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Nicholas Muellner

  • Senior Lecturer
  • Codirector, M.F.A. in Image Text and ITI Press
Curriculum Vitae (CV)

Department

Academic Research Areas

  • Collaborative practice
  • Digital media
  • Interdisciplinary art
  • Photography
  • Print media

Nicholas Muellner is a Los Angeles-based artist and writer. His five published books include Lacuna Park: Essays and Other Adventures in Photography, The Amnesia Pavilions, and In Most Tides an Island, which was shortlisted for the Aperture/Paris Photo Photobook Award and selected as an outstanding book of the year by Artforum. In addition to solo exhibitions in the U.S. and Europe, his writings have been published by MACK, Aperture, Radius, Triple Canopy, Routledge, and others. Muellner has performed slide lectures internationally, including at MoMA P.S.1, the Carnegie Museum, The Photographers Gallery, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography. His work has been supported by the 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship in Photography, the John Gutmann Fellowship, and residencies at the MacDowell and Yaddo Colonies, among others. Muellner received a B.A. in comparative literature from Yale University and an M.F.A. from Temple University. He is a founding codirector of the Image Text M.F.A. and ITI Press.

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Academic Research Areas

  • Collaborative practice
  • Digital media
  • Interdisciplinary art
  • Photography
  • Print media

Publications

  • Lacuna Park: Essays and other Adventures in Photography

    London: SPBH Editions, 2019, Images and texts by Nicholas Muellner

  • In Most Tides an Island

    London: SPBH Editions, 2017, Images and text by Nicholas Muellner

  • The Amnesia Pavilions

    Ithaca: A-Jump Books, 2011, Images and text by Nicholas Muellner

Selected Awards, Grants, and Fellowships

  • John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in Photography

    2018

  • The John Gutmann Photography Fellowship Award

    2017

  • Yaddo Colony Fellowship in Visual Arts

    2017, 2014

  • Paris Photo Aperture Foundation Photobook of the Year Award – Shortlist

    2018

  • Residency Fellowship, National Center for Contemporary Art, Saint Petersburg, Russia

    2014

Selected Exhibitions and Presentations

  • Our Mutual Friend

    Solo exhibition at the Kathleen O. Ellis Gallery, Lightwork, Syracuse, NY, 2023

  • In Most Tides an Island

    Solo exhibition at the Alice Austen House Museum, New York, NY, 2018

  • In Most Tides an Island

    Solo exhibition at the Eli March Gallery, Amherst College, Amherst, MA, 2017