Mira Dalma Makai
(1990-)
ARTISTS
Peter Peri
(b. 1971)
Peter Peri was born in 1971 in London, UK. He graduated from the MA Fine Art program at Chelsea College of Art and Design, London in 2003. He currently lives and works in London, UK. Peri’s primary media are drawing, sculpture, and painting: three distinct bodies of work that are developed independently by the artist to create a complex set of interrelations. All works are specifically invested in the tension between line and volume, figuration and abstraction, and in the questioning of tradition
and influence in Modernism.
His drawings are built-up through the accumulation of tiny hair-like pencil lines that lend an obsessive, congested quality to his strict forms and figures. Peri’s works on paper depict a range of subject matter, including Roman Catholic reliquaries, abstract portraits, and geometric shapes, which coalesce into ambiguous architectural structures and volumes through an uncanny play of light and shadow redolent of Metaphysical painting. The sculptures are engineered replicas in darkened steel of ephemeral assemblages of household boxes scaled up in size to create monumental and confrontational cuboid figures. The rolls of masking tape used to construct the original assemblages often function as absurd hollow “heads”. Peri’s striated paintings are characterized by hard-edged networks of fine pastel-coloured marker pen lines against spray-painted backgrounds. These paintings appear to trace an occult tinged geometric language—a Morse code of shifting lines and shapes—that
might be used to describe the world in more elemental terms.
Peter Peri’s selected solo exhibitions include Quarters (2019), Pearl Lam Galleries HK H Queen’s, Hong Kong, China; Uncting (2016), Almine Rech Gallery Savile Row, London, UK; The Reign of Quantity (2014), Pearl Lam Galleries, Singapore; Last Family (2013), Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels, Belgium; ART NOW (2007), Tate Britain, London, UK; and Country 10 (2006), Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland. Selected group exhibitions include Classified: Contemporary British Art from the Tate Collection (2009), Tate Britain, London, UK and How to Improve the World, 60 Years of British Art—Arts Council Collection (2006), Hayward Gallery, London, UK. His works are also in the permanent collections of Tate Modern, Saatchi Gallery, Victoria & Albert Museum, Arts Council of Great Britain Collection, UBS Funds and Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland.
STUDIES
1991–1994 Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Design, Central Saint Martins School
of Art and Design, London, UK
2001–2002 Postgraduate diploma in Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art, London, UK
2002-2003 Master of Arts in Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art, London, UK
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Crescent, Pearl Lam Galleries, Shanghai, China
2022 Night is Also A Sun, Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2020 Course, Almine Rech Gallery Grovesnor Hill, London, UK
2019 Quarters, Pearl Lam Galleries H Queen’s, Hong Kong, China
2019 The Winners, Arcadia Missa, London, UK
2016 Uncting, Almine Rech Gallery Savile Row, London, UK
2016 The Scarlet Letter, Fundatia Culturala Intact, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2015 Axolotl, Einspach Fine Art, Budapest, Hungary
2014 The Reign of Quantity, Pearl Lam Galleries, Singapore
2013 Last Family, Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2011 We, The Children of the 20th Century, Almine Rech Gallery, Paris, France
2010 Peter Peri, Bortolami Gallery, New York, USA
2008 Wave-Grain in the Wall, Carl Freedman Gallery, London, UK
2007 ART NOW, Tate Britain, London, UK
2007 Hole Here, Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin, Germany
2006 Country 10, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland
2005 Overflow and Extinction, Carl Freedman Gallery (formerly Counter Gallery), London, UK
2004 The Grey Point, Carl Freedman Gallery (formerly Counter Gallery), London, UK
SELECTED RESIDENCIES
2019 Outset Bialik Residency, Tel Aviv, Israel
2015 Budapest Art Factory, Budapest, Hungary
2014 Kowal+Odermatt, Miami, USA
2003 Red Mansion, Kunming, China
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Arts Council of Great Britain, London, UK
Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Tate, London, UK
Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 Everywhere was Nowhere, And Nowhere Everywhere, Pi Artworks, London, UK
2020 Alchemist(s), Pearl Lam Galleries, Hong Kong, China
2017 CASS Projects: The Sleeping Procession, Cass Sculpture Foundation, Chichester, UK
2016 Labyrinth(s), Pearl Lam Galleries, Hong Kong, China
2015 Zero: Infinite Possibilities, The Farjam Foundation, Dubai, UAE
2015 Thoughts around the black square, Vasarely Museum, Budapest, Hungary
2015 Black & White—Multifarious, Gallery Leu, Munich, Germany
2015 Dans un intérieur: Meubles, oeuvres murals et textiles d’artistes, Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2015 Ayan Farah, Max Lamb, Chris Succo & Peter Peri, Almine Rech Gallery, London, UK
2014 Where Does It All Begin? Contemporary Abstract Art in Asia and the West, Pearl Lam Galleries, Singapore
2014 Have We Been There for a Long Time?, Gallery Michel Rein, Paris, France
2014 Dans un intérieur: Meubles, oeuvres murals et textiles d’artistes, Almine Rech Gallery, Paris, France
2014 Platform, Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2013 Théâtre du Monde, La Maison Rouge, Paris France
2012 Slow Looking: Contemporary Drawings, Tate Britain, London, UK
2012 Theatre of the World, Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
2011 The Minimal Gesture, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK
2011 Magical Consciousness, part of The Apparatus, project year for the 50th anniversary of Arnolfini, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK
2010 Light Breaks Where No Sun Shines, The Webster, Miami, Florida, USA
2010 Le Faux Miroir, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium
2010 Newspeak, British Art Now (Part 1), Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
2009 Modern Modern, The Chelsea Art Museum, New York, USA
2009 Black Hole, CCA Andratx, Mallorca, Spain
2009 Black Hole, Nymphius Projekte, Berlin, Germany
2009 Classified: Contemporary British Art from the Tate Collection, Tate Britain, London, UK
2009 Recent British Drawings, Trinity Contemporary, New York, USA
2009 In Between the Lines, Trinity Contemporary, London, UK
2009 Biennale Fundraiser, The Drawing Room, London, UK
2008 Space Now, Space Studios, London, UK
2008 Back to Black: Black in Current Painting, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany
2008 Beyond Measure: Conversations Across Art and Science, Kettles Yard, Cambridge, UK
2008 …same as it ever was, Painting at Chelsea 1990–2007, The Arts Gallery, London, UK
2006 How to Improve the World, 60 years of British Art—Arts Council Collection, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
2006 Motion on Paper, Ben Brown Fine Art, London, UK
2006 Toutes Compositions Florales, Counter Gallery, London, UK
2005 A Violet from Mother’s Grave, Emily Tsingou Gallery, London, UK
2005 We Disagree, Andrew Kreps Gallery & Wrong Gallery, New York, USA
2004 Death & Magic, Keith Talent Gallery, London, UK
2004 East End Academy, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
2003 Red Mansion Prize (exhibition), Lethaby Galleries, London, UK
2003 Bloomberg New Contemporaries (exhibition), Cornerhouse, Manchester & 14 Wharf Road, London, UK
2003 Private Property, 357 Kingsland Road, London, UK
2002 Show Case 2, Lisu Gallery, John Islip Street, London, UK
2002 Morbid Geometry, Charlotte Street Gallery, London, UK
