Peter Hristoff

Peter Hristoff is an instructor of painting and drawing at the School of Visual Arts, New York, NY. Lives
and works in New York and Istanbul.

1958 Born Istanbul
1981 School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, BFA (full scholarship).
1983 Hunter College, New York, NY, MFA

Solo Exhibitions
Yol, C.A.M. Gallery
Memento Istanbul: Hristoff Family Archive, Yapı Kredi Culture Arts and Publishing
Heroes, C.A.M. Gallery, Istanbul
In the Garden, C.A.M. Gallery, Istanbul
İlmek İlmek Meandros, Meandros Festival 2008, Priene, Güllübahçe, Turkey
Happy/Sad: Survey Exhibition, Yapi Kredi Cultural Center, Istanbul
Pray, (Rugs), Hagia Sphia Museum, Istanbul/ Pray, (Paintings and Drawings) C.A.M.
Gallery, Istanbul
Hully Gully, David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY
“Paintings and Works on Paper” Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The History of Anatolian Folk Music, Fosdic-Nelson Gallery, Alfred University Art
Museum
“The Book of Sean” David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY
Yapi Kredi Cultural Center, Istanbul, Izmir, Adana, Turkey
David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY
Peter Hristoff: Paintings, Collages and Works on Paper,
“Peter Hristoff: Paintings, Collages and Works on Paper” David Beitzel Gallery, New
York, NY
The Sky Unfolds in Mysterious Ways, David Beitzel Gallery, Project Room, New York, NY
David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY
Shea & Bornstein Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
“Collage and Ink Drawings” Penine Hart, New York, NY.
Artist’s Journal, David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY
Mincher/Wilcox Gallery, San Francisco, CA
David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY
fiction/nonfiction, New York, NY
Paulo Salvador Gallery, New York, NY

Selected Group Exhibitions

2017 In Shadow, C.A.M. Gallery, Istanbul
2015
Things That Count... Things That Don’t, The Abrazo Interno Gallery at The Clemente,
New York, NY
START ‘Art within Reach’ vol. III, C.A.M. Gallery, Istanbul
Pagina, Antica Libreria Casci anelli, Roma, Italy
2014
East of Eden, Gallery Pryzmat Krakow, Poland
Contemporary Istanbul ‘14
Start ‘Art within Reach’ vol. II, C.A.M. Gallery, Istanbul.
2013
“Handy Minds,” Michael Mut Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Luiza Cardenuto
“Sublime Port: An Exhibition of Contemporary Turkish Art,” St. Johns University,
Queens, NY
2022
2022
Dynasty, Hotel Particuliere, New York, NY
2012 “In Black and White” C.A.M. Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
“The End is Also the Beginning” C.A.M. Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
Blessed are the Artists: Spirituality and Religon in Contemporary Art” Caldwell
College, Caldwell, NJ
2011 Ego Busters IV, C.A.M. Gallery, Istanbul
Contemporary Istanbul ‘11
“Rotation” Lohin Geduld Gallery, New York, NY
“Meandros Festival 2011” Priene, Gullubahce, Turkey
2010 Istanbul Cool!, LTMH Gallery, NY
“Housebroken” Flux Factorty, New York, NY
“Special Features” Residency Unlimited at Kumukumu Gallery, New York, NY
Eye/World, Triple Candy, New York, NY
“That’s Life!” Pera Film, Pera Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
“East Meets West on the East End” Tripoli Gallery, Southhampton, NY
Meandros Festival 2010” Priene, Gullubahce, Turkey
2009 Octet, Pera Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
“Octet: Codes and Contexts in Recent Art” Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY
2008 Under the Influence, C.A.M. Gallery, Istanbul, curated by Susan Inglett
2007 Il Vento Scrive, Galleria Italarte, Rome, Italy
2006 Ego Busters, C.A.M. Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
Deluge, Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004 Languor, Lohin Geduld Gallery, New York, NY
Üç Istanbullu, Yapi Kredi Cultural Center, Istanbul, Turkey
2002 Beyond Boundaries, Solomon Fine Art, Seattle, WA
2001 Summer Group Exhibition, David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY
2000 Patterened Flowers, George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
“Summer Group Exhibition” David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY
“Istanbullu” The Gallery at the Marmara Hotel, New York, NY
1999 Wild Flowers, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
“Summer Group Exhibition” David Bietzel Gallery, New York, NY
Imaginative Liberties: Peter Hristoff, Steve DeFrank, Mark Harris, and Judy
Mannarino,” The Work Space, New York, NY
1998 “Convergence” George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
1997 “Coming Home Again, School of Visual Arts Fine Arts Alumni: the 80’s to 90’s” Visual
Arts Gallery, New York, NY
“Summer Group Show,” David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY
“Ornament and Landscape: On the Nature of Artifice,” Apex Art, New York, NY
1996 “The Great Pretender” Penine Hart, New York, NY
1995 “Insight” David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY
“Con Figure - Aperto 95” Arci-Gay, S. Giacomo Dell’Orio, Venice, Italy
“A Communique from North America” Foundacion Rojas, Buenos Aires, curated by Bill
Arning
1994 “Trees” Midtown Payson Gallery, New York, NY
“Inaugural Exhibition,” Quo Quo’s, Hong Kong, 1993 - 1994. *
1993 “Intimate Universe,” Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Michael Walls Gallery,
New York, NY, 1992.
“Bodily” Penine Hart Gallery, New York, NY
1992 “Things” Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
“Paper Houses” David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY
“Contemporary Surfaces” Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Rick
Ward.
“Transparency” Luise Ross Gallery, New York, NY
“The Wall Project” Sculpture Center, New York, NY
1991 “Art for Your Collection XXVIII” Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design,
Providence, RI
“Ten Years: A Decade of the MFA Program at Hunter College” Hunter College Art
Gallery, New York, NY
“New Work,” David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY
“Bion” Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago, IL
“Geometric Considerations” Capital Cities/ABC, New York, NY, Museum of Modern
Art, Art Advisory Service, curated by Erica Behrens.
1990 “New York, New York” KX-Kunst auf Kampnagel, Hamburg, West Germany
Group Show, Penine Hart Gallery, New York, NY
1989 Group Show, David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY
Group Show, Mincher/Wilcox Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Lydia Dona, Peter Hristoff, Susana Jaime-Mena, Chris Macdonald” David Beitzel
Gallery, New York, NY
“Abstraction as Landscape” Gallery Urban, New York, NY
“Is This A Small Picture?” Henry Feiwell, New York, NY
1988 “Annual Benefit Exhibition,” White Columns, New York, NY
“Looking At New Work” Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, NY
“The Four Corners of Abstraction,” White Columns, Inter-national Gallery Invitational,
New York, NY curated by Bill Arning.
“School of Visual Arts -- Selected Works” Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
1987 “New American Talent” Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX
“Did It Again” Binoche et Godeau, Paris, France
“Preview” fiction/nonfiction, New York, NY
1986 “Ab-Stracted-Land-Scapes,” Robbin Lockett Gallery, Chicago, IL
“Works on Paper” Althea Viafora Gallery, New York, NY
“In Black and White” Ted Greenwald Gallery, New York, NY
“Inaugural Exhibition” Robbin Lockett Gallery, Chicago, IL
“Perfect” Paulo Salvador Gallery, New York, NY
1985 Group Show, Liedewij Edelkoort Gallery, Paris, France
“Friends and Friends of Friends” Paulo Salvador Gallery, New York, NY
1984 “Fusion” Paulo Salvador Gallery, New York, NY
1982 “Painters”Tompkins Square Library Gallery, New York, NY
“Young New York Painters” Ballard Mill Center Gallery, Malone, NY
1981 Invitational, Club 57, New York, NY
Residences
2015-2016 Artist in residence, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Awards

2005 Moon and Stars Project Grant
1997 New York Foundation for the Arts Award in Drawing
1994 The Joan Mitchell Foundation Award