PETER CAMPUS

Meghan Reilly
Background
WHO IS PETER CAMPUS?
● American artist and a pioneer of new media and video art,
known for his interactive video installations, single-channel
video works, and photography.

● He is widely acclaimed for his videos, installations, and large

body of photographic work, which focuses on psychological
and physiological states and explores the relationship between
the subject, viewer, and artist.

● Peter Campus was born 1937 in New York, NY.

● He currently works on the south shore of

Long Island where he resides with his wife, artist
Kathleen Graves.
Influences

● Family- Father along with several family members in the arts

● Otto Piene and Aldo Tambellini at the Black Gate Theatre

● Michael Powell

● Robert Smithson, Nancy Holt,

Bruce Nauman, Yvonne Rainer

and Joan Jonas inspired him to create his own work

CAMPUS’ WORKS
CAMPUS’ WORK
Campus has used analog and digital video, film, and photographic
technology to reflect on himself and nature and explore his deep
interest in psychology. Campus’s earliest works were more reflexive
and tongue-in-cheek, before his turn to nature in the early 1980s.

Providence, 2012 Solstice, Out of Montauk, 2013

 VIRUS 1, 2020 SIGNAGE, 2020

AN AUGUST DAY OF NO IMPORTANCE, 2018 SHOOTING BLIND, 2019

HEAD OF A SAD WOMEN
MOST FAMOUS WORK- 3 TRANSITIONS
WORKS CITED
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Peter campus - Works. (n.d.). Retrieved September 08, 2020, from

https://www.cristintierney.com/artists/31-peter-campus/works/

Tate. (1973, January 01). Peter Campus born 1937. Retrieved September 08, 2020, from
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/peter-campus-11797