Peter Soriano

Peter Soriano (born 1959) is a contemporary artist and sculptor. His works are included in the collections of the Colby College Museum of Art in Maine,[1] the Morgan Library & Museum in New York,[2] the Harvard Art Museums at Harvard University,[3] the Fonds national d'art contemporain (FNAC) in Paris, the Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, and the Wanås Foundation in Sweden.

Peter Soriano
Born1959 (1959)
Manila, Philippines
Alma materHarvard College
Websitepetersoriano.com

Life

Soriano was born in 1959 in Manila, in the Philippines, where his grandfather Andrés Soriano was a prominent industrialist and war hero.[4] He moved to the United States in 1981. He has studios in Penobscot, Maine, and in New York City,[5] where he and his wife, Nina Munk, own a townhouse.[6] Soriano has a BA in history of art from Harvard College, and also 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.[7]

Work

In the 1990s Soriano made 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.[8][9]

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 aluminum tubing, steel cable, and spray paint.[10][11] 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."[12] Beginning in 2012, his work became dominated by large-scale, graffiti-like wall paintings made of acrylic and spray paint, carried out on the basis of written instructions, as well as related drawings made on pleated Japanese paper.[13][14] “Simply put, Soriano has become a sculptor who doesn’t make objects,” wrote the poet and art critic John Yau.[15]

Selected Exhibitions

References
  1. ""Peter Soriano: Permanent Maintenance," Colby College Museum of Art". Colby.edu. Retrieved 15 October 2015.
  2. "Online Catalog of the Morgan Library & Museum". Corsair.themorgan.org. Retrieved 18 September 2013.
  3. "Works in Collection, Harvard Art Museums". Harvardartmuseums.org. Retrieved 18 September 2013.
  4. "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.
  5. "CMCA, "Bagaduce ->( )<- East 19th: Peter Soriano"". Center for Maine Contemporary Art. Retrieved 18 September 2013.
  6. 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.
  7. ""Peter Soriano Interviewed By Matthias Waschek," Pulitzer Arts Foundation" (PDF). Retrieved 18 September 2013.
  8. Pepe Karmel, "Art in Review," The New York Times, 24 March 1995]
  9. Nancy Princenthal, "Peter Soriano at Lennon, Weinberg," Art in America, May 2003.
  10. "Atelier Calder, "Peter Soriano"". Atelier-calder.com. Retrieved 18 September 2013.
  11. "Brian Dupont, "Where I Am Now: In Conversation with Peter Soriano," Idiom, 11 September 2012". Idiommag.com. 11 September 2012. Retrieved 18 September 2013.
  12. Raphael Rubinstein (4 May 2009). [4 May 2009 Provisional Painting]. Art in America. Accessed October 2018.
  13. "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.
  14. 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.
  15. "Surveyor of Shadows". Hyperallergic. 22 October 2016. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
  16. "Peter SORIANO – Running fix". FRAC Auvergne (in French). Retrieved 29 May 2019.
  17. "Domaine de Kerguéhennec, "Printemps 2012"" (in French). Kerguehennec.fr. Archived from the original on 18 September 2013. Retrieved 18 September 2013.
  18. "Colby College of Art announcement". Colby.edu. Retrieved 15 November 2015.
  19. "CIRCUIT announcement". CIRCUIT.it. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
  20. "les.artistes.2018 Lart dans les chapelles. Art contemporain et patrimoine en Bretagne". www.artchapelles.com. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
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