Pieter Schoolwerth

Interviews by Brainard Carey

Pieter Schoolwerth. Photo by Jason Mandella. Courtesy the artist and Petzel, New York.

Pieter Schoolwerth (b. 1970, St. Louis, Missouri) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He works in a multitude of mediums including painting, sculpture, installation, and video.

Since graduating from the California Institute of the Arts in 1994, Schoolwerth has exhibited nationally and internationally with notable solo shows at Kunstverein Hannover, Thread Waxing Space, New York; Greene Naftali, New York; Grand Palais, Paris; Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York; What Pipeline, Detroit; Capitain Petzel, Berlin; Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin and Petzel, New York; Twelvetengallery, Chicago.

His work has been included in group exhibitions at Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Centre Pompidou, Paris; The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield; The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Sadie Coles, London among others. From 2003–2013 Schoolwerth ran Wierd Records, and the Wierd Party in the Lower East Side of NYC, releasing music by 46 bands and producing over 500 live music, DJ, and performance art events. This is his third solo exhibition at Petzel Gallery

Pieter Schoolwerth, Texture Tile #6 (Noone Believes Anything, and They Believe Everything), 2023. Photo: Jason Mandella. Courtesy the artist and Petzel, New York.

Pieter Schoolwerth, OpenWorld (Supporting Actor #12), 2024. Photo: Jason Mandella. Courtesy the artist and Petzel, New York.

Below: Pieter Schoolwerth and Phil Vanderhyden, Supporting Actor, 2024, 4K video with sound by Aaron Dilloway. Courtesy the artist and Petzel, New York.