Peter Hildebrand

Peter Hildebrand: Saatchi Online Critic's Choice by Ben Street
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Born Detroit 1964.I moved to New York in 1991 and received my MFA from Hunter College in 1994. I have had two solo shows at Pierogi Gallery in Williamsburg, and been included in numerous group shows in New York City and elsewhere in the U.S. I currently live and work in Red Hook, Brooklyn, with my wife and 8 year-old son.

My body of work over the last few years involves a narrative that is centered around the American systems theorist and futurist Buckminster Fuller as symbolized by the geodesic dome as a an ideal structure. That ideal is one of American Utopianism and its relative failure, particularly since the the mid 20th century.

Aspects of Modernism, the beatnik and hippie movements, punk rock and other musical forms of status quo rejection, all revolve around Fuller (and other visionaries such a Nikola Tesla, who died alone and in debt in the New Yorker Hotel, suffering from mental illness) as a metaphor for the collapse of American belief systems.

The disturbed psychological states referenced in my paintings by images of hospitals and mental institutions such as R...

1993
Hunter College, New York, MFA in Painting
1992
The Slade School, London, Scholarship exchange program in Painting
1990
San Francisco Art Institute, California, Non-degree enrollment in Painting
1987
University of Washington, Seattle, BFA in Graphic Design

Solo Exhibitions
2006
Pierogi, Brooklyn, New York
2000
Pierogi, Brooklyn, New York

Group Exhibitions
2014
Pierogi XX: Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition, Pierogi, Brooklyn, New York
2013
Unhinged, Pierogi, Brooklyn, New York
2012
Natural Constructed Spaces, The Painting Center, New York, New York
2011
PRINTED HISTORIES: 16 Years of Print Portfolios at Exit Art, Exit Art, New York, NY
Geometric Days, Exit Art, New York, New York
2010
Power To The People, Feature Inc, New York, New York
Future Tense: Landscape in Transition, curated by Dede Young,
Stephan Stoyanov Gallery, New York, New York
Exit Art Print Portfolio Retrospective, Colton & Farb Gallery, Houston, Texas
2009
The Labyrinth Wall: From Mythology to Reality, Exit Art, New York, New York
2008
Future Tense: Reshaping the Landscape, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York
Expose, Exit Art, New York, New York
2007
The Building Show, Exit Art, New York, New York
2006
Current Abstraction, Black Rock Arts Center, Bridgeport, Connecticut
I Love Exit Art, Exit Art, New York, New York
The Armory Show, Pierogi, New York, New York
2005
Art Basel Miami Beach (Design District), Pierogi, Brooklyn, New York
Reconfigure, Pierogi, Bro...