For Peter Colquhoun (pronounced cull-hoon) drawing and painting began quite early but formal training began in 1972, with courses taken at the Brooklyn Museum Art School where he studied at first part-time, then in 1974 attended full-time until 1976. In 1979 he began teaching painting at the newly formed New Brooklyn School which later merged with and became known as the New York Academy. In 1983, Colquhoun moved to Italy for a little over 2 years and at first he settled in Venice for 6 months where he was awarded an internship at the Peggy Guggenheim Museum. During this time he studied in depth the works of the Renaissance masters. Later he painted and exhibited in various cities including a solo exhibition at the Fenice Gallery in Venice in 1985. Colquhoun also taught at the Centro del Arte Verrochio in Casole d’Elsa, Tuscany. After returning from Italy he attended Pratt Institute and graduated in 1989. During this time, urban landscape became an area of primary interest and activity and it continues to be so up to the present day. He taught drawing at the Cosmopolitan Club in New York during the Spring semester of 2007. Other solo exhibitions that have taken place include: the Institut Franco Americain in Rennes, France; the Westbeth Gallery (2001 and 2008) and the Roerich Museum in New York. Peter Colquhoun has also exhibited at the George Billis Gallery in 2011 and the Galerie von Stechow in Frankfurt, Germany. Among the residencies awarded and attended: the Heliker-LaHotan Foundation on Cranberry Island in Maine, 2007; the Alfred and Trafford Klots in Brittany, France, 2002 and 2005; the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation in Taos, New Mexico, 2001; the I-Park Residency in East Haddam, Connecticut, 2004; and the C-scape Duneshack Residency in Provincetown, Massachusetts, 2004. Other awards have included the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Grant in 2001, the Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant in 2002 and 2013 and the New York Foundation for the Arts Grant in 2002.