BIOGRAPHY
Born 1965
Studied photography and film direction at California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA, 1985/86
Directing Fellow at the American Film Institute Conservatory, Los Angeles, CA, 1988/89
Lives and works in Santa Fe, NM
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019
Peter Sarkisian: Videomorphic Figures, MODERNISM INC., San Francisco, CA
2018
Peter Sarkisian: Mind Under Matter, The Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, NM
Peter Sarkisian: The Cole Art Center, Nacogdoches, TX
2017
Peter Sarkisian: Recent Video Works: Art On Paper, Pier 36, New York, NY
Peter Sarkisian: Texas A&M University Art Gallery, Corpus Christi, TX
2016
Peter Sarkisian: Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2015
Peter Sarkisian, Modernism Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Peter Sarkisian: Video Works, a special project curated by the organizing body of Art Miami New York, Pier 94, New York, NY
2014
Special Project: Peter Sarkisian, curated by the organizing body of Art San Francisco/Art Silicon Valley, San Francisco, CA. Traveled to Art Miami, Miami, FL
SARKISIAN & SARKISIAN (Curated by Dan Cameron), Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
2013
Peter Sarkisian: VideoMorphic Figures, Zadok Gallery, Miami, FL
Peter Sarkisian: Video Works, 1996 to 2011: New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM
2012
Peter Sarkisian: Video Works, 1996 – 2008, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ
Peter Sarkisian: New Work, Byron Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2011
New Work, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, FL
Peter Sarkisian: Video Works, 1996 – 2008, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene, OR
Peter Sarkisian, Dusted, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Peter Sarkisian: Video Works, 1996 – 2008, the Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN
2010
New Work, James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
Peter Sarkisian: Video Works, 1996 - 2008, The National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts. Exhibition organized by the Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, WY
2008
Peter Sarkisian. Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA (Curated by Dan Cameron)
Peter Sarkisian, I-20 Gallery, New York, NY
Peter Sarkisian: Extruded Video Engine #2, St. Petersburg Museum of Art, St. Petersburg, FL
2007
Peter Sarkisian, James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
Peter Sarkisian, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, FL
2005
Double Feature: Steve McQueen and Peter Sarkisian, (paired solo shows) San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
2004
Manifold. Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, FL
2003
Bohr’s Atom, I-20 Gallery, NY
Peter Sarkisian: Dusted, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS
Twelve Minutes Flat, Linda Durham Contemporary Art, Galisteo, NM
2002
Peter Sarkisian – Dusted. Curated by Valerie Olson. The Glassell School of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX (cat.)
2001
Peter Sarkisian. Curated by Louis Grachos. Kansas City Jewish Museum, Kansas City, MO
Peter Sarkisian, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Peter Sarkisian, Galerie Natalie Obadia, Paris, France
Strand, I-20 Gallery, NY
Peter Sarkisian, Linda Durham Contemporary Art Gallery, Galisteo, NM
2000
Perspectives, la Foire Internaional d’art Contemporaian (FIAC) 2000, Paris, France
Hands of a Similar Man, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Peter Sarkisian, Musée Picasso Antibes, France. (Curated by Thierry Davila) (cat.)
1999
Dusted, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh International Festival, Scotland, United Kingdom
Peter Sarkisian, The Maschinenhalle at Brandenburgischer Kunstverein, Potsdam, Germany
Peter Sarkisian: Rare Drop, The Woodstreet Galleries at the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, Pittsburgh, PA
Down Here, I-20 Gallery, NY
1998
Dusted, Art Forum Berlin (I-20), Berlin, Germany
Dusted, University Art Gallery, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA
Peter Sarkisian - Dusted, I-20 Gallery, NY (cat.)
1997
Signification, Linda Durham Contemporary Art, Galisteo, NM
Peter Sarkisian: New Project, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM (Curated by Louis Grachos)
Signification, Linda Durham Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Peter Sarkisian, Modernism, San Francisco, CA
1996
Project show, Bravin Post Lee Gallery, NY
1995
Peter Sarkisian, Off-Site, Santa Fe, NM.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
45th Anniversary Exhibition, Part II, MODERNISM, San Francisco, CA
Off-Center: New Mexico Art, 1970 - 2000, New Mexico Museum of Art, VLADEM CONTEMORARY, Santa Fe, NM
2023
So Many Songs We Have Yet To Play: Gifts of Donna MacMillan, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm springs, CA
Spring Break, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
2022
Quicksilver, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
2021
Networked Nature, Thoma Art Vault, Santa Fe, NM
2019
Celebrating 30 Years: part one, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
Written in Light: Meditations on the Moving Image, Sheehan Gallery, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA
2018
Great and Small, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
New Media, New Millennium: Digital Art from the Thoma Foundation, Chattanooga, TN
2017
CONTACT: Local to Global, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM
DA FEST: International Festival of Digital Art, Sophia, Bulgaria
2016
Black and White, William Shearburn Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Guns in the hands of Artists, sponsored by democratic vice presidential candidate, senator Tim Kaine (D-V.A.), Russel Senate Building, Washington, DC
Guns in the hands of Artists, New America Foundation, Washington, DC
2015
Self Reflection, Clay Center For the Arts and Sciences, Charleston, WV
Double Vision, Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
2014
Guns in the Hands of Artists, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, LA. Traveled to the Aspen Institute Ideas Festival, Aspen, CO (June, 2015)
Herencia del Arte, Galeria Nacional de San Jose, Costa Rica
Armory Show, Center for contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM
The Moving Image, Whitespace exhibition (The Mordes Collection), Palm Beach, Florida
2013
Sotheby's benefit exhibition for Waterkeeper Alliance, Co-chaired by by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Ed Ruscha and Jeff Koons, Kayne Griffin Corcoran, Los Angeles, CA
2012
The Transformative Surface, The University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM
Sotheby's benefit exhibition for Waterkeeper Alliance, hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Jeff Koons, Mathew Marks Gallery, New York
2011
Videosphere, A New Generation, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Nod Nod Wink Wink: Conceptual Art in Mew Mexico and its Influences, Harwood Museum of Art, Taos New Mexico
2010
Transparency and Trans-formations in Contemporary American Art, US Embassy, Stockholm, Sweden.
Case Studies from the Bureau of Contemporary Art, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM
Highlights and New Acquisitions, 21c Museum, Louisville, Kentucky.
MetaDataPhile: The Collapse of Visual Information, Cal State Fullerton Main Art Gallery, Fullerton, CA
Art of Our Time: Selections from the Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS
2009
The Weekend Inventor, Artspace, New Haven, CT
Contemporary Culture, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX
2008
Message & Magic: 100 Years of Collage and Assemblage in American Art, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI (Cat.)
Video Art/3 Visions: Jenny Perlin, Peter Sarkisian and Hiraki Sawa. Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN
2007
VIDEO: Beyond The Frame. Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV
Contemporary: A selection of works from the Iris Collection (curated by Maria Luisa Gartner), The Iris Collection, Mexico City
2006
Water (curated by Blair Voltz-Clarke), Salvatore Ferragamo, NY
3D, An Exhibition Of Contemporary Sculpture, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2005
I-10: A Post-Modern Route 66, Houston to LA, McClain Gallery, Houston, TX (cat.)
Re-Presenting Representation, Arnat Museum, Elmira, NY
artbarn, Westhampton Beach, NY
Embodied: Seven Studies in Video. Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM
2004
Bodily Space: New Obsessions in Figurative Sculpture, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY (Curated by Louis Grachos)(cat.)
Color Lines, Islip Art Museum, NY
Arte Del Video, Il Viaggio Dell’uomo immobile, Foundazione Ragghianti, Lucca, Italy (cat.)
Transmit+Transform, Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM
2003
The Journey of Immobile Man. Curated by Sandra Solimano. Villa Croce Museum of Contemporary Art – Genova, Italy. Traveled to Centro Studi Sull’art Liciae Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti Fondazione, Lucca, Italy (2004)(cat.)
The Luminous Image VI, Collaborative Concepts, Beacon, NY (cat.)
Poetic Justice, Curated by Dan Cameron. 8th International Istanbul Biennial of Contemporary Art, Istanbul, Turkey (cat.)
2003 Biennial Exhibition of Public Art, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
SITE Santa Fe Benefit Exhibition, Santa Fe, NM
2002
2002 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY (Curated by Larry Rinder)(cat.)
Attitude 2002, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan. (cat.)
Awakenings, Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, MO (cat.)
15th Anniversary Exhibition: Part 1, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Vidarte 2002, Festival Internacional de Video y Artes Electrónicas. Palacio Postal, Mexico City, Mexico (cat.)
Fresh Eyes, Linda Durham Contemporary Art, NY
25th Anniversary Benefit Exhibition, New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY
2001
Making Time: Considering Time as a Material in Contemporary Film and Video, Curated by Amy Cappellazzo. The University of California, Armand Hammer Museum, LA (cat.)
Phoenix Triennial 2001, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ (cat.)
2000
Levity and Gravity. Curated by Amy Capellazo. Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, FL
Illuminations: Global Perspectives in Contemporary Film and Video Art. Curated by Barbara Matilsky. Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
Minding, Le Garage, Curated by Sabine Walli. Le Garage, Geneva, Switzerland
Dusk. Curated by David Hunt. I-20 Gallery, NY (cat.)
2000 Benefit Dinner: One Night Installation, New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY
Stanze e Segreti (Rooms and Secrets). Curated by Achille Bonito Oliva. La Rotonda della Besana di Milano, Milan, Italy. (cat.)
Making Time: Considering Time as a Material in Contemporary Film and Video, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, Florida. Traveled to the University of California, Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA (2001) (Curated by Amy Cappellazzo) (cat.)
Moving Pictures, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
A Compliment to Love, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA
1999
Pleasures of the Palettes, Phoenician Resort, Phoenix, AZ
Video Forum, Art 30 Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Contemporary Representations, Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM
1998
New York at the End of the Century (Fin De Siecle), Center de Recherche et de Developpement Culturel CRDC Festival, Nantes, France
21st Benefit Exhibition, New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY
1997
Group Exhibition, Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
1996
Cerrillos Cultural Center Exhibition, Cerillos Cultural Space, Cerrillos, NM
Group Exhibition, Larvae Art Space, Brooklyn, NY
Pleasures of the Palettes, Phoenician Resort, Phoenix, AZ
1995
Synethesia, Off-Site, Santa Fe and Linda Durham Contemporary Art, Galisteo, NM
1994
Triskadecaphobia, 220 N. Guadalupe Street (Leased Space), Santa Fe, NM