1939
Born of Russian parentage in Rouen, France

1949-1955
Lived in Argentina

1955
Emigrated to Southern California; currently resides in Los Angeles

1975-present
Professor, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA, Drawing and Painting

EDUCATION:

1967
Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA, M.F.A.

1958-1961
Slavic Languages, University of California, Los Angeles, CA

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

2008
"Ancestral Memory", El Camino College, Los Angeles, CA

2007
"In the Dermisphere", Art Center College Art Gallery, Pasadena, CA
"Marks, Scratches & Doodles", Palos Verdes Art Gallery, Palos Verdes, CA

2006
"Outside In: The Body Unearthed", El Camino College, Los Angeles, CA, Solo Exhibition
"Skin", Klapper Gallery, West Hollywood, CA
Otis Alumni Exhibition, Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2005
"El Nopal Press", Museo Nacional De La Estampa, Mexico D.F.
"The Russian Prints", El Nopal Press Annex/5th Street, Los Angeles, CA
"Draw", Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA

2004
"Vulnerable" Peter Liashkov/Susan Rankaitis, ANDLAB, Los Angeles, CA
"Drawing Performance" Peter Liashkov/Pen Tsou/Adrienne O'Sullivan, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA

2002
"Archaeology" Storage Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2001
"Representing L.A.: Pictoral Current in Southern California Arts" Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach CA
"FACE" Peter Liashkov/Salomon Huerta, L.A. ARTCORE Center, Los Angeles, CA
"2001 International Art Exchange Show" Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan

2000
"El Nopal Press 1990-2000" Mexican Cultural Institute of New York, NY

1999
"Synskin" Julie Rico Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (solo show)

1997
"Changing Media: Books and Prints," Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
"The Evita Prints" Oculorum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo show)
"Additions to the Collection" San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA

1996
"True Bliss" L.A.C.E., Los Angeles, CA (catalogue)
"Drawn from L.A." Williamson Gallery, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA (catalogue)
"L.A. Current: The Full Spectrum" Hammer Museum Rental Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Drawn Conclusions" Riverside Museum of Art, Riverside, CA
"Men" Spruce Street Forum, San Diego, CA (solo show)
"L.A. Figures" Lizardi/Harp Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1994
"Troika" (Peter Liashkov, Francesco Siqueiros, Eloy Tarcisio) Centro Cultural San Angel, Mexico, DF

1993
"La Grafica Actual" F. Riestra Gallery, Mexico, DF
"El Nopal Press: A Portfolio" S.P.A.R.C., Venice, CA

1992
"The Russian Album" Marble Palace, St. Petersburg, Russia
"The Russian Album: New Prints" Archetype Press, Pasadena, CA

1991
"The Russian Album 1920-1980" Jan Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Cruciformed: Images of the Cross since 1980" Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH (catalogue)

1990
London International Art Fair (with Jan Turner Gallery), London, UK
"Angel Art" Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1989
"Glassrack 1975" Bliss Gallery, Pasadena, CA
"Collecting On A Shoestring: Jeri Coates" Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA (catalogue)

1988
"Ruth Schaffner Collection" University Art Museum, Santa Barbara, CA
"Peter Liashkov" California State University, Los Angeles, CA
"Art Against AIDS" Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA
"Peter Liashkov - New Paintings" Jose Drudis-Biada Art Gallery, Mount St. Mary’s College, Los Angeles, CA
"Peter Liashkov: Cruciforms 1978-1988" University Art Gallery, Biola University, La Mirada, CA

1987
"The Great Drawing Show: 1587-1987" Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"AIDS Project L.A." Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1986
"Classical Continuum" Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Concerning The Spiritual: The Eighties" San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA (catalogue)
"Peter Liashkov, Peter Lodato, Susan Rankaitis" Fisher Art Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
"The Torso," Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1985
"Transparent Skin: The Figure Paintings of Peter Liashkov" Peppers Gallery, University of Redlands, Redlands, CA (catalogue)

1984
"Summer Olympiad" Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"A Broad Spectrum, Contemporary Los Angeles Painters and Sculptors 1984" Design Center of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
"Peter Liashkov: Paintings" Acme Art, San Francisco, CA

1983
"L.A. Seen" Fisher Art Gallery, USC, Los Angeles, CA

1982
"Figuration" University Art Museum, Santa Barbara, CA
"Peace Show" Santa Monica College, Santa Monica, CA

1981
"Inside Out/Beyond Likeness" Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport, CA (catalogue)
"Decade" Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA (catalogue)
"Peter Liashkov" Baum/Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1980
"Peter Liashkov" Lang Art Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, CA
"Figurative Art" Baum/Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Southern California Drawings" Joseloff Gallery, Hartford College of Art, Hartford, CT

1979
"Works on Glass" Baum/Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Artist as Social Critic" Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Portraits—1979" Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Visual Incantations" L.A.C.E. Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1978
"Aesthetics of Graffiti" San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA (catalogue)

1977
"Los Angeles" San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
"Eight from L.A." Baum/Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Current Concerns" University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA (catalogue)

1976
"Peter Liashkov/Stephen Zaima" University of California, Riverside, CA (catalogue)

1975
"Peter Liashkov" Ruth Schaffner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1973
"Peter Liashkov" Ruth Schaffner Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA

1971
"Peter Liashkov" Kuhn Galerie, Aachen, West Germany

SELECTED COLLECTIONS:

San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA

Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY

Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

New York Public Library, New York, NY

Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA

UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, Los Angeles, CA

The Capital Group, Los Angeles, CA

University of California, Santa Barbara, CA

ITT, Chicago, IL

Bank of Boston International, Los Angeles, CA

Credit Lyonnais Bank, Los Angeles, CA

Warner Brothers Records, Inc., Burbank, CA

Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO

Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA

AT&T, Chicago, IL

Joel Schumacher, Los Angeles, CA

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Newquist, Santa Ana, CA

Howard Ahmanson Collection, Los Angeles, CA

Ruth Schaffner, Santa Barbara, CA

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

Nancy Kay Turner ,"Peter Liashkov , Pierre Picot , and Harrison Storms" Artscene, November 2006

Peter Frank, "Peter Liashkov, Susan Rankaitis," Art Picks of the Week, L.A. Weekly, September 2004

Orville Clark Jr., "Peter Liashkov and Susan Rankaitis" Artscene, September 2004

"Representing L.A.: Pictoral Current in Southern California Arts" catalogue essay, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach CA, November, 2001

Stephen Nowlin, "Peter Liashkov" catalogue essay, May, 2000

Julie Joyce, "Neutral Grounds/Fertile Territory: A History of Bliss" catalogue essay for "True Bliss" exhibition, L.A.C.E., Los Angeles, CA, 1997

"No Easy Answers" El Financiero, Mexico, DF, 1993

"The Russian Album: The Promise of Balance" Chas Pik, St. Petersburg, Russia, 1992

David S. Rubin, "Cruciformed: Images of the Cross since 1980" catalogue for Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH, 1991

Steven Litt, "Using or Abusing a Powerful Symbol" The Plain Dealer, Cleveland, OH, September, 1991

Judith Spiegel, "Expressions of Hope," Artweek, November, 1988

Cathy Curtis, "At the Galleries," Los Angeles Times, October, 1988

Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, "Peter Liashkov: Sure of the Uncertain" catalogue essay for solo exhibition, California State University, Los Angeles, CA, January, 1988

Peter Clothier, "Three Solo Exhibitions at Fisher Gallery," USC, L.A. Weekly, February, 1988

Kenneth Baker, "Art in the Right Spirit," San Francisco Chronicle, August, 1985

David S. Rubin, "Concerning the Spiritual: The Eighties," catalogue essay, San Francisco Art Institute, 1985

David S. Rubin, "Transparent Skin: The Figure Paintings of Peter Liashkov," catalogue essay for solo show, University of Redlands, Redlands, CA, February, 1985

Andrea Liss, "Beyond Human Emotion," Artweek, January, 1984

David S. Rubin, "Peter Liashkov at Jan Baum," Art In America, September, 1983

Michael Kurchfeld, "Making Faces," California Magazine, April, 1983

Betty Brown, "Peter Liashkov," Arts, April, 1983

Ruth Weisberg, "Peter Liashkov: Luminous Captive Souls," Artweek, January, 1983

William Wilson, "Art Walk," Los Angeles Times, January, 1983

Tricia Crane, "Human Conditions through the Looking Glass,"

Daily News, San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles, CA, January, 1983

Ruth Weisberg, "Synthesizing Figurative References," Artweek, January, 1982

David S. Rubin, "Peter Liashkov and the Expressive Edge of Glass," unpublished essay, 1981

Joan Hugo, "Peter Liashkov: Torso," Artweek, January, 1981

Robert L. Pincus, "Artist as Social Critic," Artweek, August, 1979

Suzanne Muchnic, "Art Walk," Los Angeles Times, June, 1979

Peter Clothier, "Looking at Others," Artweek, May, 1979