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.
"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
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