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Peter Hutton

B.F.A., M.F.A., San Francisco Art Institute. Taught at Hampshire College, Harvard University, SUNY Purchase. Filmmaker; has produced more than 20 films, most of which are portraits of cities and landscapes around the world. Work shown in major museums and at festivals in the United States and Europe, including Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Biennial (1985, 1991, 1995, 2004).

Continuing work, since 1986, on series of landscape portraits of Hudson River Valley; also developing projects in Bangladesh and Iceland. Grants: National Endowment for the Arts, DAAD Berliner, Rockefeller Foundation, Dutch Film Critics Award, Guggenheim Fellowship. (1984--) Professor of Film at Bard College.

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Peter Hutton, B.F.A., M.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute, taught at Hampshire College, Harvard University and SUNY Purchase; since 1984 he has been Professor of Film at Bard College. He is a filmmaker who has produced more than 20 films, mostly portraits of cities and landscapes worldwide; his work has been shown in major museums and festivals in the United States and Europe, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Biennial (1985, 1991, 1995, 2004). Since 1986 he has continued a series of landscape portraits of the Hudson River Valley and is developing projects in Bangladesh and Iceland; his grants include the National Endowment for the Arts, DAAD Berliner, Rockefeller Foundation, Dutch Film Critics Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

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