PETER HARKAWIK
Born
New York, New York
Lives and works in Los Angeles, California
Education
2011 MFA, Sculpture, Yale University of Art, New Haven
2007 Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine
2004 BA in Critical Theory, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA
Selected Exhibitions
2013 Solo Exhibition, Thomas Solomon Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (forthcoming)
2012 Foundered Planetarium, Works Cited (curated by Olivian Cha), Los Angeles, CA
Residency, Cite Internationale Universitaire de Paris, Paris, France
Summer Selections, Thomas Solomon Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
From the Collections of Young Americans, Know More Games, Brooklyn, NY
2011 Festival of Lights, curated by Jacques Vidal, Know More Games, New York, NY
Word Salad, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT
Invagination, curated by Cara Benedetto, Kara Walker Studio, New York, NY
2010 The Way Morning Broke... Annie Wharton LA, Los Angeles, CA
Precious, Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami, FL
Three Tall Men curated by Ben Lord, Space 1520, Los Angeles, CA
Seven Card Stud, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, CA
Stille Post, Kinkead Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
Hearts of Palm, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Man Without Numbers, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT
2009 Whitney's Biennial curated by Elise Rasmussen, New York, NY
Sculpture/Sabbath, Peter Cooper Park, New York, NY
Man/Supraman, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT
2008 From Panic to Power, Angstrom Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Reality Testing, curated by Victoria Fu, LACE, Los Angeles, CA
2007 Smoke and Mirrors, Marcuse Gallery, UCSD, San Diego, CA
Origin is the Goal, curated by Darin Klein, LACE, Los Angeles, CA
Site/Sound, Visual Arts Performance Space, UCSD, San Diego, CA
Pilot TV: Every Body Moves Against Control, ICA, Philadelphia, CA
2006 Smash and Tickle, 16:1 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2005 J'en Reve, Foundation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris, France
2004 Pilot Chicago, curated by Wu Tsang, Chicago, IL
New Media Northampton, Gallery TK, Northampton, MA
Bibliography
2011 Berardini, Andrew, "Growth Spurts," Artforum, January 27.
2010 McCorquodale, Amanda. "Scribbled, Exposed, Painted," Miami New Times, November 4.
Taft, Catherine. "Hearts of Palm," Artforum, November 2010.
2008 Harwitt, Maxwell. "Casual interview with Peter Harkawik," Lightning History.
2005 Vella, Vincent. "Info-World", SHIFT Japan vol. 107, October.
Hinet, Anne Charlotte. "Un été de reves", Journal l'Humanite, edition 19, August.
Davies, Serena. "The Shock of the Beautiful", The Daily Telegraph (London), June 8.
Awards and Curatorial projects
2012 Artist Residency, Cite Internationale Universitaire de Paris, Paris, France
2011 Touchy Feely (Curator), Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA
2010 The Type (moderator, panel discussion), Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY
2009 Visiting Artist, Maryland Instituted College of Art, Baltimore, MD
Darcy Lange: Work Studies (co-curated with Nathan Azhderian, Daniel Bozhkov), Yale
University School of Art, New Haven, CT
2007 Skowhegan Fellowship, Donald & Doris Fisher Fund
2002 Visiting Artist, "Grounded", Center for Land Use Interpretation, Wendover, UT