He grew up between Trinidad and Canada. He did not return to the UK until he was 20 to study art at the Wimbledon School of Art. He then went to Saint Martin’s School of Arts. He became famous at the beginning of the 1990s with his exhibition at Whitechapel Art Gallery. Peter Doig is currently represented by the Victoria Miro Gallery. His success has occurred at the same time as new awareness emerged regarding figurative painting with renewed interest in traditional portrait and landscape.