20 Facts About Peter Campus

Peter Campus's work is held in the collections of numerous public institutions, including The Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum fur Gegenwart, Tate Modern, Museo Reina Sofia, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Walker Art Center, and the Centre Georges Pompidou.

Peter Campus's mother was Ukrainian, and his father was a doctor of Romanian descent, born in the US to immigrant parents.

Peter Campus' mother died when he was aged seven, an event that dramatically affected the artist's youth and family life.

Peter Campus cites watching Michael Powell movies as a teenager as an influential experience.

Peter Campus studied experimental psychology with a focus on the development of the senses and cognitive studies at Ohio State University, earning his degree in 1960.

Peter Campus worked with Otto Piene and Aldo Tambellini at the Black Gate Theatre in East Village, New York.

Charles Ross became a mentor and Peter Campus worked as co-editor on Ross' Sunlight Dispersion.

In 1970, aged 33, Peter Campus purchased his first video equipment.

Peter Campus achieved rapid acclaim in the 1970s for a series of video works that explored issues of identity construction, perception, and subversion of the relationship between the viewer and the work.

Peter Campus had his first solo show in 1972 at Bykert Gallery in New York, and his first solo museum exhibition at the Everson Museum of Art in 1974.

In Third Tape, Peter Campus manipulates a virtual self-image into an abstract self-portrait by filming the performer John Erdman's reflection as he progressively throws a disordered array of small mirror tiles upon a table.

Toward the end of the 1970s, Peter Campus began to move away from interactive work toward large scale projection and an investigation of faces and heads as subject matter.

Peter Campus stopped working with video entirely, taking up traditional still photography instead.

Peter Campus moved away from the body and self and began to look outside, to nature and landscape photography.

In 1996, Peter Campus began to work with video , producing Olivebridge and Mont Desert, working for the first time with digital video and non-linear editing.

Peter Campus uses a range of techniques including multi-layering, superimposition, color inversion, vanishings and appearances, chroma keying, colorization, image mapping, pixelation, and time distortion.

Peter Campus has continued to work with video and video installations.

Peter Campus taught at the Rhode Island School of Design in 1982.

From 1983 to 2014, Peter Campus was a Clinical Associate Professor of Art and Art Education and Artist in Residence at NYU Steinhardt.

Awards that Peter Campus has earned include: a Guggenheim Fellowship, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies, a National Endowment of the Arts grant, and a grant from the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst.