The Scottish painter Peter Doig was born in Edinburgh in 1959. In 1962, his family moved to Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago, where his father worked for a transportation company, and then, four years later (1966), to Canada. Peter Doig went to London to study, first at the Wimbledon School of Art in 1979-1980, then at Saint Martin's School of Art from 1980 to 1983, and finally at the Chelsea School of Art in 1889 and 1990 where he graduated.
In 1991, an exhibition at the Whitechapel Art...

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  Biography of Peter Doig

  The Scottish painter Peter Doig was born in Edinburgh in 1959. In 1962, his family moved to Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago, where his father worked for a transportation company, and then, four years later (1966), to Canada. Peter Doig went to London to study, first at the Wimbledon School of Art in 1979-1980, then at Saint Martin's School of Art from 1980 to 1983, and finally at the Chelsea School of Art in 1889 and 1990 where he graduated.
  In 1991, an exhibition at the Whitechapel Art Gallery earned him international recognition almost immediately. Peter Doig's work is inspired by German romantics, the symbolism of Edvard Munch or the naturalism of Edward Hopper. Fascinated by the immense spaces where man's relationship with nature is constantly at stake, Peter Doig often paints wild, undefined, abandoned places that man crosses, leaving a sign of his presence. The artist never paints outdoors, composing his paintings using a variety of photographic sources (films, newspapers, postcards, etc.). Peter Doig paints above all atmospheres, contexts marked by human unease reduced to astonishment and confusion in the face of an idyllic naturre where his place is no longer completely self-evident.
  In 2008, a major retrospective exhibition was dedicated to him, organized by three leading museums (Tate of London, Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris and the Schim Kunsthalle of Frankfurt). In 2014, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, in collaboration with the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, will present the artist's first major exhibition in North America.
  In parallel to his work as a painter, Peter Doig built an important engraved work (lithographs, engravings, serigraphs, monotypes), and produced a very large number of posters as part of his participation in the Studiofilmclub film club that he himself created in Port-Espagne (Trinidad's capital) with Che Lovelace.
  The artist has lived and worked in Trinidad since 2002.
  

  

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