Peter Brock is a visual artist and writer based in Brooklyn, NY. His work addresses the hopes and desires that structure our representations of nature. He works in painting, sculpture, video and installation. Recent exhibitions include Rerun, Root Canal, Amsterdam; The Quadrangular Sky, Fastnet, Brooklyn; The Dying Sun, Calle Cedro 327, Mexico City; More Science Less Fear, 83 Pitt Street, New York; and Neueroffnung, Federico Vavassori, Milan. His art criticism has been published in Texte Zur Kunst, The Brooklyn Rail and Frieze. Brock earned an MFA from Bard College in painting and was a guest student at the Staedelschule in Frankfurt, Germany. 

I graduated with B.S. in Biology from Peking University. In 2013, my track was changed and I started the successive postgraduate and doctoral programs of study at the School of Humanities, Tongji University, and currently I am a doctoral candidate majoring in Philosophy of Art. My main interests contain philosophy of art, theories and practices of modern and contemporary art in Europe and the United States, as well as translation of relevant art texts. In 2015 and 2017, as a visiting student, I successively studied in the Department of English and American Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the Graduate Institute of Art History at National Taiwan Normal University for a total of one year. From September 2017 to September 2019, I was selected into the joint training program of government-sponsored doctoral students and studied in the Department of Art and Visual History at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. I like to be a “common viewer” and explore possible ways to keep returning to the art scene, and the work of art often provide more effective information than the words of its producer.