Peter Fraser
Born 1953
Lives and works in London
Fraser recently completed a two and a half year artist’s residency at Oxford University, resulting in purchase for a new Biochemistry building. He has also completed a new Ffotogallery, Cardiff, commission to produce new work in Wales for the recent exhibition and publication ‘Lost for Words’ in March 2010. He is currently working on a major new series of photographs in London.
His work for Oxford University during his artist residency features in the forthcoming publication Salt Bridges: Changing Perspectives of Art, Architecture and Science, ISBN 978-3-7913-5026-4 (June 2010). Fraser is also included in a definitive Hayward Touring exhibition, ‘No Such Thing As Society’, of British Photography between 1967 and 1987, curated by Professor David Mellor, which opened the UK in autumn 2008, then travelling to Poland, recently in Sweden and will open next at the National Museum and Art Gallery, Cardiff, Wales, on 4th July 2009 and then to The Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, UK on 31st October 2009.
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one-person exhibitions |
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| 2010 | Lost for Words, Ffotogallery, Cardiff, Wales. |
| 2003 | The Inconsiderable Things, University of Brighton Gallery (with Rachel Harrison), England. |
| 2002 | Peter Fraser, The Photographers’ Gallery, London. |
| 1999 | Peter Fraser, Gallerie 213, Paris, France. |
| 1997-1998 | Deep Blue, Viewpoint Gallery, Salford; Ffotogallery, Cardiff; Cambridge Darkroom, Tullie House, Carlisle. |
| 1996 | Deep Blue, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London. |
| 1995 | Ice and Water, St Louis Museum of Art, Missouri, USA. |
| 1994 | Ice and Water, James Hockey Gallery, Farnham, England. |
| 1993 | Ice and Water, Cornerhouse, Manchester, England. |
| 1989 | Triptychs, Interim Art, London, England. |
| 1988 | Towards an Absolute Zero, Watershed, Bristol, England; Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth, England; Ffotogallery, Cardiff, Wales. |
| 1987 | Spectrum Galerie, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany. |
| 1986 | Everyday Icons, Photographers Gallery, London; Photo Gallery Hippolyte, Helsinki; toured the United Kingdom. |
| 1985 | 12 Day Journey, Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, England; Axiom, Cheltenham, England. |
| 1984 | New Colour, Oldham Art Gallery, Oldham, England; Arnolfini, Bristol, England. |
| 1983 | New Colour, The Photographer’s Corridor,University of Wales,Cardiff. |
| 1982 | The Flower Bridge, Impressions Gallery, York, England. |
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selected group exhibitions |
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| 2008 |
‘Troubled Waters’, 12 Still Lives from the Siemens Photography Collection, Galerie Neue Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Germany, is now on in Warsaw ‘No Such Thing As Society’, Photography in Britain 1967-1987, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Wales ‘I Hate Green’, Ffotogallery Commissions in Wales – Part 1, Turner House Gallery, Penarth, Wales |
| 2006 | Patrick de Brock, gallery artists show, Knokke, Belgium |
| 2005 | BAWAG Foundation, Vienna, Austria, ‘Funky Lessons’ |
| 2004 |
Citigroup Photography Prize 2004, Kunst Palast, Dusseldorf, Germany Citigroup Photography Prize 2004, The Photographers’ Gallery, London |
| 2003 | Jede Fotografie ein Bild, Seimens Collection, Pinokothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany. |
| 2001 | Nothing exhibition, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, travelling to the Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania, and the Rooseum, Malmo, Sweden. |
| 1998 | Summer Show, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London. |
| 1994 | Institute of Cultural Anxiety: Works from the Collection, ICA, London. |
| 1993 | Patrick de Brock, Antwerp, Belgium. |
| 1992 |
Galerie Jennifer Flay, Decouvert Art Fair, Paris. Mehr Als Ein Bild, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany. |
| 1991 |
Pamela Golden, Marcus Hansen, Peter Fraser, Interim Art, London. Curt Marcus Invitational, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, USA. |
| 1990 | Interim Art, London. |
| 1989 |
Foto Biennale Enschede, Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede, Holland. Through The Looking Glass, Barbican Art Gallery, London. Photo-Sculpture, Watershed, Bristol, England. Recent Acquisitions, Hayward Gallery, London |
| 1988 |
A British View, Museum for Gestaltung, Zurich. Towards a Bigger Picture, Victoria and Albert Museum, London. |
| 1987 |
Inscriptions and Incidents, A British Council Exhibition, P.R.O.K.A, Ghent, Belgium, toured to Luxembourg, Italy and Germany. Sun Life Photography Awards, National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, Bradford, England. |
| 1986 |
I Hate Green, The Ffotogallery, Cardiff, Wales. New British Documentary, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. The Animal Show, Photographers Gallery, London. 50 Years of Modern Colour Photography, Photokina, Cologne, Germany. |
| 1985 |
A Sense of Place, Interim Art, London. Image and exploration, Photographers Gallery, London. Axiom Review, Axiom, Cheltenham, England. Young European Photographers, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany |
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selected catalogues and publications |
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| 2010 | ‘Lost for Words’, book published by Ffotogallery, Cardiff |
| 2006 |
‘Peter Fraser’, book published by Nazraeli Press, USA ‘Vitamin Ph: New Perspectives in Photography’, Phaidon, London. |
| 2004 | ‘Citigroup International Photography Prize’, catalogue published by The Photographers’ Gallery, London. |
| 2002 | ‘Material’, book published by Steidl Verlag, Germany. |
| 2002 | ‘PETER FRASER’, book published by the Photographers’ Gallery, supported by the Arts Council of England. |
| 2001 | ‘Nothing’, book published by August and Northern Gallery For Contemporary Art,Sunderland,England. |
| 1999 | ‘Peter Fraser’,Galerie 213 exhibition catalogue, published by Galerie 213, Paris. |
| 1997 | ‘Deep Blue’, published by Viewpoint Photography Gallery, Salford; Ffotogallery, Cardiff; Tulli House, Carlisle; and Cambridge Darkroom Gallery, England. |
| 1995 | ‘Currents 63’, Ice and Water exhibition brochure published by St. Louis Art Museum, text by Olivia Lahs-Gonzales. |
| 1993 | ‘An Uncertain Exchange’ Jeremy Millar, for Ice and Water catalogue published by James Hockey Gallery, Farnham and Cornerhouse, Manchester, England. |
| 1988 |
‘Towards an Absolute Zero’, Rupert Martin, catalogue published by Zero Press, Bristol. ‘Two Blue Buckets’, Rupert Martin monograph published by Cornerhouse, Manchester. |
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select bibliography |
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| 2009 | 2009….‘At The Ruskin’, Oxford Poetry magazine, Magdalen College, Oxford University, Spring 2009, Vol.X111no1, pp 31>32 text, and 4 page colour insert. |
| 2009 |
Jay Merick, Independent Newspaper, London, 9th March 2009, ‘How does architecture affect academic study?’, Higher Education News Peter Fraser, ‘Oxford University Residency’, Photoworks Magazine, Brighton, UK, Spring/Summer 2009, pp 28-37 |
| 2008 |
‘Máquinas’ (Machines), EXIT Magazine, Madrid, Issue 31, cover and pp130-137 ‘Troubled Waters’, 12 Still Lives from the Siemens Photography Collection, Walther König, Köln, Germany, cover and pp 76-79 ‘No Such Thing as Society’, Photography in Britain 1967-1987, Professor David Mellor (author), Hayward Publishing, pp 127-131, 133-135, 146 |
| 2007 |
Gerry Badger, ‘The Genius of Photography, Quadrille Publishing, London. pp 212 David Chandler, ‘Peter Fraser’, Photoworks Magazine, Brighton, England. May/October 2007, p74 Aaron Rothman, ‘Peter Fraser’, Photo Eye Booklist, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Spring 2007, pp 20-22 Edgar Allen Beem, ‘Close Encounters With The Overlooked’, Photo District News, New York, July 2007, pp 82-86 |
| 2004 |
Charlotte Cotton, ‘The Photograph As Contemporary Art’, Thames and Hudson, pp 126-127 Heinz-Norbert Jooks, ‘Citigroup Photography Prize Exhibition’, Kunstforum 171, July/August 2004, pg 326 Michael Bracewell, ‘Peter Fraser photographs 2002-2003’, Portfolio Magazine, no 39, pp. 8 -13 Ian Jeffery, ‘Review Citigroup Prize’, Photoworks Magazine, Spring / Summer 2004, pp 54-57 Interview with Rachel Withers, ‘Peter Fraser Material’, FOAM Magazine, Issue 5 ‘Near’, pp. 99-117 Johanna Burton, ‘Tiny Jubilations’, Citigroup Photography Prize 2004, published by The Photographers’ Gallery, pp38-39 Oliver Bennett, ‘Out of the Ordinary’, Design Week, 8 January. Adrian Searle, ‘Smashing Pumpkins’, The Guardian, 29 January. Ben Lewis, ‘Photography Triumphant’, Prospect, February. Sean O’Hagan, ‘Drive to the Edge’, The Observer, 1 February. Sarah Kent, ‘Citigroup Photography Prize’, Time Out, 18 February. |
| 2003 | Johanna Burton, ‘A Few Dumb Ideas On Peter Fraser and Rachel Harrison’, Brighton Photo Biennial 2003 Publication (with Photoworks), pp. 10- 13. |
| 2002 |
Gerry Badger, ‘Peter Fraser Material’, Next Level, Edition 02, Vol 01, pp. 42-29. Paul Tebbs, ‘Technological Confectionary’, Source, Issue 32, Autumn 2002, pp. 52-53. Geraldine Haigh, ‘Chromatically Correct’, Professional Photographer, August 2002, pp. 45-48. |
| 1999 | Sleazenation, January 1999, pp.48-57. |
| 1998 | David Mellor, ‘British Photography: Towards A Bigger Picture’, Aperture Magazine, New York, pp, 57-61 |
| 1995 | Robert Duffy, ‘Fraser’s Different Focus’, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 20 August. |
| 1994 | Ian Jeffrey, ‘Peter Fraser’, Untitled Magazine, Spring; p. 17. |
| 1993 | Mark Durden, ‘Ice and Water’, Creative Camera, Dec; p. 42. |
| 1989 |
David Mellor, ‘Coincidenta Oppositorum’, Exhibition sheet, Interim Art, London. Sue Hubbard, ‘Peter Fraser – Triptychs’, Time Out, 26 July. Mary-Rose Beaumont, ‘Peter Fraser’, Arts Review, 28 July; p. 42. |
| 1988 |
Ian Jeffery, ‘British Photography Flourishes’, Camera Austria, pp.58-61. Ian Jeffrey, ‘Unrepentant Roses’, Creative Camera, December; p. 34. David Mellor, ‘Romances of Decay’, Aperture, New York, Autumn, p 34 |
| 1987 | Ian Jeffery, ‘Inscriptions and Inventions’, British Council Catalogue; pp. 14 -15 |
| 1986 |
William Bishop, ‘Photographs by Peter Fraser’, Creative Camera, May; pp. 18-25. Susan Beardmore, ‘I hate Green’, Valleys Catalogue, Ffotogallery, Cardiff. |
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collections |
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| Arts Council of England, London | |
| The Arthur Andersen Art Collection, London | |
| The British Council, London | |
| Contemporary Art Society, London | |
| Fotografie Forum, Frankfurt, Germany | |
| HTV, Bristol England Manchester Art Gallery, England | |
| Morgan Stanley, London North West Arts Association, England | |
| Oldham Art Gallery, England | |
| St. Louis Museum of Art, St. Louis, Missouri, USA | |
| Siemens Collection, Munich, Germany | |
| Sun Life Collection, National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, Bradford, England | |
| The Victoria and Albert Museum, London | |
| Washington University Art Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri, USA | |
| Private Collections in Britain, France, Belgium and USA | |
