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The Treasure of Memory, installation. Collection of the Museum of  
Arts and Design, New York

The Treasure of Memory, an installation for Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, May 2006; The Museum of Arts and Design, New York, May 2007; Pforzheim Museum, Germany, 2008

In the Garden of Eden, a solo show for Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, Nov 2006. View gallery

America the Beautiful, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, 2006. View gallery

True Love, Westbrook Gallery, October 2006 and Museum Miedzi, Poland, 2007. View Westbrook press release or Westbrook and Miedzi image galleries.

The Milky Way and Other Fairy Tales, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, 2004 
Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

Michael Petry’s one man shows include The Milky Way and Other Fairy Tales (Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York 2004), Was: White as Snow (Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, 2004), The Sound of Breaking Glass, (Prowler Project Space, London, 2003), Barely Legal, (Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, 2001), Laughing at Time (Ha Gamle Prestegard Gallery, Norway, 2000), Contagion (Gardner Centre for the Arts, Brighton, 2000), The History of the World (Rice Art Gallery, Houston, 1999), Nothing Changes: London (Strike Gallery, London, 1998), You see what I mean ( BN1 Event 3, Fabrica, Brighton, 1996), The Garden of Enlightenment (South London Gallery, 1994), The Chemistry of Love III (Kunst und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany, 1994), The Chemistry of Love II (Atlantis Gallery, London, 1993), The Chemistry of Love (James Hockey Gallery, Farnham, 1992), The Skirting Boards (Gallery Mangisch, Zurich, 1991), Flight From Technology: The Sexuality of the Universe Part 2 (Museum of Installation, London, 1990), _Hollywood Portraits (Zero One Gallery, Los Angeles, 1989), and More Paperwork (Bellerive Museum, Zurich, 1988).

WAS: White as Snow, Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery
Houston, 2004

Petry (with his musical partners John Powell and Gavin Greenaway) was commissioned by the German National Gallery to write and direct a performance art opera An Englishman, an Irishman and a Frenchman, on the lives of Auden, Wilde, and Cocteau. Petry continues to make performance work including Brothers for the 1st London Biennale.

Installation Art in the New Millennium (Thames and Hudson, 2004)

Hidden Histories (New Art Gallery Walsall 2004)

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