Introduction
Petry works in many different media including glass, wood, leather and pearls.
He currently has a large glass installation at the Museum of Arts & Design in New York, which will travel to the Mobile Museum of Art, in October.
Petry will be the first artist in residence at the Sir John Soane’s Museum next year.
Petry has written two books on Installatiopn Art for Thames & Hudson and his most recent book for Artmedia press is Hidden Histories: 20th century male same sex lovers in the visual arts.
Biography
One Man Exhibitions
up to 2009
KALI, Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, 2009, GOLDEN RAIN, Stavanger 2008, A NEW LOVE, Westbrook Gallery, London, TRUE LOVE, Muzeum Mierdzi, Legnica, Poland, EXTRACT, GX Gallery, London, AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York, IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN, Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, 2007, THE TREASURE OF MEMORY, Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TRUE LOVE, Westbrook Gallery, London, 2006, The Space Between: Superstring Installation I, Art Complexity & Technology Confrence, Turin
2004
WAS: white as snow, Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston
The Milky Way and other Fairy Tales , Sundaram Tagore Gallery , New York
2003
The Sound of Breaking Glass, Prowler Project Space, London
2001
Barely Legal , Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston
2000
Laughing at Time , Ha gamle prestegard Gallery , Norway
Contagion , Gardner Centre for the Arts, Sponsor: Brighton Festival, BN1
1999
The History of the World , Rice Art Gallery , Houston , Music: Greenaway and Powell
The Fluid Man , Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston
1998
Nothing Changes: London ,Pride Arts Festival, Strike Gallery, London , Music: Greenaway and Powell, Sponsor: Prowler UK
1996
You see what I mean , BN1 Event 3, Fabrica, Brighton , Music: Greenaway and Powell
1994
The Garden of Enlightenment , South London Gallery, Music: Greenaway and Powell, Sponsors: Henry Moore Foundation, Arts Council, Southwark Council, Carrington Viyella, Fibre Optics Centre
The Chemistry of Love III , Kunst und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn , Germany
1993
The Chemistry of Love II , Atlantis Gallery, London ,
1992
The Chemistry of Love , James Hockey Gallery, Farnham, Music: Greenaway and Powell, Sponsor: Pyrex
1991
North ,True North: Part 1 , Nine Elms Cold Store, London
The Skirting Boards ,Gallery Mangisch, Zurich , Switzerland , Music: Greenaway and Powell, Sponsor: Abrahams
1990
Flight From Technology: The Sexuality of the Universe Part 2 , Museum of Installation , London , Music: Greenaway and Powell, Sponsor: Woods
1989
Hollywood Portraits , Zero One Gallery, Los Angeles
1988
International Monument to the Unknown Civilian , Slaughterhouse Gallery, London , Music: Greenaway and Powell
More Paperwork , Bellerive Museum , Zurich , Switzerland
Chaos Human Atomica: The Birth of the Parallel Universe , Unit 7 Gallery, London , Music: Greenaway and Powell.
Parallel Works , Adam Gallery , London , 1988
1987
Kunster und Schmuckler , Amerika Haus, Gallery Geilsdorfer, Cologne , Germany
This Human Earth , Unit 7 Gallery, London , Music by Greenaway and Powell.
1985
The Golden Age , Gallery Geilsdorfer, Gallery Mattar, and Tanzprojekte Koln, Cologne , Music by ABC, Sponsor: Feldmuhle Paper
The Spring Collection , Coracle Press Gallery, London
Group Shows
2004
Hidden Histories:20th Century Male Same Sex Lovers in the Visual Arts , (curated by Petry), The New Art Gallery Walsall,
2003
Sex for Sale , � Independence Show�, South London Gallery
The Axis , �In the Gloaming�, ArtOMI, Hudson New York , curated by Koan Jeff Baysa
Pearl Paintings , Sundaram Tagore Gallery , New York
2002
Blood Line: Passage , �Lysis�, Pamela Auchincloss Project Space, New York , curated by Koan Jeff Baysa
Zero Carat: Works from the Donna Schneier Collection , American Museum of Craft , New York
2001
Self Portrait 2001 , �The Difference between you & us�, Five Years, London
Fears, � Blackout� (curated by Petry), Brixton Art Gallery , London
2000
Nothing Changes: Stavanger ,�UTOPIA�, Rogaland Kunstmuseum, Stavanger , Norway
1999
54x54x54 , (curated by Petry), Financial Times Building , London Sponsors: Finanacial Times, Southwark Council
1998
TWISTOR , Commissioned for the �7th Papier Biennale - Electric Paper�, Leopold Hoesch Museum , Duren , Germany
Sponsor: Woods Twistor won 2nd prize
The Wormhole , �Dark Matter�, Turnpike Gallery (Leigh), Angel Row Gallery( Nottingham ), and Howard Gardens Gallery ( Cardiff )
Nothing Changes: Amsterdam , The Gay Games Art Festival, Vrieshuis and Art Kitchen, Amsterdam
1997
Nothing Changes , �Partie 5�, Brandenburgische Kunsttage, Internationales Kunstforum Drewen , Germany
1996
Constellations , Commissioned for Mercedes Benz at the Birmingham Motor show
The Wormhole , Peterborough Museum of Art, Derby Museum , Wooster Museum of Art
1995
63 foot painting , �Southwark Open�, London
65 inch sculpture , �Eigen + ART/Berlin at The Independent Art Space’, London
1994
The Blizzard , Commissioned for the �5th Papier Biennale�, Leopold Hoesch Museum , Duren , Germany
1993
Measuring Up , ART LA/93, the Convention Centre, Los Angeles
North - True North: A Question of Scale , ‘ACER pseudoplatunus’, Sydenham Hill woods, London
The Uncle Mikey Fine Art Game Show , � Venice Biennale� (Progretto Container), Venice
1991
Elemental Sensuality: The Sexuality of the Universe Part 4 , �Excavating the Present� at Kettles Yard and the Corn Exchange, Cambridge
1990
The Pin-Up , �Simulationists Exhibition�, Submarine Gallery, London
1989
International Monument to the Unknown Civilian: PFORZHEIM , �ORNAMENTA 1�, Rathaus, Pforzheim , Germany
1988
The Invisible Man , curated by Kate Smith and Kate Love. Goldsmith’s Gallery, London
1986
Three Weeks of the Truth , �1st International Biennale fur Papierkunst�. Leopold Hoesch Museum , Duren , Germany
Auto Didactic Painting , Coracle Gallery, London
Books
2004
Hidden Histories: 20th Century Male Same Sex Lovers in the Visual Arts , Artmedia Press, London ,
Paper back ISBN:1-902889-10-X
2003
Installation Art in the New Millenium , Thames and Hudson, London
Hard back: ISBN 0-500-23808-1
Paper back: ISBN 0-500-28451-2
The Trouble with Michael , Artmedia Press, London ,
Paper back: ISBN: 1-90288903-7
1997
Installation l�art en situation , Thames and Hudson , London
Paper back ISBN: 2-87811-119-2
A Thing of Beauty is…. , Art and Design, Academy Editions, London , Paper back ISBN: 0-471-97684-9
1996
Installation Art , Thames and Hudson (Reprints 1997, 2000), London , Paper back ISBN: 0-500-27828-8
Abstract Eroticism , Art and Design, Academy Editions, London , Paper back ISBN: 1-85490-231-8
1994
Installation Art , Thames and Hudson , London Hard back ISBN: 0-500-23672-0 and Smithsonian, Washington DC , Hard back ISBN:1-560-98-347-7
Performances
2000
Brothers , St Mathew�s Tower,The London Biennale
1997
Flowers , Leopold Hoesch Museum, Duren, Kunst und Austellungshalle Bonn, Gothaer Kunstforum, Koln, Stadt Museum, Mulheim, Zaal de Unie, Rotterdam, Transmedia Video Fest, Berlin, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund
1995
An Englishman, an Irishman, and a Frenchman , a performance art opera Direction, design and libretto by Petry, Music by Gavin Greenaway and John Powell, Kunst und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany. Sponsors:The British Council, Escada, Pesch,
Uncle Mikey’s Lover’s Tea , World Tea Party, Media Park , Cologne , Germany
1987
Deceptions , National Review of Live Art, Riverside Studios, London , 3rd Eye Arts Centre, Glasgow , Music: Greenaway and Powell.
...Turns Modern Figurative Sculpture Out with the Trash, Victoria Miro Gallery London
1986
Potentially Dangerous Scenarios , Commissioned by New Music America , Houston , and Chisenhale Studios, London Sponsor: Continental Airlines
1985
The Working Week , Commissioned by the Houston Festival. Interfirst Bank, Square One Gallery, Houston , Music: Mark Fraser, Sponsor: British Caledonian Airlines
1984
Movements in Jewellery , Electrum and Aspects Galleries. Commissioned by the Goldsmith’s Hall, London
1983
Stone Dancing Parts 1 and 2 of 3 , Elgin Marbles Room (Duveen Gallery of the Marbles of the Parthenon), British Museum , London
Walking in the Ruins , Royal Academy , Cork Street , London
Works in the following Collections
- Museum of Arts and Design, New York
- Museum of Fine Art , Houston
- The New Art Gallery Walsall , UK
- British Museum , London
- Kunst und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn , Germany
- Rogaland Kunstmuseum, Stavanger , Norway
- Leopold Hoesch Museum , Duren , Germany
- Bellerive Museum , Zurich
- Private collections
Contact details
Work tel: 207.771.9778
Website: http://www.myspace.com/michaelpetrylondon or http://www.dbhbg.com or http://www.sundaramtagore.com
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Image Gallery
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Title: detail
Media: leather, freshwater pearls, metal
Description: The Fairy Tales on the walls feature whole cow hides embroidered with fresh water pearls screwed directly to the walls. The patterns represent 'money shots' from gay pornographic films from which each work takes its name, but can be seen as maps, constellations or fine sewing
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Title: Northwest Corner
Description: The Milky Way and other Fairy Tales; exhibition in New York and Houston. The Milky Way, in the centre featured 51 pairs of suspended hand blown orbs which viewers could negociate. This work is now in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
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Title: Scale View
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Title: SouthWest Corner
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Title: Top View