Pete Schulte
Associate Professor of Art, Drawing
Bio
Pete Schulte is Associate 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.
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.
In 2017, Schulte was named the South Arts State Fellowship recipient for Alabama and awarded $5,000. The sole criterion for selection for the South Arts State Fellowship is artistic excellence. 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 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.
Recent exhibitions and news:
2019
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
News and Reviews
Art News visits the Spring/Break Art Show, March 6, 2018
Profile on Pete Schulte in B-Metro by Brett Levine
South Arts State Fellowship Award 2017
Donna Mintz, “Forms of Abstraction at MOCA GA,” Burnaway
“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
Abstraction Today, Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, MAY 7-JUL 2, 2016
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
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
More Exhibitions
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
Education
M.F.A., University of Iowa (2008)