23 Facts About Peter Doig

Peter Doig is a painter of Scottish nationality who has lived and worked between Trinidad, Canada, the USA, Germany and Britain.

Peter Doig settled in Trinidad with his family between 2002 and 2021, when he moved back to London.

Peter Doig was invited to return to Trinidad in 2000, to take up an artist's residency with his friend and fellow painter, Chris Ofili.

In 2002, Peter Doig moved back to the island, where he set up a studio at the Caribbean Contemporary Arts Centre near Port of Spain.

Peter Doig became a professor at the Fine Arts Academy in Dusseldorf, Germany, where he was a faculty member until 2017.

Many of Peter Doig's paintings are landscapes with a number harking back to the snowy scenes of his childhood in Canada, and others inspired by the scenery in Trinidad.

In 1991, Peter Doig was involved with a group of architects and artists known as La Premiere Rue who worked on the restoration of the building.

The modern urban structures are partially revealed and hidden by the forest that surrounds them, a characteristic Peter Doig explores in his works of the subject.

Peter Doig's 1997 painting Canoe-Lake was inspired by the 1980 slasher film Friday the 13th.

In 2003, Peter Doig started a weekly film club called StudioFilmClub in his studio together with Trinidadian artist Che Lovelace.

Peter Doig told an interviewer that he found this ongoing project liberating because it was "much more immediate" than his usual work.

Peter Doig has had major solo exhibitions at Tate Britain, touring to Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt; Dallas Museum of Art ; Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich ; Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht ; and Whitechapel Art Gallery, London.

In February 2023 a four-month exhibition of new and recent works by Peter Doig opened at London's Courtauld Gallery comprising 12 paintings and 20 works on paper.

Peter Doig was the first contemporary artist to show at the Courtauld since its redevelopment and his display of painterly skills was widely admired by critics.

In late 2023 and into 2024, the Musee d'Orsay, Paris, hosted two exhibitions by Peter Doig, one showcasing a selection of his large-scale works, including Two Trees, and the other a selection of historic works from the museum collection, chosen by Peter Doig.

In 1993, Peter Doig won the first prize at the John Moores exhibition with his painting Blotter.

Peter Doig was honoured with amfAR's Award of Excellence for Artistic Contributions to the Fight Against AIDS in 2009.

Peter Doig was named the 2017 Whitechapel Gallery Art Icon.

In 2007, a painting of Peter Doig's entitled White Canoe sold at Sotheby's for $11.3 million, then an auction record for a work by a living European artist.

Paul Schimmel, chief curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles said in an interview that the sale made Peter Doig go from being "a hero to other painters to a poster child of the excesses of the market".

Peter Doig's painting Gasthof zur Muldentalsperre, now at the Art Institute of Chicago, was sold at Christie's in 2014 for $17,038,276.

In 2023, Peter Doig was awarded $2.5 million in sanctions against the painting's owner, the art gallery representing the owner, and their lawyer.

Peter Doig is represented in many international museum and private collections, including the Tel Aviv Museum of Art ; Tate, London ; Tate Modern, London ; and the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa.