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 Power, Benefit 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)