schwartz Gallery Met, Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, New York, US
2013
Holy Moly, Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
Neptune and the Octopus Painter, VW (VeneKlasen/Werner), Berlin, Germany
Mary Boone Gallery, New York, US
2012
Fondation Salomon Art Contemporain, Alex, France
Mary Boone Gallery, New York, US
2011
Stupid Arguments, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, US
2010
Fifty Years of Painting, Haunch of Venison, New York, US
Sheer Terror, Nolan Judin, Berlin, Germany
2009
David Nolan Gallery, New York, US
Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France
Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, US
2008
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, US
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA, US
2007
Galerie Charlotte Moser, Geneva, Switzerland
2006
David Nolan Gallery, New York, US
Leo Koenig Gallery, New York, US
2005
Peintures, 1985–2005, Musée Paul Valèry, Sète, France
2004
Homage to Dalì, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York, US
Suburbia: Paintings and Drawings, 1965-69, George Adams Gallery, New York, US
2003
Drawings, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, California, US
2002
Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Cologne, Germany
The Sixties, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York, US
Galerie Charlotte Moser, Geneva, switzerland
2000
Heads: 1986-2000, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York, US
Galerie du Centre, Paris, France
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, US
Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, US
Paintings and Related Drawings 1960-64, George Adams Gallery, New York, US
1997
Galerie du Centre, Paris, France
Artpace, San Antonio, US
1996
Art World Portraits, Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, US
Texas Gallery, Houston, US
George Adams Gallery, New York, US
1995
Turner, Byrne and Runyon, Dallas, US
Don’t Kiss Ass, Ynglingagatan I, Stockholm, Sweden
Castro’s Mother Destroys Miami and Related Drawings,
Frumkin/Adams Gallery, NY, US
Old and New, On Canvas and Paper, Galerie Bonnier, Geneva, Switzerland
1994
Herbert Palmer Gallery, Los Angeles, US
Martin-Rathburn Gallery, San Antonio, US
1993
Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York, US
1992
Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York, US
1991
Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, Illinois, US
Political Paintings, Washington University, Saint Louis, US
Missouri Galerie du Centre, Paris, France
Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York, US
1990
Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, US
Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, US
Texas Gallery, Houston, US
1989
Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado, US
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, US
1986
Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, US
1984
Frumkin and Struve Gallery, Chicago, US
1983
Galerie Darthea Speyer, Paris, France
1981
Kilcawley Center, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, Ohio, US
1980
University of Illinois, DeKalb, Illinois, US
Madison Art Center, Madison, Wisconsin, US
1976
Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, Connecticut, US
1973
California State University, Sacramento, US
Galerie Klang, Cologne, Germany
1972
Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago, US
Galerie Darthea Speyer, Paris, France
1971
Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, US
Musée d’Art et d’Industrie, Saint-Etienne, France
1969
Galerie Darthea Speyer, Paris, France
Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago, US
Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, US
1968
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, US
California College of Arts and Crafts Gallery, Oakland, US
1967
Galerie de’Foscherari 60, Bologna, Italy
Wanamaker’s, Philadelphia, US
Contemporary Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri, US
Galerie Breteau, Paris, France
1966
Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago, US
Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, US
1965
Anne Aebels Gallery, Cologne, Germany
1964
Galerie Breteau, Paris, France
Notizie Gallery, Turin, Italy
Rolf Nelson Gallery, Los Angeles, US
Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, US
1963
LaTartaruga Gallery, Rome, Italy
Rolf Nelson Gallery, Los Angeles, US
Galerie Breteau, Paris, France
Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, US
1962
Galerie Breteau, Paris, France
Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, US
1961
Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago, US
Group exhibitions
2025
'Regards actuels sur la Figuration Narrative', Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dole, France
2024
'Figuration narrative. Un autre langage pop', Musée d’art de Pully, Switzerland
'MAMCO, From Memory' , MAMCO, Geneva, Switzerland
2022
‘Dark Light : Realism in the Age of Post-Truths’, Aishti Foundation, Lebanon
2021
‘Different strokes’, Almine Rech, London, UK
2019
Peter Saul and Erik Parker, Nanzuka, Tokyo, Japan
Body/Object, George Adams Gallery, New York, US
Landscapes Without Boundaries, Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at University of California, US
Artists Respond: American Art and the Vietnam War, 1965-1975, Minneapolis Institute of Art, US
Naturally Naked, Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Moscow, Russia
The Mid Century Modern Aesthetic, Alpha 137 Gallery
2018
Original Behavior, Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, UK
Vile Bodies, Michael Werner Gallery, New York, US
Four Rooms, Blum & Poe, New York, US
Political Art, Alpha 137 Gallery
2017
Reconstitution, LAXART, Los Angeles, US
In Paper We Trust, The Dot Project, London, UK
Make America Great Again, Blondeau & Cie, Geneva, Switzerland
Marcel Duchamp FOUNTAIN An Homage, Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, New York, US
Piss and Vinegar, New York Academy of Art, New York, US
2016
Based on a True Story: Highlights from the di Rosa Collection, di Rosa, Napa, CA, US
2015
MUTATED REALITY, Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2013
Tumesence, Michael Werner Gallery, New York, US
2011
Masters of Reality, Gering & Lopez Gallery, New York, US
Pretty on the Inside, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, US
2010
Ordinary Madness, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, US
Touch and Go: Ray Yoshida and his Spheres of Influence,
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, US
The Visible Vagina, David Nolan Gallery, New York, US
Nature Once Removed, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, US
Desire, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, US
2009
Consider the Lobster, Center for Curatorial Studies & Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, US
Image Matter, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, US
The New Yorkers, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Until the End of the World, AMP, Athens, Greece
N’importe quoi, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Lyon, France
Exile on Main St., Bonnefantenmuseum,Maastricht, The Netherlands
Looking for Mushrooms. Beat Poets, Hippies, Radio and
Minimal Art: Art and Counter Culture in San Francisco Around 1968,
Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
2008
Bad Painting, Good Art, Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, Austria
Jekyll Island, Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles, US
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
Action/Abstraction, The Jewish Museum, New York; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, US
Figuration Narrative, 1960-72, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, France
Lots of Things Like This, Apexart, New York, US
2007
Mr. President, University Art Museum at Albany, Albany, New York, US
Summer of Love, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
Exhibitionism: An exhibition of exhibitions of works from the Marieluise
Hessel Collection, CCS Bard Hessel Museum, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, US
Automatic, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, US
Refugees of Group Selection, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, US
Paradise, Patrick Painter Gallery, Los Angeles, US
Il était une fois Walt Disney, Musée des Beaux Arts de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
2006
Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina, US
The Artful Jester, The Painting Center, New York; Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Brattleboro, Vermont, US
Il était une fois Walt Disney, Grand Palais, Paris, France
Antisocial, Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain d’Auvergne, Auvergne, France
2005
Looking at Words, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, US
Post War Draughtwomen and 1 Monitor, Meyer Riegger Gallery, Karlsruhe, Germany
Body Language, George Adams Gallery, New York, US
2004
Disparities and Deformations: Our Grotesque, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, US
The Anxious Image, The Painting Center, New York, US
Bush-Whack!, George Adams Gallery, New York, US
2003
The Not-So-Still Life: A Century of California Painting and Sculpture, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, US
Splat, Boom, Pow, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; ICA Boston, US
Les Contemporains de 1960 à nos jours, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
3 Pop Guys 40 Years After, Galerie du Centre, Paris, France
Funny Papers, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, US
Grooves, Leo Koenig, New York, US
2002
Eye Infection, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Jokes, Musée d’art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
2001
Self Made Men, D.C. Moore Gallery, New York, US
Open Ends, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
2000
Drawings 2000, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, US
Face to Face, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1998
View: Three, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, US
1997
Facing History, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
A Show of Hands, George Adams Gallery, New York, US
Drawings, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York, US
1995
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
Murder, Thread Waxing Space, New York, US
1994
Hand Painted Pop: 1958-1962, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles;
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
1989
Reagan: American Icon, Bucknell University, Lewiston, Pennsylvania, US
1988
Different Drummers, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC, US
Pop Apocalypse, Gracie Mansion, New York, US
1987
Comic Iconoclasm, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK
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, US
1986
American Renaissance: Painting and Sculpture Since 1940, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, US
Figure as Subject: The Last Decade, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
1983
Red Grooms/Peter Saul: The Early Sixties, Allan Fumkin Gallery, New York, US
1978
Art About Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
1976
72nd American Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, US
1971
American Painting and Sculpture 1948-1969, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign, US
1968
Violence in Recent American Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, US
1967
Funk, University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, US
1964
Recent American Drawings, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, US
Pop, etc., Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Schweizergarten, Vienna, Austria
The New Realism, Municipal Museum, The Hague, The Netherlands
67th Annual American Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, US
1963
Forum, Abbey Saint-Pierre, Ghent, Belgium
Galleria La Tartaruga, Rome, Italy
1st Salon International de Galleries-Pilotes, Musée Cantolan, Lausanne, Switzerland
A New Realist Supplement, The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor
New Directions, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, US
1962
The University of Colorado, Boulder, US
The Society of Contemporary American Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, US
1961
International Selection, The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio, US
1959
Salon de Jeune Peinture, Paris, France
Collections
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, US
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, US
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, US
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, US
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, US
Sintra Museum of Modern Art, Portugal
Musee Cantini, Marseilles, France
Smart Museum, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, US
Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington, DC, US
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, US
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, UNC, Greensboro, SC, US
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, VT, US
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Huntington Gallery, University of Texas, Austin, TX, US
Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO, US
Krannert Museum, Champaign, IL, US
Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA, US
Madison Art Center, Madison, WI, US
Museum of Art, Honolulu, HI, US
Museum of Art, University of California, Berkeley, CA, US
Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR, US
Becht Collection, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, US
Dallas Art Museum, Dallas, TX, US
Di Rosa Art Preserve, Napa, CA, US
Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris, France
FRAC Region Nord, Lille, France
Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC, US
