Kevin Peterson studied art at Austin College in Sherman, TX where he received his BFA in 2001. Kevin now makes his home in Houston, TX where he works out of Winter Street Studios.
Upcoming Shows:
November 2024, Paracosmic Escape (Group Show) curated by Beautiful Bizarre, Modern Eden Gallery, San Francisco, CA
February 2025, Perseverance: 20 Years of Thinkspace (Group Show), Brand Library and Art Center, Glendale, CA
March 2025, SOLO SHOW, Thinkspace Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Notable Shows and Exhibitions:
September 2020, Embers (solo show) Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA
May 11, 2019, Gaia Reborn: A Future Utopia, Urban Nation, Museum for Urban Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany (Group Show)
May 2019, Annual Moleskin Project, SPOKE Art, San Francisco, Ca
March 2019, Wild (solo show), Thinkspace Galley, Culver City, CA
Nov 2017, Moniker Art Fair (solo show), London, UK
May 2017, Flourish, Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum, Mesa, AZ
August 2016, Sovereign (solo show) Thinkspace Gallery, Culver City, CA
July 2015, Invisible College, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN
June 2015, LAX/ DTW, Inner State Gallery, Detroit MI
February 2015, 20 Years Under the Influence of Juxtapoz, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
December 2014, Remnants (solo show), Thinkspace Gallery, Culver City, CA
September 2014, Get Real: New American Painting, Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL
May 2014, TXL/LAX, Project M4, Berlin, Germany
March 2014- SCOPE NYC, New York, NY
February 2014- POW! WOW! Hawaii, Exploring the New Contemporary Art Movement, Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, HI
December 2013- Scope Miami Beach, Thinkspace Gallery, Miami, FL
September 2013- Shooting Gallery (solo show “Merge Visible”) San Francisco, CA
June 2013- Art Basel, Modernbook Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
November 2012 – Thinkspace Gallery (solo show “Amended”), Culver City, CA
November 2012 – Quidley and Co (group show “Urban Intersections), Boston Massachusetts
2012- Breeze Block Gallery, Group Show entitled “Space//Form”, Portland, OR
2012 – Shooting Gallery, Solo Show entitled “Prospective”, San Francisco, CA
2011 – C.A.V.E. Gallery, Solo Show entitled “Provenance”, Venice, CA
2011 – Colton Farb Gallery, Group show entitled “Use Your Illusion”, Houston, TX
2009 – Lawndale Art Center, “The Big Show”, Houston, TX
2009 – Parlor Gallery, Group Show entitled “Rare Pleasures”, Asbury Park, NJ
2009 – Nau-Haus Artspace, Solo Show entitled, “Boundaries“, Houston, TX
2007 – National Figurative Show, Santa Cruz, CA
Artist Statement:
My work is about the varied journeys we take through life. It’s about growing up and living in a world that is broken. These paintings are about trauma, fear and loneliness and the strength that it takes to survive and thrive. They each contain the contrast of the untainted, young and innocent against a backdrop of a worn, ragged, and defiled world. Support versus restraint, bondage versus freedom, and tension versus slack are all themes that I often visit. My work deals with isolation, loneliness and longing teamed with a level of optimistic hope. Issues of race and the division of wealth have arisen in my recent work. This work deals with the idea of rigid boundaries, the hopeful breakdown of such restrictions, as well as questions about the forces that orchestrate our behavior.
