Peter Nadin is a key figure in the downtown New York art scene in the late 1970s and 1980s. A painter, sculptor, and poet whose work explores the practice of mark- and image-making as fundamental, evolutionary human functions, Nadin is the son of a sea captain whose family roots stretch back centuries in northwest England. He arrived in New York in 1976 on a Max Beckmann award from the Brooklyn Museum of Art, and he became involved in a burgeoning downtown art scene that included Christopher D’Arcangelo, Daniel Buren, Louise Lawler, Richard Prince, Jenny Holzer, and Lawrence Weiner. In 1978, along with D’Arcangelo, he founded the artist-run space 84 West Broadway in his own Tribeca loft. Two years later, he became a founder of an unlikely artists’ collective called The Offices of Fend, Fitzgibbon, Holzer, Nadin, Prince & Winters, whose members (including Richard Prince and Jenny Holzer) offered up their talents as critical thinkers to solve real-world problems for clients. In the early 1990s, Nadin left the commercial art world, yet he continued to paint on a farm in an isolated part of the Catskill Mountains while working closely with the land.

Peter Nadin was born in 1954 in Bromborough, near Liverpool, UK, and lives in The Catskills, NY.

Nadin’s work has been included in numerous exhibitions, including at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, MA; Brooke Alexander Gallery in New York, NY; Gavin Brown’s Enterprise in New York, NY; James Fuentes Gallery in New York, NY and Off Paradise in New York, NY.

Nadin’s work is in esteemed public collections, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, NY; The Museum of Modern Art in New York, NY; the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, CT; and the Centre Pompidou in Paris, France.