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


Selected One-Person Exhibitions

2005
Peter Cain: The Sean Pictures, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

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, Paintings, Drawings, Photographs, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

1991
Peter Cain, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

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

1989
Peter Cain, Pat Hearn Gallery, New York

Selected Group Exhibitions

2013
NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star, New Museum, New York

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

2004
About Painting, Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY

2003
We Love Painting, Contemporary American Art from the Misumi Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (catalogue)
Auto – Nom Das Automobil in der Zeitgenossischen Kunst, NRW-Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft, Düsseldorf (catalogue)

2001
Inside Cars, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL. Traveled to the Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, 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)

1997
Landscape: The Pastoral to the Urban, Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
American Art 1975-1995 from the Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
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 (catalogue)
Innovation: American Art of Today from the Misumi Art Collection, Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan (catalogue)

1995
Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalogue)
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, Milwaukee, WI (catalogue)

1994
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, 1993, 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
Art, Money & Myth, Palm Beach Community College Museum of Art, Lake Worth, FL
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, Santa Monica, CA; Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis; and American Center, Paris (catalogue)

1992
Psycho, Kunsthall, New York
Summer Exhibition, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

1991
Benefit Exhibition, Act-Up, The AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, Paula Cooper and Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Just What is it that Makes Today's Homes so Different, so Appealing?, The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY