Selected Group Exhibitions

2023

The Truthful Eye: The Museum in the Second Degree. MAC VAL, Paris, France
Brick by Brick. Ross+Kramer Gallery, New York, USA
Retinal Hysteria. Venus Over Manhattan, New York, USA
Ugly Painting. Nahmad Contemporary, New York, USA
En Regard. Le Delta, Namur, Belgium
The Searchers. Galleries at The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, USA
Contemporary Prints. Pace Prints, New York City, USA

2022

Dark Light: Realism in the Age of Post-Truths. Aishti Foundation, Lebanon
Nunc Est Bibendum. Eleven Steens, Saint-Gilles, Belgium
Artists for New York. Hauser & Wirth, New York City, USA
The Drawing Center Show. Le Consortium, Dijon, France
Singing in UnisonBelow Grand. New York, USA

2021

Mr President. Galerie Sébastien Bertrand, Geneva, Switzerland
Perrotin Secondary Market. Galerie Perrotin, Paris, France
Closer to Life: Drawings and Works on Paper in the Marieluise Hessel Collection. Hessel Museum of Art, New York, USA
Different strokes. Almine Rech, London, UK

2020

Off the Walls: Gifts from Professor John A. Robertson. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, USA
Works On Paper. Michael Werner New York, New York City, USA
Drawing 2020. Gladstone Gallery, New York City, USA

2019

Naturally Naked. Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Moscow, Russia
The Mid Century Modern Aesthetic, Alpha 137 Gallery, New York, USA
Peter Saul and Erik Parker. Nanzuka, Tokyo, Japan

2018

Staff Favorites I, Alpha 137 Gallery, New York, USA
Four Rooms, Blum & Poe, New York, USA
Summer of Love, Freight + Volume, New York, USA
Art is where the heart is Vol. 2, Paris, Paris, France

2017

Friedrich Petzel Gallery, NYC, NY, USA
Piss and Vinegar: Two Generations of Provocateurs. New York Academy of Art, New York, NY, USA.

2016

Comic Inspirations. Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York City, NY, USA
Mystifiers, NCCA, Moscow, Russia. 12 February – 20 March
Piss and Vinegar. New York Academy of Art, NYC, NY, USA
Character. V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
It Was Never Linear: Recent Painting. Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
Human Interest: Portraits From the Whitney’s Collection. Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC, NY, USA
Zoo Machine. Musee d’Art Contemporain, Marseille, France

2015

What Nerve! Alternative Figures in American Art, 1960 to present. Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Better than de Kooning. Villa Merkel, Galerien der Stadt Esslingen am Neckar, Esslingen am Neckar, Germany
Rawhide. Venus Over Manhattan, NYC, NY, USA
America Is Hard To See. Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC, NY, USA
Picasso in Contemporary Art. Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
SELF: Portraits of Artists in Their Absence. National Academy Museum, New York City, NY, USA
Viewer Discretion… Children Of Bataille. Stux Gallery, New York City, NY, USA
Respect. CAC Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Málaga, Málaga, Spain

2014-2015

Figurativos, Místicos E Revolucionários: Obras Da Coleção Treger/saint Silvestre. Oliva Creative Factory, São João da Madeira, Portugal
Avec et sans peinture. Musée d´art contemporain du Val-de-Marne MAC/Val, Vitry-sur-Seine, France

2014

If You’re Accidentally Not Included, Don’t Worry About It. Galerie Zürcher, Paris, France
Spaced Out: Migration to the Interior. Red Bull Studios New York, New York City, NY
Peahead, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York City, NY
What Nerve! Alternative Figures in American Art from 1960 to the Present. Rhode Island
School of Design Museum, Providence, RI
Comic Future, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH
Look at Me: Portraiture from Manet to the Present, Leila Heller Gallery, New York, NY
If You’re Accidentally Not Included, Don’t Worry About It, Zürcher Studio, New York, NY
FAR OUT! Marlborough Chelsea, New York, NY
Imaginary Portraits/Prince Igor, The Arnold and Marie Schwartz Gallery Met, Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, New York, NY
Keith Mayerson and Peter Saul. Robert Blumenthal Gallery, New York, NY
Left Coast, Third Coast. George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
The Crystal Palace. Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, NY
Purple States. Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, NY
Knock! Knock! Galeria Javier López, Madrid, Spain
Art as Provocation. Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL

2013

Comic Future, Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX
Tumescence: Peter Doig, Sigmar Polke, Peter Saul, Michael Williams, Michael Werner Gallery, New York, NY
Marcel Duchamp’s ‘Nude Descending a Staircase’: An Homage, Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, New York, NY
De Chaissac à Hyber, parcours d’un amateur vendéen. Historial de Vendee, Les Lucs-sur-Boulogne, France
Arte Internacional Del Siglo Xx. Colección Brownstone. Fundación Mercedes Calles y Carlos Ballestero, Cáceres, Spain
Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out. White Flag Projects, Saint Louis, MO
Ça grimpe. Galerie Charlotte Moser, Geneva, Switzerland
Utopie picturale. La Villa Dutoit, Petit-Saconnex, Switzerland
Drawings. Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY

2012-2013

Moment – Ynglingagatan 1. Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden

2012

Sinister Pop. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Abstract Drawings. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
RAW. Homespace Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Under the Influence: The Comics. Edith Alstchul Lehman College Gallery, Bronx, NY
Party Headquarters: Art in the Age of Political Absurdity. Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York, NY
Visage et portrait. Galerie Charlotte Moser, Geneva, Switzerland
Thanks: 50th Anniversary Exhibition. Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Someone Else’s Dream. Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL

2011-2012

Incongru. Quand l’art fait rire. Palais de Rumine, Lausanne, Switzerland
Chicago School: Imagists in Context. MMoCA – The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI
Chicago Imagists at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art. MMoCA – The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art. Madison, WI
Anxiety’s Edge. The Contemporary Museum Honolulu, Honolulu, HI

2011

Masters of Reality. Gering & Lopez Gallery, New York, NY
Pretty on the Inside. Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY
Make. White Flag Projects, Saint Louis, MO
Boundaries Obscured. Haunch of Venison – New York, New York, NY
MAKE Skateboards. I-20 Gallery, New York, NY
Inside & Out: Melvin Edwards and Peter Saul. Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA
Circle of Friends: Paintings, Drawings, and Sculptures. George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
Captain Pamphile – Ein Bildroman in Stücken. Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Chase the dragon. Galerie Magda Danysz, Paris, France

2010-2011

Private Future. Marc Jancou Contemporary, New York, NY
Figures in Chicago Imagism. Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL

2010

Ordinary Madness. Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Touch and Go: Ray Yoshida and his Spheres of Influence. School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL
The Visible Vagina. David Nolan Gallery, New York, NY
Nature, Once Removed: The (Un) Natural World in Contemporary Drawing. Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY
Desire. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX
Apple Pie: Symbols of Americana in MMoCA’s Permanent Collection. MMoCA – The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI
Celebration – Collection du Frac Auvergne. FRAC – Auvergne, Clermont Ferrand, France
IconoGRAPHIC. Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, NY
Don’t Piss on Me and Tell Me it’s Raining. Apexart, New York, NY
New and Classic. George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
Mutant Pop. Loyal, Malmö, Sweden

2009-2010

About Face. Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY

2009

Consider the Lobster. The Center for Curatorial Studies & Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Image Matter. Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
The New Yorkers. V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Until the End of the World. AMP, Athens, Greece
N’importe quoi. Musée d’Art Contemporain, Lyon, France
Exile on Main St. Humour, exaggeration & anti-authoritarianism in American art, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maaastricht, The Netherlands
Action/ Abstraction – Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art 1940–1976. Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Get with the Program: Group Show. George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
Vraoum! trésors de la bande dessinée et art contemporain. La Maison Rouge, Paris, France

2008-2009

Looking for Mushrooms. Beat Poets, Hippies, Radio and Minimal Art: Art and Counter Culture in San Francisco Around 1968. Museum Ludwig, Koln, Germany
Crossing Artists. Daniel Varenne, Geneva, Switzerland
In Your Face. BUIA Gallery, New York, NY
La Figuracion Narrativa. Paris 1960-1972. IVAM – Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, Valencia, Spain
The Brutal Line: Drawing Death, Being, and Becoming. The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

2008

Aaron Cyrry, Peter Saul, Richard Hawkins. David Kordansky Gallery, New York, NY
Bad Painting – Good Art. Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, Austria
Jekyll Island. Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Action/ Abstraction – Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art 1940–1976. The Jewish
Museum, New York, NY
Figuration Narrative 1960-72. Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, France
Lots of Things Like This. Apexart, New York, NY
Political Correct. BFAS Blondeau Fine Art Services, Geneva, Switzerland
Cool! George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
Parfum d’été. Galerie Charlotte Moser, Geneva, Switzerland
Summer Group Exhibition. Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY
Lone Star Legacy II: The Barrett Collection of Contemporary Texas Art. Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
Less is less, more is more, that’s all. CAPC – Musée d’art contemporain, Bordeaux, France
Deformalismes. Galerie Praz-Delavallade – Paris, Paris, France
Deformalismes. Galerie Praz-Delavallade – Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Good Doll, Bad Doll. Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
Second Thoughts. Hessel Museum of Art & Center for Curatorial Studies Galleries at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

2007-2008

Directions in Art. 1970 to Now. MoMA – Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

2007

Mr. President. University Art Museum at Albany, Albany, NY
Summer of Love. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Exhibitionism. An exhibition of exhibitions of works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection,
CCS Bard. Hessel Museum, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Automatic. Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY
Refugees of Group Selection. Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY
Paradise. Patrick Painter Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Il était une fois Walt Disney. Musée des Beaux Arts de Montréal, Montreal, Canada; traveled to Grand Palais, Paris, France
Feed Your Head. Heskin Contemporary, New York, NY
What Is Love: Selections from the Permanent Collection. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
Rouge baiser. FRAC – Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, France
De leur temps (2) Art Contemporain Et Collections Privées. Musee de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
Max. Durchfahrtshöhe. Aurel Scheibler / ScheiblerMitte, Berlin, Germany

2006

Art on Paper. Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
Twice Drawn. Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College,
Saratoga Springs, NY
The Artful Jester. The Painting Center, New York, NY; Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, VT
Il était une fois Walt Disney. Grand Palais, Paris, France
Art of Engagement: Paintings, Drawings, Prints and Sculpture. Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA
Safe: an exploration of domesticity… Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts, New York, NY
Gruppenausstellund – hot spring … in autumn. Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria
Works on Paper. Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
Trendmarks. Galerie Suty, Coye-la-Forêt, France
Group Show. David Nolan Gallery, New York, NY
Antisocial. Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain d’Auvergne, Auvergne, France
Group Show. George Adams Gallery, New York, NY

2005-2006

BIG BANG. Centre Pompidou – Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris, France

2005

Looking at Words. Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY
Post War Draughtwomen and 1 Monitor. Meyer Riegger Gallery, Karlsruhe, Germany
Body Language. George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
Art of Engagement. Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA
Enchante Chateau. Fondation pour L’art Contemporain, Claudine et Jean-Marc Salomon. Alex. France
Réouverture du LAAC. LAAC – Lieu d’Art et Action Contemporaine de Dunkerque, Dunkerque, France
The Anniversary Show. Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2004-2005

Fifth International Biennial Exhibition: Disparities and Deformations: Our Grotesque, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
SITE Santa Fe’s Fifth International Biennial. SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM

2004

The Anxious Image. The Painting Center, New York, NY
Bush-Whack! George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
Artists Interrogate: Politics and War. Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
Soleil Vert. Musse D’art Roger Quilliot, Clermont Ferrand, France
Altered States. Leo Koenig, New York, NY
Is One Thing Better Than Another? Galerie Aurel Scheibler – Cologne, Cologne, Germany
Les conquérants, les exilés. Fonds d’Art moderne et contemporain – Espace Boris Vian, Montluçon, France

2003-2004

Painter’s Forms. The Work Space, New York, NY
…As Time Goes By. Leo Koenig, New York, NY

2003

The Not-So-Still Life: A Century of California Painting and Sculpture. San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Splat Boom Pow! The Influence of Comics in Contemporary Art. Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
Les Contemporains de 1960 à nos jours. Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
3 Pop Guys 40 Years After. Galerie du Centre, Paris, France
Funny Papers. Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Grooves. Leo Koenig, New York, NY
In the Eye of the Beholder. George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
Multiple Artists: Print and Editioned Works 1967-2003. George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
New Prints 2003/Summer. International Print Center New York, New York, NY
Road Show. George Adams Gallery, New York, NY

2002

Eye Infection. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Jokes. Musée d’art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
Plotting: An Exhibition Of Studies. Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
Whisper – Sammelausstellung zum elfjährigen Jubiläum. Galerie Aurel Scheibler – Cologne, Cologne, Germany
Ils sont venu de si loin. Galerie Delta, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Me, Myself & I: Self-Portraits by Gallery Artists. George Adams Gallery, New York, NY

2001-2002

Rebuts/Rébus. Fondation pour L’art Contemporain, Claudine et Jean-Marc Salomon, Alex, France

2001

Self Made Men. D.C. Moore Gallery, New York, NY
Open Ends. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Confrontations : Léon Golub – Antoine Poncet, Roseline Granet – Peter Saul, Piko. Darthea Speyer gallerie, Paris, France
Comic Relief. Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Blondies and Brownies – weiß bin ich auch. Aktionsforum Praterinsel, Munich, Germany

2000

Drawings 2000. Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY
Face to Face. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The Lighter Side of Bay Area Figuration. San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Critic as Grist. White Box, New York, NY
Attitude: Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture 1960-1969. George Adams Gallery, New York, NY

1999

Jean DuBuffet, Oyvind Fahlstrom, Peter Saul. Kinz + Tillou, New York, NY
Summer Group Show. David Nolan Gallery, New York, NY
Art about Art. George Adams Gallery, New York, NY

1998

View: Three. Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
Summer Group Show. David Nolan Gallery, New York, NY
Pop Surrealism. The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT

1997

Facing History. Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
A Show of Hands. George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
Drawings. Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York, NY

1996

Going Places. George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
Out of ‘Toon. George Adams Gallery, New York, NY

1995

Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Murder. Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY
Au rendez-vous des amis, coll. A. L’H. Mamco – Musée d´art moderne et contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
Greatest Hits. George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
Bunnies – A Group Show. David Nolan Gallery, New York, NY
California in the 1960’s: Funk Revisited. George Adams Gallery, New York, NY

1994

Hand Painted Pop: 1958-1962. Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; Museum of
Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Around the House: Invitational Exhibition of Paintings, Drawing, Sculpture and Photography. Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York, NY

1993

Group Exhibition. Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York, NY

1992

Large Scale Works on Paper. Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York, NY
40th Anniversary Exhibition: Selections by Gallery Artists from the Richard Brown Baker Collection. Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York, NY

1991

Word As Image: American Art 1960–1990. Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX

1990

Faces. Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York, NY

1989

Reagan: American Icon. Bucknell University, Lewiston, PA

1988

Different Drummers, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C.
Pop Apocalypse. Gracie Mansion, New York, NY
Large Paintings. Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York, NY
Comic Iconoclasm. Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK

1987

Comic Iconoclasm. Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England
Made in U.S.A: Art from the ‘50s and ‘60s. University of California, Berkeley, CA; Nelson-
Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA

1986

American Renaissance: Painting and Sculpture Since 1940. Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Figure as Subject: The Last Decade. Whitney Museum of American Art, Equitable Center, New York, NY
Eccentric Drawings and Works on Paper. Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY
Gallery Artists: Drawings. Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY

1985

Masters of Mischief: The Irreverent Spirit in Current Painting. Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY

1984

Anniversary Exhibition. Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY
Disarming Images – Art for Nuclear Disarmament. CAC – Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH

1983

Red Grooms/Peter Saul: The Early Sixties. Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY
Self-Portraits Part II: The Antic Vision. Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY

1982

The Atomic Salon. Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York City, NY

1981

Drawing into Painting and Sculpture. Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York City, NY

1980

Early and Late. Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York City, NY

1979-1980

Group Show. Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York City, NY

1979

Large Scale Works on Paper. Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York City, NY

1978

New Work by Gallery Artists. Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York City, NY
Works on Paper. Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York City, NY

1977

Mythologies Quotidiennes 2. Musée d´Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris – MAM/ARC, Paris, France
Recent Portraiture. The Renaissance Society, Chicago, IL
Gallery Decade. Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York City, NY

1976

72nd American Exhibition. Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Bicentennial Exhibition. Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York City, NY
New Ceramic Sculpture. Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York City, NY

1975

Summer Show. Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York City, NY

1974-1975

New Developments in Graphics. Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York City, NY

1972

New Works by Gallery Artists. Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York City, NY
California Prints. MoMA – Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY

1971

American Painting and Sculpture 1948-1969. Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois,
Champaign, IL
Prints and Drawings. Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York City, NY
Artist as Adversary. MoMA – Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
Summer Exhibition. Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York City, NY

1970

Pop Art, Prints, Drawings and Multiples. MoMA – Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY

1968

Violence in Recent American Art. Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

1967

Funk. University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA

1964

Recent American Drawings. Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Pop, etc. Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Schweizergarten, Vienna, Austria
The New Realism. Municipal Museum, The Hague, The Netherlands
67th Annual American Exhibition. Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
American Paintings and Sculpture 67th Annual. The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

1963

Forum, Abbey Saint-Pierre, Ghent, Belgium
13 Pittori a Roma. Galleria La Tartaruga, Rome, Italy
1st Salon International de Galleries-Pilotes. Musée Cantolan, Lausanne, Switzerland
A New Realist Supplement. The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
New Directions. San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA

1962

The University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
The Society of Contemporary American Art. The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

1961

International Selection. The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH

1960

Grafike Svjetskih Suvremenih Umjetnika – Revolucija Dvjesto Godina Poslije. The Museum of Modern Art Dubrovnik, Dubrovnik, Croatia

1959

Salon de Jeune Peinture, Paris, France