Michael Petry

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Michael Petry (born 1960) is an internationally exhibited multi-media artist, and co-director of the Museum of Installation, London. He was born in El Paso, Texas, and has lived in London since 1981. He received a BA at Rice University (Houston), an MA at London Guildhall University, and is finishing his PhD at Middlesex University. He lectures part time at the Royal College of Art and the Royal Academy Schools and was Guest Curator at the KunstAkademi, Oslo, and Research Fellow at the University of Wolverhampton. Petry is represented by the Sundaram Tagor Gallery, New York

[edit] Books

Petry co-authored Installation Art (1994), and Installation Art in the New Millennium (2003), and authored Abstract Eroticism (1996) and A Thing of Beauty is... (1997). The Trouble with Michael, a monograph of his current artistic practice was published by ArtMedia Press in 2001. Petry’s current book Hidden Histories: 20th Century Same Sex Male Lovers in the Visual Arts (2004) is the first comprehensive survey of its kind, and accompanies the exhibition Hidden Histories he curated for The New Art Gallery Walsall.

[edit] Galleries and Museums

Petry is the Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) London, and the curator of the Royal Academy Schools Gallery. In addition to temporary exhibitions and installations at several museums and galleries, such as theDevin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, Petry’s works are included in public collections throughout the world including the British Museum, London; the American Craft Museum, New York; the Kunst und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublick Deutschland, Bonn and the Bellerive Museum, Zurich.