Peter Doig (/ˈdɔɪɡ/ DOYG; born 17 April 1959)[1] is a painter of Scottish nationality, but who spent a nomadic childhood between Trinidad, Canada, and Britain.

[10] Doig was invited to return to Trinidad in 2000, to take up an artist's residency with his friend and fellow painter, Chris Ofili.

[11] In 2002, Doig moved back to the island, where he set up a studio at the Caribbean Contemporary Arts Centre near Port of Spain.

[14] His landscapes are layered formally and conceptually, and draw on assorted historical artists, including Munch, H. C. Westermann, Friedrich, Monet, and Klimt.

[17] Doig created a series of paintings and works on paper of Le Corbusier's modernist communal living apartments known as l'Unité d’Habitation located at Briey-en-Forêt, in France.

[21] In 2003, Doig started a weekly film club called StudioFilmClub[22] in his studio together with Trinidadian artist Che Lovelace.

Doig has had major solo exhibitions at Tate Britain (2008), touring to Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt;[23] Dallas Museum of Art (2005); Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich (2004); Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht (2003); and Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (1998).

[24] Doig's first major exhibition in his home country was entitled No Foreign Lands, taking place in the Scottish National Gallery, in Edinburgh, from 3 August to 3 November 2013.

A retrospective opened at Fondation Beyeler, Basel, in 2014, which travelled in 2015 to Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebaek, Denmark.

[41] In 2007, a painting of Doig's entitled White Canoe (1990-91) sold at Sotheby's for $11.3 million, then an auction record for a work by a living European artist.

Paul Schimmel, chief curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles said in an interview that the sale made Doig go from being "a hero to other painters to a poster child of the excesses of the market".

Later in 2013, César Reyes, a psychiatrist who lives in Puerto Rico and is one of the artist's biggest collectors, sold Jetty, a 1994 canvas of a lone figure on a dock at sunset, for $11.3 million.