Peter Campus
- Abbreviated Biography
Education
The Ohio State University, B.S. in Experimental Psychology, 1960
The City College Film Institue, 1961-1962
Honors
John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, 1975
National Endowment for the Art Fellowship, 1976
Fellowship, Center for Advanced Visual Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1976 to 1979
recent solo and two person exhibitions:Peter Campus, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, 2007
Peter Campus and Jamie Davidovich, Galleria Senda, Barcelona, Spain, 2005
The Continuous Present, Peter Campus & Antony McCall , Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, 2005
Peter Campus, ‘sweepin’, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, 2005
Peter Campus, Time’s Friction, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, 2004
Peter Campus, Video + Foto, Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany, 2003
Peter Campus, Before This Moment, Antigue Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City, 2003
selected group exhibitions:
First Generation: Art and Moving Image, 1963-85, Museo Nacional d'arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
7 November 2003 opening to February 2007
lecture by Peter Campus on 8 November at the Reina Sofia
Video: an Art, A History, 1965-2005 . Miami Art Central (MAC), Miami, Florida
19 september to 10 december
L'Age d'Or de la Performance, Centre Pour L'Image Contemporain, Geneva
12 to 14 September 2006
Beyond Cinema: The Art of Projection, Hamburger Bahnhof Museum of Contemporary Art
Berlin, 29 September 2006 to 25 February 2007
Landscape, the Whitney Museum of American Art, 2005
Into The Light, The Whitney Museum of American Art, 2001
The American Century, The Whitney Museum of American Art, 1999
Tiempos de Video, 1965 to 2005, collection nouveaux medias del centre pompidou de la coleccion de arte contemporaneo, Caixa Forum, Barcelona, Spain, September 2005 to January 2006
travels to Fine Arts Museum, Taipai, Taiwan, 2006
Balance and Power: Performance and Surveillance in Video Art, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, Illinois, 2005
Third Tape, Picasso Museum, Barcelona, Spain, 2005
The Early Show: Video from 1969-1979, Hunter College Art Gallery, New York, 2006
Les Collections du Museé, nouvelle presentation des oeuvres de 1960 a nos jours, Le Centre national d’art et de culture Georges Pompidou, Paris, France, continuously on view
Site and Insight: An Assemblage of Artists, PS1 Contemporary Art Center/MoMA, Long Island City, NY. (curated by Agnes Gund), 2003
Warum! Bilder diesseits und jenseits des Menschen, Martin_Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany, 2003
Zero Visibility, Castello Colonna, Genazzano, Italy, 2003
recent reviews and articles:
Cercle d’Art publications in Paris. "Imaginaire : Mode d'Emploi", October 2006
Nicolas Bourriaud, ex co-director of Palais de Tokyo in Paris.
An issue, written by Benjamin Thorel (art critic) explored the interactions between contemporary art and television; A part of that book will be dedicated to Peter Campus
Parachute Magazine, issue 121, Peter Campus, The Body in View, by Jacinto Lageira, p. 14 to p. 39
Artnet Magazine: The Matrix of Sensations by Donald Kuspit August 6, 2005
La Vanguardia: Entrevista a Peter Campus, pionero del videoarte, by Josep Massot, November 10, 2005
TimeOut New York, Anne Doran, September 15, 2005
The New York Times: Wide Open Spaces, Within and Between the Frames by Roberta Smith, September 2, 2005
Tema Celeste, issue 114, Peter Campus at Galleria Senda, reviewed by Milovan Farronato
Artforum on Line, Linda Yablonsky September 14, 2005
New York Press, review by Elizabeth Kley, August 24, 2005
selected public collections:
Raina Sofia Museum, Madrid, Spain
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 für 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