Marie Peter-Toltz

Marie Peter-Toltz’s paintings are concerned with portraying the female form in composite pictorial spaces, exploring intimate and allegorical scenes of her past into contemporary settings. Peter-Toltz is currently in the Master Program (MFA) at the New York Studio School. She was awarded the New York Studio School Scholarship and the Concordia Awards, as well as the LCU Award for Women. Born in Mulhouse (France), she has exhibited in Australia and in the US. She was a finalist in various art competitions in Australia including: the Waverley Art Prize and the Portia Geach Memorial Award as well as the recipient of an artist grant and residency through the Vermont Studio Center (US). Her last solo exhibition Downtown Demoiselles at BMG Art in Adelaide (Australia) explored the visual dynamic and connectedness of personal history and historical paintings. Her work is held in private collections in Australia, New Zealand, US, France, Switzerland, Austria and the UK.

2014-2016: MFA (Current), New York Studio School, NY, USA
2011 New York Studio School, Drawing Marathon, Graham Nickson
2008 National Art School Painting, Sydney, Australia
2007 New York Studio School, Drawing and Painting Marathon, Graham Nickson
Art Students League of New York, Painting and Drawing
2006 Assistant Manager, Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney, Australia
National Art School, Figure Painting, Sydney, Australia
2005 College of Fine Art, Oil Painting, Sydney, Australia
2003 Spanish Filology Degree, Latin American Art History, Madrid, Spain
1999 Universitat Wien, Contemporary Art History, Vienna, Austria

2014 ‘Telling’ with Anna Platten, Chelsea Lehmann, Nerissa Lea, Vr Morisson, ACSA, Adelaide, Ausstralia
2013 ‘Summertime’, Skidmore Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
2012 ‘Tell Us A Story’ curated by Yiwon Park, Sheffer Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2012 Brunswick Street Exhibition, 40x40, Melbourne, Australia
2011 NARS Foundation, Open Studios, Brooklyn, USA
2010 Beyond the Surface of the Page, Marianne Newman Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2009 Salon De Petits Tableaux,The Milk Factory Gallery, Bowral, Australia