1934 Born in San Francisco, California
1950-52 Attends California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco
1952-56 Attends Washington University School of Fine Arts of St. Louis
1956-64 Lives in Holland, Paris, and Rome
1961-89 Exhibits regularly at Allan Frumkin Gallery in New York and Chicago
1961 William and Noma Copley Foundation Award
1964-74 Returns to United States and settles in Mill Valley, California
1975-81 Lives in Chappaqua, New York
1979 NEA Endowment
1981-2000 Lives in Austin, Texas; teaches at Univ. of Texas
1989-95 Exhibits regularly at Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York
1985 NEA Endowment
1993 Guggenheim Fellowship Recipient
2000 Moves to New York City
2001 Academy Award for Art, American Academy of Arts and Letters
Currently lives and works in New York State.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
1962 Galerie Breteau, Paris
1963 Tartartuga Gallery, Rome
1963 Rolf Nelson Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1963 Galerie Breteau, Paris
1964 Anne Aebels Gallery, Koln, Germany
1964 Notizie Gallery, Turin, Italy
1964 Galerie Breteau, Paris
1967 Galerie de’Foscherari 60, Bologna, Italy
1967 Contemporary Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
1967 Galerie Breteau, Paris
1968 San Francisco Art Institute
1968 California College of Arts and Crafts Gallery, Oakland, California
1968 Reed College, Portland, Oregon
1969 Galerie Darthea Speyer, Paris
1971 Musée d’Art et d’Industrie, Saint-Etienne, France
1971 Galerie Darthea Speyer, Paris
1972 Galerie Darthea Speyer, Paris
1973 California State University, Sacramento, California
1974 Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, Connecticut
1980-81 Retrospective, University of Illinois, DeKalb; Madison Art Center, Wisconsin
1981 Kilcawley Center, Youngstown State Univerity, Ohio
1984 Frumkin and Struve Gallery Chicago
1986 Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco
1986 Texas Gallery, Houston
1989 Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado
1989 Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
1990 Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, Louisiana
1990 Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas
1990 Texas Gallery, Houston
1990 Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, Louisiana.
1991 Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, Illinois Peter Saul: Political 1991 Paintings, Washington university, St. Louis
1991 Galerie du Centre, Paris
1991 Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, Illinois.
1992 Frumkin/Adams Gallery, NYC, NY.
1993 Frumkin/Adams Gallery, NYC, NY.
1994 Herbert Palmer Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
1994 Martin-Rathburn Gallery, San Antonio, Texas.
1995 Turner, Burne and Runyon, Dallas
1995 Herbert Palmer Gallery, Los Angeles
1995 Turner, Byrne and Runyon, Dallas, Texas.
1995 Ynglingagatan I, Stockholm, Sweden.
1995 Frumkin/Adams Gallery, NYC, NY.
1995 Galerie Bonnier, Geneva, Switzerland.
1996 Art World Portraits, Museum of Art, Chicago
1996 Texas Gallery, Houston
1996 George Adams Gallery, New York
1996 Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, Illinois. Art World Portraits.
1997 Galerie du Centre
1997 Artpace, San Antonio, Texas
1997 Early Paintings and Related Drawings 1960-64 George Adams Gallery, N.Y.
1998 Peter Saul: Recent Drawings, Nolan/Eckman Gallery
1998 Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco
Paintings and Related Drawings
1999-2000 Peter Saul : Retrospective, Musee de L’Abbaye Sainte-Croix-Chateauroux,
Les Sables d’Olonne, France; Musee de L’Hotel Bertrand, Dole, France;
Beaux-Art Museum, Mons, Belgium
2000 Nolan/Eckman Gallery, NYC, NY. Heads: 1986-2000
2002 The Sixties, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York
2002 Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Koln, Germany
2002 Galerie Charlotte Moser, Geneva, Switzerland
2002 Jokes, Musee d’art moderne et contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
2003 Drawings, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco
2004 Homage to Dali, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York
2004 Suburbia, George Adams Gallery, New York
2005 Peter Saul peintures, 1985-2005, Musee Paul Valery, Sete
Exhibition managed by Galerie du Centre
2006 Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York
2006 Leo Koenig Inc., New York
2007 Galerie Charlotte Moser, Geneva, Switzerland.
2008 Orange County Museum of art, Newport Beach, California
2008 Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia
2009 Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans
2009 Galerie Darthea Speyer, Paris, France
2009 David Nolan Gallery, NYC, NY. New Paintings
2009 Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France
2010 Haunch of Venison, NYC, NY. Fifty Years of Painting.
2010 Nolan Judin, Berlin, Germany. Sheer Terror.
2011 Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, Illinois. Stupid Arguments.
Selected Group Exhibition
1959 Salon de Jeune Peinture, Paris
1960-64 George Ada2001 Eye Infection, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Self Made Men,D.C. Moore Gallery, New York
Open Ends, Museum of Modern Art, New York
1964 Pop, etc., Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Schweizergarten, Vienna
The New Realism, Municipal Museum, The Hague
1967 Annual American Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
1968-69 Violence in Recent American Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
1969 Human Concern/Personal Torment, Whitney Museum of Art, New York
Univ. of Calif., Berkeley
1978-79 Art About Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1986 American Renaissance: Painting and Sculpture Since 1940, Museum of Art
Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Figure as Subject: The Last Decade, Whitney Museum of American Art
Equitable Center
1987 Comic Iconoclasm, Institute of Contemporary Art, London
Made in USA: Art from the ‘50’s and ‘60’, University of California, Berkeley
Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City; Virgina Museum of Art
1988 Different Drummers,Hirschorn Museum, Washington, D.C.
Pop Apocalypse, Gracie Mansion, New York
1989 Reagan; American Icon, Bucknell University, Lewiston, Pa.
1994 Hand Painted Pop: 1958-1962, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, the Whitney Museum of Contemporary Art,New York
1995 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Murder, curated by John Yau, Thread Waxing Space, New York
1997 Facing History, Centre Pompidou, Paris
A Show of Hands, George Adams Gallery, New York
Drawings, Nolan/Eckman Gallery
1998 View 3,curated by Klaus Kertess, Mary Boone Gallery, New York
1998 Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY. View: Three
2000 Drawings 2000, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
Face to Face, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
The Lighter Side of Bay Area Figuration, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, Calif.
ms Gallery, New York
2001 D.C. Moore Gallery, NYC, NY. Self Made Men.
The Museum of Modern Art, NYC, NY. Open Ends.
2002 Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Eye Infection.
Musée d’art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland. Jokes
2003 “…As Time Goes By,” Leo Koenig Gallery, New York
The Not So Still Life, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA.
Splat,Boom,Pow, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
CA, Boston Les Contemporains de 1960 a nos jours, Centre Pompidou, Paris
3 Pop Guys 40 Years After, Galerie du Centre, Paris
2000 Barbara Gladstone Gallery, NYC, NY. Drawings 2000.
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Face to Face.
2003 San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California. The Not-So-Still Life: A Century of California Painting and Sculpture.
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas. Splat, Boom, Pow.
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts. Splat, Boom, Pow.
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France. Les Contemporains de 1960 à nos jours.
Galerie du Centre, Paris, France. 3 Pop Guys 40 Years After.
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, California. Funny Papers.
Leo Koenig, NYC, NY. Grooves.
2004 Disparities & Deformations Our Grotesque, SITE Santa Fe, curated by Robert Storr
Arte Caliente,The South Texas Institute for the Arts, Corpus Christi
Altered States, Leo Koenig Gallery, New York
Bush – Whack!, George Adams Gallery, New York
Der Zeichnung, Galerie Hubner, Frankfurt
American Violence, la galerie Glandier & Byrne, Paris
The anxious image, The Painting Center, New York
2005 Andrea Rosen Gallery, NYC, NY. Looking at Words.
Meyer Riegger Gallery, Karlsruhe, Germany. Post War Draughtwomen and 1 Monitor.
George Adams Gallery, NYC, NY. Body Language
2006 Hot spring…in automn. Galerie Krinzinger, Vienne, Autriche
2006 Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina. Art on Paper.
Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York. Twice Drawn.
The Painting Center, NYC, NY. The Artful Jester.
Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Brattleboro, Vermont. The Artful Jester.
Grand Palais, Paris, France. Il était une fois Walt Disney.
Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain d’Auvergne, Auvergne, France. Antisocial.
Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles, California. Art of Engagement: Paintings, Drawings, Prints and Sculpture.
2007 University Art Museum at Albany, Albany, New York. Mr. President.
Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC, NY. Summer of Love.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. Exhibitionism, An exhibition of exhibitions of works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection.
Franklin Parrasch Gallery, NYC, NY. Automatic.
Franklin Parrasch Gallery, NYC, NY. Refugees of Group Selection.
Patrick Painter Gallery, Los Angeles, California. Paradise.
Musée des Beaux Arts de Montréal, Montreal, Canada. Il était une fois Walt Disney.
2008 Figuration Narrative Paris 1960-1972 Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais (exposition organisée par le Centre Pompidou)
2008 Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, Austria. Bad Painting, Good Art.
Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles, California. Jekyll Island.
The Museum of Modern Art, NYC, NY. Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now.
The Jewish Museum, NYC, NY. Action/ Abstraction – Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art 1940–1976.
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York. Action/Abstraction – Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art 1940–1976.
Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, France. Figuration Narrative, 1960-72.
Apexart, NYC, NY. Lots of Things Like This
2009 “Vraoum”, la Maison Rouge, Fondation Antoine de Galbert, Paris
2009 The Center for Curatorial Studies & Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. Consider the Lobster.
Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY. Image Matter.
V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark. The New Yorkers.
AMP, Athens, Greece. Until the End of the World.
Musée d’Art Contemporain, Lyon, France. N’importe quoi.
Bonnefantenmuseum, Maaastricht, The Netherlands. Exile on Main St..
Museum Ludwig, Koln, Germany. Looking for Mushrooms. Beat Poets, Hippies, Radio and Minimal Art: Art and Counter Culture in San Francisco Around 1968.
2010 Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Ordinary Madness.
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, Illinois. Touch and Go: Ray Yoshida and his Spheres of Influence.
David Nolan Gallery, NYC, NY. The Visible Vagina.
Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, New York. Nature Once Removed.
Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas. Desire.
2011 Rentre à la Galerie Mary Boone (New York)