Peeter Allik is one of the well-known Estonian artists.  In the 1990s he became a prolific graphic artist and painter, whose work has been associated with both the neo-pop wave and the second coming of surrealism in that decade. Allik's works are characterized by a dose of socially critical grotesque. 

EDUCATION 

1984-1988 Tartu Art School

1988-1993 University of Tartu, painting

1991-1992 Estonian Academy of Arts, printmaking

LINKS

https://www.peeterallik.eu/index.html 

WORKS ARE PRESENTED 

Estonian Art Museum, Tartu Art Museum, Viinistu Art Museum, MONA (The Museum of New Art), and private collections

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2017 Cultivated Schizophrenia. Tartu Art Museum, Tartu, Estonia

2016 Art is a Serious Thing. Peeter Allik & Toomas Kuusing. Main Site Contemporary Art Gallery, Norman, Oklahoma, USA

2016 The Autumn Bird Sings Here. Tartu Art House, Tartu, Estonia

2016 These Tomatoes Will Not Rot. Gallery Bastejs, Riga, Latvia

2015 Horse’s Head. Hobusepea Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia

2015 These Tomatoes Will Not Rot. Gallery of Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia

2013. Art is a Serious Thing, Gallery Bastejs, Riga, Latvi

2012. Solo Exhibition at Gallery ForOrtOst, part IV of the International Graphic Art Exhibition. Leipzig, Germany

2012. Great Fabulous Food Club, Draakon Gallery, Tallinn

2012. Peeter Allik & Toomas Kuusing, Café Stadler, Berlin

2011. Solutions, Maniere Noire, Berlin

2011. I Saw Nothing, Gallery Bastejs, Riga, Latvia

2011  Carnivores Club, Monumental Gallery of Tartu Art House, Estonia

2010. Peeter Allik & Toomas Kuusing, Create an Art City Project – Docking, NOI Gallery, Korea Experimental Art Festival 2010, Seoul, South Korea

2009. Well, well. With Rolandas Rimkunas, Draakon Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia

2008. How to Become Rich and Beautiful. Gallery Ietsmooisaandemuur, Hertogenbosch, Netherlands

2007. A Giant Ass, or Where We’ve Ended Up, Non Grata Art Container, Tallinn, Estonia

2007. The Beginning of New Happiness. Pärnu City Gallery and Pärnu Concert Hall, Estonia

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

He participated in over 170 group exhibitions at home and abroad.

He was one of the founders of the artist group Kursi School. He participated in 55 exhibitions of this group.

SELECTED AWARDS

2015 Grand Prix I. Kaunas International Printmaking Biennial Culture in Line, Lithuania

2011 Chicago Printmaking Collaborative Prize, USA

2010 Grand Prix. V Rokycany Printmaking Biennial, Czech Republic

2007 One prize of three at XIV Varna International Printmaking Biennial, Bulgaria

2006 Annual award of the Cultural Endowment of Estonia, Estonia

2005 Kristjan Raud award, Estonia

2001 Konrad Mägi award, Estonia

1998 III prize at the international exhibition Citta Di Locri, Italy

1997 Ado Vabbe award, Estonia