Peter Schuyff
1958
American painter (born 1958)
Peter Schuyff is an internationally exhibited Dutch-born American painter, musician and sculptor. In 1967 he moved with his family to Vancouver, Canada. Schuyff's mother was an artist and his father a professor of economics at Simon Fraser University. Schuyff became fascinated with the radical views of the art world in the 1960s and 70s and especially with such famous figures as Andy Warhol and Willem de Kooning. He was raised in Canada and was schooled in art at the Vancouver School of Art.