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Peter Soriano

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Peter Soriano
Born1959
Manila, Philippines
Alma materHarvard College
Websitepetersoriano.com

Peter Soriano (born 1959) is a Franco-American contemporary artist and sculptor. His works are included in numerous public collections, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,[1] the Morgan Library & Museum in New York,[2] the Harvard Art Museums in Massachusetts,[3] the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven,[4] the Portland Museum of Art in Maine, and the Fonds national d'art contemporain (FNAC) and Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain in Paris.

Life

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Soriano was born in 1959 in Manila, in the Philippines, where his grandfather Andrés Soriano was a prominent industrialist and war hero.[5] He moved to the United States in the 1970s. He has studios in Penobscot, Maine, Paris, France, and New York City,[6] where he and his wife, Nina Munk, own a townhouse.[7] After earning a BA in the history of art from Harvard College, Soriano studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. He has said that he learned painting from his uncle Fernando Zóbel de Ayala y Montojo.[8]

Work

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Soriano began his career in the 1990s making large biomorphic sculptures in polyester resin. While his earliest works seemed light-hearted and reminiscent of children's toys, his later sculptures became more “vexing,” to cite a critic, suggestive of industrial tools with an indeterminate purpose.[9][10]

In the mid-2000s, during a six-month residency at the Atelier Calder in Saché, in Indre-et-Loire in France, he started making wall installations using aluminium tubing, steel cable, and spray paint.[11][12] The critic Raphael Rubinstein, an editor at Art in America, mentioned these works as examples of what he calls "provisional painting," a style of art intentionally made to appear "casual, dashed-off, tentative, unfinished or self-cancelling."[13]

Beginning in 2012, Soriano's work became dominated by large-scale, wall drawings made of graphite, acrylic and spray paint, carried out on the basis of written instructions, as well as related drawings made on pleated Japanese paper.[14][15] “Simply put, Soriano has become a sculptor who doesn’t make objects,” wrote John Yau.[16]

More recently, according to a museum press release, Soriano has been working on a long-term project that "documents the rapidly changing natural environment of the High North, specifically snow, glaciers, and icebergs."[17] In 2022 and 2023, one work in this project, a 28-foot-long wall drawing titled Ilulissat, Disko Bugt, a reference to the location in Greenland where the artist used "an almost scientific process of observation and documentation" to capture to impermanence of icebergs, was installed and exhibited the Portland Museum of Art in Maine, the Reykjavik Art Museum in Iceland, and the Bildmuseet in Sweden.[18][19]

Selected exhibitions

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References

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  1. ^ "MFA Boston, The Museum Year 2011, Acquisitions: Prints, Drawings, and Photographs". mfa.org. Retrieved 11 March 2023.
  2. ^ "Online Catalog of the Morgan Library & Museum". themorgan.org. Retrieved 18 September 2013.
  3. ^ "Works in Collection, Peter Soriano, Harvard Art Museums". Harvardartmuseums.org. Retrieved 10 November 2023.
  4. ^ ""Collections / Objects / The Wave / Artist: Peter Soriano" Yale University Art Gallery". artgallery.yale.edu. Retrieved 10 November 2023.
  5. ^ "ANDRES SORIANO, INDUSTRIALIST, 66; Philippine War Hero Is Dead—Built Business Empire". The New York Times. 31 December 1964. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
  6. ^ a b "CMCA, "Bagaduce ->( )<- East 19th: Peter Soriano"". Center for Maine Contemporary Art. Retrieved 18 September 2013.
  7. ^ Matt Chaban (20 March 2012). "Matt Chaban, "VF Writer Nina Munk and Artist Peter Soriano Buy P.R. Queen's Six-Story Townhouse," The New York Observer, 20 March 2012". Observer.com. Retrieved 18 September 2013.
  8. ^ ""Peter Soriano Interviewed By Matthias Waschek," Pulitzer Arts Foundation" (PDF). Retrieved 18 September 2013.
  9. ^ Pepe Karmel, "Art in Review," The New York Times, 24 March 1995
  10. ^ Nancy Princenthal, "Peter Soriano at Lennon, Weinberg," Art in America, May 2003
  11. ^ "Atelier Calder, "Peter Soriano"". Atelier-calder.com. Retrieved 18 September 2013.
  12. ^ "Brian Dupont, "Where I Am Now: In Conversation with Peter Soriano," Idiom, 11 September 2012". Idiommag.com. 11 September 2012. Retrieved 18 September 2013.
  13. ^ Raphael Rubinstein (4 May 2009). [4 May 2009 Provisional Painting]. Art in America. Accessed October 2018.
  14. ^ "David Carrier, "In Search of the Mutable: Peter Soriano at Lennon Weinberg," Art Critical, 23 February 2013". Artcritical.com. 23 February 2013. Retrieved 18 September 2013.
  15. ^ Maine, Stephen (1 March 2013). "Stephen Maine, "Peter Soriano: Lennon, Weinberg, Inc./New York," Artillery Magazine, 1 March 2013". Artillerymag.com. Retrieved 18 September 2013.
  16. ^ "Surveyor of Shadows". Hyperallergic. 22 October 2016. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
  17. ^ "Peter Soriano, Portland Museum of ArtDavid Carrier, 2022". Retrieved 30 May 2022.
  18. ^ "Peter Soriano, Portland Museum of ArtDavid Carrier, 2022". Retrieved 30 May 2022.
  19. ^ a b "PMA, "Down Иorth: North Atlantic Triennial"". Reykjavik Art Museum. Retrieved 25 December 2022.
  20. ^ "Peter SORIANO – Running fix". FRAC Auvergne (in French). Retrieved 29 May 2019.
  21. ^ "Domaine de Kerguéhennec, "Printemps 2012"" (in French). Kerguehennec.fr. Archived from the original on 18 September 2013. Retrieved 18 September 2013.
  22. ^ "Colby College of Art announcement". Colby.edu. Retrieved 15 November 2015.
  23. ^ "CIRCUIT announcement". CIRCUIT.it. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
  24. ^ "les.artistes.2018 Lart dans les chapelles. Art contemporain et patrimoine en Bretagne". www.artchapelles.com. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
  25. ^ "PMA, "Down North: North Atlantic Triennial"". Portland Museum of Art. Retrieved 30 May 2022.
  26. ^ "PMA, "Down North / Contemporary Art in the Arctic"". Bildmuseet. Retrieved 10 November 2023.
  27. ^ "MFA, Boston, "Hokusai: Inspiration and Influence"". Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Retrieved 10 November 2023.
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