Peter Peri (B. 1971)
Image © Jake Walters 2023
Biography
Peter Peri was born in 1971 in London. He graduated from the MA Fine Art programme at Chelsea College of Art and Design, London in 2003. He lives and works in London, UK.
Peri’s primary media are painting and drawing. His paintings are characterised by hard-edged networks of fine coloured lines against dark backgrounds. Intricate and precise, these works appear to trace an occult tinged geometric language—a corpus of shifting lines and shapes—that might be used to describe phenomena in metaphysical terms. His drawings are built-up through the accumulation of tiny hair-like pencil lines. Their almost microscopic execution generates an obsessive quality that is further complicated by a rigorous adherence to systematic ordering.
As the philosopher Federico Campagna writes ‘The lines drawn by Peri oppose any notion that the distinctions which they produce might possess a fixed reality. Instead, they suggest a further level, beyond distinctions, hovering between the elements of the composition.’
Peter Peri selected solo exhibitions include Night Is Also a Sun (2022), Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels, Belgium; Course (2020), Almine Rech Gallery Grovesnor Hill, London, UK; Quarters (2019), Pearl Lam Galleries H Queen’s, Hong Kong, China; The Winners (2019), Arcadia Missa Gallery, London, UK; Uncting (2016), Almine Rech Gallery Savile Row, London, UK; The Reign of Quantity (2014), Pearl Lam Galleries, Singapore; Last Family (2013), Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels, Belgium; Peter Peri (2010), Bortolami Gallery, New York, USA; ART NOW (2007), Tate Britain, London, UK; Country 10 (2006), Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland; The Grey Point (2004), Counter Gallery, London, UK. Selected group exhibitions include Lines of Empathy (2023), Patrick Heide Contemporary Art, London, UK; Everywhere was nowhere, and nowhere everywhere (2022), Pi Artworks, London, UK; Alchemist(s) (2020), Pearl Lam Galleries, Hong Kong, China; The Sleeping Procession (2017), Cass Sculpture Foundation, Chichester, UK; Labyrinth(s) (2016), Pearl Lam Galleries, Hong Kong, China; Zero: Infinite Possibilities (2015), The Farjam Foundation, Dubai, UAE; Thoughts around the black square (2015), Vasarely Museum, Budapest, Hungary; Where Does It All Begin? Contemporary Abstract Art in Asia and the West (2014), Pearl Lam Galleries, Singapore; Classified: Contemporary British Art from the Tate Collection (2009), Tate Britain, London, UK. Peri’s works are in the permanent collections of Tate, Victoria & Albert Museum, Arts Council of Great Britain Collection, Farjam Foundation, and UBS Funds amongst others.
Exhibitions
News & Press
07 Sep 2020
Q&A: David Chan In Conversation With Peter Peri
David Ho Yeung Chan is a Hong Kong and Shanghai based curator who works with Pearl Lam Galleries and is the previous dir...08 Mar 2015
Peter Peri at Drawing Biennial 2015
Exhibition: 05 March – 30 April Auction: 16 April 10am – 30 April 9pm Peter Peri Brother Body, 2015 graphite...09 Apr 2015
Pearl Lam Galleries Artist Peter Peri’s new group exhibition at Farjam collection
We are pleased to share Pearl Lam Galleries Artist Peter Peri‘s new group exhibition at Farjam collection. Exhibit...09 Apr 2015