Peter Howson, OBE, was born in 1958 in London, England to Scottish parents. He studied at Glasgow School of Art between 1975-1981. Howson was one of the central figures in the group known as "The New Glasgow Boys", alongside Ken Currie, Steven Campbell and Adrian Wiszniewski, who studied contemporaneously at the Glasgow School of Art in the 1980s.
Howson’s work is renowned for its grotesquely caricaturised figures, often involved in violent subject matter. He draws inspiration from personal trauma, creating images that connect with ‘outsider’ groups and individuals.
He was the official British war artist during the 1993 Bosnian Civil War with his work shown in major exhibitions at the Imperial War Museum, London, Flowers East, London and "Bosnian Harvest" at the Glasgow Print Studio. His work is in collections worldwide including Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Victoria & Albert Museum, London, Gulbenkian Collection, Lisbon, The National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh.
