Wolfgang Petrick was born in 1939 in East Berlin. From 1958 to 1965 he studied at the University of the Fine Arts in West Berlin. In 1964 he was a co-founder of the artists’ cooperative gallery Grossgörschen 35 in West Berlin. In 1971 he spent a period in Paris with the scholarship of the Cité Internationale des Arts. In 1976 he took part in documenta 6 in Kassel. From 1975 to 2007 he taught as a professor at the University of Arts in Berlin. In 1993 he was elected to the Academy of Arts, Berlin. Petrick lives and works in Berlin and, since 1994, in New York.