Pier Wright
PO Box 910 Northport, MI 49670
231-386-5594
pierdw@me.com
Born in Florida, USA
1976 BA, Kalamazoo College, Michigan
1989 MFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2002 to present – director of Wright Gallery, Northport, MI
Selected Exhibitions:
2024
“Lines Into Forms,” Rountree Gallery, Platteville, WI, curated by Mary Bergs
“Winterwork,” Deo Gallery, Marquette, MI
2022
“Art Is Art,” Ramsdell Regional Center For The Arts, Manistee, MI
2021
”The Other Art Fair”, Chicago, IL
2020
”Way Out,” La Grange Gallery, Cernay-Les-Reims, France
2019
“Winter Work, Collaborations with Sabine Tress, Karl Bielik & recent work on duralar” The Bakery, Munising, MI.
“Poetic Abstraction; Rufus Snoddy & Pier Wright,” Twisted Fish Gallery, Elk Rapids, MI.
2017
“On Paper,” Bahare Assadsolimani, Fadia Haddad, Graham Jones & Pier Wright, Galerie Uli Lang, Biberach, Germany.
“Restatement” (curated by Jan Holthoff and Nina Brauhauser), Kunstverein Brackenheim, Brackenheim, Germany.
2016
“Restatement,” Gallery Schmidt Contemporary, Cologne, DE.
“Dead or Alive” group show, K Space Contemporary, Corpus Christi, TX.
“We Are The Dead,” Kirk Hopper Fine Art, Dallas, Texas. 2015
“Pier Wright: 157 paintings”, Oliver Art Center, Frankfort, MI.
“Pulp Painting” (curated by Valerie Brennan), Studio Apothiki, Cyprus.
"Abstract Strategies" (curated by Jan Holthoff), Galerie Schütte, Essen, Germany; Bespoke Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany; Galerie Martina Kaiser, Cologne, Germany; Damare International Visual Art, Rotterdam, Netherlands; Poiesis Spec, Berlin, Germany.
“Goatholes” One Plus One is One: Curating Contemporary, an on-line exhibition featuring the collaborative work of Pier Wright & Karl Bielik.
2014
“PSAD National Painting Invitational”, Paducah School of Art & Design, KY.
”New Work Pier Wright & Mandolyn Wilson Rosen” Imogen Holloway Gallery, Saugerties, NY.
2013
“What I Like About You”, Parallel Arts, Bushwick, NY & Imogen Holloway Gallery, Saugerties, NY.
“Abstract Michigan” Paint Creek Art Center, Rochester Hills, MI.
2008
“Through the Screen Door Madly”, Wright Gallery, Northport, MI.
2007
“Jordan Scott & Pier Wright”, Beverly Art Center, Chicago, IL.
“Bridge Art Fair”, Chicago, IL
2006
“Bridge Art Fair”, Miami, FL
“Nova Art Fair”, Chicago, IL
2005
“Pier Wright, Works on Acetate”, Wright Gallery, Northport, MI
2003
“Pier Wright, Good Night A Dream”, Wright Gallery, Northport, MI
2001
"An Underlying Pattern, New Paintings", Lydon Fine Art, Chicago, Illinois.
"The Red Show", Kreft Center Gallery, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
2000
"National Small Works Competition", Harper College, Palatine, Illinois.
1999
"Circling Towards Winter, New Paintings", Lydon Fine Art, Chicago, Illinois.
1998
"Pier Wright, Recent Paintings", Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, Pa.
1997
"Pier Wright, New Works", Lydon Fine Art, Chicago, Illinois.
"Kwang Joo Art Fair", South Korea.
"Pier Wright, Paintings", West End Fine Arts, West Palm Beach, Florida.
"The Pearl Street Series", Red Mill Gallery, Johnson, Vermont.
1996
"Chicago Abstraction", Klein ArtWorks, Chicago, Illinois.
"By The Gihon River, New Paintings", Lydon Fine Art, Chicago, Illinois.
"Manif Seoul '96", Seoul Arts Center, South Korea.
1995
"Pier Wright, Works On Paper", Saginaw Art Museum, Michigan.
"Bi-State Competition", Davenport Museum of Art, Iowa.
"Pier Wright & Rochelle Nicholas", Lydon Fine Art, Chicago, Illinois.
"19th Harper National Print & Drawing Exhibition", Harper College, Illinois.
1994
"Pier Wright, Paintings", Lydon Fine Art, Chicago, Illinois.
1993
"Abstract Chicago", Klein ArtWorks, Chicago, Illinois.
1992
"Pier Wright, Paintings", Saint Mary's College, Winona, Minnesota.
1990
"Structure and Abstraction", Evanston Art Center, Illinois.