Works
  • Peter Horvath, Eastwood, 1976, 2025
    Eastwood, 1976, 2025
    60 x 50 in.
  • Peter Horvath, Jim Morrison, 1971, 2025
    Jim Morrison, 1971, 2025
    62 x 53 in.
  • Peter Horvath, The Kingpin, 2025
    The Kingpin, 2025
    49 1/2 x 42 in.
  • Peter Horvath, 7UP, 2025
    7UP, 2025
    48 x 40 in.
  • Peter Horvath, Angel, Bond Girl #5, 2024
    Angel, Bond Girl #5, 2024
    60 x 50 in.
  • Peter Horvath, Bacall, 2024
    Bacall, 2024
    60 x 50 in.
  • Peter Horvath, Badass Brigitte, 2022
    Badass Brigitte, 2022
    72 x 54 in.
  • Peter Horvath, Badass Sophia, 2024
    Badass Sophia, 2024
    60 x 50 in.
  • Peter Horvath, Belle de Jour, 2021
    Belle de Jour, 2021
    60 x 50 in.
  • Peter Horvath, Bogie, 2023
    Bogie, 2023
    60 x 50 in.
  • Peter Horvath, Brando On Blue, 2025
    Brando On Blue, 2025
    60 x 50 in.
  • Peter Horvath, Canada Dry Ginger Ale, 2025
    Canada Dry Ginger Ale, 2025
    48 x 40 in.
  • Peter Horvath, Cary & Grace, 2024
    Cary & Grace, 2024
    54 x 72 in.
  • Peter Horvath, Christopher Reeves, 2021
    Christopher Reeves, 2021
    60 x 50 in.
  • Peter Horvath, Churchill, 2022
    Churchill, 2022
    72 x 54 in.
  • Peter Horvath, Connery, 2023
    Connery, 2023
    60 x 50 in.
  • Peter Horvath, David, 2022
    David, 2022
    72 x 54 in.
  • Peter Horvath, Elvis On Blue, 2022
    Elvis On Blue, 2022
    60 x 50 in.
  • Peter Horvath, Frank, 2022
    Frank, 2022
    46 x 39 in.
  • Peter Horvath, Frida, 2022
    Frida, 2022
    50 x 43 in.
  • Peter Horvath, Frida, 2023
    Frida, 2023
    60 x 50 in.
  • Peter Horvath, Grace, 2023
    Grace, 2023
    72 x 54 in.
  • Peter Horvath, Hepburn, 2023
    Hepburn, 2023
    60 x 50 in.
  • Peter Horvath, Her Majesty , 2022
    Her Majesty , 2022
    60 x 50 in.
  • Peter Horvath, Jagger, 2022
    Jagger, 2022
    48 x 40 in.
  • Peter Horvath, James, 2022
    James, 2022
    72 x 54 in.
  • Peter Horvath, John Lennon, 2023
    John Lennon, 2023
    60 x 50
  • Peter Horvath, Kate, 2025
    Kate, 2025
    55 x 40 in.
  • Peter Horvath, Liz, 2021
    Liz, 2021
    36 x 28 in.
  • Peter Horvath, Liz, 2025
    Liz, 2025
    60 x 50 in.
  • Peter Horvath, LL COOL J, 2023
    LL COOL J, 2023
    60 x 50 in.
  • Peter Horvath, Marilyn, 2023
    Marilyn, 2023
    60 x 50 in.
  • Peter Horvath, McQueen, 2023
    McQueen, 2023
    60 x 50 in.
  • Peter Horvath, Miss Holiday, 2023
    Miss Holiday, 2023
    60 x 50 in.
  • Peter Horvath, Mr. Cohen, 2022
    Mr. Cohen, 2022
    48 x 40 in.
  • Peter Horvath, Paul Newman , 2023
    Paul Newman , 2023
    60 x 50 in.
  • Peter Horvath, Pepsi Cola, 2025
    Pepsi Cola, 2025
    48 x 40 in.
  • Peter Horvath, Prince, 2021
    Prince, 2021
    48 x 40 in.
  • Peter Horvath, Siren Call, 2021
    Siren Call, 2021
    46 x 39 in.
  • Peter Horvath, Sophia, 2022
    Sophia, 2022
    60 x 50 in.
  • Peter Horvath, Sparkling Canada Dry, 2025
    Sparkling Canada Dry, 2025
    48 x 40 in.
  • Peter Horvath, Steinem, 2024
    Steinem, 2024
    60 x 50 in.
  • Peter Horvath, The Fab Four, 2024
    The Fab Four, 2024
    54 x 72 in.
  • Peter Horvath, The Rat Pack, 2024
    The Rat Pack, 2024
    50 x 60 in.
  • Peter Horvath, With Love, Batman, 2023
    With Love, Batman, 2023
    60 x 50 in.
  • Peter Horvath, Yves Saint Laurent, 2021
    Yves Saint Laurent, 2021
    60 x 50 in.
  • Peter Horvath, Beautiful Loser, 2019
    Beautiful Loser, 2019
    36 x 30 in.
  • Peter Horvath, I'm Batman, 2021
    I'm Batman, 2021
    36 x 30 in.
  • Peter Horvath, James Dean No. 1, 2020
    James Dean No. 1, 2020
    36 x 30 in.
  • Peter Horvath, Loren, 2019
    Loren, 2019
    36 x 30 in.
  • Peter Horvath, Lynda, 2021
    Lynda, 2021
    36 x 30 in.
Overview

“The images of the people I choose for these portraits have a strength and vitality - I place them among the wreckage of crumbling, entropic elements - suggesting nothing lasts forever.”

Peter Horvath is a photo-based and New Media artist. Embracing digital technologies at the birth of the Web, he created audio/video narratives through selective editing of film footage and the use of his early collages. His new work similarly focuses on deconstructing and recontextualizing imagery through assemblage, drawing from personal and found materials.

 

Merging street ephemera, movie posters, photographs, ink, acrylic and spray paint, Horvath’s densely layered assemblage portraits reflect on his fascination with media consumption, cultural icons and urban decay. They share an affinity with the Décollage of the 1960’s Nouveau Réalistes Mimmo Rotella and Jacques Villeglé.

 

Using imagery of friends, family and celebrated public figures, Horvath obscures his central characters with peeling, torn paper fragments and paint, frenetically surrounding a stilled subject. “When I began making these works I considered how we have become a society obsessed with aging, clinging to, and in pursuit of our emblems of youth. The images of the people I choose for these portraits have a strength and vitality - I place them among the wreckage of crumbling, entropic elements - suggesting nothing lasts forever”.

 

Peter Horvath’s work is included in numerous permanent and private collections internationally, including the Nion McEvoy collection, the Art Gallery of Hamilton, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. He is the recipient of commissions from Rhizome.org at The New Museum, NYC (2005) and Turbulence.org New Radio and Performing Arts, Boston (2004). He has received numerous grants from The Canada Council for the Arts and Ontario Arts Council for his New Media work.

 

Horvath has exhibited in museums and galleries globally, including the Rise Art Prize Exhibition in London UK, and Stephen Bulger Gallery in Toronto. Other exhibitions include the Whitney Museum Of American Art‘s Artport (NYC), Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo (Mexico City), the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (Québec City, Canada) and FILE Electronic Language International Festival (São Paulo, Brazil).

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