Pieter Schoolwerth
Pieter Schoolwerth explores and experiments with the effects of generalized abstraction on representations of the human form in painting. His works are complex compositions combining drawn, printed, painted pictorial elements and computer generated imagery. His method reflects the destabilized process of identity construction in an age characterized by increasingly abstract social relations. Schoolwerth literalizes the formation, superimposition, and alienation of the contemporary body through the manipulation of multiple media and layers of material content.
Pieter Schoolwerth, born in 1970, received his BFA from the California Institute of the Arts in 1994. He lives and works in New York.
His work has been exhibited internationally in solo and group exhibitions at Petzel Gallery, New York (2024, solo) (upcoming); Duarte Sequeira, Seoul (2023, solo) (upcoming); Stavanger Art Museum, Norway (2023); Petzel Gallery, New York (2022); Petzel Gallery, New York (2022, solo); Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin (2022, solo); Kunstverein Hannover (2021, solo); Petzel Gallery, New York (2020, solo); Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin (2019, solo); the Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson (2018); Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York (2017, solo); Capitain Petzel, Berlin (2017, solo); theWhitney Museum of American Art, New York (2016); 356 Mission, Los Angeles (2015, solo); Gallery SKE,New Delhi (2014, solo); Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Brussels (2013, solo); the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2006); Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York (2005, solo); Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (2002); American Fine Arts, New York (2001, solo) and Greene Naftali Gallery, New York (1996, solo).
From 2003 to 2013, Schoolwerth ran Wierd Records and the Wierd Party at Home Sweet Home on the LES of New York. Wierd released music by 42 bands working in the genres of minimal electronics, coldwave and noise, and produced over 500 live music, dj, and performance art events internationally.
His works are in the collections of:
Boros Collection, Berlin
Stavanger Art Museum, Norway
Aïshti Foundation, Beirut
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Denver Art Museum
Deutsche Bank Collection, New York
Orange County Museum of Art, California
Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany
Kistefos Museum and Sculpture Park in Jevnaker, Norway
Norton Museum, West Palm Beach
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
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After Troy 2, 2012
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Akvadiskoteka (Rigged #4), 2021
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Fuck Me #8, 2017
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Ghosting the Dandy (Rigged #19), 2021
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Influencer Application #00, 2018
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Invisible Social Vandalism #1, 2018
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Make Up #5, 2014
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Model for 'Break Up', 2016
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Model for Privacy Settings, 2018
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Personality Inventory 7, 2019
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Puppet Warp #2, 2014
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Remote Control, 2008
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Shadows Past 9, 2013
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Shifted Sims #11 (Into the Future PlantSim Challenge), 2020
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Shifted Sims #19 (Ultimate Educator Career), 2020
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Soothing Irritation, 2019
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Swetaverse (Rigged #17), 2021
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The Suit (Rigged #1), 2021
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Vas Differends (Rigged #8), 2021
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PIETER SCHOOLWERTH
exhibition view, No Body Get a Head, 1991-2020, Kunstverein Hannover, 2021 -
PIETER SCHOOLWERTH
exhibition view, No Body Get a Head, 1991-2020, Kunstverein Hannover, 2021 -
PIETER SCHOOLWERTH
exhibition view, No Body Get a Head, 1991-2020, Kunstverein Hannover, 2021
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PIETER SCHOOLWERTH
exhibition view, Shifted Sims, Petzel Gallery, New York, 2020 -
PIETER SCHOOLWERTH
exhibition view, Shifted Sims, Petzel Gallery, New York, 2020 -
PIETER SCHOOLWERTH
exhibition view, Shifted Sims, Petzel Gallery, New York, 2020
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Pieter Schoolwerth
exhibition view, Virtual Relief, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin, 2019 -
Pieter Schoolwerth
exhibition view, Virtual Relief, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin, 2019 -
Pieter Schoolwerth
exhibition view, Virtual Relief, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin, 2019
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Pieter Schoolwerth
exhibition view, Virtual Relief, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin, 2019 -
Pieter Schoolwerth
exhibition view, Virtual Relief, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin, 2019 -
Alexander Carver, Pieter Schoolwerth, Avery Singer
exhibition view, Call Out Tools, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, 2018
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Pieter Schoolwerth
exhibition view, Model as Painting, Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York, 2017 -
Pieter Schoolwerth
exhibition view, Model as Painting, Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York, 2017 -
Pieter Schoolwerth
exhibition view, Model as Painting, Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York, 2017
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Pieter Schoolwerth
exhibition view, Model as Painting, Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York, 2017 -
Pieter Schoolwerth
exhibition view, Model as Painting, Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York, 2017 -
Pieter Schoolwerth
exhibition view, Model as Painting, Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York, 2017
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Pieter Schoolwerth
exhibition view, Model as Painting, Capitain Petzel, Berlin, 2017 -
Pieter Schoolwerth
exhibition view, Sequence 6, Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York, 2016 -
Pieter Schoolwerth
exhibition view, Your Vacuum Blows, which Sucks, Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York, 2015
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Maler Pieter Schoolwerth "Das Streben nach Authentizität gehört der Vergangenheit an"
Claire Koron Elat, Monopol -
Pieter Schoolwerth in Conversation With Editor in Chief Alice Zucca
Alice Zucca, XIBT Magazine -
Pieter Schoolwerth, Petzel Gallery
Jeffrey Kastner, Artforum , 1 June 2022 -
Pieter Schoolwerth. DELIRIERENDE SCHATTEN. Ein Gespräch mit Michael Stoeber
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Wierd Records
Ethan Swan, ANP Quaterly -
Pieter Schoolwerth
Saul Anton, frieze -
New Bodies: Pieter Schoolwerth
Andrew Cappetta, Bomb -
Pieter Schoolwerth interviewed about 'Your Vacuum Sucks'
Ethan Swan, Mission Rd. Blog -
Pieter Schoolwerth talks about 'Model as Painting'
Molly Warnock, Artforum -
Pieter Schoolwerth
John Quinn, frieze -
Pieter Schoolwerth's Sims 4 Paintings Burst Out Filter Bubbles
David Geers, frieze -
Pieter Schoolwerth Reveals Violent Cracks in the Digital Self
Emily Steer, Elephant Magazine
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Art Basel
Basel (CH) 15 - 18 June 2023 -
Art Basel
Basel (CH) 16 - 19 June 2022 -
Art Basel
Basel (CH) 24 - 26 September 2021https://www.artbasel.com/Read more -
Artissima
Turin (IT) 31 October - 3 November 2019 -
Art Berlin
Berlin (DE) 12 - 15 September 2019 -
Art Basel Hong Kong
Hong Kong (CN) 12 - 16 June 2019 -
Art Basel
Basel (CH) 11 - 16 June 2019 -
Art Cologne
Cologne (DE) 11 - 14 April 2019 -
Art Basel
Basel (CH) 14 - 17 June 2018