Pieter Schoolwerth
The work cycle ‘Model as Painting’ is an attempt to conflate the shallowness of digital space with the shallowness of modernist relief sculpture, insisting on the presumably dematerialized digital space as being anchored in a materialist, analogue referent. Paint itself reappears only at the very end of a complex process involving other technologies of the image – such as photography, drawing, 3D modeling, and other image processing software – to mark and supplement the painting and finally output onto canvas.
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 (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 the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Denver Art Museum; the Orange County Museum of Art; the Phoenix Art Museum and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
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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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Personality Inventory 7, 2019
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Soothing Irritation, 2019
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Influencer Application #00, 2018
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Invisible Social Vandalism #1, 2018
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Model for Privacy Settings, 2018
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Fuck Me #8, 2017
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Model for 'Break Up', 2016
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Make Up #5, 2014
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Puppet Warp #2, 2014
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Shadows Past 9, 2013
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After Troy 2, 2012
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Portrait of “Barge On a River at Sunset” (after Pynacker), 2010
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Remote Control, 2008
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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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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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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