PETER LABIER

Born in Washington, D.C., 1980.
Lives and works in New York, USA.

EDUCATION

2017 MFA Columbia University, New York, NY

2003 B.A. in Studio Art, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY

SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2021 Salon de Espera, STO LAT Online Viewing Room, Brooklyn NY

2018 Peter LaBier and Amanda Friedman, Safe Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

         Trample the Flowers, Mom’s gallery, New York, NY

2010 Collected of You, Agent Gallery, Chicago, IL

2009 Citygarden and Microscope, Peter LaBier & Kristopher Benedict, Nina Johnson Gallery, Miami, FL

         Disjecta Membra, 179 Canal Street, New York, NY

SELECTED PERFORMANCES

2018 NADA Presents: Peter LaBier, Mirror Portraits, interactive drawing performance, Skylight Clarkson Square, New York, NY

2017 Performa 17: Brian Belott, People Pie Pool, dance performance, Abrons Arts Center, New York, NY

2016 In Response: Unorthodox, music and dance performance, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY

2014 Trance Hunting, music and dance performance in collaboration with Meredith James, Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, NY

2010 Music and dance performance as Psychobuildings in collaboration with Kevin Zucker and Ryan Johnson, Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, NY

         Music and dance performance as Psychobuildings in collaboration with Kevin Zucker and Ryan Johnson, Triple Canopy, Brooklyn, NY

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021 The Displaced Image, Ortega Y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY

2020 All By Myself, Hesse Flatow (in collaboration with Drawer), New York, NY

2019 Surreality, Crush Curatorial, New York, NY

2018 Between the Rock and Bed, Memorial Hall Painting Gallery at RISD, Providence, RI

         Reading Room, Life Lessons Project Space, Far Rockaways, NY

         LOVE, Neiman Gallery Columbia University, New York, NY

         Flower Sermon, Yui Gallery, New York, NY

2017 Cupid Angling, E.O. Bull Center for the Arts, West Chester University, West Chester, PA

         Columbia Summer Show, False Flag Projects, Queens, NY

         Cat’s Claw, Mom’s, New York, NY

         Columbia MFA Thesis 2017, Wallach Gallery, New York, NY

2016 Super Sketchy, DCTV, New York, NY

         Finished Goods Warehouse, Pfizer Warehouse, Brooklyn, NY

         Columbia 1st Year Show, Wallach Gallery, New York, NY

2015 The Space Within, The New Gallery E.O. Bull Center for the Arts, West Chester University, West Chester, PA

2014 The Jam 3.0, Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, New York, NY

         Some Nights When Nothing Happens, Usable Space, Milwaukee, WI

2013 Page 179, Artforum, Brennan & Griffin, New York, NY

         Flowers, Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, New York, NY

         Houston Galeria, The Brendan, Houston, TX

         Summer Group Show, Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, New York NY

         Freak Out, P339 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2012 The Jam, Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, New York, NY

         Can’t Stop Rock Lobster, Shoot the Lobster, New York, NY

2011 Paper A-Z, Sue Scott Gallery, New York, NY

2010 Selections, curated by Ross Bleckner, LA Art House, Los Angeles, CA

2009 Second Skin, Gallery Diet, Miami, FL

2008 L’Amerika, Harburger Kulturtag, Hamburg, DE

         Precinct: Konzert und Videospielhalle, COMA, Berlin, DE

         Precinct: Konzert und Videospielhalle, Hooker Projects, Berlin, DE

         Precinct: Konzert und Videospielhalle, Fleetstreet Theatre, Hamburg, DE

         Gangbusters, Plane Space, New York, NY

2007 Gimme a Little Sign, Sister, Los Angeles, CA

         Three on the Tree, Plane Space, New York, NY

2006 Claw Your Face Off, Plane Space, New York, NY

2004 Evanston Biennial, Evanston, IL

RESIDENCIES

2009 The Fountainhead Residency, Miami, FL

2008 Fleetstreet Theatre, Hamburg, DE

2005 Cooper Union Summer Residency, Cooper Union, New York, NY

PUBLICATIONS

2018 Raritan Review, Volume XXXVIII, Number 2, “A Patch of Blue”

         Raritan Review, Volume XXXVIII, Number 1, “White Fright”

2010 Raritan Review, Volume XXX, Number 1, “Dance Shoes”

         Raritan Review, Volume XXX, Number 2, “Lonely Shell”

         Raritan Review, Volume XXX, Number 3, “Ecospheres”

         Raritan Review, Volume XXX, Number 4, “Tasco 450”

2007 Raritan Review, Volume XXVI, Number 4, “Untitled”

CURATING

2018 Cheeky: Summer Butts, Marinaro Gallery, New York, NY

2017 Retreat, Mom’s, New York, NY

WRITING

2006 Introduction to Monday Afternoon Club—works by Joshua Abelow, published by Branch Gallery, Durham, NC

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

2018 John Chiaverina, “Egg Baby: Peter LaBier Debuts Zine of Childhood Drawings at Brooklyn’s Safe Gallery,” Art News, May 18th, 2018

         Alec Coiro, “Amanda Friedman and Peter LaBier at Safe Gallery,” Ravelin. May 2018

2014 Roberta Smith, “The Jam 3.0,” The New York Times (Art & Design), June—August, 2014

2013 Robert Boyd, “It’s Nice to Share: LaBier, Gendel and Lokiec at the Brandon,” The Great God Pan is Dead, October 27th, 2013

2007 Amra Brooks, “Must See Art,” LA Weekly, June 21, 2007, p.42

         David Pagel, “When Slacker Artists Go Abstract,” LA Times, July 13, 2007, pp. E26-E27

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