Peter Sulo creates paintings and drawings inspired by popular, nostalgic, likeable, pornographic or otherwise fetishised images which capture and hold attention. His early influences include Egon Schiele, Francisco Goya, Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud, among others, and this is sometimes visible in his work.
Sulo hails from Slovakia, where he attended the Academy of Fine Arts and Design from 2004 to 2010, gaining a BA followed by an MA in Painting and other media. Besides his academic studies, over the past decade and a half Sulo has participated in a number of workshops and residencies across Europe (Austria, Hungary, Slovenia), as well as both solo and group exhibitions in UK, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Austria and Russia. He has been living and working in London since 2013.
Sulo’s work is rich in storytelling and is conceived as a kind of language, created for the purpose of sharing phantasmagories with other people. He employs visual stimuli from his surroundings and recreates them in painting and/or drawing in order to explore the elements from which they are constructed and to expand the meaning of an image through his own stories and interpretations. The ultimate aim of his art is to establish communication with other people through image but without insisting on a particular meaning, allowing the observer to connect with his works on their own terms, through their own narrative paradigms.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)
2018 Dark But Happy Place, Deptford Does Art, London UK
2018 C-HOLE, Photoport Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)
2019 Modern Panic, Truman Brewery, London, UK
2019 Royal Association of Marine Artists, Mall Galleries, London, UK
2019 Sunday Times Watercolor Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London, UK
2019 CHILDHOOD MEMORIES, Victoria’s Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
2018 Maľba (Painting) , The VUB Foundation Award, Bratislava, Slovakia
2018 Summer Show, The Crow’s Nest Gallery, London UK
2017 Cable Street Studios Arts Festival Festival, London UK
2017 Unscripted Vernissage, Modular+ Space, Berlin, Germany
2016 By Other Means, By other Means, London UK
2016 0 or 1, The Hive, London UK
2016 Winter Show, The Crow’s Nest Gallery, London UK
2014 Young Art Show, Slovakian Embassy, Moscow, Russia
2013 Open Studios, Cvernovka, Bratislava, Slovakia
2012 Salon, Dox Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
2011 Agora Gallery, Vienna, Austria
2011 Young Art, Slovakian Embassy, Moscow, Russia
2011 Capture, Slovakian Institute, Vienna, Austria
2011 U102, Krokus Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
2011 Br!Br!, Gallery Aula, Czech Republic
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