Peter Spanjer (Nigerian, b. 1994) currently lives and works in London, UK. Peter graduated with a BA degree in Fashion Promotion from the University for the Creative Arts, UK in 2015 and completed an MA in Contemporary Art Practice: Moving Image at the Royal College of Art, UK in 2020. His work is often framed around—but not limited to—the idea of resistance: resisting the emotional stereotypes placed on Black men; resisting the need to perform his Blackness to others, and thereby allowing room for self-exploration, which he extends to an audience as a piece of visual art.
Solo exhibitions include Flood of Memory, Shoreditch Arts Club, London, UK (2023); In Order for it to Change, Screw Gallery, Leeds, UK (2021); What do you desire, inter.pblc, Copenhagen, Denmark (2021); The Tingle That You Feel On Your Tongue, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London, UK (2020).
Group exhibitions include Where the Wild Roses Grow, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Schloss Görne, Germany (2023); Diaspora Now – Reference Point Lates, 180 Strand, London, UK (2023); A–Z – The Voice of a Tempest Act III, Somerset House Studios, London, UK (2023); That Land on My Skin, Shoreditch Arts Club, London, UK (2023); Testament, Goldsmiths CCA, London, UK (2023); The London Open 2022, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK (2022); Between Somewhere and Nowhere (with Jack Bidewell), Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Berlin, Germany (2022); Facing the Sun, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Schloss Görne, Germany (2021); TRANSMISSIONS, Season 3 (online), BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art (2021); Tomorrow: London (online), White Cube, UK (2020); Royal College of Art / Slade Graduation Show, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London, UK (2020); An Exhibition, Public Notice, London, UK (2020); London Grads Now, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK (2020); 20:20 (Moving Image shown at Piccadilly Lights), Circa, London, UK (2020); Togetherness, Assembly Point, London, UK (2020); A–Z: Gaze on the UNKNOWN, PAF Festival, Olomouc, Czech Republic (2019).
Highlights
Peter Spanjer was awarded the Cob Gallery Award Residency in 2024.