at home: Artists in Conversation | Peter Doig

Peter Doig, artist, in conversation with Sheena Wagstaff, Leonard A. Lauder Chairman, Modern and Contemporary Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

"at home: Artists in Conversation"
Join us for lively and inspiring conversations with some of today’s most notable artists. "at home: Artists in Conversation" brings together curators and artists to discuss various artistic practices and insights into their work. This program was recorded on October 1, 2021, at 12 pm ET.

About Peter Doig
Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1959, Doig spent much of his childhood on Trinidad and in Canada. In 1979 he moved to London, where he began his studies at the Wimbledon School of Art. He received his BA in 1986 at Central Saint Martins and his MA from the Chelsea College of Arts, London. Doig returned to Trinidad in 2002 for an artist’s residency with his friend and fellow painter Chris Ofili and set up a studio at Caribbean Contemporary Arts near Port of Spain. His abstract figurative and landscape compositions draw on his experiences or art historical references, and he often finds inspiration in photographs, films, album covers, and artists he admires such as Paul Gauguin, Edward Hopper, and Edvard Munch. Music also plays a strong role.

Doig served as a trustee of the Tate (1995–2000), in 2008 was awarded the Wolfgang Hahn Prize of the Society for Modern Art, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, and in 2017 won the Whitechapel Gallery Art Icon Award. He has had solo shows throughout Europe and the United States, including a midcareer survey organized by Tate Britain in 2008 and an exhibition in 2013 at the Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh. His work is in museums and collections throughout the world including the British Museum, London; the Goetz Collection, Munich; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris; the National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Doig lives and works in London and Trinidad.

This program is presented through the generosity of the Terry F. Green 1969 Fund for British Art and Culture.

Photo of Peter Doig by Rain Riyahi

[luiscocina]

Wonderful and very beautiful Peter Doig, with love from Chile

[war-painter]

Love Peter Doig’s work and love that he included Denzil Forrester’s painting in there, which was superb. Didn’t Peter Doig move back to London? Recent work at Courtould.

[chineainguanzo]

Peter is right, this happens to me all the time, I feel that an empty canvas is a challenge.but he says he likes it when he doesn't know what is the painting going to look like at the end.
I have the same opinion.
I love his interviews, he is real.

[Luke-Emmanuel]

Trinidad is also an island of thousands of unrecognized talent for decades

[fatoomgierdien]

An interesting video. I love the commentator and her understanding of what she has not been part of, and yet she is present with the artist. Cape Town

[RichardStephens-rd]

So you placed the video inset so that it would overlap the painting? Great move, Yale.

[christinecovert]

Previously unfamiliar with this artist and some of the others mentioned. Such fun to follow through after the rather dry interview and really look at the breadth of the work.

[Zincink]

I couldn't get past the art awards countdown.

[harry]

International art stars are obviously selected by those who control the art scene to be the stars

[philcorey]

Art has become way too verbal & can t be looked at or experienced in a Gestalt way but people or critics can only validate it if it fits into a political or narrative box .no one talks or responds to pure beauty .Artists should NOT talk about or be interviewed about their work .Also their liv es or what people know about their lives in a moral sense should have NO bearing on how their work is regarded & exhibited - Caravaggio murdered someone but he is & should be regarded as the greatest painter

[painter]

But first one has to know who finances this Yale Center, because nowadays the whole finance / funding / sponsoring thing is an extreme shady and criminial phenomenon.