| Born | 1939, Los Angeles, CA | |
| EDUCATION | ||
| 1957-60 | University of Pennsylvania | |
| 1960-62 | Architectural Association, London, England | |
| 1965 | University of California, Los Angeles, B.A. | |
| 1966 | University of California, Los Angeles, M.F.A. | |
| ARTIST IN RESIDENCE | ||
| 2007 | Pasadena City College, Pasadena, California | |
| 1996 | California State University Long Beach, Summer Arts Festival | |
| 1983 | Sarabhai Foundation, Ahmedabad, India | |
| 1982 | Centrum Foundation, Washington | |
| 1981 | University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado | |
| 1976 | California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach California | |
| 1971 | California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California | |
| 1966 | California State University Long Beach, Summer Arts Festival | |
| SPECIAL PROJECTS/AWARDS | ||
| 2003 | Commissioned painting for Walt Disney Hall, Los Angeles, California | |
| 1999 | Peter Alexander: In This Light, Retrospective Exhibition, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California | |
| 1994 | Commissioned sculpture for the 777 Building, Los Angeles, architect Cesar Pelli, client South Figueroa Plaza Associates | |
| 1985 | Commissioned art for Rebecca’s Restaurant, Frank Gehry, architechect | |
| Visual images in collaboration with Frank Gehry and Ron Hays. | ||
| 1984 | “Amphitheatre of Light: A Prelude to the XXIII Olympiad, Hollywood Bowl, July 27, 1984; | |
| 1980 | Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts | |
| SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS | ||
| 2011 | Survey 1970 - 2010 Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, California | |
| 2010 | Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, New York | |
| 2009 | Gallery g169, “Velvets and Palms”, Santa Monica, California | |
| Nyehaus, New York, New York | ||
| 2008 | Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, California | |
| 2007 | Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, California | |
| Pasadena City College, College Art Gallery, Pasadena, California | ||
| Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, New York | ||
| 2006 | Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, California | |
| 2004 | Franklin Parrasach Gallery, New York, New York | |
| Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, California | ||
| 2003 | Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, California | |
| 2002 | Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, California | |
| Peter Blake gallery, Laguna Beach, California | ||
| Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, California | ||
| 2000 | Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, California | |
| 1999 | Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, California | |
| “Peter Alexander: In This Light”, Orange County Museum of Art, | ||
| Newport Beach, California (retrospective catalogue) | ||
| 1998 | Stremmel Gallery, Reno, Nevada | |
| Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, California | ||
| 1994 | Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York (catalogue) | |
| Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco | ||
| Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica | ||
| 1993 | Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans | |
| “Las Vegas”, James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles | ||
| 1991 | Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco | |
| 1992 | “Century: A Painting by Peter Alexander”, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California | |
| “Skycam”, James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles | ||
| 1990 | Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans | |
| 1989 | James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles (catalogue) | |
| 1987 | James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles | |
| 1986 | James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles | |
| 1985 | Charles Cowles Gallery, New York | |
| James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles | ||
| 1984 | Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco | |
| Charles Cowles Gallery, New York | ||
| Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco | ||
| 1983 | ARCO Center for Visual Art, Los Angeles (catalogue) | |
| Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (catalogue) | ||
| 1982 | Thomas Babeor Gallery, La Jolla, California | |
| Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles | ||
| Charles Cowles Gallery, New York | ||
| 1981 | James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles | |
| 1980 | Los Angeles Institute for Contemporary Art | |
| Riko Mizuno Gallery, Los Angeles | ||
| 1976 | California State University, Long Beach | |
| 1975 | University of California, Irvine 1988 | |
| 1972 | Jack Glenn Gallery, San Diego, California | |
| 1970 | Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles | |
| 1969 | Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston, Texas | |
| 1968 | Robert Elkon Gallery, New York | |
| SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS | ||
| 2010 | “Primary Atmospheres”, David Zwirner Gallery, New York, New York | |
| “The Last Plastics Show”, Cardwell Jimmerson Contemporary Art, Culver City, California | ||
| “Elements of Nature”, Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, California and City of Lancaster Museum, Lancaster, California | ||
| “Perspective 2010?, Stremmel Gallery, Reno, Nevada | ||
| “Swell”, Nyehaus, Metro Pictures and Petzel Gallery, New York, New York | ||
| “Shades of Blue”, Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, California | ||
| “Outside the Box: Edition Jacob Samuel, 1988-2010?, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California | ||
| 2009 | “Draw the Line”, Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, California | |
| “The Beast in Me”, Bowman/Bloom Gallery, New York, New York | ||
| “Modern and Contemporary Paintings, Drawings, Prints and Sculpture”, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Inc., Los Angeles | ||
| “Elements of Nature”, Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Malibu, California | ||
| “Let There Be Light”, Raid Projects, Los Angeles | ||
| 2008 | “Eye on the Sixties: Vision, Body and Soul: American Art from the Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson Collection”, de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, California | |
| “Fresh Air”. Brooke Alexander Editions, New York, New York | ||
| “Nepotism”, LA Contemporary Gallery, Los Angeles | ||
| 2007 | “Julius Shulman and Peter Alexander: Light and Space in Los Angeles”, The Gallery, The Archer School for Girls, Los Angeles, CA | |
| “Imaging and Imagining California Modern”, Orange County Museum of Art | ||
| “The Left Coast”, Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, California | ||
| Group Summer Show, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco | ||
| "SoCal”, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California | ||
| 2005 | “Craig Krull Gallery“, Santa Monica, California | |
| “"Wilder"“, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York | ||
| “"West: Frank Gehry and the Artists of Venice Beach, 1962-1978"“, Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, University of Minneapolis, Minnesota | ||
| 2004 | “Cities of Promise: Imaging Urban California”, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California | |
| “Beyond Geometry”, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California | ||
| 2003 | “Made in California: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation Collection, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, Louisiana: and Todd Madigan Gallery at California State University, Bakersfireld | |
| “L.A.’s Finish Fetish”, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, New York | ||
| ‘California Artists of the Elkon Gallery”, The Elkon Gallery, New York, New York | ||
| 2001 | ‘Representing L.A.’, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas (catalog) | |
| 2000 | “Made in California: Art, Image and Identity, 1900-2000”, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California | |
| 1999 | “Radical Past: Contemporary Art and Music in Pasadena, 1960-1974”, Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena, California | |
| 1998 | “Light and Space”, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California | |
| 1995 | “P.L.A.N.: Photography Los Angeles Now”, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California | |
| “Landscapes, Figures and Still Lifes”, Ochi Gallery, Ketchum, Idaho | ||
| 1994 | “75 Works, 75 Years: Collecting the Art of California”, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California | |
| “Selected Works on Paper”, Modernism, San Francisco | ||
| “Best of the West”, Zero One Gallery, Los Angeles | ||
| “City Art”, Millard Sheets Gallery, Pomona, California | ||
| “The Frederick Weisman Collection”, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California | ||
| 1993 | “Sculpture and Multiples”, Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York | |
| 1992 | “Individual Realities in the California Art Scene”, Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo and Seibu Tsukashin Hall, Amagisaki,Japan | |
| 1991 | “Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Gallery forContemporary Art”, San Diego Museum of Art | |
| 1990 | “Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation”, Neuberger Museum, Purchase, New York | |
| 1987 | “Los Angeles Today: Contemporary Visions”, Amerika Haus, Berlin | |
| “Selections from the Permanent Collection”, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis | ||
| 1986 | “Peter Alexander/Nicholas Wilder”, James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles | |
| “The Golden Land”, San Diego Museum of Art | ||
| 1985 | “Spectrum: Los Angeles”, Hartje Gallery, Berlin (catalogue) | |
| “Made in India”, Museum of Modern Art, New York | ||
| 1984 | “An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture", Museum of Modern Art, New York (catalogue) | |
| 1983 | “Corcoran Biennial”, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. | |
| 1982 | “Echange Entre Artistes, 1931-1982: Pologne-USA”, Museum of Modern Art, Paris and Museum of Modern Art, Lodz, Poland | |
| 1976 | “Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era”, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art | |
| 1973 | “The State of California Painting”, Auckland City Art Museum, New Zealand (catalogue) | |
| 1972 | “Documenta ‘72”, Kassel, Germany | |
| 1971 | “Transparency, Reflection, Light, Space”, UCLA Art Galleries, Los | |
| 1970 | “300: New Multiple Art”, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (catalogue) | |
| 1969 | “New Materials and Methods”, Museum of Modern Art, New York | |
| “Whitney Annual”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalogue) | ||
| “Fourteen Sculptors: The Industrial Edge”, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (catalogue) | ||
| PUBLIC COLLECTIONS | ||
| Akron Art Institute, Ohio | ||
| Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio | ||
| Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. | ||
| Des Moines Art Center, Iowa | ||
| Eli Broad Collection, Los Angeles | ||
| Flint Institute of the Arts, Michigan | ||
| Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts | ||
| Fort Worth Art Museum, Texas | ||
| Frederick R. Weisman Foundation of Art, Los Angeles | ||
| Fresno Art Museum, California | ||
| Getty Museum, Malibu, California | ||
| Voorhees Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey | ||
| J.B. Speed Museum, Louisville, Kentucky | ||
| Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska | ||
| La Jolla Museum, California | ||
| Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California | ||
| Lannan Foundation, Los Angeles | ||
| Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California | ||
| Metropolitan Museum, New York | ||
| Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minnesota | ||
| Museum of Contemporary Art, Honolulu, Hawaii | ||
| Museum of Modern Art, New York | ||
| New Orleans Museum of Art, Louisiana | ||
| New York Public Library, Spencer Collection, New York | ||
| Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena, California | ||
| Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California Oakland Museum, California | ||
| Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York | ||
| Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey | ||
| Rochester Memorial Art Gallery, New York | ||
| San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, California | ||
| San Diego Museum of Art, California | ||
| San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California | ||
| Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York | ||
| Stanford University Art Museum, Palo Alto, California | ||
| University of California, Berkeley | ||
| University of California, Santa Barbara | ||
| Vancouver Museum of Art, British Columbia, Canada | ||
| Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota | ||
