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Peter Campus

born 1937 in New York City; lives and works in East Patchogue, New York

ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS 2003 Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City 2002 Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York 1998 Paula Cooper Gallery, New York 1997 Rena Bransten, San Francisco, California Tower Air Terminal, JFK International Airport, New York 1996 Bohen Foundation, New York, New York Baxter Art Gallery, Maine College of Art, Portland, OR Paula Cooper Gallery, New York 1994 Shadow Projection, Center for Curatorial Studies, Video Gallery, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY Grayscale Fields, Inaugural Internet Art Gallery Exhibition 1993 Paula Cooper Gallery, New York La Box, Bourges, France 1992 Recent Digital Photographs, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA 1991 Paula Cooper Gallery, New York 1990 Photographs and Computer Drawings, Genovese Gallery, Boston Projections, St‰dtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany Paula Cooper Gallery, New York 1989 Paula Cooper Gallery, New York Genovese Gallery, Boston 1988 Heath Gallery, Atlanta Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Ferrara, Italy Film & Video, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Eighty Washington Square East Galleries, New York University The High Museum, Atlanta 1987 Paula Cooper Gallery, New York Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA. Traveled to: Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 1986 Paula Cooper Gallery, New York 1985 Paula Cooper Gallery, New York 1983 Paula Cooper Gallery, New York 1982 Paula Cooper Gallery, New York 1981 McIntosh-Drysdale Gallery, Washington, D.C. Paula Cooper Gallery, New York 1980 Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France 1979 Akron Art Institute, Akron, Ohio Paula Cooper Gallery, New York Protetch-McIntosh Gallery, Washington, D.C. Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany 1978 Film & Video, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY Atlantic Gallery, Boston 1977 The Kitchen, New York Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 1976 Leo Castelli Gallery, New York Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA Projects Gallery, The Museum of Modern Art, New York 1975 Bykert Gallery, New York 1974 Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY 1973 Bykert Gallery, New York 1972 Bykert Gallery, New York

GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2003 Site and Insight: An Assemblage of Artists, PS1 Contemporary Art Center/MOMA, Long Island City, NY (curated by Agnes Gund) Warum! Bilder diesseits und jenseits des Menschen, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany Zero Visibility, Colonna Castle, Genazzano, Italy Video Topiques, Musée d'Art Modern et Contemporain de Strasbourg, France Me, Myself & I: Looking at Portraiture, CRG Gallery, New York 2002 Into the Light, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH Whitney Biennial 2002, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Time Share, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York The First Decade: Video From the EAI Archives, The Museum of Modern Art, New York Outer and Inner Space, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts 2001 Into the Light, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York The Reality Effect, Guild Hall, East Hampton NY Blind Vision: Video and the Limits of Perception, San Jose Museum of Art The Search for a Personal Vision in Broadcast Television: Fred Barzyk, Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI Seventies Show, David Zwirner Gallery, New York 2000 The Swamp: On the Edge of Eden, Samuel Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla; traveled to the Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, Jacksonville, Fla. Digital Photography, Lawrence Miller Gallery, New York Odd Bodies, National Gallery of Canada, Oakville Galleries, Ottawa, Ontario. Traveled to: Nickle Arts Museum, Calgary, Alberta. Permanent Change: Contemporary Works from the Collection, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA Video ist Kunst ist Video...Rewind to the Future, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany 1999 The American Century, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Faculty Exhibition, Eighty Washington Square East Galleries, New York University As Far As the Eye Can See, Atlanta College of Art Gallery and City Gallery @ Chastain, Atlanta, GA Island, Sandpipers, Steps and Dreams, The Bohen Foundation, New York 1998 The New Surrealism, Pamela Auchincloss Project Space, New York From Warhol to Mapplethorpe: Three Decades of Art at ICA, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia  tre nature, Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris, France Formication, Laurence Miller Gallery, New York Travel and Leisure, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York After Eden, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT Utz: A Collected Exhibition, Lennon Weinberg, New York As Far As the Eye Can See: Landscape and Nature, Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA 1997 Places That Are Elsewhere, David Zwirner Gallery, New York Cyberealism (Photography Beyond Photography), Galleria Photology, Milan, Italy Metamorphoses: Photography in the Electronic Age, Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC Surveying the First Decade: Video Art and Alternative Media in the United States. Program II: Investigations of the Phenomenal World, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 15th World Wide Video Festival, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Views from Abroad 3: A European Perspective Drawn from the Whitney Museum of American Art's Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, England Recent Acquisitions Installation, Bohen Foundation, New York Object & Abstraction, The Museum of Modern Art, New York Taormina Festival, Italy Pool, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco Rooms With A View: Environments for Video, Guggenheim Soho, New York Sunny Days/Critical Time, The Bohen Foundation, New York Lus, Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum f¸r Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany Permanent Collection Exhibition, Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City Dawn of the Magicians, National Gallery, Center for Modern and Contemporary Art, Prague, Czech Republic Between Lantern and Laser, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle 1996 Natural Spectacles, David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI New Art on Paper 2, Philadelphia Museum of Art Reinterpreting Landscape, Maier Museum of Art, Randolph Macon Women's College, Lynchburg, VI 1995 Biennale de Lyon: art contemporain, installation, cinéma, vidéo, informatique, Musée d'art contemporain, Lyon, France 1st Annual Holiday Exhibition, Aperture Book Center/Burden Gallery, New York Nature Studies II, University Gallery Fine Arts Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA The Masters of Graphic Art, 3. International Graphics Biennial 1995, Xantus Janos Museum, Györ, Hungary (curated by Elaine King) Collisions, Arteleku, San Sebastian, Brazil Peter Campus /John Huggins, David Floria Gallery, Woody Creek, CO Face Value: American Portraits, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY. Traveled to: Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH; Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Fla. Recontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles Art Festival, Arles, France Summer Idylls, Beth Urdang Gallery, Boston Bloom, Christinerose Gallery, New York New Art on Paper Acquired with Funds from the Hunt Manufacturing Company, Philadelphia Museum of Art Mediated Images, Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, New York NYU 1995 Faculty Show Part One, Apex Art, New York The MAC (McKinney Avenue Contemporary), Dallas, TX Blind Spot, Dallas Artists Research and Exhibition, Dallas TX Recent Acquisitions: Photography, The Museum of Modern Art, New York 1994 Second Nature, The Friends of Photography, Ansel Adams Center for Photography, San Francisco Holiday Exhibition, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York Big Shots Little Shots, Transamerica Pyramid Lobby, San Francisco Metamorphoses: Photography in the Electronic Age (an Aperture exhibition), The Fashion Institute of Technology, New York.Traveled to: Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Houston, TX; Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Fla.; Philadelphia Museum of Art; San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Kansas City, MI; Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC After Images: Contemporary Directions in Photography, Caldwell College Art Center, Caldwell, NJ Des Objets Sans Fondation, Residence Secondaire, Paris, France) A Garden, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston Nature Studies, Schmidt Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MI Pictures of the Real World (In Real Time), Paula Cooper Gallery, New York (curated by Robert Nickas). Traveled to: Le Consortium, Dijon, France; Le Capitou, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Frejus, France; St‰disches Galerie, Göppingen, Germany; Massimo de Carlo, Milan, Italy; Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan 1993 Wings of Change: Images of Contradiction and Concensus, The Directors Guild, Giorgio Beverly Hills, Beverly Hills, CA Whitney Biennial 1993, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Traveled to: National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea Thresholds & Enclosures, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Binaera, Kunsthalle Wien, Austria Hamburg Mediale, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany 1992 Performing Objects, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston Choice Encounters, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA Manifeste, Centre Geroges Pompidou, Paris, France The Encompassing Eye: Photography As Drawing, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Auction, Neiman Marcus, Union Square, San Francisco Gifts and Acquisitions in Context, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York More Than One Photography: Works since 1980 from the Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York 1991 Voices for Choice, Soho 20, New York The Encompassing Eye: Photography as Drawing, University of Akron, Akron, OH 1990 Points of Departure: Origins in Video, The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh PA Passage de L'image, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; Centre Cultural de la FundaciÛ "la Caixa," Barcelona, Spain; Power Plant, Toronto, Ontario; Wexner Art Center, Columbus, OH; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 1989 Image World: Art and Media Culture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Self and Shadow, Burden Gallery, Aperture Foundation, New York Eye For I: Video Self-Portraits, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Traveled to: Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC Field and Frame: Meyer Schapiro's Semiotics of Painting, New York Studio School Video-Skulptur: Retrospektiv und Aktuell 1963-1989, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany. Traveled to: Kongresshalle, Berlin, Germany; Kunsthaus, Z¸rich, Switzerland 1988 Druckgrafik und Fotografie, Galerie Albrecht, Munich, Germany Galleria D'Art Moderna, Ferrara, Italy Photography and Art: Interactions Since 1946, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY Black in the Light, Genovese Graphics, Boston Planes of Memory, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA 1987 Photography and Art: 1946-1986, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Traveled to: Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York Art Against AIDS: A Benefit Exhibition, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York Clear Perceptions, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, MA The Self-Portrait: Tangible Consciousness, Robeson Center Gallery, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ 1986 Works from the Paula Cooper Gallery, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco 1985 Opening Exhibition, McIntosh/Drysdale Gallery, Washington, D.C Fukui International Video Festival, Fukui City, Japan 1984 Content: A Contemporary Focus 1974-1984, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. Artists Call: Against U.S. Intervention in Central America Benefit Exhibition, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York Highlights from the BankAmerica Corporation Collection, Plaza Gallery, Concourse Gallery, A.P. Gianini Gallery, San Francisco 1983 Peter Campus: Photographs/David Deutsch: Paintings and Drawings, Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA Photography in America 1910 - Present, The Tampa Museum, Tampa, Fla. A Changing Group Exhibition, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York Festival of the Arts, Center for the Arts, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA 1982 postMINIMALism, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT 1981 Benefit Exhibition for Trisha Brown Dance Company, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York Schwartz, St‰dtische Kunsthalle, D¸sseldorf, Germany Dark/Light, University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA. Traveled to: Lang Art Gallery, Claremont College, CA Extended Photography, 5th Internationale Biennale, Association of Visual Artists, Vienna, Austria Videotapes aus Museumbesitz, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld, Germany 1980 Lynda Benglis, Jon Borofsky, Peter Campus, Michael Hurson, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York Paula Cooper at Yvon Lambert, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France Video Art Review, Anthology Film Archives, New York Artists' Photographs, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT ROSC'80, National Gallery of Ireland, University College, Dublin, Ireland Extensions of Photography, Santa Barbara Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 1979 Five Artists, Five Technologies, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI The Elusive Image,Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MI One of a Kind, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art Art on Paper 1979, University of North Carolina, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC Images of the Self, Hampshire College Gallery, Amherst, MA 1978 Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy 1977 Documenta 6, Kassel, Germany 1976 Autogeography, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Changing Channels, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 1975 S„o Paulo Biennale, S„o Paulo, Brazil Video Art, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Traveled to: Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT Leo Castelli Gallery, New York Projected Video, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 1974 Project 74, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany Artpark, Lewistown, NY Art Now '74, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C. Projected Images, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MI Leo Castelli Gallery, New York The Kitchen, New York Knokke Film Festival, Knokke-le-Zoute, Belgium 1973 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Circuit: A Video Invitational, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY. Traveled to: Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI; Henry Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle; Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany Revision, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX 1972 Bykert Gallery, New York 1971 Projected Art II, Finch College Museum of Art, New York Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Video Performances, Finch College Museum of Art, New York

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS The Museum of Modern Art, New York Whitney Museum of American Art, New York San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Centre Pompidou, Paris, France Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum f¸r Gegenwart, Berlin Germany. Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany. Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany The Black Center of the Arts, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY BankAmerica Corporation Goldman Sachs, New York

HONORS John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, 1975 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, 1976 Fellowship, Center for Advanced Visual Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1976-1979

EDUCATION Ohio State University, 1960

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