Key dates in the life of Peter Klashorst.
| 1957 | Born on 11 February in Santpoort, the Netherlands. |
| 1979 | Moves to the new Audiovisual department of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam. |
| 1982 | LP Happy End with his new wave band Soviet Sex. Buning Brongers Prize. |
| 1983 | Royal Subsidy for Free Painting (Koninklijke Subsidie voor de Vrije Schilderkunst). |
| 1980s | Nationally known as one of the Dutch New Wild Ones. Exhibits in New York, among others with Jeff Koons. |
| 1989 | Co-founds the collective After Nature with Bart Domburg and Jurriaan van Hall. |
| 1997 | Publishes Schilderen met acryl. |
| Late 1990s | Settles in Africa: Senegal, Kenya and the Gambia. |
| 2000s | Moves to Southeast Asia: Bangkok, Pattaya and Phnom Penh. |
| 2010 | Castles in the Air published in Bangkok. |
| 2011 | Around fifty portraits shown at the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum (S-21), Phnom Penh. Novel Kunstkannibaal published by Prometheus (launched 1 December). |
| 2016 | Solo exhibition at Kunsthalle Ludwig, Frankfurt-Höchst (September). Van Gogh in the Gambia with Klashorst, Alliance Française, Banjul (November). Painters Tales published. |
| 2020 | Privately published art book Dirty Diaries, with stories in English. |
| 2024 | Dies on 11 September in Amsterdam, aged 67. |