Work Timeline

Exhibitions, publications, bibliography, and collections.

Biography

One-Person Exhibitions

  1. 2019

    Whatness, curated by Die Plek, CBR building, Boitsfort, Brussels

  2. 2018

    Mathematics, Camden Arts Centre, London.

  3. 2017

    Mathematics, Real Jardin Botanico de Madrid, PhotoEspana

  4. 2013

    Peter Fraser, Tate St Ives.

  5. 2012

    A City in the Mind, Brancolini Grimaldi, London.

  6. 2010

    Lost for Words, Ffotogallery, Cardiff, Wales.

  7. 2003

    The Inconsiderable Things, University of Brighton Gallery, England.

  8. 2002

    Peter Fraser, The Photographers’ Gallery, London.

  9. 1999

    Peter Fraser, Gallerie 213, Paris, France.

  10. 1997-1998

    Deep Blue, Viewpoint Gallery, Salford; Ffotogallery, Cardiff; Cambridge Darkroom, Tullie House, Carlisle.

  11. 1996

    Deep Blue, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London.

  12. 1995

    Ice and Water, St Louis Museum of Art, Missouri, USA.

  13. 1994

    Ice and Water, James Hockey Gallery, Farnham, England.

  14. 1993

    Ice and Water, Cornerhouse, Manchester, England.

  15. 1989

    Triptychs, Interim Art, London, England.

  16. 1988

    Towards an Absolute Zero, Watershed, Bristol, England; Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth, England; Ffotogallery, Cardiff, Wales.

  17. 1987

    Spectrum Galerie, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany.

  18. 1986

    Everyday Icons, Photographers Gallery, London; Photo Gallery Hippolyte, Helsinki; toured the United Kingdom.

  19. 1985

    12 Day Journey, Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, England; Axiom, Cheltenham, England.

  20. 1984

    New Colour, Oldham Art Gallery, Oldham, England; Arnolfini, Bristol, England.

  21. 1983

    New Colour, The Photographer’s Corridor, University of Wales, Cardiff.

  22. 1982

    The Flower Bridge, Impressions Gallery, York, England.

Selected Group Exhibitions

  1. 2024

    ‘The 80s: Photographing Britain’, Tate Britain, London.

  2. 2022

    ‘A Visual Alphabet of Industry, Work and Technology’, Fondazione MAST, Bologna, Italy.

  3. 2017

    ‘The Photographic I – Other Pictures’, S.M.A.K. Museum of Contemporary Art, Gent, Belgium.

  4. 2016

    ‘Transiciones’, works from the ‘Motelay Collection’, Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid. ‘Night in the Museum’, curated by Ryan Gander, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK, travelling to Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, and The Attenborough Centre, Leicester.

  5. 2015

    ‘Industry Now- Contemporary Photography from the Collection’, MAST FOUNDATION, Bologna, Italy

  6. 2014

    ‘Industrial Worlds 014’, MAST FOUNDATION, Bologna, Italy

  7. 2013

    ‘Industrial Worlds 013’, MAST FOUNDATION, Bologna, Italy

  8. 2012

    ‘Observers: Photographers of the British Scene from the 1930’s to Now’, British Council Exhibition, SESI-SP, Sao Paulo, Brazil. ‘Island Stories: Fifty Years of Photography in Britain’, Victoria and Albert Museum, London. ‘Intersections-Science in Contemporary Art’, Weitzmann Institute of Science, Tel Aviv.

  9. 2008

    ‘Troubled Waters’, 12 Still Lives from the Siemens Photography Collection, Galerie Neue Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Germany, ‘No Such Thing As Society’, Photography in Britain 1967-1987, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Wales, Tulie House, Carlisle, and Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujadowski Castle, Warsaw ‘I Hate Green’, Ffotogallery Commissions in Wales – Part 1, Turner House Gallery, Penarth, Wales.

  10. 2006

    Patrick de Brock, gallery artists show, Knokke, Belgium.

  11. 2005

    ‘Funky Lessons’, BAWAG Foundation, Vienna, Austria,

  12. 2004

    Citigroup Photography Prize 2004, Kunst Palast, Dusseldorf, Germany. Citigroup Photography Prize 2004, The Photographers’ Gallery, London.

  13. 2003

    ‘Jede Fotografie ein Bild’, Seimens Collection, Pinokothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany.

  14. 2001

    ‘Nothing’, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, travelling to the Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania, and the Rooseum, Malmo, Sweden.

  15. 1998

    Summer Show, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London.

  16. 1994

    ‘Institute of Cultural Anxiety: Works from the Collection’, ICA, London.

  17. 1993

    Patrick de Brock, Antwerp, Belgium.

  18. 1992

    ‘Mehr Als Ein Bild’, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany.

  19. 1991

    Pamela Golden, Marcus Hansen, Peter Fraser, Interim Art, London. Curt Marcus Invitational, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, USA.

  20. 1990

    Interim Art, London.

  21. 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

  22. 1988

    ‘A British View’, Museum for Gestaltung, Zurich. ‘Towards a Bigger Picture’, Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

  23. 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.

  24. 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.

  25. 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.

Selected Catalogues and Publications

  1. 2017

    ‘Two Blue Buckets’, ‘Directors Cut’, Peperoni Press, Germany. ‘Mathematics’, published by Skinnerboox, Italy.

  2. 2016

    ‘Mathematics’, self published Limited Edition Digital book, London.

  3. 2013

    ‘Peter Fraser’, Full career Monograph, Tate Publishing, London UK.

  4. 2012

    ‘A City in the Mind’, published by Steidl/ Brancolini Grimaldi.

  5. 2010

    ‘Lost for Words’, book published by Ffotogallery, Cardiff.

  6. 2006

    ‘Peter Fraser’, book published by Nazraeli Press, USA ‘Vitamin Ph: New Perspectives in Photography’, Phaidon, London.

  7. 2004

    ‘Citigroup International Photography Prize’, catalogue published by The Photographers’ Gallery, London.

  8. 2002

    ‘Material’, book published by Steidl Verlag, Germany.

  9. 2002

    ‘PETER FRASER’, book published by the Photographers’ Gallery, supported by the Arts Council of England.

  10. 2001

    ‘Nothing’, book published by August and Northern Gallery For Contemporary Art, Sunderland, England.

  11. 1999

    ‘Peter Fraser’, Galerie 213 exhibition catalogue, published by Galerie 213, Paris.

  12. 1997

    ‘Deep Blue’, published by Viewpoint Photography Gallery, Salford; Ffotogallery, Cardiff; Tulli House, Carlisle; and Cambridge Darkroom Gallery, England.

  13. 1995

    ‘Currents 63’, Ice and Water exhibition brochure published by St. Louis Art Museum, text by Olivia Lahs-Gonzales.

  14. 1993

    ‘An Uncertain Exchange’, Jeremy Millar, for Ice and Water catalogue published by James Hockey Gallery, Farnham and Cornerhouse, Manchester, England.

  15. 1988

    ‘Towards an Absolute Zero’, Rupert Martin, catalogue published by Zero Press, Bristol. ‘Two Blue Buckets’, Rupert Martin, published by Cornerhouse, Manchester.

Select Bibliography

  1. 2024

    Helen Little, ‘From Today, Black and White is Dead’, from ‘The 80’s: Photographing Britain’, Tate Publishing, London, 2024, pp. 152, 158, 159, 162-3, 163, 177, 209. Catherine Mayeur, ‘Peter Fraser’, SAGA, A Foundation, Brussels 2024, pp 244-5.

  2. 2023

    Annebella Pollen, ‘Art Without Frontiers’, Art Books, London, 2023, pp. 188, 202, 203.

  3. 2022

    Gerry Badger, ‘Another Country; British Documentary Photography since 1945’, Thames and Hudson, London; pp. 176, 193.

  4. 2019

    Tim Clark, ‘Walls come tumbling down’, British Journal of Photography, September 2019, pp. 89-92 Thomas Peeters, ‘Stillevens op de directieverdieping’, De Tijd, Brussels, pp. 53 Heleen Rodiers, ‘The meaning of life, according to Peter Fraser’, Bruzz Magazine, Brussels, 13-19 September 2019, pp. 14-15 Guy Duplat, ‘Expo au 7th cel, dans l’iconique batiment CBR’, La Libre Belgique, pp.45

  5. 2018

    Amy Sherlock, ‘The Things That Count’, Camden Arts Centre, London, File Notes, no 120. Patrick Langley, ‘Mathematics’, Camden Arts Centre, ArtReview Magazine, October 2018, pp. 99 Meer, online Magazine, ‘Peter Fraser’ Mathematics at Camden Arts Centre, 2 August 2018,

  6. 2017

    Sean O’Hagan, ‘Everyday Revelations’, Observer Newspaper, London,The New Review, 2nd April 2017, pp. 38 Marina Spunta, ‘The Unseen Places’, Financial Times Weekend Magazine, 6th May 2017, pp. 26-30 Minus Plato, ‘You’re really not going to like it: Peter Fraser’s “Mathematics” for the Impatient’, Blog on 2nd June 2017 http://minusplato.com/2017/06/youre-really-not-going-to-like-it-peter-frasers-mathematics-for-the-impatient.html#comment-1218 Snapshot: ‘Mathematics’ by Peter Fraser, Photography, Financial Times, 2nd June 2017 Gloria Crespo MacLennan, ‘Mathematics is the code that envelopes everything’, El Pais, Madrid, 22 June 2017, online at http://cultura.elpais.com/cultura/2017/06/22/babelia/1498116632_409486.html?id_externo_rsoc=FB_CC Adam Bell, ‘Two Blue Buckets’, Photo-Eye Blog, New York, 15th June 2017, http://blog.photoeye.com/2017/06/book-review-two-blue-buckets.html?m=1 Paul Lowe, ‘1001 Photographs you must see before you die’, publisher, CasselI llustrated, “Peter Fraser, Cheddar No5”, pp649 Simon Bowcock, ‘Down to Earth – A revaluation of British colour photography’, Photomonitor, Essays, July 2017 http://www.photomonitor.co.uk/earth-revaluation-british-colour-photography/ ‘Renewed Blue Buckets’, Annual Photographer’s Lecture 2016, pp.12-17, and ‘Mathematics’ pp.18-23, Scottish Society for the History of Photography, Summer 2017 publication, Glasgow. Jeremy Millar, ‘Mathematics’, 1000 Words Blog, Issue 26 October 2017 http://www.1000wordsmag.com/peter-fraser/

  7. 2016

    ‘Masterworks of Industrial photography’, Exhibitions 2015 Mast Foundation, Mast.Electra, Bologna, pp.442-443 Ryan Gander, ‘Night in the Museum’, Hayward Publishing, London, pp,78 Alexis Fabry and Maria Wills, ‘Transiciones’, La Fabrica, Madrid, and Toluca Editions, Paris, pp,22, 23, 142,148. Paul Lowe, ‘Photography Masterclass’, Thames and Hudson, London, pp,106, 107 John McLean, ‘Hometowns’, Hunter and James, London, pp multiple, un-numbered.

  8. 2015

    Simonetta Ferrini, ‘Peter Fraser – A City in the Mind’, ‘Making Them Visible’, Florence University of the Arts, pp.45-50 Rosa Olivares, ‘Peter Fraser, Material’, Exit Magazine, Madrid, No 58, pp.70-77

  9. 2014

    Mark Durden, ’Peter Fraser’, Photography Today, Phaidon Press, 2014, pp. 126-129. Blind Spot, 20th Anniversary Issue, No 47, pp. 99 Phil Coomes, ‘Photography Today’, BBC News, 4th June, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-27661889 Stephen Clarke, ‘Peter Fraser: The photographer filling a gap’, The Art Newspaper, 1st April 2014.

  10. 2013

    David Chandler, ‘Peter Fraser, Photographs 1981-2012’ monograph, Tate Publishing 2013. John Burnside, Tate Etc, Issue 27, 2013, ‘A Liberation From the Ordinary’. Sophie Kazan, ‘Peter Fraser at Tate St Ives’, Aesthetica Magazine, 8th February, 2013

  11. 2012

    Adam Bell, ‘ A City in the Mind’, Photoeye, New York, blog 5th November, 2012. Diane Smyth, British Journal of Photography IPad edition, July 2012, The Secret Life of Objects British Journal of Photography, July 2012, Pick of Top 12 Shows to see this Summer Daily Telegraph, Q & A, 24 May, 2012 Sarah Philips, The Guardian, 14 June 2012, My Best Shot Nicole degli Innocenti, Il Sole 24 Ore, 7 June 2012, La citta delle mente è a LondraIndependent on Sunday, 1 July 2012, Photo book review Amy Dawson, Metro, 4 July 2012, Photo book review La Lettre de la Photographie, 8 June 2012, Exhibition preview Independent Magazine, 26 May 2012, In the Frame

  12. 2010

    Jeffery Ladd, 5B4 Blogspot, June 25, 2010, ‘Lost For Words by Peter Fraser’, Alex Coles, ‘Architecture with Art in Mind’, Salt Bridges, Prestel Publishing Ltd, pp120 text, and pp88-113 images.

  13. 2009

    At The Ruskin’, Oxford Poetry magazine, Magdalen College, Oxford University, Spring 2009, Vol.X111no1, pp 31>32 text, and 4 page colour insert. 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.

  14. 2008

    ‘Máquinas’ (Machines), EXIT Magazine, Madrid, Issue 31, cover and pp. 130-137. ‘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.

  15. 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.

  16. 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.

  17. 2003

    Johanna Burton, ‘A Few Dumb Ideas On Peter Fraser and Rachel Harrison’, Brighton Photo Biennial 2003 Publication (with Photoworks), pp. 10- 13.

  18. 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.

  19. 1999

    Sleazenation, January 1999, pp. 48-57.

  20. 1998

    David Mellor, ‘British Photography: Towards A Bigger Picture’, Aperture Magazine, New York, pp. 57-61.

  21. 1995

    Robert Duffy, ‘Fraser’s Different Focus’, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 20 August.

  22. 1994

    Ian Jeffrey, ‘Peter Fraser’, Untitled Magazine, Spring; p. 17.

  23. 1993

    Mark Durden, ‘Ice and Water’, Creative Camera, Dec; p. 42.

  24. 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.

  25. 1988

    Ian Jeffery, ‘British Photography Flourishes’, Camera Austria, No 25, pp. 58-61. Ian Jeffrey, ‘Unrepentant Roses’, Creative Camera, December; p. 34. David Mellor, ‘Romances of Decay’, Aperture, New York, Autumn, p 34.

  26. 1987

    Ian Jeffery, ‘Inscriptions and Inventions’, British Council Catalogue; pp. 14 -15.

  27. 1986

    William Bishop, ‘Photographs by Peter Fraser’, Creative Camera, May; pp. 18-25. Susan Beardmore, ‘I hate Green’, Valleys Catalogue, Ffotogallery, Cardiff.