Works
  • Peter McDonald, Private View, 2024
    Private View, 2024
  • Peter McDonald, Cocktail (Orange), 2021
    Cocktail (Orange), 2021
  • Peter McDonald, Slinky, 2019
    Slinky, 2019
  • Peter McDonald, Friends, 2018
    Friends, 2018
  • Peter McDonald, Cave Painters, 2013
    Cave Painters, 2013
  • Peter McDonald, People in Line (diptych), 2019
    People in Line (diptych), 2019
  • Peter McDonald, Moon Viewing, 2019
    Moon Viewing, 2019
  • Peter McDonald, New Salon, 2011
    New Salon, 2011
  • Peter McDonald, Queens, 2021
    Queens, 2021
  • Peter McDonald, Cocktails 1, 2020
    Cocktails 1, 2020
  • Peter McDonald, Snow Play II, 2022
    Snow Play II, 2022
  • Peter McDonald, Matisse’s Clay Figure, 2010
    Matisse’s Clay Figure, 2010
  • Peter McDonald, Skipping Rope (diptych), 2019
    Skipping Rope (diptych), 2019
  • Peter McDonald, Exhibition 3, 2022
    Exhibition 3, 2022
  • Peter McDonald, Me Painting, 2010
    Me Painting, 2010
  • Peter McDonald, Driftwood Sun , 2018
    Driftwood Sun , 2018
  • Peter McDonald, Driftwood Moon , 2018
    Driftwood Moon , 2018
  • Peter McDonald, Peter McDonald: Visitor (Disco), 2011
    Peter McDonald: Visitor (Disco), 2011
Biography

Peter McDonald was born in Tokyo in 1973 and lives and works in London and Tokyo. McDonald's paintings examine intricate aspects of human behaviour, gradually compiling an endless encyclopaedia of images and scenarios. His use of intense colour and universal subject matter describes a realm which balances lucid realism with vivid distortions, filled with references to modern life such as iphones, queueing, fashion shows and cafés. His pictures investigate pictorial space by playfully exploring perspective and form. This heightened sense of reality is a means through which the artist articulates experience and meaning.

 

Peter McDonald was appointed a Visiting Fellow at Jesus College Oxford in 2022. In 2017, he was awarded a fellowship at the British School at Rome. Recent solo exhibitions include Kate MacGarry, London (2021); Sampo, Gallery Side 2 / void +, Tokyo (2021); This, that and the other, Dio Horia, Greece (2018); Winnebago, Carpets, Onsen, Potter, Daiwa Foundation, London (2013) and Visitor, the culmination of a year-long residency at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan (2011-12).

 

Group exhibitions include Ukiyo-e In Play, Tokyo National Museum, Japan (2025);100 Hooks, Blunk Space, Point Reyes, CA, USA (2023); Weightless, Mieke Van Schaijk, The Netherlands (2019); Museum of Together, Spiral Building, Tokyo (2017); Roppongi Art Night, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (2016) and Making & Unmaking, Camden Arts Centre, London (2016). In 2008, he was awarded the John Moores Painting Prize and in 2009, London Underground commissioned McDonald to produce Art for Everybody, a large-scale billboard installation at Southwark Station.

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