Peter Miller
pm@petermiller.info
www.petermiller.info
Education
2005
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Masters of Fine Arts
Studio Art
2000
Hampshire College, Bachelor of Arts
Film & Photography
Solo Shows
2015
Aktinität, Galerie Crone, Vienna, Austria
2015
Miraculeux, Section Pigalle, Paris, France
2014
Hard Rain, Simultanhalle, Cologne, Germany
2014
Prospectif Cinema, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (screening)
2013
Photuris, Galerie Crone, Berlin, Germany
2011
Sleight, Galerie Crone, Berlin, Germany
2011
Means to See, PACT Zollverein, Essen, Germany
2010
Leads to Gold, Mikro Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany
2009
Performative Images, Glassmoog, Cologne, Germany
2009
Light and Weight, Standard/Deluxe, Lausanne, Switzerland
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Awards & Fellowships
2015
NRW Stiftung, Düsseldorf, Germany
2015
New Roots Foundation Residency, Antigua, Guatemala
2015
FNAGP Grant, film production, Paris, France
2013
VISIO - European Workshop on Artists’ Moving Images, Florence, Italy
2012
Le Pavillon, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
2012
Artist Residency, RWE/Visit, Essen, Germany
2011
Artist Residency, PACT Zollverein, Essen, Germany
2010
Artist Residency, WORM Filmwerkplaats, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
2010
Fellow, Academy for Media Art, Cologne, Germany
2009
Arts Residency, Seven Below Residency, The Barn, Vermont
2008
DAAD Arts Fellowship with Matthias Müller, Cologne, Germany
2008
Artist Residency, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, Nebraska
2007
Artist Residency, Foto K, Vienna, Austria
2006
Fulbright Fellowship with Peter Tscherkassky, Vienna, Austria
2005
Scholarship to attend Ox-bow, Saugatuck, Michigan, USA
2004
Hayward Prize Fellowship with Valie Export, Salzburg, Austria
Teaching/lecturing
2015
Guest Lecturer: Art, Photography and Practice
PNCA, Portland, OR, USA
2015
Tutor: Film Art
Bronnbacher Stipendiaten, Mannheim, Germany
2014-15
Film Studio Arts, workshops for film artists
Academy for Media Arts, Cologne, Germany
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2014
Artist Talk: Moving Image Art Practice
Hochschule für Film und Fernseher, München, Germany
2014
Guest Lecturer & Film Instructor
FotoK, Vienna, Austria
2014
Atelier: Kaleido-Rotoscope
MAC/VAL Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Paris, France
2014
Workshop Instructor: Lab Practice for Artists
Academy for Media Arts, Cologne, Germany
2013
Artist’s Talk: Media Specificity
SFAI, San Francisco, CA
2012
Teaching Assistant to Phil Collins
Academy for Media Arts, Cologne, Germany
2011
Workshop instructor: Art as Film
Academy for Media Arts, Cologne, Germany
2011
Workshop instructor: Film Independence
Academy for Media Arts, Cologne, Germany
2010
Workshop instructor: Boundaries of Media
Academy for Media Arts, Cologne, Germany
2008-10 Guest Lecturer & Film Instructor
FotoK, Vienna, Austria
2007
Cittadel Artist Lecturer
Pistoletto Foundation, Biella, Italy
2007
Film Instructor
Kubelka School of Independent Filmmaking, Austria
2006
Guest Lecturer
Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria
2005-6
Full Time Video Arts Instructor
Chicago Academy for the Arts, Illinois
2004-5
Teaching Assistant for Deborah Stratman and Tatsu Aoki
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
2004
Visiting Artist
Emerson College, Boston, Massachusetts
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2004
Guest Lecturer
School of the Museum of Art, Boston, Massachusetts
Performances
2015
Forever Film I-III, MACVAL Musée d’art contemporain du Val de Marne, France
35mm booth-based film performance.
2015
Fulcrum Films i-III, momuk, Museum modern Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Vienna, Austria
Trio of 16mm film performances.
2014
Developer vs. Fix, KIT, Die Ausstellung, Düseldorf, Germany, Live Photo Performance
2014
Composition for Improvised Solo Duet in H major and H minor, Simultanhalle,
Cologne, Germany. A sound performance.
2013
AURA and Photography, Le Bal Galerie, Paris, France
A Polaroid lecture/performance about aura in photography.
2013
Time Based Exhibition, Le Phénix Scene National, Valenciennes, France
A collaboration with 9 other visual artists to create a time based exhibition for a
stage.
2013
Escapist Adventures, BBK im Stapelhaus, Cologne, Germany
Lovelocks, An advertisement ran in a local paper notifying the public that a divorce
lawyer and a locksmith would be provided free of charge to sit on the
Hohenzollenbrücke in Cologne, where there are more than 160,000 Lovelocks. No
former couples came to have their lock removed.
2011
The Second Act, Festival on Photography, Amsterdam, Holland
36 Anecdotes about Photography, a lecture with Vesko Gösel.
2010
Mikro Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany
Rainbowmaker, Starmaker, Rainmaker, three performances for a dark room.
2010
Post Photography, Raumkalk, Cologne, Germany
Momento Mori, a Polaroid performance.
2010
Why Photography, SPW/TP&E Photo Festival, Antwerp, Belgium
A Polaroid lecture/performance discussing magic and photography.
2009
Rundgang Performance, Academy of Media Arts, Cologne, Germany
Fulcrum Films I-III, a series of 3 16mm film performances that confront the projector
as a site of translation from a film as material into time images.
Selected Group Shows
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2015
Small good things..., curated by Nina Slejko & Conny Blom, in Võru, Estonia
2015
Änderungen Aller Art, Mönchengladbach, Germany
2014
Die Ausstellung, K.I.T., Düsseldorf, Germany
2014
SpotOff, OFFspace, with Vesko Gösel, Vienna, Austria
2013
La Méthode Jacobson (curated by Marc Bembekoff), Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
2013
Past Future (curated by Cecile Bourne Farrell), Biennale d’Anglet, France
2013
24/12, Galerie Crone, Berlin, Germany
2012
The Reality of the Unbuilt, Insel Hombroich, Neuss, Germany
2012
Im Abklatsch, Boutique Gallery, Cologne, Germany
2012
Vom Photo, Museum of Photography, Photo Biennale, Thessaloniki, Greece
2012
1969-1972 (with Robert Smithson, Charles Duke, Christos Dikeakos)
at Volker Bradke, Düsseldorf, Germany
2011
Vom Photo, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, Germany
Selected Screenings
2015
Edinburgh International Film Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland
2015
Screening the Speculative, New Museum, NY, NY
2014
Carte Blanche, Program of films from Lightcone, Paris France
2014
Cinema Project, The Searching Image, Portland, OR, USA
2014
À l’envers, à l’endroit… expanded, CPIF, Paris, France
2014
Oberhausen Film festival (Film Without Film), Oberhausen, Germany
2013
Viennale, Vienna, Austria
2013
Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
2013
Edinburg Film Festival, Edinburg, Scotland
2013
Media City, Windsor, Ontario, Canada
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2013
Prospectif Cinema, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
2013
International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Holland
2012
London International Film Festival, London, England
2012
Toronto International Film Festival, Toronto, Canada
2012
Images Film Festival, Toronto, Canada
2011
25fps Festival of Experimental Film & Video, Zagreb, Croatia
2011
EXiS, Experimental Film Festival, Seoul, Korea
2011
Onion City Film Festival, Chicago, Illinois
2011
European Media Arts Festival, Osnabrück, Germany
2010
IDFA, International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, Holland
2010
Leeds Film Festival, Leeds, England
2010
25fps Festival of Experimental Film & Video, Zagreb, Croatia
2010
Images Film Festival, Toronto, Canada
2010
Oberhausen Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany
Publications & Press
• Imaginary Landscapes, Artist’s Book, with Atlas Projectos and Strzelecki Books, 2015
• ELSE #7, Magazine for photograpy, Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland, July, 2014
• Beaux Arts, Residence Palais de Tokyo, June 2012, P. 134
• Künstler, die uns aufgefallen sind, Antje Stahl, Monopol, Berlin, March, 2012
• Der Trickster, Simone Reber, Tagesspiegel Berlin, December 10th, 2011
• Jetzt gleich und bitte fuer immer und ewig, Magdalena Kröner, Frankfurter Allgemeine
Zeitung, June 26th, 2011, NR. 25
•The Institute of Lost Research, Site Magazine, Düsseldorf, 2011
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•U filmu mogu stvarati pravu magiju, Interview, Queer.hr, Sept 27th, 2010
•Briljanteen, televised interview, Zagreb Croatia, Sept 23rd, 2010
•Interview mit Peter Miller, Julia Wollschläger, Kölnkampus Radio, Jan 21st, 2010
•Nicht immer alles verstehen, Ursula Härtling, Kölnische Rundschau, Jan 5, 2010
•Das letzte Bild zerreißen, Damian Zimmermann, Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, Dec 30, 2009
•On Polaroid: Magical Mechanics and the Altar of Objecthood, Photo Buffet, Internet, Jan
12, 2009
•In the Artist’s Studio: Peter Miller, Annie Kwak, Podcast, October 22, 2008
•Close Encounters, Michael Joe Krainak, Omaha City Weekly, Aug 7th, 2008
•The Little Festival That Could, Patrick Friel, Senses of Cinema, Mar 4th, 2008
•Kit in Translation: Peter Miller, Judith Gruber, Okto TV Broadcast, Nov 27, 2006
•Critics Choice Award, Fred Camper, Time Out Chicago, Jul 21, 2006
Languages
•Native English speaker, fluent in German, proficient in French & Lorax.
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