B. 1960, Texas
Currently living and working in London
UPCOMING and CURRENT
2018
The Book of the WORD, a hard back book for Thames & Hudson by Petry
2017
Nature Morte: contemporary artists reinvigorate the Still-Life tradition, The Four Domes Pavilion
Museum Narodowego we Wroclawiu (National Museum, Wroclaw, Poland) then at the Guildhall Art Gallery, London, curated by Petry
The WORD, exhibition curated by Petry for Helsinki Contemporary, Helsinki
Lest we forget the Gods, solo exhibition, Melissa Morgan Fine Art, Palm Desert
At the foot of the Gods, installation for the BiënnaleOosterhou, Holland
Marcus Eek: A Journey, historical survey of Eek's work by Petry for Prestel Publishing Limited
In the Realm of the Gods, solo exhibition, Holburne Museum, Bath
One Man Exhibitions
2016
A Prussian Requiem, performance by the London Philharmonia orchestra, libretto: Petry, Music: John Powell, and A History of Thunder, exhibition curated by Petry, Fine Art Society, London
A Twist in Time, solo exhibition at Pallant House Gallery, Chichester (July 2015 – March 2016)
2015
AT the core of the Algorithm, Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston
The Trouble with Michael, The Campbell Lecture Series, 3 lectures by Petry at Rice University on his art and writing
Libations to Eros, Melissa Morgan Gallery, Palm Dessert
2014
Eros and Thanatos, solo exhibition and performance, Zane Bennett Contemporary Art, Santa Fe
Kali, Mary Wilfred Moffett Gallery, Louisiana Tech University, School of Design, Ruston
2013
Joshua D's Wall, Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston
2012
The Touch of the Oracle, Palm Springs Art Museum
Bad Restoration, Hiram Butler Gallery , Houston
Joshua D's Wall and New Works, Zane Bennett Contemporary Art, Santa Fe
2011
Bad Seed, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, Artist in Residence
2010
Touching the Neoclassical and the Romantic, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, Artist in Residence
2009
The Revenge of the Florist, Westbrook Gallery, London
The NETWORK, commissioned installation , IVY Restaurant, London
KALI, Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston
2007
A New Love, Westbrook Gallery, London
True Love, MuzeumMierdzi, Legnica, Poland
True Love, Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston
Extract, GX Gallery, London
America the Beautiful, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York
In the Garden of Eden, Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston
2006
The Treasure of Memory, Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston
True Love, Westbrook Gallery, London
2005
The Space Between: Superstring Installation II, Mathematics, Art and Cultural Industry, Cetraro, Italy
The Space Between: Superstring Installation, Art, Complexity & Technology, I.S.I Foundation, Turin, Italy
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, H gamleprestegard, Norway
Contagion, Gardner Centre for the Arts, Brighton Festival, BN1
1999
The History of the World, Rice Art Gallery, Houston
The Fluid Man, Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston
1998
Nothing Changes: London, Pride Arts Festival, Strike Gallery, London
1996
You see what I mean, BN1 Event 3, Fabrica, Brighton
1994
The Garden of Enlightenment, South London Gallery
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
1991
North, True North: Part 1, Nine Elms Cold Store, London
The Skirting Boards, Gallery Mangisch, Zurich, Switzerland
1990
Flight From Technology: The Sexuality of the Universe Part 2, Museum of Installation, London
1989
Hollywood Portraits, Zero One Gallery, Los Angeles
1988
International Monument to the Unknown Civilian, Slaughterhouse Gallery, London
More Paperwork, Bellerive Museum, Zurich, Switzerland
Chaos Human Atomica: The Birth of the Parallel Universe, Unit 7 Gallery, London
Parallel Works, Adam Gallery, London, 1988
1987
Kunster und Schmuckler, AmerikaHaus, Gallery Geilsdorfer, Cologne, Germany
This Human Earth, Unit 7 Gallery, London
1985
The Golden Age, Gallery Geilsdorfer, Gallery Mattar, and Tanzprojekte Koln, Cologne
The Spring Collection, Coracle Press Gallery, London
Group Shows
2016
Another Way of Telling, Malaspina Printmakers, Vancouver
Nature Morte: contemporary artists reinvigorate the Still-Life tradition, Konsthallen- Bohusläns, Sweden
2015
Nature Morte: contemporary artists reinvigorate the Still-Life tradition, Ha gamleprestegard, Norway
Performance and Remnant, Fine Arts Society, London
Frontiers Reimagined, Museo di Palazzo Grimani, Official Collateral Event as part of the 56th International Art Exhibition of la Biennale di Venezia
The Fall of the Rebel Angels, 56th International Art Exhibition of la Biennale di Venezia
One-Night-Stand with MaciejUrbanek: Michael Petry
Inspired by Soane, Sir John Soane's Museum, London
2014
AT the core of the Algorithm, installation for British Glass, Glazenhuis, Lommel, Belgium
We Could Not Agree, Cavendish Square, London
The Faberge Big Egg Hunt, New York
Giedymin 44, GaleriaSztuki, Legnica, Poland
Birthday Party II, The Gallery of Art in Legnica, Poland
2013
Back to Front, The New Art Gallery Walsall
Big Deal No.5, Cavendish Square, London
Home, group show at LUBOMIROV-EASTON, London
The Art of Not Making, H gamleprestegard, Norway
The Big Egg Hunt, London, Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester, Glasgow
2012
The Fabricated Object, SumarriaLunn Gallery, London (curated by Petry) with
To Make or Not to Make, Symposium at the Royal Academy Schools (chaired by Petry)
Hanging Around: Necklaces from the MAD Collection, Museum of Arts & Design, New York
BOWER, Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston
Rock-Paper-Scissors, Galleria Uno piu Ono, Milan, Italy
Paper Cuts & Plaster, AnticoBorgo, Dogliani , Italy
A Question of Sport: LGBT artists and their relationship to inclusivity, Clifford Chance, London
2011
RAW: Peter Bailey | Jaap De Vries | Erik Sommer | Michael Petry | Eric Butcher, Pertwee , Anderson & Gold, London
Sagacity, Forman's Smokehouse Gallery, London
Meister der Moderne, Handwerkskammer f rM nchen und Oberbayern , Munich
2010
Small Show Huge Talent, Sotheby's, London
Inspired BySoane, Sir John Soane 's Museum, London
EsperltÉHandwerkskammer f rM nchen und Oberbayern , Munich
Glasswear, SoutheasternCenter for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, USA
LINGAM, Museum Catharijne Convent, Utrecht, Holland, Place de la Grande Pecherie, Mons, Belgium
Shop, Shop, London
2009
DOGMA, HDLU (Croatian Association of Artists) Museum, Zagreb, Croatia
Glasswear, Museum of Arts and Design, New York
Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile Alabama
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester
Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi
LINGAM, Konstfack, Stockholm
Here and Now, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York
Crime & Punishment – The Sequel, Kortil Gallery, Rijeka, Croatia
2008
ESCAPE, GalerijaMenoNisa, Vilnius, Lithuania
Sculpture & Touch, TheCourtauld Institute of Art, London
Treasure of Memory in Glasswear, GlazenHuisVlaams Centrum voorHedendaagseGlaskunst, Lommel, Belgium
Trans- Atlantic Pride Exhibition, Clifford Chance Gallery, London
Golden Rain, in On the Edge exhibition,Stavanger 2008, Ha gamleprestegard, and at the Eigeroya Lighthouse, Egersund, Norway
Four Bits of Scarlet for George the Second, Borders + Identities, Stephen Lawrence Gallery, Greenwich, London
2007
Treasure of Memory in Glasswear, Toledo Museum of Art
UNBOUND, Contemporary Art Platform, London
LebenLieben, Rise Gallery, Berlin
Yeehaw!, Vegas Gallery, London
2006
First Sudden Gone the One First Sudden Back, Project 133, London
Next Level, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York
2005
Erotic Pioneers, Antebellum, Hollywood
NatvarBhavsar, Stan Gregory, Nathan Slate Joseph, Michael Petry, SohanQadri, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New
York
The Binary Tower, "Incantations", South Presentation Convent, ART Trail, Cork, Ireland
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', PamelaAuchincloss 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', RogalandKunstmuseum, Stavanger, Norway
1999
54x54x54, (curated by Petry), Museum of Contemporary Art, London Financial Times Building
1998
TWISTOR, Commissioned for the '7th Papier Biennale - Electric Paper', Leopold Hoesch Museum, Duren, Germany, 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', BrandenburgischeKunsttage, InternationalesKunstforumDrewen, 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/Texts
2016
Thank you for Coming, chapter in Global Mobilities: Refugees, Exiles and Immigrants in Museums and Archives, Routledge
2014
Sculpture and Touch, Peter Dent, Ed., The Touch of the Oracle essay by Petry, Ashgate Publishing
GiedyminJablonski 44, Cast Your Mind Back, essay by Petry (text in Polish and English), GaleriaSztuki, Legnica, Poland
2013
Nature Morte: Contemporary Artists Reinvigorate the Still-Life Tradition, Michael Petry, Thames & Hudson
Hardback ISBN: 9780500239063
Nature Morte:Stillleben in der Zeitgenossischenkunst, Michael Petry, Hirmer
Hardback ISBN: 9783777420783
StilleLevens: Kunstenaars van nu gevennieuwevisie op de nature morte, Michael Petry, Ludion
Hardback ISBN: 9789461301147
Pornographic Art and the Aesthetics of Pornography, Hans Maes (Ed.), A Queer Balance: power relations in homosexual representations and in choosing flowers essay by Petry, Palgrave Macmillan, black and white
Hardback ISBN: 978-0230368200
Nightsong: Nick Fox, Matthew Hearn, Ed. Happy Endings: recent work by Nick Fox essay by Michael Petry, Art Editions North
Hardback ISBN 978-1-906832-07-02012
2012
The Touch of the Oracle: Michael Petry Works 2003/12, texts by Adrian George, Katherine Hough, Michael Petry, Palm Springs Art Museum, MOCA London, distributed by Thames & Hudson
Paperback ISBN: 978-0-9569116-1-2
The Art of Not Making: the new artist/artisan relationship, Michael Petry, Thames & Hudson, London
Paperback ISBN: 978-0-500-29026-2
2011
The Art of Not Making: the new artist/artisan relationship, Michael Petry, Thames & Hudson, London
Hardback ISBN: 978-0-500-23882-0
Smoke & Mirrors, Michael Petry, MOCA London and Sir John Soane's Museum, London
Paperback: ISBN: 978-0-9559453-5-9
Identity/Identiteetti, MichaelPetry, MOCA London and the Royal Academy Schools, London
Paperback ISBN: 978-0-9569116-0-5
One Spirit Showcase: The Art of Seeing, Michael Petry and Hines UK, London
Hardback ISBN: 978-0-9557699-9-3
Design Behind Desire, Lisa Morgan (ed.), texts and works by Petry, Farameh Media, NewYork,
Hardback ISBN: 978-0-9830831-5-3
2010
Gender, Sexuality, and Museums: a Routledge Reader, Amy K. Levin, Ed., Hidden Histories: The Experience of Curating a Male Same Sex Exhibition and the Problems Encountered essay by Petry, Routledge, 322 pages, colour, Paperback ISBN: 978-0-415-55492-3
SilvanoRubino, Inequilibriotra due puntisospesi, The Complexity of Production essay by Petry (text in Italian and English), Damiani, Bologna
Paperback ISBN: 978-88-6208-149-8, 96 pages, full colour
Jungles, Jungle Love essay by Petry (text in German and English), Galerie Maurer, Frankfurt,32 pages, full colour
2009
The Revenge of the Florist, Michael Petry, Westbrook Gallery, London
Paperback: ISBN 978-0-9559453-4-2,16 pages, full colour
Anima Mundi, The Waiting Game essay in English and Dutch, GlazenHuis, Lommel, Belgium
Paperback ISBN: 9789490212001, 56 pages, colour and black and white
2008
Golden Rain Volumes 1& 11, MOCA London and Ha gamleprestegard
Paperback: ISBN: 978-0-9557699-3-1
Fin Serck-Hanssen: Normalizing Judgement, TekniskIndustri AS, Oslo
Hard back SBN: 978-82-997894-0-0
Contemporary Glass, Blackdog Publishing, London
Paperback ISBN: 978 1 906155 360
2004
Hidden Histories: 20th Century Male Same Sex Lovers in the Visual Arts, Artmedia Press, London
Paperback ISBN: 1-902889-10-X
2003
Installation Art in the New Millennium, Thames and Hudson, London
Hard back: ISBN 0-500-23808-1
Paper back: ISBN 0-500-28451-2
Installation II l'empire des sens, De Oliveira, Oxley, Petry, Thames and Hudson, Paris
Paperback ISBN: 782878 112320, 208 pages, full colour
2001
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
Paperback ISBN: 0-500-27828-8
Abstract Eroticism, Art and Design, Academy Editions, London
Paperback ISBN: 1-85490-231-8
1994
Installation Art, Thames and Hudson, London Hard back ISBN: 0-500-23672-0 and Smithsonian, Washington DC
Hardback ISBN: 1-560-98-347-7
Performances
2014
Libation to Eros, Alentejo Triennial, Portugal and Zane Bennett Contemporary Art, Santa Fe
2000
Brothers, St Mathew's Tower, The London Biennale
1997
Flowers, Leopold Hoesch Museum, Duren, Kunst und Austellungshalle Bonn, GothaerKunstforum, 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/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
1985
The Working Week, Commissioned by the Houston Festival.Interfirst Bank, Square One Gallery, Houston, Music: Mark Fraser
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
The National Collection, UK
Museum of Arts and Design, New York
Kunst und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Palm Springs Art Museum
Toledo Museum of Art, USA
British Museum, London
The New Art Gallery Walsall, UK
The Gallery of Art, Legnica, Poland
Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christie, Texas
Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, Alabama
SoutheasternCenter for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
RogalandKunstmuseum, Stavanger, Norway
Leopold Hoesch Museum, Duren, Germany
Bellerive Museum, Zurich
Private collections