Peter Anton

Peter Anton (born 1963 in New Haven, Connecticut) is an American artist and sculptor. Anton is known for his sculptures around the theme of candy.

Exhibitions
Peter Anton’s sculptures have been featured in solo exhibitions in Europe, the United States, and in Asia, including Museum Jan in Amstelveen, the Netherlands; the Lyman Allyn Art Museum in New London, Connecticut; the Allan Stone Gallery, Hammer Galleries, and the Bruce R. Lewin Gallery, in New York City; Scott Richards Contemporary Art in San Francisco; Gallery Valentine in East Hampton, New York; Bonner David Galleries in Scottsdale; Urban Art in Seoul, South Korea; Guy Pieters Gallery in Knokke-Heist, Belgium; Gallery Delaive in Amsterdam; Galerie von Braunbehrens in Stuttgart, Germany; Davis Klemm Gallery in Wiesbaden, Germany; and Rarity Gallery in Mykonos, Greece.

Peter Anton's solo exhibition titled "Sweet Dreams" opened at the Lyman Allyn Art Museum on July 18, 2020 and ran through October 18th, 2020. The exhibition included some of Anton’s signature sculptures including large boxed chocolates, donuts, ice cream cones and sundaes, and giant cakes on pedestals. The museum broke their own in-person attendance records with this exhibition.

Special project
On exhibit during Art Basel Miami in December 2012, Peter Anton's Sugar & Gomorrah was the world's first art installation where the viewer rode through an exhibition aboard an amusement ride. Sugar & Gomorrah was an actual roller coaster reworked into an art experience showcasing the juxtaposition between a sense of doom and the magical world of giant sweets. The attendees darted through a snaking tunnel up and down hills rapidly twisting and turning all while viewing a modern interpretation of the destruction of a Sodom and Gomorrah-like world.

Collections
His work is in the permanent collection of museums including the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City, Missouri; the Copelouzos Art Museum in Athens, Greece; the Lisser Art Museum in Lisse, the Netherlands; the Arkansas Arts Center in Little Rock; the Tennessee State Museum in Nashville and the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut.