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Pedro Pedro
Pedro Pedro
Pedro Pedro regards his paintings as parodies of the still-life genre. His works feature fruit bowls, elaborate displays of food, or clothing scattered in disarray. He transforms everyday items, like a sock or a partially eaten sandwich, into lively figures on his dynamic canvases. The vibrant scenes by this Los Angeles-based artist recall the colorful, grotesque forms of Peter Saul as well as the compositional approaches of Old Master painters. Pedro's relaxed and witty style maintains a classical essence, with everything rendered in vivid colors, yet the imagery stays soft in texture through the use of textile paint on unprimed linen. His arrangements of messy objects hint at the rushed modern lifestyles unfolding just outside their frames.
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Pedro Pedro
Solo Exhibitions
2025 PICNIC, Fundación La Nave Salinas, Illes Balears, Spain
2023 Table, Fruits, Flowers and Cakes, The Hole, Los Angeles, CA
2021 Cantaloupe and Kokomo, The Hole, New York, NY
2020 Still Life, The Hole, New York, NY
2018 Why Should We Steal A Cow?, New Image Art, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Shhhhh, Zero Zero Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2015 Painter, English Kills, Brooklyn, NY
Group Exhibitions
2025 Group Show, Lobster Club, Los Angeles, CA
2023 Storage Wars, The Hole, Los Angeles
Womb - Two Year Anniversary Collection Show, IOMO Gallery, București, Romania
Galeria Nicodim, Bucharest: 10 Years, Nicodim Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
2022 New Construction, The Hole, Los Angeles, CA
Hot Concrete: LA to HK, K11 Musea, Hong Kong
2021 Nature Morte, The Hole, New York, NY
Phase Two, The Hole, East Hampton, NY
2020 Second Smile, The Hole, New York, NY
We Used to Gather, Library Street Collective, Detroit, MI
Staring at the Sun, Left Field, Los Osos, CA
2019 Paper View, The Hole, New York, NY
Universes 2.0, The Garage Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Top Wizards, Richard Heller Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Potluck, Hashimoto Contemporary, San Francisco, CA
Post Analog, The Hole, New York, NY
19191919, New Image, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Hidden Valley, Zero Zero Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Living Still, Transmitter, Brooklyn, NY
Disturbed, Superchief, Los Angeles, CA
Charcuterie and Cheeze, La Luz de Jesus, Los Angeles, CA
Fairs
2024 Zona Maco, The Hole, Mexico City, Mexico
2023 Dallas Art Fair, The Hole, Dallas, TX
The Armory, The Hole, New York, NY
Kiaf Seoul, The Hole, Seoul, South Korea
Art Brussels, The Hole, Brussels, Belgium
Dallas Art Fair, The Hole, Dallas, TX
2022 The Armory, The Hole, New York, NY
Can Ibiza, The Hole, Ibiza
NADA New York, The Hole, New York, NY
Zona Maco, The Hole, Mexico City, Mexico
2021 NADA Miami, The Hole, Miami, FL
The Armory, The Hole, New York, NY
2020 Enter Art Fair, The Hole, Copenhagen, Denmark
Publications
2023 FAD Magazine, “7 to see during Frieze week Los Angeles”, February 2023
The Hollywood Reporter, “The Ultimate Guide to Frieze Week L.A.’s 125 Plus Parties,
Openings and Talks, February 2023
Creative Boom, “‘Everything in life needs some drama’: Pedro Pedro’s appetising still life
paintings contain hidden tensions”, April 2023
ARTnews, “To See or Not to See: the Good, the Bad and the Criminally Overrated in L.A.’s
Museums and Galleries”, April 2023
Hi-Fructose, “Pedro Pedro Transforms the Extra Ordinary IntoVibrant Intimate Portraits”,
Summer 2023
2022 Lampoon, “Capturing chaos on unprimed linen. The lysergic still life canvas of Pedro Pedro,
California”, March 2022
2021 Interview Magazine, “The Scintillating Messes of Pedro Pedro”, May 2021
Interlocutor, “Pedro Pedro’s Lavish Vices”, June 2021
Art of Choice, “Discover the Power of Detail in the Objects of Pedro Pedro’s Paintings”, June
2021
2020 Juxtapoz Magazine, “Art in Uncertain Times: A Disturbance in the Force with Pedro Pedro”,
June 2020
Artsy, “17 Contemporary Artists Reimagining the Still Life”, August 2020
2019 Juxtapoz Magazine, “Pedro Pedro and his Vibrant Still Life Portraits”, July 2019
Source: www.pedropedrostudios.com
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