Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX (1999). University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA (1998). Henry Moore Sculpture Trust, Halifax, England (1998–99).
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I like to think of my work as a threshold between in and out, object and space, heavy and light. Shelton himself describes his work as follows: Shelton's biography page at the Getty Museum notes that he "draws from a vocabulary both figural and abstract, anatomical and architectural." from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1979. Shelton went on to earn a trade certificate in welding from the Hobart School of Welding Technology in Troy, Ohio, in 1974, and his M.F.A. He was a pre-medical student at Pomona College, Pomona, CA studying sociology, anthropology and theatre, before he received his B.A.
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Shelton spent his early school years in Tempe, Arizona. Peter Shelton was born in Troy, Ohio, on January 18, 1951. Shelton has maintained his studio in Los Angeles since 1975.
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He has participated in group exhibitions at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of California, 2009 Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, 2004 Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain, 2004 Tate Gallery Liverpool, England, 1998 and Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, 2006. Shelton has exhibited extensively, including solo shows at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1987 the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1994 University of California, Berkeley 1998 the Irish Museum of Modern Art 1998-1999 and Portland Art Museum, 2011. His sculptures incorporate both abstracted and figurative forms along with anatomical and architectural motifs. Shelton works in both large and small scale, in metals (steel, iron, lead, bronze), glass, cement, water, paint and a variety of the fiberglass and resin composites first adopted by artists in the late ’60s. Peter Shelton is a contemporary American sculptor born in 1951 in Troy, Ohio. Hobart School of Welding Technology, Troy, Ohio