Recipient of Percent for Art Commission: Public Project for Spring Creek School (completed 2012,) Brooklyn, NY.
"Lifelike," Traveling: Walker Art Center, February 25 - May 27, 2012.
New Orleans Museum of Art: November 10, 2012 - January 27, 2013.
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego: February 24 - May 26, 2013.
The Blanton Museum of Art, Austin: June 23 - September 29, 2013.
| Born: St. Petersburg, Russia | |
| Education | |
| 1995-1996 | Whitney Museum Independent Study Program: Studio |
| 1991-1995 | B.F.A. Cornell University |
| 1991-1995 | B.A. Cornell University |
| 1990-1991 | Parsons School of Design |
| Grants and Fellowships | |
| Percent for Art Commission, 2009 | |
| Artists at Giverny Fellowship, 2003 | |
| Public Art Fund, 2000 | |
| Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions | |
| 2011 | Peter Rostovsky: Still, Hillwood Art Museum, Brookville, NY. |
| 2010 | Parallax: Peter Rostovsky and Paul Winstanley, Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA |
| The Prequel, (as PROW with Olav Westphalen,) Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY | |
| ANTI-PROW, (as ANTI-PROW with Olav Westphalen,) Art in General, New York, NY | |
| 2009 | Peter Rostovsky: Recent Paintings, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA |
| This Distant World, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY | |
| 2006 | Landscape for Another, The Project, New York, NY |
| 2004 | Peter Rostovsky, Hudson Showroom, ArtPace, San Antonio, TX |
| Deluge, The Project, New York, NY | |
| 2003 | Peter Rostovsky/Kori Newkirk, The Project, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2002 | Thriller, Galleria Maze, Turin, Italy |
| 2001 | Peter Rostovsky, The Project, New York, NY |
| Anonymous, James Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA | |
| 1999 | Peter Rostovsky, The Project, New York, NY |
| 1995 | Peter Rostovsky, Olive Tjaden Gallery, Ithaca, NY |
| Selected Group Exhibitions | |
| 2012 | Lifelike, traveling, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA; Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX. |
| 2011 | The New Verisimilitude, Francois Ghebaly Gallery and M+B Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. |
| Creating the New Century: Contemporary Art from the Dicke Collection, The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH. | |
| 2010 | Skeptical Landscapes, curated by Trevor Richardson, Herter Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA. |
| Library of Babel / In and Out of Place, curated by Anna-Catharina Gebbers, Zabludowicz Collection, London, England. | |
| Fade to Black, curated by Jeffrey Walkoviak and Rachel Gugelberger, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY. | |
| Arbitrariness of Signs, curated by Sara Reisman, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY. | |
| 2009 | Do they love their children too?, curated by Olav Westphalen and Felix Gmelin, Milliken Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden. |
| Multi Media, Waldemar A. Schimdt Art Gallery, Wartburg College, Waverly, IO. | |
| Commune, curated by Dominique Nahas, Black and White Gallery, New York, NY. | |
| 2008 | Landscapes for Frankenstein, curated by Jeffrey Walkoviak and Rachel Gugelberger, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY. |
| WE(as PROW,) curated by Jen Liu, Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. | |
| 2007 | Bilingual, Glass Curtain Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago, IL. |
| New Collection, a project by Voorkamer, Stedelijk Museum Wuyts-Van Campen en Baron Caroly, Lier, Belgium. | |
| Stranger than Paradise, curated by Max Henry, Gelerie Charlotte Moser, Geneva, Switzerland. | |
| Of the Painted Image: Miriam Cabessa, Seth Cohen, Peter Rostovsky, American Jewish Museum, Pittsburg, PA. | Places, Luxe Gallery, New York, NY. |
| Divine Find, curated by Lauren Ross, Stonefox Artspace, New York, NY. | |
| Birds, Dwight Hackett Projects, Santa Fe, NM. | |
| 2006 | American Academy Invitational Exhibit of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY |
| 2005 | Studio Visit, Exit Art, New York, NY |
| Dark Places, curated by Joshua Decter, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA | |
| Blindness, curated by Valeska Soares, Dwight Hackett Projects, Santa Fe, NM | |
| Expanding Paint/Exceeding Painting, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York, NY | |
| Greater New York 2005, PS1 MOMA, New York, NY | |
| 2004 | Disturbing the Peace, Danese, New York, NY |
| Lewis & Clark Territory: Contemporary Artists Revisit Place, Race, and Memory, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA | |
| 2003 | Intravention, Museum Amstelkring, Amsterdam, Nederlands |
| Superreal, curated by Lauri Firstenburg, Marella Contemporenea, Milan, Italy | |
| Grazie, curated by Jan Hoet, Castle Schloss Dyck, Dusseldorf, Germany | |
| Giverny, Salon94, New York, NY | |
| Prague Biennale, Prague, Czech Republic | |
| Nature Boy, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York, NY | |
| City Mouse/Country Mouse, Space 101, Williamsburg, Brooklyn | |
| Labor Day, curated by David Hunt, Rare Gallery, NY, | |
| MetroSpective, Public Art Fund, City Hall Park, New York, NY | |
| 2002 | Painting Against the Grid, ICA Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA |
| 2001 | Maria Elena González, Paul Pfeiffer and Peter Rostovsky, |
| Gio Marconi, Milan; Galleria Maze, Torino; and Sala Uno, Rome, Italy | |
| Casino 2001, Curated by Jeanne Greenberg and Jan Hoet, SMAK, Ghent, Belgium | |
| Brewster Project, Site Specific Project, Brewster, NY | |
| 2000 | Halcyon Days: New Commissions from the Public Art Fund, MetroTech Commons Brooklyn, NY |
| Glenn Brown, Julie Mehretu and Peter Rostovsky, The Project, New York, NY | |
| Rauma Biennale Balticum, Rauma, Finland | |
| Summer Exhibition, Goldman Tevis, Los Angeles, CA | |
| 1999 | Untold Stories, DeChiara/Stewart, New York, NY |
| Outer Boroughs, White Columns, New York, NY | |
| Where Are All the People?, DeChiara/Stewart, New York, NY | |
| Paradise 8, Exit Art , New York, NY | |
| 1998 | warming, The Project, New York, NY |
| Local color, The Henry Street Settlement, New York, NY | |
| 1997 | Exchange, 57 Hope Street, New York, NY |
| Framed, OR Gallery, Vancouver, B.C. | |
| 1996 | Message Please, Spot Gallery, New York, NY |
| Unreal, 57 Hope Street, Brooklyn, NY | |
| Substituting 'Raschachismo' for Mimesis, Project Room, Spot Gallery, New York, NY | |
| Summer Carnival, Eighth Floor Gallery, New York, NY | |
| Whitney Independent Study Program Open Studio, Whitney Program, New York, NY | |
| Bibliography | |
| Artist Project, "October 15, 2010," Cabinet Magazine, Issue 44, Winter, 2012. | |
| Claire Tancons, "Occupy Wall Street: Carnival Against Capital? Carnivalesque as Protest Sensibility," e-flux, journal #30, 12/2011. | |
| Sara Reisman, "Peter Rostovky: Still," Museum Publication, Hillwood Art Museum, 2011. | |
| Ellie Bronson, "Creating a New Century, Contemporary Art from the Dicke Collection," Catalog, Dayton Art Institute, 2011. | |
| Claire Barliant, "PROW," Artforum, April, 2010. | |
| Aileen Burns, "Prow and Anti-Prow," Art in America Online, March 19, 2010. | |
| Vincent Cimino, "PROW: The Prequel and Jil Weinstock: Mementos at Sara Meltzer Gallery," Gallery Crawl, February 10, 2010. | |
| Eva Diaz, Critic's Picks, "PROW," Artforum.com, February 3, 2010. | |
| Stephen Squibb, "Anti-Prow and The Prequel at Sarah Meltzer and AIG," Idiom Mag, January 26, 2010. | |
| Andrew M. Goldstein, "In New York: Opening this Week," (Prow and Anti-Prow,) Artinfo.com, January 21, 2010. | |
| Trevor Richardson, "Skeptical Landscapes," Exhibition Catalog, Amherst: University of Massachusetts, 2010. | |
| Martha Schwendener, "Peter Rostovsky," The New Yorker, February 9 & 16:18. | |
| Joseph Wolin, "Reviews, New York: Peter Rostovsky." Modern Painters, April: 69. | |
| Hiroshi Tanabe, "Peter Rostovsky," The New Yorker, June 12, 2006. | |
| Eleanor Heartney, "Return to the Real," Art In America, June/July 2005. | |
| Anjali Gupta, "Peter Rostovsky", Tema Celeste; Issue 105, 2004. | |
| The New Yorker, "Peter Rostovsky; Deluge", March 15, 2004. | |
| Max Henry, "Peter Rostovsky; Deluge", TimeOut New York, February 26 – March 4, 2004. | |
| Ken Johnson, "Peter Rostovsky; Deluge", New York Times, March 12, 2004. | |
| Barbara Pollack, "Nature Boy", Time Out New York, June 26 – July 3, 2003. | |
| Luca Beatrice, "Thriller", Flash Art, March 2002. | |
| Paco Bargaran, The Art to Come, Subastas siglo XXI Press, 2002. | |
| Dominic Molon,Vitamin P: New Perspectives in Painting, edited by Barry Schwabsky, Phaidon Press, 2002. | |
| Max Henry, "Peter Rostovsky", Art in America, December, 2001. | |
| Gregory Williams,"Peter Rostovsky", Art Forum, August 2001, p. 196. | |
| Meaghan Dailey,"Peter Rostovsky and Bulent Sangar", Time Out New York, May 2-9, 2001. | |
| i-D, Issue no. 208, 2001 p.208. | |
| Saul Anton,"Glenn Brown, Julie Mehretu, Peter Rostovsky", Time Out New York, June 15-22, 2000. | |
| Holland Cotter, "Glenn Brown, Julie Mehretu, Peter Rostovsky," The New York Times, June 23, 2000. | |
| Mark Warren. "A New Day in Harlem",Esquire, July 2000. | |
| Saul Anton, "The Art World's Best Secret Revealed!",EdificeRex.com, June 14, 2000. | |
| Holland Cotter, "Daniel J. Martinez and Peter Rostovsky",The New York Times, April 9, 1999. | |
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