Early Life
Peter Doig was born in Edinburgh. In 1962 he moved with his family to Trinidad, where his father worked with a shipping and trading company, and then in 1966 to Canada. He then moved to London in 1979 to study fine art at the Wimbledon School of Art, St Martin's School of Art (where he became friends with artist Billy Childish) and Chelsea School of Art, where he received an MA. In the mid-1980s, he lived and worked in Montreal.
In 1993, Doig won the first prize at the John Moores exhibition with his painting Blotter. This brought public recognition, cemented in 1994, when he was nominated for the Turner Prize. From 1995 to 2000, he was a trustee of the Tate Gallery.
In 2002, Doig moved back to Trinidad, where he set up a studio at the Caribbean Contemporary Arts centre near Port of Spain. He also became professor at the fine arts academy in Düsseldorf, Germany .
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