Peter Doig

Peter Doig was born in Edinburgh in 1959, and shortly afterwards moved with his family to Trinidad, and then in 1966 to Canada. He went to London in 1979 to study art at the Wimbledon School of Art, St Martin's School of Art and later the Chelsea School of Art, where he received an MA. In 1991 he won an important award from the Whitechapel Art Gallery, and in 1993 he won the first prize at the Liverpool John Moores University exhibition with his painting Blotter. This brought public recognition, cemented in 1994, when he was nominated for the Turner Prize. From 1995 to 2000 he was a trustee of the Tate Gallery. In 2002, Doig moved back to Trinidad, where he set up a studio at the Caribbean Contemporary Arts centre near Port of Spain, and also became professor at the internationally renowned fine arts academy in Duesseldorf, Germany. His paintings have been the subject of a retrospective at Tate Modern in 2008.