| |  | 1943 | Born Sydney, Australia | | | Lives in Lavender Bay, Sydney |
Solo Exhibitions | | | 2011 | 'Ruskin's Bow', Australian Galleries, Sydney | | 2009 | 'Sea Messenger', Australian Galleries, Sydney | | 2008 | 'Beaches', Australian Galleries, Sydney | | 2006 | 'Choppy Crossings', Australian Galleries, Sydney | | 2005 | ‘Harbourlights’, Maitland Regional Gallery, Maitland, NSW
| | 2004 | ‘Cremorne Point’, Australian Galleries Painting & Sculpture, Sydney
| | ‘Survey Show - Harbourlights’ and launch of monograph Harbourlights: The Art of Peter Kingston by Gavin Wilson, Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Sydney
| | 2003 | ‘Friday Night at Kookaburras’, Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Sydney
| | 2002 | Australian Galleries, Sydney
| | ’Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture’, Don Bank Museum, Sydney
| | 2001 | ‘Girt by Sea’, Museum of Sydney, Sydney
| | ‘Ferryspotting’, Australian Galleries Painting & Sculpture, Sydney
| | ‘Exhibition of linoprints', Mackerel Beach Jetty, Sydney
| | 2000 | Girt by Sea', Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Sydney
| | 1999 | 'Hurry last Days', Australian Galleries, Works on Paper, Sydney
| | 1998 | Wylies Sea Baths, Sydney
| | 'The Rope Thrower', Australian Galleries, Sydney
| | 1995 | 'Recent Work', Australian Galleries, Sydney
| | 1993 | 'Peter Kingston', Australian Galleries, Sydney
| | 1992 | ‘Cartoon Boxes, Paintings, Etchings, Chess Sets and Snakes and Ladders’, Australian Galleries, Sydney
| | 70th Art Gallery, New York, USA
| | 1990 | Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney
| | 1983 | Garry Anderson Gallery, Sydney
| | 1982 | 70th Art Gallery, New York, USA
| | 1981 | Australia-v-England Chess Show, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
| | Hogarth Gallery, Sydney
| | 1980 | Barry Stern Galleries, Sydney
| | 1979 | Hogarth Galleries, Sydney
| | 1978 | Hogarth Galleries, Sydney |
Group Exhibitions | | | 2011 | 'large exhibition of small works', Australian Galleries, Derby Street, Melbourne
| | 'large exhibition of small works', Australian Galleries, Roylston Street, Sydney
| | ‘Peter and Fairlie Kingston a Shared Childhood’, Maitland Regional Art Gallery, Maitland, NSW
| | ‘Salon des Refusés, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
| | 'Summer Exhibition', Australian Galleries, Roylston Street, Sydney
| | 2010 | 'Artists' prints made with integrity', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | 'Summer Show', Australian Galleries, Glenmore Road, Sydney
| | 2009 | 'A Sculpture by...', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | 'Summer Stock Show', Australian Galleries, Derby Street, Melbourne
| | ‘A Sculpture by…’, Australian Galleries, Roylston Street, Sydney
| | 2008 | 'Stock show', Australian Galleries, Sydney | | 'Group Exhibition', Australian Galleries, Roylston Street, Sydney
| | 'Stock Show', Australian Galleries, Glenmore Road, Sydney
| | 'Summer Stock Show', Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Sydney
| | 'Fragile planet', NG Art Gallery, Sydney
| | 'Dusk to dawn', The Delmar Gallery, NSW
| | 2007 | Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing, Adelaide Perry Gallery, Sydney
| | Presbyterian Ladies’ College, Sydney
| | 2006 | 'Summery', Australian Galleries, Sydney | | '50th Anniversary Exhibition', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | ‘Notes from the River Caves’, 20th September, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
| | 'Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing’, Adelaide Perry Gallery, Presbyterian Ladies’ College Sydney
| | 2005 | 'End of Year Group Exhibition', Australian Galleries Painting and Sculpture, Sydney
| | ‘Dog Trumpet', RSPCA Fundraiser’, Michael Nagy Gallery, Sydney
| | Kedumba Drawing Prize (Winner), Blackheath Gallery, Blue Mountauins, NSW
| | ‘Australian Icons’, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
| | ‘Salon des Refusés’, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
| | ‘Dugongs of Hinchinbrook II’ Kick Arts, Cairns, QLD
| | ‘Fireworks: Tracing the incendiary in Australian Art’, Touring: Artspace Mackay, QLD; Rockhampton Art Gallery, QLD; Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, QLD; Gladstone Regional Art Gallery and Museum, QLD; Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre, NSW; Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, NSW; Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, NSW; Art Gallery of Ballarat, VIC; Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, VIC
| | 2004 | ‘Illos – The Art of Contemporary Illustrators’, New Contemporaries, Sydney
| | Lolli Redini, Orange NSW
| | Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
| | ‘Contemporary Australian Prints From the Collection’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
| | ‘In the Presence of all Creatures Great and Small’, Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Sydney
| | Dobell Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
| | 2003 | ‘Beneath the Monsoon – Visions North of Capricorn’, Artspace Mackay, QLD; Cairns Regional Gallery, QLD; Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, QLD
| | 'Ned Kelly Framed', National Trust Auction, Sotheby’s, Sydney
| | ‘Hung, Drawn and Quartered, 25 Years 25 Artists', Tin Shed Gallery
| | The University of Sydney, Sydney
| | ‘To the Ferry’, Don Bank Museum, Sydney
| | ‘Blinky Bill at Nutcote’, May Gibbs Gallery, Sydney
| | ‘Postcard 2003’, Cairns Regional Gallery, Cairns, QLD
| | 2002 | ‘And So to Bed’, Elizabeth Bay House, Sydney
| | ‘Jo Sonjas / Packsaddle Exhibition’, New England Regional Gallery, Armidale, NSW
| | 2001 | ‘Article’, Woolloomooloo Wharf, Sydney
| | ‘Art on Steel’, Touring exhibition: Wollongong City Gallery, NSW; Newcastle Region Art Gallery, NSW; Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, QLD; Darwin Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territories, Darwin; The Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, VIC
| | ‘Barren Grounds Bird Art’, Barren Grounds Bird Observatory, Sydney
| | ‘Artists of Luna Park’, Luna Park, Sydney
| | ‘Kedumba Drawing Award’, Wentworth Falls, NSW
| | 'Mambo Flag Show', Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
| | ‘Birds and Animals’, Penrith Regional Gallery & and The Lewers Bequest, Sydney
| | 'Salon des Refusés', S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
| | Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
| | 2000 | Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
| | Dobell Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
| | 'Salon des Refusés', S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
| | 'From Mountains to Sea’, Mt. Wilson, Blue Mountains, NSW
| | 1999 | Charity Chair Auction, Australian Galleries, Sydney
| | ‘Flesh and Blood’, Museum of Sydney, Sydney
| | ‘Bed of Oysters’, D.S. Murray, Sydney
| | Dobell Drawing Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
| | ‘It’s a Guitar Shaped World’, Tamworth City Art Gallery, Tamworth, NSW
| | ‘Worlds Collide’, Museum of Sydney, Sydney
| | 1998 | Kedumba Drawing Award, Wentworth Falls, NSW
| | ‘Symbiosis', New England Regional Gallery, NSW and Utopia Art, Sydney
| | Redlands Westpac Art Prize, Mossman Art Gallery, Sydney
| | Salon des Refusés, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
| | Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
| | Dobell Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
| | ‘Flesh and Blood’, Museum of Sydney, Sydney
| | ‘Oz Magazine Exhibition’, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
| | ‘Australian Black and White’, Mitchell Library, State, Library of New South Wales, Sydney
| | ‘Litteral Art’, Greenhill Galleries, Perth
| | 1997 | ‘Fine Paintings, Sculpture and Works on Paper’, Australian Galleries, Sydney
| | ‘Dobell Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
| | ‘Site and Sensibility’, Artbank Selection, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
| | ‘Big Blue’, Brett Whiteley Studio Gallery, Sydney
| | ‘Australian Drawings from the Collection’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
| | 1996 | ‘Fine Paintings, Sculpture and Works on Paper’, Australian Galleries, Sydney
| | ‘Alice Doyle Art Award’, Watson’s Bay, Sydney
| | ‘Dobell Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
| | ‘Salon des Refusés’, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
| | ‘Redlands Westpac Art Prize’, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney
| | 1995 | Dobell Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
| | ‘Salon des Refusés’, S. H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
| | ‘The Artists at Hill End, Art Life and Landscape’, Touring: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Bathurst Regional Gallery, NSW; New England Regional Gallery, NSW; Broken Hill City Art Gallery, NSW; Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, VIC
| | ‘Everyday Life’, Touring: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Goulburn
| | ‘Regional Gallery, NSW; Wagga Wagga City Gallery, NSW;
| | ‘Jeans for Genes’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
| | ‘Circus Capers’, Glen Eira City Council Gallery, Melbourne
| | ‘Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
| | ‘Salon des Refusés’, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
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CollectionsArt Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Australia Bank, Australia
Barney Brown Collection, New York, USA
Bathurst Regional Gallery, Bathhurst, NSW
Bibliotheque de la Ville, Belgium
Costen Library, Los Angeles, USA
Maitland Regional Gallery, Maitland, NSW
Mitchell Library, Sydney
Museum of Sydney, Sydney National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Film Library, Tokyo, Japan
News Ltd, Sydney
Royal Alexandra Children’s Hospital, Sydney Stanton Library, Sydney
Sydney Technical College Collection, Sydney Sydney Theatre Company, Sydney
Photograph courtesy of Greg Weight
Special NotesFILMS | 1975 | Produced, 'On the Ball', Sydney | | 1974 | produced, 'Leichardt', Based on 19th Century German explorer, Luding Leichardt, Sydney | | | 'Dr. K's Bookcase', Sydney | | 1973 | Casted in, 'Fanta', Experimental black and white film directed by Garry Shead, Sydney | | 1970 | Produced, 'Bread and Butter', Publicly funded film on Brett Whitely's murial at The Drip Gorge, Goulburn River, NSW |
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