Peter Doig (b. 1959) is a Scottish artist, known as one of the most renowned living figurative painters.
Doig has held major solo exhibitions at Tate Britain, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris , Dallas Museum of Art, and Whitechapel Art Gallery. In 2014, a retrospective opened at Fondation Beyeler, Basel, which travelled to the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humblebaek, Denmark. His work is also represented in many international museum collections, including MoMA, New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Goetz Collection, Munich, Germany, Tate Modern, London, United Kindom and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel.
In 1993, Doig won the John Moores Painting Prize, and the following year, he was nominated for the Turner Prize. In 2017, he was named the Whitechapel Gallery Art Icon.
In 2021, he gifted the work Paraground Cricket (2010) to the Art of Wishes Gala auction.
Portrait of Peter Doig, photo by Fergus Carmichael, courtesy of The Courtauld,
