Peter Soriano

Schmelzwasser/Snowmelt #2 (2021)

Tree (2021)

Born in Manila, Philippines, Peter Soriano received his B.A. in Art History from Harvard College and studied at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. By the mid-1990s, following exhibitions in New York and Paris, he first earned international recognition for his deceptively playful, biomorphic sculptures made of fiberglass. In 2004, after a residency at the Atelier Calder in France, Soriano turned his focus to wall-based sculptures. Composed of taut steel cables, metal pipes, and rapid-fire sprays of painted arrows, Xs, circles, and brackets, these installations function in an ambiguous space at the intersection of painting and sculpture. In recent years, Soriano has eliminated structural elements altogether to introduce another body of work: wall drawings. These new works, which have been widely exhibited, evoke landscapes, albeit highly schematized landscapes in which Soriano’s spray-painted graphic lexicon of codes and symbols is the dominant source of imagery. Since 1994, Soriano has been represented in New York by Lennon, Weinberg, Inc. In Paris, he has since 1996 been represented by Galerie Jean Fournier. He divides his time between New York City and Penobscot, Maine.

EDUCATION

  • 1981 BA Harvard College, Cambridge, MA

  • 1981 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

  • 2021 colis/Simo, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris ( forthcoming) 

  • 2019 Snowmelt/Schneewasser, Galerie Bernhard Bishoff & Partner, Bern 

  • 2018 Mouvement de meubles dans une salle polyvalente, Moments Artistiques Christian Aubert, Paris  
     L’art dans les chapelles, Chapelle Saint-Jean, Le Sourn, France 
    Peter Soriano: Projets récents, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris

  • 2017 Cresta, CIRCUIT Centre d’art cotemporain, Lausanne, Switzerland

  • 2016 3 Murals & related drawings, Lennon Weinberg, inc. New York, NY

  • 2015 Permanent Maintenance, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME
    Drawing Now Paris, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris, France 

  • 2013 Panorama, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris, France 
    Bagaduce East 19th St., CMCA, Rockport, ME 
    New Work, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., 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, Inc., New York, NY
    Running Fix, FRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France 

  • 2006 Œuvres réalisées à l’atelier Calder, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris, France

  • 2005 Kittyfat/Saché Drawings, Ecole Régionale des Beaux-Arts, Caen, France

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

  • Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

  • Artothèque du Limousin, Limoges, France 

  • Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME 

  • Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, France 

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

  • FRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France 

  • Harvard Art Museums, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 

  • Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY 

  • Musée des Beaux Arts, Tourcoing, France 

  • Wanås Foundation, Knislinge, Sweden 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

  •   2021 Les fleurs de mai,” Atelier Michael Woolworth, Paris
    Here & There (curated by David Row), Cove Street Arts, Portland, ME
    Interdependency Now, Radiator Arts, 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, France

  • 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, France

  • 2014 La chaleur de l’usure, De Markten, Brussels
    Busan Biennalle, Busan Museum of Art, Corée du Sud, France
    Inhabiting Ten Eyck, Storefront Ten Eyck, Brooklyn, NY
    Real Estate, Ventana 244, Brooklyn, NY

  • 2013 L’artiste collectionneur, Dix 291, Paris

  • 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’eturnuement, 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

  • 2010 It’s the uncertainty, THEODORE:Art, Brooklyn, NY
    Ebullitions, Artaïs, CEPF BNP Paribas, Paris
    Geometric Illusion, Frederico Sève Gallery, New York, NY
    Ends and Means, Lennon Weinberg Gallery, New York, NY
    L’Arabesque, Bleu Acier, Tampa, FL

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