Elizabeth Peyton

About The Author

Elizabeth Peyton (b. 1965) attended the School of Visual Arts in New York from 1984 to 1987. The artist had her first solo exhibition in 1987 at Althea Viafora Gallery in New York. In 2008, the New Museum, New York, organized the mid-career retrospective, Live Forever: Elizabeth Peyton. In 2019, the National Portrait Gallery, London, presented Elizabeth Peyton: Aire and Angels, in which the artist’s paintings were presented alongside historical works of portraiture drawn from the museum’s permanent collection. The UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, presented the solo exhibition Elizabeth Peyton: Practice in 2020.

Books by Elizabeth Peyton

Elizabeth Peyton: Angel
Peyton’s new work unveils a holy world of cultural luminaries

Elizabeth Peyton’s art is one of glances and gestures that become indistinguishable from her in the moment she paints them. The works are an expression of specificity, but also of Peyton’s extraordinary ability to iden...
BACK TO TOP