Peter Gric, ARK III, 2016–2018

45 x 55 cm - acrylic on panel

signed lower right: P. GRIC 2016–2018 and on the reverse side of the panel: ARK III | ACRYLIC | P. GRIC 2017
on the top rail of the stretcher, a sticker from the Bator Gallery with a description of the painting

Peter was born in 1968 in Brno. Already in his early childhood, his parents recognized and helped nurture his talent for drawing and painting. In 1980, they decided to emigrate and, traveling through Hungary and then Yugoslavia, arrived in Austria. They spent a year in Edlach/Reichenau an der Rax before moving to Linz, where Peter completed elementary school and a technical school specializing in graphic design. In 1988, he arrived in Vienna and began studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in the master class of Prof. Arik Brauer. During his studies, he participated in numerous group exhibitions and began successfully selling his paintings. He graduated in 1993 with a Master of Fine Arts degree. In 2009, Peter moved from Vienna to Oberhöflein on the Hohe Wand plateau near the Eastern Alps.
In 2010, Gric contributed to the conceptual work for Guillermo del Toro’s film project *In the Mountains of Madness*.
From 2011 to 2015, he taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.
His works are held in numerous private and public collections: the Austrian Belvedere Gallery in Vienna, the Municipal Gallery in Traun, Austria, Künstlerhaus München in Germany, the Art Visionary Collection in Melbourne, Australia, the Rardy van Soest Collection in Houden, the Netherlands, Trierenberg Art in Traun, Austria; the beinArt Collection in Australia; and the Westermann Collection in Germany.