Matthew Marks Gallery

Peter Cain

  • Born: Orange, NJ, 1959

    Education: School of Visual Arts, New York, 1980–82
    Parsons School of Design, New York, 1977–80

    Died: New York, 1997

  • One-Person Exhibitions

    2017

    Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles

    2016

    Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (catalogue)

    2005

    The Sean Pictures
    , Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
    The Los Angeles Pictures, Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Cologne (catalogue)

    2002

    More Courage and Less Oil
    , Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (catalogue)

    1997

    New Paintings and Drawings
    , Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

    1995

    Recent Paintings
    , Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco
    Paintings, Drawings, Photographs, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

    1992

    Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

    1991

    Simon Watson, New York

    1990

    Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

    1989

    Paintings and Drawings
    , Pat Hearn Gallery, New York

  • Selected Group Exhibitions

    2019

    Drawn Together Again
    , The FLAG Art Foundation, New York
    One hundred drawings, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (catalogue)

    2018

    Running Wild
    , The Arts Club, London

    2017

    Fast Forward: Painting from the 1980s
    , Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
    Strange Attractors: The Anthology of Interplanetary Folk Art, Vol. 1 Life on Earth, Organized by Bob Nickas, Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles

    2016

    Pavlova's Dawg and Other Works by Gallery Artists
    , Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles

    2015

    A Drawing Show
    , Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

    2013

    NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star
    , New Museum, New York (catalogue)
    Speak, Memory, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York
    Ambach & Rice Presents: 40 Years at the Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles

    2011

    Legacy: The Emily Fisher Landau Collection
    , Whitney Museum of Art, New York. Traveled to Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL (2013); San Jose Museum of Art, CA (2014); and Grand Rapids Art Museum, MI (2014) (catalogue)

    2010

    Pastorale
    , 80wse, New York (catalogue)

    2009

    Wall Rockets: Contemporary Artists and Ed Ruscha
    , FLAG Art Foundation, New York. Traveled to Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo (catalogue)

    2006

    Twice Drawn, Part 2
    , The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY (catalogue)
    Pop Art 1960’s->2000’s: From Lichtenstein, Warhol to the Current Generation, Seiji Togo Memorial Sompo Japan Museum of Art

    2005

    Drive: Automobili nell'arte contemporanea
    , Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy (catalogue)
    Contemporary American Art from the Misumi Collection, Tottori Prefectural Museum, Japan

    2004

    About Painting
    , The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY

    2003

    Pop Thru Out
    , Arario Gallery, Cheonan, Korea (catalogue)
    PKM Gallery, Seoul
    We Love Painting, Contemporary American Art from the Misumi Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (catalogue)
    My People Were Fair and Had Cum in their Hair (but Now They’re Content to Spray Stars from your Boughs), Team Gallery, New York
    Auto-nom: das Automobil in der zeitgenossischen Kunst, NRW-Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft, Düsseldorf (catalogue)
    GameOver, Grimm|Rosenfeld, Munich

    2002

    Drawings: Alan Saret and Peter Cain
    , Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles

    2001

    Camera Works: The Photographic Impulse in Modern Art
    , Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
    Surrounding Interiors: Views Inside the Car, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL. Traveled to Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, MA; and Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (catalogue)
    A Work in Progress: Selections from the New Museum Collection, New Museum, New York
    Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, 100 Drawings and Photographs, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (catalogue)

    1999

    Painting Pictures: Rendering the (Photo)real
    , Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, PA

    1998

    Painting Now and Forever: Part I
    , Matthew Marks Gallery and Pat Hearn Gallery, New York
    Sea Change, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY (catalogue)
    C, Elizabeth Cherry Contemporary Art, Tucson

    1997

    Landscape: The Pastoral to the Urban
    , Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
    Project Painting, Basilico Fine Arts, New York (catalogue)
    Technological Drift, Lawing Gallery, Houston
    Heart, Mind, Body, Soul: American Art in the 1990s. Selections from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

    1996

    American Art 1975–1995 from the Whitney Museum: Multiple Identity
    , National Gallery, Alexandros Soutzos Museum, Athens. Traveled to Museu d’Art Contemporani, Barcelona; Kunstmuseum Bonn; and Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy (catalogue)
    Innovation: American Art of Today from the Misumi Art Collection, Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan (catalogue)
    The Changing Image, Claudia Gian Ferrari Arte Contemporanea, Milan (catalogue)
    Vehicle, Paolo Baldacci Gallery, New York

    1995

    Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalogue)
    Richard Artschwager, Peter Cain, Vija Celmins, Chuck Close, Joseph Cornell, Robert Gober, George Stoll, Steve Wolf, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco
    Summer Group Exhibition: Richmond Burton, Peter Cain, John Chamberlain, Andreas Gursky, Roni Horn, Gary Hume, Andy Warhol, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
    25 Americans: Painting in the 90s, Milwaukee Art Museum (catalogue)

    1994

    Desire (Visionaire/DIFFA Benefit Exhibition)
    , Charles Cowles Gallery, New York
    The Institute of Cultural Anxiety, Works from the Collection, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (catalogue)

    1993

    Pittsburgh Collects
    , Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
    Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalogue)
    Drawing the Line Against AIDS, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice (under the aegis of the Venice Biennale) (catalogue)
    1993 Biennial Exhibition, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul
    A Series of Anniversary Exhibitions: Part III, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
    Art, Money & Myth, Palm Beach Community College Museum of Art, Lake Worth, FL
    Everyday Life, Kim Light Gallery, Los Angeles
    Slittamenti, Venice Biennale
    The Return of the Cadavre Exquis, The Drawing Center, New York. Traveled to Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Santa Monica Museum of Art, CA; Forum for Contemporary Art, Saint Louis; and American Center, Paris (catalogue)

    1992

    5th Anniversary Show
    , Karsten Schubert Ltd., London
    Psycho, Kunsthall, New York
    Nayland Blake, Richmond Burton, Peter Cain, and Gary Hume, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

    1991

    Something Pithier and More Psychological
    , Simon Watson, New York
    Someone or Somebody, Meyers/Bloom Gallery, Los Angeles
    Paintings and Drawings, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
    Vertigo: The Remake, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
    Just what is it that makes today’s homes so different, so appealing?, The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY (catalogue)
    (Dis)member, Simon Watson, New York
    We've Lost E.T. but the Boy's Coming Back: Peter Cain, Michael Jenkins, Michael Landy, Karsten Schubert Ltd., London (catalogue)
    Benefit Exhibition, Act-Up, The AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, Paula Cooper Gallery and Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

    1990

    The Clinic
    , Simon Watson, New York
    Pop 90, Postmasters, New York
    The Children’s AIDS Project, A Benefit Exhibition, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
    Vertigo, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris (catalogue)