American, b. 1951

Peter Shelton is an American artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Museum of Modern Art. Peter Shelton was born in Troy.

Peter Shelton is a contemporary American sculptor born in 1951 in Troy, Ohio. Shelton works in both large and small scale, in various metals (steel, iron, lead, bronze), glass, cement, water, paint and a variety of the fiberglass and resin composites first adopted by artists in the late 1960s. His sculptures incorporate both abstracted and figurative forms along with anatomical and architectural motifs.

Shelton has exhibited extensively, including solo shows at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1987; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1994; University of California, Berkeley 1998; the Irish Museum of Modern Art 1998-1999; and Portland Art Museum, 2011. He has participated in group exhibitions at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of California, 2009; Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL; the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, 2004; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain, 2004; Tate Gallery Liverpool, England, 1998; and Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, 2006. Shelton has maintained his studio in Los Angeles since 1975. He lives in Venice, California.