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Biography Peter Colquhoun was born in New York City in 1955. Drawing and painting began quite early but formal training began in 1972, with courses taken at the Brooklyn Museum Art School where he studied with Francis Cunningham and beginning in 1974 attended full-time until 1976. In 1975 Colquhoun studied briefly with Sheridan Lord and during the following year he enrolled in Robert Beverly Hale’s class at the Art Students League. In 1979 he began teaching painting at the newly formed New Brooklyn School which later merged with and became known as the New York Academy. In 1983, Colquhoun moved to Italy for a little over 2 years and at first he settled in Venice for 6 months where he was awarded an internship at the Peggy Guggenheim Museum. During this time he studied in depth the works of Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, Veronese, Tiepolo and Tintoretto. Later he painted and exhibited in various cities including a solo exhibition at the Fenice Gallery in Venice in 1985. Colquhoun also taught at the Centro del Arte Verrochio in Casole d’Elsa, Tuscany. After returning from Italy he attended Pratt Institute and graduated in 1989. During this time, urban landscape became an area of primary interest and activity and it continues to be so up to the present day. He currently teaches drawing at the Cosmopolitan Club in New York. Other solo exhibitions that have taken place include: the Institut Franco Americain in Rennes, France; the Westbeth Gallery (with another scheduled in April 2008) and the Roerich Museum in New York. Peter Colquhoun has additional work available for viewing at this time through the Whitney Gallery in Laguna Beach, California; the Marin-Price Gallery in Chevy Chase, Maryland and the Galerie von Stechow in Frankfurt, Germany. Among the residencies awarded to him, he has been to the Heliker-LaHotan Foundation on Cranberry Island in Maine; the Alfred and Trafford Klots in Brittany, France (twice); the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation in Taos, New Mexico; the I-Park Residency in East Haddam, Connecticut; and the Seascape Duneshack Residency in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Other awards have included the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Grant (twice), the Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant and the New York Foundation for the Arts Grant.