1959 Born in Manila, Philippines

Lives and works in Penobscot (Maine) and Paris.


Education

1981 A.B., Art History, Harvard College, Cambridge, MA


Solo Exhibitions 

2023

Impermanence and Color, Galerie Bernhard Bischoff & Partner, Bern, Switzerland

2021

Méditation sur une boîte en carton, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris, France

2019

Snowmelt / Schneewasser, Galerie Bernhard Bischoff & Partner, Bern, Switzerland

2018

Peter Soriano: Projets récentes, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris, France

INAGDV,L’art dans les chapelles, Chapelle Saint-Jean, Le Sourn, France

Mouvement de meubles dans une salle polyvalente, Moments Artistiques, Paris, France

2017

Cresta, CIRCUIT Centre d’art contemporain, Lausanne, Switzerland

2016

3 Murals and Related Drawings, Lennon Weinberg Gallery, New York

2015

Permanent Maintenance, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME

Artist en focus: Peter Soriano, Drawing Now Art Paris, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris, France

2013

Panorama, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris, France

Bagaduce( )East 19th St., Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME

New Work, Lennon Weinberg Gallery, New York, NY

2012

Other Side and what follows, Domaine de Kerguéhennec, Bignan, France

2011

Other Side (NUM)BERS + Dessins, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris, France

2010

Dimensions Variable, Frederico Sève Gallery, New York, NY

Points Touching/Spaces Defined, Galerie Bernard Jordan, Zurich, Switzerland

2008

Other Side..(...IDOL, AJAC, IONA, EMEU...).., Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris, France

2007

New Sculpture & Drawing, Lennon Weinberg Gallery, New York, NY

Running Fix, FRAC (Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain) Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France

Saint-Fiacre, L’art dans les chapelles, Chapelle Saint-Fiacre, Melrand, France

2006

Œuvres récentes réalisées à l’atelier Calder, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris, France

2004

Œuvres récentes, Atelier Calder, Saché, France

2003

New Sculpture & Drawing, Lennon Weinberg Gallery, New York, NY

2002

Sculpteur, ENAD Limoges, Limoges, France

Peter Soriano, Espace d’art contemporain Camille Lambert, Juvisy-sur-Orge, France

Juste pour voir—dessin(s), ENAD Limoges, Limoges, France

2001

Peter Soriano, Galerie Bernard Jordan, Paris, France

2000

Philippe Richard / Peter Soriano: peintures, sculptures, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tourcoing, France

1999

New Sculpture, Lennon Weinberg Gallery, New York, NY

Peter Soriano, Interface 4, Marseille, France

Peter Soriano, Le 19 CRAC, Centre régional d’art contemporain, Montbéliard, France

Peter Soriano, Villa Steinbach, Musée des Beaux Arts, Mulhouse, France

Peter Soriano, Ancien collège des Jésuites, Reims, France

Skulpturen, Renate Schröder Galerie, Cologne, Germany

1997

Peter Soriano, Schmidt Contemporary Art, Saint Louis, MO

1996

New Sculpture 1995-1996, Lennon Weinberg Gallery, New York, NY

Peter Soriano: Sculptures, oeuvres sur papier, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris, France

1994

Sculpture, Lennon Weinberg Gallery, New York, NY

Group Exhibitions

2023

Hokusai: Inspiration and Influence, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

2022

North Atlantic Triennial Down North, co-organized by Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME; Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland; and Bildmuseet, Umeå, Sweden

Sol Lewitt: Artist and Collector at Play, Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, CT

2021

April Showers Bring May Flowers, Atelier Michael Woolworth, Paris, France

David Row & Friends, Cove Street Arts, Portland, ME

XX Years, Bernhard Bishoff & Partner, Bern, Switzerland

2020

Interdependency Now, Radiator Gallery, Long Island City, NY

2019

Constellation, Lennon Weinberg Gallery, New York, NY

2018

Tous ensemble, Espace d’art contemporain Camille Lambert, Juvisy-sur-Orge, France

2017

Rodin Brancusi Carl Andre… Le Socle, MUba Eugène Leroy, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tourcoing

2016

Salon Galeristes, Galerie Jean Fournier, Carreau du Temple, Paris

Deux Côtés, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris

2015

Circus, Galerie Jordan/Seydoux, Berlin

Dé-Faire, Galerie 65, L’ESADHaR, Le Havre

2014

La chaleur de l’usure, De Markten, Brussels, Belgium

Busan Biennale, Busan Museum of Art, Busan, South Korea

Inhabiting Ten Eyck, Storefront Ten Eyck, Brooklyn, NY

Real Estate, Ventana 244, Brooklyn, NY

2013

L’artiste collectionneur, Dix 291, Paris, France

2012

Autre Pareil 2, le retour, Galerie Une Poussière Dans L'Oeil, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France

Break / Step, Radiator Arts, Long Island City, NY

La Fureur de L'éternuement, Galerie Marcel Duchamp, Yvetot, France

Les pélagiques #2: La mesure des choses, Musée des Beaux Arts, Dunkerque, France

2011

Autre pareil, Musée des Beaux Arts, Dunkerque, France

Provisional Painting, Modern Art Gallery, London, U.K.

2010

It’s the Uncertainty, THEODORE:Art, Brooklyn, NY

Ebullitions, Artaïs, CEPF BNP Paribas, Paris, France

Geometric Illusion, Frederico Sève Gallery, New York, NY

Ends and Means, Lennon Weinberg Gallery, New York, NY

L’Arabesque, Bleu Acier, Tampa, FL

2009

The Line is a Sign, Frederico Sève Gallery, New York, NY

Emménagement, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris, France

2008

+ de Réalité, Le Hangar à Bananes, École supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Nantes, France

Œuvres abstraites extraites des collections, Artothèque du Limousin, Limoges, France

Flow Chart, Lennon Weinberg Gallery, New York, NY

2007

La couleur toujours recommencée: Hommage à Jean Fournier, Musée Fabre, Montpellier, France

Taking Shape, Lennon Weinberg Gallery, New York, NY

2006

La Force de l’Art, curated by Eric de Chassey, Grand-Palais, Paris, France

Jean Fournier: Un choix d’œuvres sur papier, Le Ring, Artothèque de Nantes, Nantes, France

Synthetic Aesthetic, Roger Smith Lab Gallery, New York, NY

Artists Curating Artists: Plastic Fantastic, curated by Christopher Chambers, Shore Institute of the Contemporary Arts (SICA), Long Branch, NJ

2005

Non compatibles, une peinture sans qualités, Villa Tamaris Centre d’art, Toulon, France

Gallery Artists, Lennon Weinberg Gallery, New York, NY

Works on Paper 2005, Schmidt Contemporary Art, Saint Louis, MO

Maine Connections: The Obscure and the Celebrated Artists of Maine, 1920-2005, Blue Hill Public Library, Blue Hill, ME

2004

Posé sur le papier, dessiné sur le mur, carnet et une sculpture, Galerie Bernard Jordan, Paris, France

Toys in the Attic, Lennon Weinberg Gallery, New York, NY

Le Syndrome de Babylone, Villa du Parc, Annemasse, France

Il y a autant de raisons que de façons de dessiner, Nouveau Théâtre, Angers, France

2003

Quatuor Plastique, Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Valence, France

Corporal Identity–Body Language, 9th Triennial for Form and Content, co-organized by the Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY; Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany; and Klingspor Museum, Offenbach, Germany

2002

Archipelago, curated by Ann Shostrom, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO

Points, Lignes, Plans, Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire, Brussels, Belgium

Made in Brooklyn, Wythe Studio, Brooklyn, NY

Drawn from a Family: Contemporary Works on Paper, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME

New Year New York New Work, Lennon Weinberg Gallery, New York, NY

2001

Avatars du papier, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris, France

FIAC 2001, Galerie Bernard Jordan et L’Atelier Eric Seydoux, Paris, France

Mir2, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY

Figstract Explosionism, Bridgewater/Lustberg & Blumenfeld, New York, NY

2000

Snapshot: An Exhibition of 1,000 Artists, The Contemporary, Baltimore, MD

New Acquisitions: A Decade of Collecting, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA

Simple Statements, Fine Arts Center, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI

Almost Something: Deceptive Abstraction, Catherine Moore Gallery, New York, NY

Made On Mars, Glassbox, Paris, France

Luscious, Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY

1999

Carte Blanche à Jean Fournier, Galerie du Jour Agnès B, Paris, France

Ecole régionale des Beaux-Arts, Rouen, France

Art Berlin, Galerie Rothamel, Berlin, Germany

Photographs by Painters, Photographers, Sculptors, Lennon Weinberg Gallery, New York, NY

1998

22/21 Vision, Emily Lowe Gallery, Hofstra University Museum, Hempstead, NY

L’abstraction et ses territoires, Le 19 CRAC, Centre régional d’art contemporain, Montbéliard, France

Southern Exposure, Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, FL

Nine International Artists at Wånas 1998, Wånas Kunst, Knislinge, Sweden

Rencontres 11, La Vigie Art Contemporain, Nîmes, France

Pop Abstraction, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

Anne et les garçons, Galerie Athanor, Marseille, France

Utz, Lennon Weinberg Gallery, New York, NY

Art Cologne 98, Renate Schröder Galerie, Cologne, Germany

1997

Sculpture, James Graham & Sons, New York, NY

Just what do you think you are doing Dave? Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY

Couleurs couleurs, Galerie Bernard Jordan, Paris

La Collection, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris

The 33rd Annual Exhibition of Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC

1996

Un œil américain, Galerie Le Carré, Lille, France

The Enduring Presence: New York Abstraction, co-organized by Ewing Gallery, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN; Biggin Gallery, Auburn University, Auburn, AL; and Gibson Gallery, SUNY Potsdam, Potsdam, NY

Thing, Deven Golden Fine Art, New York, USA

Buttered Side Up, co-organized by Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY, and Koffler Centre of the Arts, Toronto, Canada

Hothouse, The Work Space, New York, NY

Skowhegan at Fifty: The Maine Legacy, co-organized by Maine College of Art, Portland, ME, and Maine Coast Artists (now CMCA), Rockport, ME

Salon des Tree, Belvedere Castle, Central Park, New York, NY

1995

Gallery Artists, Lennon Weinberg Gallery, New York, NY

Chess & Checkers, Exit Art / The First World, New York, NY

Maux Faux, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY

1994

…It’s How You Play the Game, Exit Art / The First World, New York, NY

1993

Faux, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY

A6°, Galerie Le Carré, Lille, France

Dix aventures à vivre, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris, France

Fantastic Wanderings, Cummings Art Center, Connecticut College, New London, CT

Works on Paper, Lennon Weinberg Gallery, New York, NY

Outside Possibilities ’93, The Rushmore Festival, Woodbury, CT

Sculpture, Lennon Weinberg Gallery, New York, NY

1992

Recent acquisitions, Harvard University Museums, Cambridge, MA

1991

Burning in Hell, Franklin Furnace, New York, NY

Three Artists, Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY

1986-1987

Bodies and Dreams, White Columns, New York, NY

Public Collections

Artothèque du Limousin, Limoges, France

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France

Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME

Le Ring, Artothèque de Nantes, Nantes, France

Flaxman Library, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, MI

Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, France

Fonds national d’art contemporain (FNAC), Paris, France

FRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France

Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA

Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, NH

Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY

Musée des Beaux Arts, Tourcoing, France

Neuberger Berman, New York, NY

Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME

Wanås Konst, Knislinge, Sweden


Fellowships

2009 Terra Foundation, Giverny, France

2004 Atelier Calder, Saché, France

2002 ENAD Limoges, Limoges, France

1981 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME

Selected Bibliography

2022

Barbara Soyer, Dessin dans L’Art Contemporain (Paris: Éditions Pyramyd, 2002)

Pierre Baumann (ed.), The Whiteness of the Whale (Bordeaux: Éditions Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux, 2022)

Einar Falur Ingólfsson, "Samtímamyndlist um norðurslóðir," Morgunbladid, 13 October 2022

Cate Hewitt, "Humor and Chance at Play in Sol LeWitt Show at Lyman Allyn Museum," CT Examiner, New London, CT, 12 October, 2022

Barbara Soyer and Sophie Toulouse, "Wall Drawings," The Drawer N° 21, April 2022

Norah Hogan, “Art is a Climate Change Conversation Starter,” WMTW/ABC [video], 1 April 2022

Michaela Cavallaro, “How the PMA Launched the New North Atlantic Triennial,” DownEast, March 2022

Edgar Allen Beem, Art Seen: Portland Museum of Art’s expansive new North Atlantic Triennial,” Portland Phoenix, 23 February 2022

2021

Valérie de Maulmin, "Les Boîtes à Malice," Connaissance des Arts, September 2021

Jorge S. Arango, "Between two exhibits, Cove Street Arts is here, there and everywhere," Press Herald, 15 August 2021

Edgar Allen Beem,Art Seen: ‘Kindred,’ ‘Here and There’ at Cove Street Arts, Portland Phoenix, 4 August 

2021

Vincent Delaury "Peter Soriano," L’Oeil N° 746, September 2021 

2019 
"Poetische Geometrie: Ausstellung," Der Bund (Switzerland), 10 October 2019.

2018
Emilie Ovaere-Corthay, “J’entre dans ce que je regarde,” Peter Soriano: Dessins • Drawings 2009-2018, Editions Galerie Jean Fournier, avril 2018
Pierre Morio, “Pèlerinage artistique dans les chapelles,” L’Oeil, n°714, Été 2018
Valérie de Maulmin, “Peter Soriano, Paysage autrement,” Connaissance des Arts, août 2018

Peter Soriano, Tous Ensemble 7/7, Espace d’art contemporain Camille Lambert, Daily Motion [Video], octobre 2018, retrieved fromhttps://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6vqqhj
"L’art dans les Chapelles bretonnes: du neuf dans la nef!” Le Jour du Seigneur, CFRT Productions [Video], 1 juillet 2018

2017
Barbara A. MacAdam, “Vasari Diary: Artists Against Originality, Peter Soriano and Nathalie du Pasquier,” Art News, 20 October 2017

2016
Hovey Brock, “Peter Soriano: 3 Murals and Related Drawings at Lennon Weinberg,” Art ltd, v. 10, n°6, Nov/Dec 2016
John Yau, “Surveyor of Shadows,” Hyperallergic, 22 October 2016
Jill Weinberg Adams, “Schema,” Peter Soriano: 3 Murals and Related Drawings, Exhibition Catalog, Lennon Weinberg Gallery, August 2016
Kirsten Swenson, “Living Walls,” Peter Soriano: Permanent Maintenance, Exhibition Catalog, Colby College Museum of Art, 2016
Elizabeth Finch, “Action Steps,” Peter Soriano: Permanent Maintenance, Exhibition Catalog, Colby College Museum of Art, 2016

2015
Peter Soriano: Permanent Maintenance at the Colby College Museum of Art, Vimeo [Video], 21 November 2015, retrieved from https://vimeo.com/146507726
Terrence O’Connor, “Artist Peter Soriano on His New Museum Installation,” The Colby Echo, 24 September 2015
Andrew Gelfand, “Artist’s Voice: Peter Soriano in Conversation with, Andrew Gelfand,” The Lantern, Colby College Museum of Art, 24 September 2015
Éric Suchère, “Situations de Peter Soriano,” Art Absolument, n°64, mars / avril 2015

2014
Cédric Loire, “Peter Soriano: Panorama,” Semaine #13, février 2014
Anne Kerner, “Peter Soriano, galerie Jean Fournier,”ouvrestesyeaux ARTV [Video], 6 janvier 2014, retrieved from https://vimeo.com/82784602

2013
Stephen Maine, “Peter Soriano at Lennon Weinberg,” Artillery Magazine, 1 March 2013
David Carrier, “In Search of the Mutable: Peter Soriano at Lennon Weinberg,” Art Critical, 23 February 2013
Peter Soriano: New Work, Exhibition Catalog, Lennon Weinberg Gallery, January 2013
Peter Soriano: Panorama, Galerie Jean Fournier, Exhibition Catalog, décembre 2013

2012
Brian Dupont, “Where I am Now: In Conversation with Peter Soriano,” Idiom, 11 September 2012
Marion Daniel, “Peter Soriano, Autre côté,” Other Side -> (NUM)BERS <- and what follows, Exhibition Catalog, Galerie Jean Fournier & Domaine de Kerguéhennec, 2012
Patterson Sims, “Peter Soriano: Interior Drawing,” Other Side -> (NUM)BERS <- and what follows, Exhibition Catalog, Galerie Jean Fournier & Domaine de Kerguéhennec, 2012

2011
Marion Daniel, “Peter Soriano: Du dessin-signe à la pensée visuelle,” Roven #5, printemps/été 2011
Leïla Simon, "Otherside > (NUM)BERS < + Dessins,” Slash, September 2011, retrieved from https://slash-paris.com/en/evenements/otherside-nu...

2009
Raphael Rubinstein, “Provisional Painting,” Art in America, May 2009
Matthias Waschek, “An Interview with Peter Soriano,”Ideal[Dis-]Placements: Old Masters at the Pulitzer, The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, 19 December 2009Peter Soriano, “Elemental / Élémental,” Artistes Ou Lettres? Marc Devade et Art Contemporain, Collection Beautés, Lienart, juin 2009

2008
Silvia Cazacu, “Mission mobile,” parisART, 12 janvier 2008
Raphael Rubinstein, “Peter Soriano's New Direction(s) / Touts les directions de Peter Soriano,” Other Side..(...IDOL, AJAC, IONA, EMEU...).., Exhibition Catalog, Galerie Jean Fournier & Panama Musées, 2008

2007
Éric de Chassey, “Sculpture relative,” Running Fix, Exhibition Catalog, Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain (Frac Auvergne), 2007
Éric Suchère, “Les inhumains sont parmi nous,” Running Fix, Exhibition Catalog, Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain (Frac Auvergne), 2007

2006
Peter Soriano, La mémoire fautive, Little Single n°10 (Paris), trad. Éric Suchère, 2006