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1934 Born in San Francisco, California
1950-52 Attends California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco
1952-56 Attends Washington University School of Fine Arts of St. Louis
1956-64 Lives in Holland, Paris, and Rome
1961-89 Exhibits regularly at Allan Frumkin Gallery in New York and Chicago
1961 William and Noma Copley Foundation Award
1964-74 Returns to United States and settles in Mill Valley, California
1975-81 Lives in Chappaqua, New York
1979 NEA Endowment
1981-2000 Lives in Austin, Texas; teaches at Univ. of Texas
1989-95 Exhibits regularly at Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York
1985 NEA Endowment
1993 Guggenheim Fellowship Recipient
2000 Moves to New York City
2001 Academy Award for Art, American Academy of Arts and Letters
Currently lives and works in New York State.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2006 Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York
2006 Leo Koenig Inc., New York
2005 Peter Saul peintures, 1985-2005, Musee Paul Valery, Sete
Exhibition managed by Galerie du Centre
2004 Homage to Dali, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York
2004 Suburbia, George Adams Gallery, New York
2003 Drawings, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco
2002 The Sixties, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York
Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Koln, Germany
Galerie Charlotte Moser, Geneva, Switzerland
Jokes, Musee d’art moderne et contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
2000 Heads 1986-2000, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York
1999-2000 Peter Saul:Retrospective, Musee de L’Abbaye Sainte-Croix-Chateauroux,
Les Sables d’Olonne, France; Musee de L’Hotel Bertrand, Dole, France;
Beaux-Art Museum, Mons, Belgium
1998 Peter Saul: Recent Drawings, Nolan/Eckman Gallery
Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco
Paintings and Related Drawings
1960-64 George Adams Gallery, New York
1997 Galerie du Centre
Artpace, San Antonio, Texas
Early Paintings and Related Drawings 1960-64 George Adams Gallery, N.Y.
1996 Art World Portraits, Museum of Art, Chicago
Texas Gallery, Houston
George Adams Gallery, New York
1995 Turner, Burne and Runyon, Dallas
Herbert Palmer Gallery, Los Angeles
1991 Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, Illinois Peter Saul: Political Paintings, Washington university, St. Louis
Galerie du Centre, Paris
1990 Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, Louisiana
Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas
Texas Gallery, Houston
1989 Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
1986 Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco
Texas Gallery, Houston
1984 Frumkin and Struve Gallery Chicago
1981 Kilcawley Center, Youngstown State Univerity, Ohio
1980-81 Retrospective, University of Illinois, DeKalb; Madison Art Center, Wisconsin
1974 Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, Connecticut
1973 California State University, Sacramento, California
1972 Galerie Darthea Speyer, Paris
1971 Musee d’Art et d’Industrie, Saint-Etienne, France
Galerie Darthea Speyer, Paris
1969 Galerie Darthea Speyer, Paris
1968 San Francisco Art Institute
California College of Arts and Crafts Gallery, Oakland, California
Reed College, Portland, Oregon
1967 Galerie de’Foscherari 60, Bologna, Italy
Contemporary Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
Galerie Breteau, Paris
1964 Anne Aebels Gallery, Koln, Germany
1964 Notizie Gallery, Turin, Italy
Galerie Breteau, Paris
1963 Tartartuga Gallery, Rome
Rolf Nelson Gallery, Los Angeles
Galerie Breteau, Paris
1962 Galerie Breteau, Paris

Selected Group Exhibition
2008 Figuration Narrative Paris 1960-1972 Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais (exposition organisée par le Centre Pompidou)
2006 Hot spring…in automn. Galerie Krinzinger, Vienne, Autriche
2004 Disparities & Deformations Our Grotesque, SITE Santa Fe, curated by Robert Storr
Arte Caliente,The South Texas Institute for the Arts, Corpus Christi
Altered States, Leo Koenig Gallery, New York
Bush – Whack!, George Adams Gallery, New York
Der Zeichnung, Galerie Hubner, Frankfurt
American Violence, la galerie Glandier & Byrne, Paris
The anxious image, The Painting Center, New York
2003 “…As Time Goes By,” Leo Koenig Gallery, New York
The Not So Still Life, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA.
Splat,Boom,Pow, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
CA, Boston Les Contemporains de 1960 a nos jours, Centre Pompidou, Paris
3 Pop Guys 40 Years After, Galerie du Centre, Paris
2001 Eye Infection, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Self Made Men,D.C. Moore Gallery, New York
Open Ends, Museum of Modern Art, New York
2000 Drawings 2000, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
Face to Face, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
The Lighter Side of Bay Area Figuration, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, Calif.
1998 View 3,curated by Klaus Kertess, Mary Boone Gallery, New York
1997 Facing History, Centre Pompidou, Paris
A Show of Hands, George Adams Gallery, New York
Drawings, Nolan/Eckman Gallery
1995 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Murder, curated by John Yau, Thread Waxing Space, New York
1994 Hand Painted Pop: 1958-1962, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, the Whitney Museum of Contemporary Art,New York
1989 Reagan; American Icon, Bucknell University, Lewiston, Pa.
1988 Different Drummers,Hirschorn Museum, Washington, D.C.
Pop Apocalypse, Gracie Mansion, New York
1987 Comic Iconoclasm, Institute of Contemporary Art, London
Made in USA: Art from the ‘50’s and ‘60’, University of California, Berkeley
Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City; Virgina Museum of Art
1986 American Renaissance: Painting and Sculpture Since 1940, Museum of Art
Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Figure as Subject: The Last Decade, Whitney Museum of American Art
Equitable Center
1978-79 Art About Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1976-72 American Exhibition, Art Museum of Chicago
1971 American Painting and Sculpture 1948-1969, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Champaign
1969 Human Concern/Personal Torment, Whitney Museum of Art, New York
Univ. of Calif., Berkeley
1968-69 Violence in Recent American Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
1967 University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley
1964 Pop, etc., Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Schweizergarten, Vienna
The New Realism, Municipal Museum, The Hague
1967 Annual American Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
1959 Salon de Jeune Peinture, Paris