BORN 
  • 1962 Oakland, CA
EDUCATION
  • 1988 B.A., Practice of Art, University of California, Berkeley
  • 1980-82 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
  • 1981 Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
  • 2003 Comic Release Negotiating Identity for a New Generation, The Regina Gouger Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University and Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia.
  • 2002 Peter Mitchell-Dayton, Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, NY
  • 2001 Peter Mitchell-Dayton: The Source, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  • 2001 Show Time, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  • 2000 Made in California 1900-2000, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
  • 1998 Peter Mitchell-Dayton: Private, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  • 1997 New Work: Drawing Today, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
  • 1997 Drawings: Realism to Abstraction: A Contemporary Survey of the Bay Area, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
  • 1997 Art Writing: words in works on paper, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
  • 1997 Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, The University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC. Catalogue.
  • 1996 Peter Mitchell-Dayton, Maddux Parker, Sacramento, CA
  • 1996 Sampling, Rena Bransten Gallery, CA
  • 1995 Peter Mitchell-Dayton, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  • 1995 The Comic Strip, The Political Cartoon, and the Heritage Thereof, The Roseville Art Center, Roseville, CA
  • 1995 Takeoffs, Chapman University, Orange, CA
  • 1995 Obsession, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
  • 1994 Re: Drawing, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
  • 1994 6 x 9, The Victoria Room, San Francisco, CA
  • 1993 Drawing First, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
  • 1993 The Return of the Cadavre Exquis, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
  • 1993 Prehistoric, The Victoria Room, San Francisco, CA
  • 1990 Berkeley Art Center 6th Annual Exhibition, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
  • 1990 Domestic Politics, Nexus Gallery, Berkeley, CA
  • 1989 Berkeley Art Center 5th Annual Exhibition, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
  • 1988 Chatchkes: A Source Show, Nexus Gallery, Berkeley, CA
  • 1987 Some Portraits, Pro Arts, Oakland, CA
  • 1984 Four Realists, Worth Ryder Gallery, University of California, Berkeley, CA
  • 1984 Crocker-Kingsley Annual, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
  • San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA