Peter Thomashow is a physician, artist, collector and musician living in Vermont. He has been a faculty member at the Medical Schools of NYU, University of Vermont, Dartmouth College, and Massachusetts General Hospital. Thomashow contributed essays: “The Old Curiosity Shop” (Cabinet Magazine) and “At The Open Gate” (The Saranac Review). His work has been featured in several publications: "A Doctor Treats Antique Radios" (New York Times, 1987), “Collecting the Collectors” (Seven Days Magazine, 2010), “Toy Story” (Seven Days Magazine, 2011) and “Vermont Artist Peter Thomashow Goes Outside” (Seven Days Magazine, 2016).
He showed his “Origin of Life” installation at Central Booking Gallery in Brooklyn, NY (2011 and 2012); and has also exhibited at the Main Street Museum in Vermont (2009-2012), AVA Gallery Juried Show in New Hampshire (2012) and had his first solo show at the Big Town Gallery in Rochester, VT (2014). He was part of two-person shows and exhibited the “Rotating Optical Toy Experiment” at Johnson State College in Vermont (2014) and the Helen Day Art Center, Vermont (2015). His work was displayed with Marion Harris in New York City at the Metro Curated Show (2015) and the Outsider Art Shows (2015 and 2016) where his work was noticed and photographed in Hyperallergic. He exhibited at Miami-Basel Pulse (2017), had a solo show at Project Art Space in New York City (2018), and was exhibited in various group shows: Bennington Museum, Vermont (2018), Kent Museum, Vermont (2019), Stewart Gallery, Idaho (2019), aMuse Gallery, NY (2019), Limner Gallery, NY (2019), Concord Center for the Visual Arts, Boston (2019), Catamount Arts, Vermont (2019) and Stone Valley Arts, Vermont ( 2021).
Thomashow’s collages and assemblages are in a variety of collections in the United States, Europe and Asia, and in the Middlebury College Museum of Art permanent collection.
He is currently working on a series of Philosophical Toy Dioramas, Magnetic Assemblages, Laboratory of Colour Projects, Toys from a Parallel Universe, and continues to curate the notebooks and inventions of his great grandfather, Professor Wolfson.