PETER CAIN

Born: Orange, N.J., 1959

Education: School of Visual Arts, New York, 1980-1982
Parsons School of Design, New York, 1977-1980

Died: New York, 1997


Selected One-Person Exhibitions

2005
Peter Cain: The Sean Pictures, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Peter Cain: The Los Angeles Pictures, Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Cologne

2002
Peter Cain: More Courage and Less Oil, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (catalogue)

1997
Peter Cain, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

1995
Peter Cain, Recent Paintings, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco
Peter Cain, Paintings, Drawings, Photographs, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

1991
Peter Cain, Simon Watson, New York
Peter Cain, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

1990
Peter Cain, Paintings and Drawings, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Santa Monica, Calif.

1989
Peter Cain, Pat Hearn Gallery, New York


Selected Group Exhibitions:

2011
Legacy: The Emily Fisher Landau Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

2010
Pastorale, 80 Washington Square East Galleries, New York University, New York
Wall-To-Wall, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles

2008
WALL ROCKETS: Contemporary Artists and Ed Ruscha, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York

2006
Twice Drawn, The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

2005
Drive: Automobili nell'arte contemporanea, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy
Contemporary American Art from the Misumi Collection, Tottori Prefectural Museum, Tottori City, Japan

2004
About Painting, The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

2003
Pop Thru Art, 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), curated by Bob Nickas, Team Gallery, New York
Auto – Nom Das Automobil in der Zeitgenossischen Kunst, NRW-Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft, Düsseldorf (catalogue)

2002
The Drawings: Alan Saret and Peter Cain, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles

2001
Cameraworks: The Photographic Impulse in Modern Art, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
Inside Cars, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Traveled to the Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Welleslye, Mass.; and Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (catalogue)
A Work in Progress: Selections from the New Museum Collection, New Museum of Contemporary Art, 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, Penn.

1998
Painting Now and Forever: Part I, Matthew Marks Gallery and Pat Hearn Gallery, New York
Sea Change, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, N.Y. (catalogue)
C, Elizabeth Cherry Contemporary Art, Tucson, Ariz.

1997
Landscape: The Pastoral to the Urban, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
Project Painting, Basilico Fine Arts, New York (catalogue)
Technological Drift,Lawing Gallery, Houston
American Art 1975-1995 from the Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art: Multiple Identities, 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
Biennial Exhibition, 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
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
Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalogue)
Drawing the Line Against AIDS, Peggy Guggenheim Collection (under the aegis of the 45th Venice Biennale), Venice (catalogue)
1993 Biennial Exhibition, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul
An Anniversary Exhibition Part III, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Santa Monica, California
Art, Money & Myth, Palm Beach Community College Museum of Art, Lake Worth, Florida
Everyday Life, Kim Light Gallery, Los Angeles
Slittamenti, Venice Biennale
The Return of the Cadavre Exquis, The Drawing Center, New York. Traveled to The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, Calif.; Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis; and American Center, Paris (catalogue)

1992
5th Anniversary Show, Karsten Schubert Ltd., London
Psycho, Kunsthall, New York
Summer Exhibition, 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, Calif.
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, N.Y. (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)
An Exhibition to Benefit ACT-UP, The AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, 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, Calif.
Vertigo, Galerie Thaddeaus Ropac, Paris