Peter Vigil

Artist Biography

Peter Vigil is a Miami-based, self-taught artist that began painting in 2006. Since then, his work has been exhibited at museums, galleries, festivals, and various other venues in the United States and abroad. Vigil’s art is influenced by such artists as Pablo Picasso, Willem de Kooning, Arshile Gorky, and the early works of Jackson Pollock.

Vigil was born in Cuba in 1967 and has lived in the Miami, Florida area since 1973 after living in Madrid, Spain for four years.

Artist Statement

My paintings depict social and cultural themes that are at odds with the conventional societal mores. These include, but are not limited to, power, structure, excesses, sexuality and relationships.

I use bold and vibrant colors, specifically hues of red, to provide subject(s) of my paintings a physical sense of existence and to underscore the significance of emotional experiences. I also use thick black lines as an overlay to conceptualize the conflicting and often subdued perspectives held by individuals. The paintings are mostly created using acrylic paint or acrylic paint and soft pastels on canvas using an abstract, abstract expressionist, gestural style or a combination thereof to allow the viewer to determine the...

FIU '96 MS

Show Experience

I took a sabbatical from exhibitions and art fairs from 2015 through the present to focus on other methods to promote my art and to develop new ideas to create works.

Solo Exhibitions:

•Human Experience through Colors, Bird Road Art District, Psalmody, April 2013
•Arts for the Stars, Randazzo’s, Coral Gables, FL December 2012
•Facade, Epic Hotel, Area 31, Miami, FL November 2012
•Woman’s Essence: An Abstract View, Shore Club, Red Room Lounge, Miami Beach, FL, November 2012
•27 Club and Rock Icons, Ricochet Lounge, Wynwood, FL, November 2012
•Sabor de Peru (Flavor of Peru), Coral Gables Museum, Coral Gables, FL October 2012
•Night Life, Italy Today, Miami Lakes, FL June 2012-September 2012

Selected Group Exhibitions:
•The Chocolate and Art Show, Wynwood Art Project, Miami, FL June 2015
•Touch of Art, Fairchild Botanical Gardens, Coral Gables, FL May 2015
•The Chocolate and Art Show, Wynwood Art Project, Miami, FL October 2014
•Touch of Art, Fairchild Botanical Gardens, Coral Gables, FL May 2014
•Arts for the Stars, Coral Gables Museum, Coral Gables, FL May 2014
•Put a Bird on It, Blu Moon Studio Gallery, Miami, FL May 2014
•Grand Opening, Suzanne Fine Art Ga...