Peter Schuyff was born in 1958 in Baam, Holland. In 1967 he moved with his family to Vancouver, Canada, where his father was a professor of economics at Simon Fraser University. His mother is an... Read full biography
Peter Schuyff was born in 1958 in Baam, Holland. In 1967 he moved with his family to Vancouver, Canada, where his father was a professor of economics at Simon Fraser University. His mother is an artist. Growing up amid the radicalism of the late '60s and early '70s, Schuyff was intrigued by his... Read full biography
Peter Schuyff was born in 1958 in Baam, Holland. In 1967 he moved with his family to Vancouver, Canada, where his father was a professor of economics at Simon Fraser University. His mother is an artist. Growing up amid the radicalism of the late '60s and early '70s, Schuyff was intrigued by his father's "hippie" colleagues. He also became infatuated with a number of art-world personalities, video artists, Andy Warhol, the New York School painters, especially Willem de Kooning. "I was very... Read full biography
Peter Schuyff was born in 1958 in Baam, Holland. In 1967 he moved with his family to Vancouver, Canada, where his father was a professor of economics at Simon Fraser University. His mother is an artist. Growing up amid the radicalism of the late '60s and early '70s, Schuyff was intrigued by his father's "hippie" colleagues. He also became infatuated with a number of art-world personalities, video artists, Andy Warhol, the New York School painters, especially Willem de Kooning. "I was very impressed that they could get away with doing such naughty work," he says. "It seemed so rich, so seductive, so profound.". Schuyff decided after high school to enroll at the Vancouver School of Art. He studied there for a year and a half but found his... Read full biography
Peter Schuyff was born in 1958 in Baam, Holland. In 1967 he moved with his family to Vancouver, Canada, where his father was a professor of economics at Simon Fraser University. His mother is an artist. Growing up amid the radicalism of the late '60s and early '70s, Schuyff was intrigued by his father's "hippie" colleagues. He also became infatuated with a number of art-world personalities, video artists, Andy Warhol, the New York School painters, especially Willem de Kooning. "I was very impressed that they could get away with doing such naughty work," he says. "It seemed so rich, so seductive, so profound.". Schuyff decided after high school to enroll at the Vancouver School of Art. He studied there for a year and a half but found his fellow students, many of whom were performance artists, far more stimulating than his classes. After leaving school, he painted for a while in Vanc... Read full biography
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About Peter Schuyff: Books
Books & Publications (11)
Publications based on askART research. List may not be comprehensive.
Paint: A Psychedelic Primer (Vancouver Art Gallery) (Exhibition catalog)
2006
Szewczyk, Monika
71 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
East Village USA (New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York)
2004
Cameron, Dan
160 pages
American Artists In Their New York Studios
1992
Gotz, Stephan
175 pages (color)
NY Art Now The Saatchi Collection
1988
Cameron, Dan
250 pages (color)
Postminimalism into Maximalism American Art 1966-1986
1987
Pincus-Witten, Robert
429 pages
Art and It's Double Panorama of Art in New York
1986
Cameron, Dan
149 pages (color)
American Art Now
1985
Lucie-Smith, Edward
160 pages (color)
Neo York Report on a Phenomenon (Exhibition catalog)