# Peter Missing > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Peter_Missing > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Peter_Missing.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Missing > Source revision: 1292269086 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|American artist (born 1953)}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = Peter Missing | image = Missing with Global Warning, 2015.jpg | alt = | caption = Missing with Global Warning | image_size = | landscape = yes | birth_name = Peter Colangelo | alias = | birth_date = November 26, 1953 | birth_place = [Bronx, New York](/source/Bronx%2C_New_York), U.S. | death_date = | origin = [Bronx, New York](/source/Bronx%2C_New_York), U.S. | instrument = | genre = [Electronic](/source/Electronic_music)
[Industrial](/source/Industrial_music) [Noise](/source/Noise_(music))
[Experimental](/source/Experimental_music) [Vocal Sampling](/source/Sampling_(music))
[Crossover](/source/Crossover_(music)) | occupation = | years_active = 1979 - present | label = Humanity Records | associated_acts = [Drunk Driving](/source/Drunk_Driving_(band))
[Missing Foundation](/source/Missing_Foundation)
[Missing Seven Hazard](/source/Missing_Seven_Hazard) | website = {{URL|www.petermissing.de}} }} '''Peter Missing''' (born '''Peter Colangelo'''; November 26, 1953) is a [New York City](/source/New_York_City) artist, poet, musician, and activist who relocated to [Berlin](/source/Berlin) in 1993. As of 2025, Missing is residing in [Pittsburgh, PA](/source/Pittsburgh%2C_PA). ==History== Missing grew up in the Bronx during the 1950s and 1960s, as a middle child of three siblings. He's Italian and one-third Danish. His father was a postal worker who delivered to the [Empire State Building](/source/Empire_State_Building). thumb|upright=.55|left|alt=A drawing of Peter Missing's upside-down glass logo.|Party's over logo He was one of the organizers of the protest against the Tompkins Square Park curfew that led to the [Tompkins Square Park Riot](/source/Tompkins_Square_Park_Riot_(1988)). His symbol, an upside down martini glass with three strikes crossed out, means "party's over". The symbol used to be spotted all over the [Lower East Side](/source/Lower_East_Side). It was often accompanied by anti-[gentrification](/source/gentrification), anti-police brutality, anti-corporations, and pro-environment slogans. The symbol was originally designed for a band Missing founded in 1980 called [Drunk Driving](/source/Drunk_Driving_(band)) and has grown to symbolize the decline of our planet and a warning to start something new; time for a change. He founded the influential underground [industrial](/source/industrial_music) band [Missing Foundation](/source/Missing_Foundation) while living in [Hamburg](/source/Hamburg), Germany in 1984 and imported it to the U.S. in 1985 with new members. The band has included about 20 members over its history. The name came from the [East German](/source/East_German) police unit whose job it was to track down people who fled to [West Germany](/source/West_Germany). At shows Missing would sometimes set himself on fire as part of the performance. The band released five albums with [Restless Records](/source/Restless_Records) in L.A. including ''Your House Is Mine'' which was named Rock Album of the Week in ''[The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times)'' in 1988.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/09/09/arts/sounds-around-town-525288.html |title=Sounds Around Town |first=Jon |last=Pareles |newspaper=The New York Times |date=September 9, 1988}} Missing has been painting for the past 30 years and has works in over 30 museums in the U.S. and Europe including [The Museum of Modern Art](/source/The_Museum_of_Modern_Art), [The Whitney Museum of American Art](/source/Whitney_Museum), [The Getty Institute](/source/J._Paul_Getty_Museum), and the Stadt Museum in Berlin.Your House Is Mine, First Edition, Bullet Space, New York, 1980. Until October 2011, Missing had his gallery, ''Conto Gallery'', in [Kunsthaus Tacheles](/source/Kunsthaus_Tacheles) in Berlin.{{cite book| pages=76–89 |last = Schilling |first = Stefan |title = Tacheles: Die Geschichte des Kunsthauses in Fotografien von Stefan Schilling |publisher = Edition Braus |year =2016 |isbn = 978-3862281473 }} In 2012, Missing opened a new art space called ''Transmission Gallery'' in Copenhagen, Denmark.{{cite web |url=http://www.missingfoundation.com/ |title=Archived copy |website=www.missingfoundation.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020609024311/http://missingfoundation.com/ |archive-date=2002-06-09}} Missing worked many years as a film set designer in Hamburg and taught art to troubled youth in different German schools. Missing now resides in Denver, Colorado, where his gallery, ''Gallery Late Realism'', is open by appointment.{{Cite web|url=https://m.facebook.com/peter.missing.5|title = Peter Missing|website = [Facebook](/source/Facebook)}} Besides the gallery and creative work, including music performances, Missing runs creative artwork classes to the local kids in the area at a nearby youth center / artwork / music : Peter Missing Instagram and Facebook 2021 / In 2018 The full collection of Missing Foundation albums was released on bandcamp.com / new release ''Hard Surface'' / MissingFoundation 2 bandcamp.com 2021 ==Discography== ===Solo=== * ''Electronic Collection 1993-2010'' (2010) ===With Drunk Driving=== * ''Drunk Driving'' (1983) ===With Missing Foundation=== * ''Frontline 2185'' (with [KMFDM](/source/KMFDM), 1984) * ''[The 20th Anniversary of the Summer of Love 1987-1967](/source/The_20th_Anniversary_of_the_Summer_of_Love_1987-1967)'' (with various, 1987) * ''Missing Foundation'' (1987) * ''Your House Is Mine 1933'' (1988) * ''Humanity Demise'' (1989) * ''Song and Legend'' (with various, 1989) * ''Ignore the White Culture'' (1990) * ''Go into Exile'' (1992) * ''Assault on Your Life'' (1992) * ''Live in Europe 1992'' (1992) * ''Just Another Hit'' (1993) * ''State of the Union 2.001'' (with various, 2001) * ''Live in La Plaza'' (2016) * ''Nature is Watching You'' (2018) * ''World in Chains'' (2019) * ''Hard Surface'' (2021) ===With Missing Seven Hazard=== * ''Global Warning'' (Single, 2007) * ''Rocket the U.S.'' (2008) * ''Nature Revolt Remix'' (2009) * ''War of the Minds'' (2010) * ''Real Freedom'' (2018) ===Peter Missing solo === * ''Rotation'' (1997) * ''Insel 138'' (1998) * ''Cracked Ocean'' (1998) * ''Low Denominator'' (1999) * ''Redirect'' (2021) * ''river of creative forms'' (2022) ==References== {{Reflist}} == External links == * [http://www.petermissing.de/ Official Website] * [http://www.petemissing.de/ Old Website] * [https://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/29/nyregion/a-stirring-icon-that-shook-things-up-turns-20.html 2002 New York Times Article] * [https://petemissing-mhabicht.bandcamp.com] * [https://missingfoundation.bandcamp.com] {{Missing Foundation}} {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Missing, Peter}} Category:American male musicians Category:German male musicians Category:20th-century American painters Category:American male painters Category:21st-century American painters Category:20th-century German painters Category:20th-century American male artists Category:German male painters Category:21st-century German painters Category:21st-century American male artists Category:1953 births Category:Living people Category:Missing Foundation members --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Peter Missing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Missing) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Missing?action=history)). 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