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Pete Schulte is professor of drawing at The University of Alabama department of art and art history, where he has taught since 2011. He received the MFA in painting and drawing from the University of Iowa in 2008. His studio practice is rooted in drawing and includes the integration of sculpture, site-specific wall drawings and installations.

Click here to read about current news and exhibitions of Pete Schulte.

Schulte has a solo exhibition, The Train and the River, at McKenzie Art in New York, October 29 – December 19, 2021.

“Schulte merges severity and eccentricity in a single work and arrives at something uncanny. One of the pleasures of his objects and drawings is that they simultaneously invite and resist interpretation.” —John Yau’s review of The Train and the River in Hyperallergic, Dec. 2021

Schulte was artist-in-residence at the Chinati Foundation during June and July of 2019 and presented a solo exhibition at the John Wesley Gallery: an installation of his recent works on paper, including a suite of drawings developed in response to the gallery itself. 

Schulte’s 2019 solo exhibition, at McKenzie Art in New York, consisting of drawings mostly done at his Chinati residency, was reviewed by Thomas Micchelli in Hyperallergic and was listed in its year-end review of significant art shows in 2019.

He has held solo exhibitions at Jeff Bailey Gallery, Hudson New York; Whitespace, Atlanta; Luise Ross Gallery, New York City; Biggin Gallery at Auburn University; and UAB Visual Arts Gallery at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. His work has been in recent group exhibitions at Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville; Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta; Transmitter Gallery, Brooklyn; Galerie Look&Listen in Saint-Chamas, France and Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York City. Schulte has been awarded art residencies at the Chinati Foundation, Hambidge Center, Yaddo, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Atlantic Center for the Arts and Threewalls. His work has been reviewed in ArtNews, Hyperallergic, Art in America, World Sculpture News, Burnaway and New Art Examiner, among other publications. Schulte lives in Birmingham, Ala. In 2013 he co-founded The Fuel And Lumber Company curatorial initiative with artist Amy Pleasant. His work is represented by Jeff Bailey Gallery in Hudson, New York and Whitespace in Atlanta. Schulte received the 2017 South Arts State Fellowship for the state of Alabama and was awarded a residency at the Chinati Foundation in 2019.

Exhibitions

2023

• Yevgeniya Baras and Pete Schulte, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa (spring)

2022

• Laney Contemporary, Savannah, Georgia, November 4, 2022 – January 14, 2023.
• Yevgeniya Baras and Pete Schulte
  • Lamar Dodd School of Art at The University of Georgia (fall)
  • Heimbold Visual Arts Center, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York, March 25 – June 5, 2022

2021

• The Train and the River, McKenzie Art, New York, N.Y., October 29 – December 19, 2021. Hyperallergic review by John Yau.
• Untitled (Plaza), installation at Plaza Gallery, part of Dodd Galleries’ ongoing Wall Works series, Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, Ga., January-March, 2021
• As co-curator, Float, Fly, Transcend, The Alabama Contemporary Art Center, Mobile, Ala. (The Fuel & Lumber Co. with Amy Pleasant). Exhibition preview from Burnaway.

2020

• Geo Forms: Randy Jones, Esteban Patino, Pete Schulte, Swan Coach House Gallery in Atlanta, February
• 23 Minutes Over Birmingham: Pete Schulte / Andrew Raffo Dewar, Samford University, Birmingham, Jan. 21 – Mar. 6

2019

• Properties of Dust and Smoke, pt. 2 (solo exhibition), McKenzie Fine Art Gallery, NYC, Oct. 30-Dec. 21 – Hyperallergic review and year-end review.
• Artist in Residence, Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas
• Solo exhibition, John Wesley Gallery, Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas
• Shapeshifter – Works on Paper, group exhibition, Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco
• The Lamplighter: An Experiment in Drawing and Sound with Andrew Raffo Dewar, Duderstadt Center Design Studio, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2019

2018

• Two person show, Rutger Brandt Gallery, part of Art on Paper Amsterdam, September 13-16
• group exhibition, McKenzie Fine Art, New York
• More or Less, Hemphill Fine Art, Washington D.C.
  Review in the Washington Post by Mark Jenkins
• The Lamplighter (pts. I, II, III), solo exhibition, March 30 – May 5, Whitespace, Atlanta
  Review in Burnaway by Jerry Cullum
• Spring/Break Art Show: Frontiers, Armory Art Show, New York, N.Y.
  Art News visits the Spring/Break Art Show, March 6, 2018

2017

• Uncommon Territory: Contemporary Art in Alabama, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Ala.
• Life’s Rich Pageant, Jeff Bailey Gallery, Hudson, N.Y.
• Profile on Pete Schulte in B-Metro by Brett Levine
• South Arts State Fellowship Award 2017
• Graphite Vision, Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College

2016

• Solo exhibition at Biggin Gallery, Auburn University
• Solo exhibition, No More Snake Oil Blues, Jeff Bailey Gallery, Hudson, N.Y.
• Abstraction Today, Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta
• Group exhibition of Whitespace Gallery artists at Zeitgeist, Nashville

2015

• Build A Fire, Whitespace, Atlanta
• Pete Schulte Drawings / John Dilg Paintings at Jeff Bailey Gallery, Hudson, N.Y.
• Simplest Means at Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York
• Feature article: Burnaway’s new feature, “5 x 7”
• 5 Rooms organized by Karen Seapker and Vadis Turner, downtown Nashville, AUG 15-30, 2015
• Soft Eyes, Whitespace, Atlanta, curated by Pete Schulte, AUG 7-SEP 12, 2015

2014

• Between Moth and Flame, Whitespec at Whitespace in Atlanta
• Simplest Means, Jeff Bailey Gallery in New York
• Prairie Smoke, at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois (visiting artist and lecturer)
• Soft Eyes: An Exhibition for Curating Contemporary, Whitespace, Atlanta, curated by Schulte

2013

• A Letter Edged In Black, Visual Arts Gallery, UAB
• The Black & White Project by Yifat Gat

Pete Schulte, Untitled, 2019, graphite, ink, paper, 11 x 11 inches.

Installation view of Pete Schulte’s drawings in graphite, gouache, ink and pigment, at McKenzie Fine Art Gallery, New York, N.Y., Dec., 2019.

Pete Schulte, Untitled, 2018, 12 X 12 inches, graphite, gouache, ink on paper

Pete Schulte, Untitled, 2019, graphite, pigment, paper, 11 x 11 inches

Pete Schulte, “Flame IV (Desert Version),” 2019. Graphite, pigment, on paper.

Pete Schulte installing a drawing for the “Uncommon Territory” exhibition at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, 11-2017. Photo by Amy Pleasant.

 News and Reviews

• “The Pursuit of Art, 2019,” Hyperallergic, Dec. 28, 2019
• “Drawing as Refuge,” Hyperallergic, Dec. 7, 2019
• Art News visits the Spring/Break Art Show, March 6, 2018
• Profile on Pete Schulte in B-Metro, May 1, 2017
• South Arts State Fellowship Award 2017
• “Forms of Abstraction at MOCA GA,” Burnaway, June 2, 2016
  

“At its best, Abstraction Today shows us what the future of abstraction might look like as well…The stunning Dark Day, (Revelator pt. 2), Pete Schulte’s best-of-show large-scale wall drawing in white, grays and black, has it all. At once equal parts impenetrable monolith of solid form and shape-shifting portal into an unknowable future, it is 100-percent seductive.” – Donna Mintz

• Carol Diehl, “Pete Schulte,” Art in America
• Review for Build A Fire: Dorothy Joiner, World Sculpture News, Spring 2015
• Review for Build A Fire: Matthew Terrell in Burnaway
• Review for Build A Fire: Faith McClure in ArtsAtlanta
• ArtsAtl’s year in review
• Feature article: Burnaway’s new feature, “5 x 7”
• Review for Soft Eyes, Whitespace: ArtsAtl
• Review for Soft Eyes, Whitespace: Bad At Sports 
• Review for Between Moth and Flame, Whitespec at Whitespace, Arts Atlanta
• A Letter Edged In Black, Visual Arts Gallery, UAB named one of the “Best Exhibitions in Dixie for 2013,” BurnAway
• Yifat Gat, “A conversation with artist Pete Schulte,” February 2013

Pete Schulte is professor of drawing at The University of Alabama department of art and art history, where he has taught since 2011. He received the MFA in painting and drawing from the University of Iowa in 2008. His studio practice is rooted in drawing and includes the integration of sculpture, site-specific wall drawings and installations.

Click here to read about current news and exhibitions of Pete Schulte.

Schulte has a solo exhibition, The Train and the River, at McKenzie Art in New York, October 29 – December 19, 2021.

“Schulte merges severity and eccentricity in a single work and arrives at something uncanny. One of the pleasures of his objects and drawings is that they simultaneously invite and resist interpretation.” —John Yau’s review of The Train and the River in Hyperallergic, Dec. 2021

Schulte was artist-in-residence at the Chinati Foundation during June and July of 2019 and presented a solo exhibition at the John Wesley Gallery: an installation of his recent works on paper, including a suite of drawings developed in response to the gallery itself. 

Schulte’s 2019 solo exhibition, at McKenzie Art in New York, consisting of drawings mostly done at his Chinati residency, was reviewed by Thomas Micchelli in Hyperallergic and was listed in its year-end review of significant art shows in 2019.

He has held solo exhibitions at Jeff Bailey Gallery, Hudson New York; Whitespace, Atlanta; Luise Ross Gallery, New York City; Biggin Gallery at Auburn University; and UAB Visual Arts Gallery at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. His work has been in recent group exhibitions at Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville; Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta; Transmitter Gallery, Brooklyn; Galerie Look&Listen in Saint-Chamas, France and Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York City. Schulte has been awarded art residencies at the Chinati Foundation, Hambidge Center, Yaddo, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Atlantic Center for the Arts and Threewalls. His work has been reviewed in ArtNews, Hyperallergic, Art in America, World Sculpture News, Burnaway and New Art Examiner, among other publications. Schulte lives in Birmingham, Ala. In 2013 he co-founded The Fuel And Lumber Company curatorial initiative with artist Amy Pleasant. His work is represented by Jeff Bailey Gallery in Hudson, New York and Whitespace in Atlanta. Schulte received the 2017 Southern Art Prize Fellowship for the state of Alabama and was awarded a residency at the Chinati Foundation in 2019.

Exhibitions

2023

• Yevgeniya Baras and Pete Schulte, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa (spring)

2022

• Laney Contemporary, Savannah, Georgia, November 4, 2022 – January 14, 2023.
• Yevgeniya Baras and Pete Schulte
  • Lamar Dodd School of Art at The University of Georgia (fall)
  • Heimbold Visual Arts Center, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York, March 25 – June 5, 2022

2021

• The Train and the River, McKenzie Art, New York, N.Y., October 29 – December 19, 2021. Hyperallergic review by John Yau.
• Untitled (Plaza), installation at Plaza Gallery, part of Dodd Galleries’ ongoing Wall Works series, Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, Ga., January-March, 2021
• As co-curator, Float, Fly, Transcend, The Alabama Contemporary Art Center, Mobile, Ala. (The Fuel & Lumber Co. with Amy Pleasant). Exhibition preview from Burnaway.

2020

• Geo Forms: Randy Jones, Esteban Patino, Pete Schulte, Swan Coach House Gallery in Atlanta, February
• 23 Minutes Over Birmingham: Pete Schulte / Andrew Raffo Dewar, Samford University, Birmingham, Jan. 21 – Mar. 6

2019

• Properties of Dust and Smoke, pt. 2 (solo exhibition), McKenzie Fine Art Gallery, NYC, Oct. 30-Dec. 21 – Hyperallergic review and year-end review.
• Artist in Residence, Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas
• Solo exhibition, John Wesley Gallery, Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas
• Shapeshifter – Works on Paper, group exhibition, Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco
• The Lamplighter: An Experiment in Drawing and Sound with Andrew Raffo Dewar, Duderstadt Center Design Studio, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2019

2018

• Two person show, Rutger Brandt Gallery, part of Art on Paper Amsterdam, September 13-16
• group exhibition, McKenzie Fine Art, New York
• More or Less, Hemphill Fine Art, Washington D.C.
  Review in the Washington Post by Mark Jenkins
• The Lamplighter (pts. I, II, III), solo exhibition, March 30 – May 5, Whitespace, Atlanta
  Review in Burnaway by Jerry Cullum
• Spring/Break Art Show: Frontiers, Armory Art Show, New York, N.Y.
  Art News visits the Spring/Break Art Show, March 6, 2018

2017

• Uncommon Territory: Contemporary Art in Alabama, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Ala.
• Life’s Rich Pageant, Jeff Bailey Gallery, Hudson, N.Y.
• Profile on Pete Schulte in B-Metro by Brett Levine
• South Arts State Fellowship Award 2017
• Graphite Vision, Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College

2016

• Solo exhibition at Biggin Gallery, Auburn University
• Solo exhibition, No More Snake Oil Blues, Jeff Bailey Gallery, Hudson, N.Y.
• Abstraction Today, Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta
• Group exhibition of Whitespace Gallery artists at Zeitgeist, Nashville

2015

• Build A Fire, Whitespace, Atlanta
• Pete Schulte Drawings / John Dilg Paintings at Jeff Bailey Gallery, Hudson, N.Y.
• Simplest Means at Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York
• Feature article: Burnaway’s new feature, “5 x 7”
• 5 Rooms organized by Karen Seapker and Vadis Turner, downtown Nashville, AUG 15-30, 2015
• Soft Eyes, Whitespace, Atlanta, curated by Pete Schulte, AUG 7-SEP 12, 2015

2014

• Between Moth and Flame, Whitespec at Whitespace in Atlanta
• Simplest Means, Jeff Bailey Gallery in New York
• Prairie Smoke, at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois (visiting artist and lecturer)
• Soft Eyes: An Exhibition for Curating Contemporary, Whitespace, Atlanta, curated by Schulte

2013

• A Letter Edged In Black, Visual Arts Gallery, UAB
• The Black & White Project by Yifat Gat

Pete Schulte, Untitled, 2019, graphite, ink, paper, 11 x 11 inches.

Installation view of Pete Schulte’s drawings in graphite, gouache, ink and pigment, at McKenzie Fine Art Gallery, New York, N.Y., Dec., 2019.

Pete Schulte, Untitled, 2018, 12 X 12 inches, graphite, gouache, ink on paper

Pete Schulte, Untitled, 2019, graphite, pigment, paper, 11 x 11 inches

Pete Schulte, “Flame IV (Desert Version),” 2019. Graphite, pigment, on paper.

Pete Schulte installing a drawing for the “Uncommon Territory” exhibition at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, 11-2017. Photo by Amy Pleasant.

 News and Reviews

• “The Pursuit of Art, 2019,” Hyperallergic, Dec. 28, 2019
• “Drawing as Refuge,” Hyperallergic, Dec. 7, 2019
• Art News visits the Spring/Break Art Show, March 6, 2018
• Profile on Pete Schulte in B-Metro, May 1, 2017
• South Arts State Fellowship Award 2017
• “Forms of Abstraction at MOCA GA,” Burnaway, June 2, 2016
  

“At its best, Abstraction Today shows us what the future of abstraction might look like as well…The stunning Dark Day, (Revelator pt. 2), Pete Schulte’s best-of-show large-scale wall drawing in white, grays and black, has it all. At once equal parts impenetrable monolith of solid form and shape-shifting portal into an unknowable future, it is 100-percent seductive.” – Donna Mintz

• Carol Diehl, “Pete Schulte,” Art in America
• Review for Build A Fire: Dorothy Joiner, World Sculpture News, Spring 2015
• Review for Build A Fire: Matthew Terrell in Burnaway
• Review for Build A Fire: Faith McClure in ArtsAtlanta
• ArtsAtl’s year in review
• Feature article: Burnaway’s new feature, “5 x 7”
• Review for Soft Eyes, Whitespace: ArtsAtl
• Review for Soft Eyes, Whitespace: Bad At Sports 
• Review for Between Moth and Flame, Whitespec at Whitespace, Arts Atlanta
• A Letter Edged In Black, Visual Arts Gallery, UAB named one of the “Best Exhibitions in Dixie for 2013,” BurnAway
• Yifat Gat, “A conversation with artist Pete Schulte,” February 2013