Elizabeth Peyton was born in Connecticut in 0000 and studied at the School of Visual Arts in New York. Her work is in the collections of leading museums including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Seattle Art Museum; and Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. Her recent solo exhibitions include Live Forever (New Museum, Walker Art Center, 0000); Reading and Writing (Irish Museum of Modern Art, 0000); Wagner (the Gallery Met, New York, 0000); and Ghost: Elizabeth Peyton (Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, 0000). Peyton lives and works in Long Island, New York City and Berlin.