bio
Peter Schoeffer
EDUCATION:
M.F.A. Glasgow School of Art, 2010
B.A. University of Vermont, U.S, 1999: focus on political science, minor in art.
Related WORK EXPERIENCE:
The Unfinished Picture Project, Glasgow UK 2012. Worked with students to create murals and art projects addressing overarching social and political themes and presented in the community public space.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
Cabinet Inform, archive project. No1 Chocolate Factory, Glasgow Scotland.
August 21, 2012.
Hive Mime, New City Space New City Road Glasgow. November 17-December 16, 2011.
The Waiter Is The Artist…, ‘Pepe Giallo’ Italian Restaurant 25th street Tenth Ave. NYC, 2006.
Hive Mime, New City Space New City Road Glasgow. November 17-December 16, 2011.
West Main Restaurant, Lakeville, CT. U.S, 2004
SELECTED GROUP
EXHIBITIONS:
The Mutual Members Show, Glue Factory Glasgow, 2010
Definite Article, Artnews Projects, Berlin, 2010
MFA Degree Show CCA: Centre for Contemporary Art and The Glue Factory, Glasgow, 2010
MFA Interim Show Mackintosh and Newbery Galleries, Glasgow, 2009
Just Work Done; procured, curated and participated in a three day 30 artist group show in a then out of business mattress store. (corner of Rose st. and Renfrew st. Glasgow, 2009.
Jamie Radcliffe: The Exhibition SWG3/Studio Warehouse, Glasgow, 2009
A4 – Bezalel/Glasgow The Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem; The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, 2009. A cross cultural collaboration with art students from Israel at Cove Park Scotland near Kilcreggan.
SELECTED RESIDENCIES:
The Mutual Members Show, The Glue Factory, Glasgow, 2010.
The Chocolate Factory mural Residency: Cabinet inform. March 2012- August 2012.
PRESS/MEDIA:
US artist creates astonishing mural in top Glasgow restaurant. The Glaswegian, October 27, 2011. (mural unfinished in the photographs featured)
In The Red? Lets Paint The Town; Sunday Herald, May 2, 2009.
PERMANENT/MUSEUM COLLECTIONS:
Medieval Tapestries Projects; a transcription/interpretation of a medieval tapestry entitled Peasants Hunting Rabbits onto the underside of a staircase at the Burrell Collection, Pollak Country Park, Glasgow.