1959
Born in Edinburgh
1960
Moves to Trinidad
1966
Moves to Canada
1979
Moves to London
1979-80
Studies at Wimbledon School of Art
1983
Receives BA from St. Martin's School of Art
1986
Moves to Montreal
1989
Moves to London
1990
Receives MA from Chelsea School of Art
1994
Awarded Prix Elliette von Karajan
Nominated for Turner Prize
1995-2000
Trustee of Tate Gallery, London
2002
Moves to Trinidad
2008
Awarded Wolfgang Hahn Prize of the Society for Modern Art, Museum Ludwig, Cologne
2017
Named the 2017 Whitechapel Gallery Art Icon
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1984
Metropolitan Gallery, London
1986
The Naked City, Air Gallery, London
1990
Articule, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
1991
Whitechapel Artist Award, Whitechapel Gallery, London
1994
Concrete Cabins, Victoria Miro Gallery, London; Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York
1995
Blotter, Contemporary Fine Art, Berlin
1996
Freestyle, Victoria Miro Gallery, London
Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York
Homely, Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen
1998
Blizzard Seventy Seven, Kunsthalle, Kiel; Kunsthalle, Nürnberg;
Whitechapel Gallery, London
Buffalo Station, Victoria Miro Gallery, London
1999
Country-rock, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin
Version, Kunsthaus Glarus
Wing-mirror, Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York
2000
Echo Lake, Matrix, University of California, Berkeley; Museum
of Contemporary Art, Miami; The Saint Louis Art Museum
Almost Grown, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin; The Power Plant Gallery, Toronto
2001
Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia;
Vancouver National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
2002
Peter Doig. The Prints, The Bailey Collection, Toronto
100 Years Ago, Victoria Miro Gallery, London
Peter Doig: Works on Paper, Michael Werner Gallery, New York
2003
Peter Doig: Painter as Printmaker, James Hyman Fine Art, London
Peter Doig, The Arts Club of Chicago
Charley's Space, Bonnfantenmuseum, Maastricht; Carré D'Art Contemporain de Nimes
2004
Peter Doig, Metropolitain, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover
2005
Peter Doig STUDIOFILMCLUB, Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Kunsthalle, Zurich
Peter Doig: Works on Paper, Dallas Museum of Art; Gallery at Windsor, Vero Beach; The Art Gallery of Ontario
2006
Peter Doig: Go West Young Man, Museum der Bildenden Kunste, Leipzig
Peter Doig: Studiofilmclub 2003-2006, Ballroom Marfa, Texas
2008
Peter Doig Retrospective, Tate Britain, London; Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
2009
Peter Doig: Not for Sale, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin
Peter Doig: New Paintings, Michael Werner Gallery in Collaboration with Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York
2011
Siegfried + Poster Project, Gallery Met at the Metropolitan Opera, New York
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
2012
Michael Werner Gallery, London
2013
No Foreign Lands, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh; Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montreal, Montreal
Early Works, Michael Werner Gallery, New York
2014
Early Works, Michael Werner Gallery, London
Peter Doig, Fondation Beyeler, Basel
2015
Peter Doig, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek
Peter Doig, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Palazzetto Tito, Venice
Peter Doig, Michael Werner Gallery, New York
2017
Peter Doig: Cabins and Canoes, Faurschou Foundation, Beijing
Peter Doig: studiofilmclub, CAC Malaga, Malaga
Peter Doig, Michael Werner Gallery, New York
Peter Doig, Michael Werner Gallery, London
2019
Peter Doig, Vienna Secession, Vienna
Peter Doig, Paintings, Michael Werner Gallery, London
2020
Peter Doig, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
2022
Peter Doig, Kunsträume, Zermatt
Peter Doig, Studio Casoli, Filicudi
2023
Peter Doig, The Courtauld, London
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1982
New Contemporaries, ICA, London
1983
New Contemporaries, ICA, London
On Parade, St. Martin's School of Art, London
1985
Things as They Are, Riverside Studios, London
1990
Into the Nineties, Mall Galleries, London
1991
Barclays' Young Artist Award, Serpentine Gallery, London
1992
Inside a Microcosm, Laure Genillard Gallery, London
New Voices, Centre Albert Borschette, Brussels
1993
Moving into View, Royal Festival Hall, London
Twelve Stars, Barbican Centre, London
Project Unité Firminy, Firminy Vert
1st Prize Exhibition 18, John Moore's Prize, Liverpool Victoria Miro Gallery, London
1994
Unbound: Possibilities in Painting, Hayward Gallery, London.
Curated by Adrian Searle & Greg Hilty
New Voices, British Council Touring Exhibition; Santa Monica; Barcelona
Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York
Imprint '93, Cabinet Gallery, London. Curated by Mathew Higgs
Here and Now, Serpentine Gallery, London
The Turner Prize Exhibition, Tate Gallery, London
Victoria Miro Gallery, London
Peter Doig / Moyra Davie, Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York
1995
Zombie Golf, Burbage House, London
1996
Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris
There's a painting on the wall, collaboration with Matthew Higgs, Anthony Wilkinson Fine Art, London
Answered Prayers, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin
Belladonna, ICA, London
About Vision: New British Painting in the 1990s, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh; Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
Faustrecht der Freiheit, Kunstsammlung Gera, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen
Drawings from the M.A.B. Library, AC Project Room, New York
1997
Malerei 4, Galerie Monika Sprüth, Düsseldorf
Package Holiday, New British Art in the Ophiuchus Collection, The Hydra Workshop
About Vision: New British Painting in the 1990s, Christchurch Mansion, Ipswich
Alpenblick, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna. curated by Wolfgang Kos
New found landscape, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
1998
About Vision: New British Painting in the 1990s, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle
Sunday, Cabinet Gallery, London
Peter Doig and Udomsak Krisanamis, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol
UK - Maximum Diversity, Galerie Krinzinger im Benger-Areal, Bregenz; Galerie Krinzinger im Semperdepot, Vienna
1999
Peter Doig and Udomsak Krisanamis, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris
From A-B and Back Again, The Royal College of Art, London
Contemplating Pollock, Victoria Miro Gallery, London. Curated by Matthew Higgs
Anthony Wilkinson Gallery, London
Version (drawings), in Rikrit Tirivanija's apartment
River Deep Mountain High, curated by Kelly Taylor, Gallery Westland Place
Cooper Gallery, Dundee
Examining Pictures, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
2000
Spot On, Victoria Miro Gallery, London
Peter Doig, Michael Raedecker, Raucci/Santamaria Gallery, Naples
Twisted: Urban and Visionary Landscapes in Contemporary Painting, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
From a Distance: Approaching Landscape, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
2001
The way I see it, Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris
Extended Painting, Monica de Cardenas, Milan
Camera Works: The Photographic Impulse in Contemporary Art, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
Works on Paper from Acconci to Zittel, Victoria Miro Gallery, London
Hier ist dort, Salzburger Kunstverein
Work on Paper, The Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
EU, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
Peter Doig, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
2002
Cavepainting, Santa Monica Museum of Art
The Galleries Show, Royal Academy of Art, London
Art and Mountains: conquistadors of the useless, The Alpine Club, London
Dear Painter, paint me...Painting the Figure since late Picabia, Centre Pompidou, Paris; Kunsthalle, Vienna; Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
2003
Venice Biennale
Days Like These, Tate Triennial, Tate Britain, London
Unheimlich, Städtische Galerie Delmenhorst
Happiness, The Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
County Hall Exhibition Rooms, The Saatchi Gallery, London
2004
2004 Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh
The Undiscovered Country, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Huts, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
Contemporary Painting, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville. Curated by Alex Katz
Peter Doig - Jochen Klein, Galerie Daniel Bucholz, Cologne
Bearings: Landscapes from the IMMA Collection, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
2005
The Triumph of Painting Part 1, Saatchi Gallery, London
Ideal Worlds: New Romanticism in Contemporary Art, Schirn
Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
Works on Paper: Georg Baselitz, Peter Doig, Jörg Immendorff, Per Kirkeby, Michael Werner Gallery, New York
Rene Daniels | Peter Doig | Silke Otto-Knapp, Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York
2006
The Whitney Biennial: Day for Night, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Black and White: Drawings for Summer, Michael Werner Gallery, New York
Still Points of the Turning World: SITE Santa Fe's Sixth International Biennial, Santa Fe
Eye on Europe: Prints, Books & Multiples / 1960 to Now, Museum of Modern Art, New York
2007
Fast Forward, Dallas Museum of Art
The Painting of Modern Life, Hayward Gallery, London; Castello di Rivoli, Turin
A Guest of Honor: From Francis Bacon to Peter Doig, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg
2008
Serial Works on Paper, Galerie Michael Werner, Berlin
Series Drawings, Michael Werner Gallery, New York
2009
Peter Doig and Stephen Hough, Collaboration at Westminster Cathedral, London
2010
In the Company of Alice, Victoria Miro Gallery, London
2011
Flowers for Summer, Michael Werner Gallery, New York
Perfect Man II, White Columns, New York
2012
Spectral Landscape, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Ontario
A ciel ouvert. Le Nouveau Pleinairisme, Musée national des beaux-arts, Quebec
Rendez-vous der Maler II: Malerei an der Kunstakademie Düsseldorf von 1986 bis heute, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf
BLICKWECHSEL - Landschaft zwischen Bedrohung & Idylle. Von der Neuen Sachlichkeit bis heute, Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck
Exquisite Corpses: Drawing and Disfiguration, Museum of Modern Art, New York
The World as Will and Wallpaper, Le Consortium, Dijon
Juwelen im Rheingold: 10 Jahre Sammlung Rheingold, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf
2013
Cloud Illusions I Recall, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Tumescence, Michael Werner Gallery, New York
2014
Imaginary Portraits: Prince Igor, Gallery Met at the Metropolitan Opera, New York
2015
Natures, Natural and Unnatural (from the collection of V-A-C), The Whitechapel, London
Body Shop, Michael Werner Gallery, London
Forces in Nature, Victoria Miro Gallery, London
2016
Flora, Fauna and Other Forms of Life, Michael Werner Gallery, London
Masterworks from the Hirshhorn Collection, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington
Don't Look Back, CFA - Charlottenburg, Berlin
2017
The Human Form, Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
Cooperations, Fondation Beyeler, Basel
2018
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
The Shape of Time, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
The Explorers: Part I, V-A-C Foundation, Venice
Vile Bodies, Michael Werner Gallery, New York
Vile Bodies, Michael Werner Gallery, London
Peindre la nuit, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz
Under the Night Sky, Friedman Benda/Albertz Benda, New York
Land, City and Sea: British Masters from the David Ross Collection, Historic Lincoln Trust, Castle Hill
2019
Get Up, Stand Up Now: Generations of Black Creative Pioneers, Somerset House, London
2020
Among the Trees, Hayward Gallery, London
(Nothing But) Flowers, Karma, New York
Summer Exhibition 2020, Royal Academy, London
Michael Clark: Cosmic Dancer, Barbican Art Gallery, London
2021
and I will wear you in my heart of heart, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York
Ouverture, Bourse de Commerce, Paris
Natureculture, Fondation Beyeler, Basel
Mixing It Up: Painting Today, Hayward Gallery, London
Life Between Islands, Caribbean-British Art 1950s – Now, Tate Britain
2022
Edvard Munch. In Dialogue, Albertina Museum, Vienna
Generations: The Sobey Family and Canadian Art, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg; The Rooms, Newfoundland; Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton; Confederation Centre, Charlottetown; Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax
Zeitmaschine Balthus: Eine Berliner Sammlung, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin
Peter Doig lives and works in Trinidad