Elizabeth Peyton studied at The School of Visual Arts, New York (graduating in 1987). Her major solo exhibitions include Here She Comes Now, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany (2013); Ghost, a retrospective of the artist’s prints at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, USA, and Stiftung Opelvillen, Rüsselsheim, Germany (both 2011), and the major retrospective Live Forever at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA, touring to the New Museum, New York, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, and Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, Holland (2009-10). Reading and Writing at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, in 2009, brought together many literaryinfused works. In Japan, she held a solo exhibition at Gallery Side 2, Tokyo in 1995 and was included in the Essential Painting exhibition at the National Museum of Art, Osaka, in 2006. Peyton lives and works in New York. An upcoming solo exhibition will be presented at the Académie de France in Rome - Villa Medici in 2017.