Peter Schlesinger (b. 1948, Los Angeles) lives and works between Bellport, NY and New York City. After studying painting at the University of California, Los Angeles, he went on to London’s Slade School of Art in the late 1960s and early 1970s and began making sculpture in New York in the mid-1980s. Schlesinger’s work has been exhibited at Gallery Met, New York, NY; Flag Art Foundation, New York; the Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY; David Lewis Gallery, New York; Paula Cooper Gallery, New York; MoMA PS1, New York; The Clocktower, New York; Tate Liverpool, UK; and the Hayward Gallery, London. His work is in collections including the Arts Council Collection, London; the Farnsworth Museum, Rockland, ME; Manchester Art Gallery, UK; the Parrish Art Museum; and the UBS Art Collection, New York.