EDUCATION
1992 M.F.A. University GHS Essen, Folkwang-School Concentration in Photography
1984 University GHS Essen, Folkwang-School Design, Photography and Film
2002-05 Guest Professor Free University of Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007 Edges, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles
2005 Bunkerscapes,
van der Grinten Gallery, Cologne, Germany
2004 Terra Cognita
Julie Saul Gallery, New York
2003 Angels in Fall, Büro für
Fotos, Köln, Deutschland
2002 Bunkerscapes Karyn Lovegrovegallery,
Los Angeles, California
2001
Angels in Fall, Karyn
Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA
Angels in Fall, Julie
Saul Gallery, New York, New York
1999 Silent Summer, Craig
Krull Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Angels in Fall, University
of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
1997 Tryptic, DG Gallery, Munich,
Germany
Angels in Fall, Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, California,
USA
1996 Angels in Fall, Sam Francis Gallery at Crossroads
School for Arts and Sciences, Los Angeles, California,
1992 Myth
of Tahiti: More a Notion than a Place, Essen/Orangerie, Essen, Germany
1993 Deutsche Landschaft, Essen/Orangerie, Essen, Germany
GROUP
EXHIBITIONS
2011
25 Years/25 Artists, Julie Saul Gallery,
New York
2009
Into the Sunset: Photography's Image of the American
West, Museum of Modern Art, New York
This Side of Paradise, Musée
de l´Elysée, Lausanne, CH
2008
This Side of Paradise, Huntington
Museum, Pasadena, CA
Real Photography Award, LP II Art Exhibition Centre,
Rotterdam, Netherlands
2007
Spectacular City, NRW Kunstforum,
Dusseldorf, Germany
2006
Spectacular City, NAI, Rotterdam,
The Netherlands
Land in Translation, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside,
CA
2005
THE NEW CITY Sub/urbia in Recent Photography, Whitney
Museum, New York, NY
Facing The Music, RedCat, Los Angeles, CA
2004 Vagues, Musee Malraux, le Havre, France
2003
Urban Space, La Verne, California
2002
Vacant,
Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, California
Die Welt als Ganzes,
Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Bentara Budaya,
Jakarta, Indonesia (May 4 - May 18, 2002); Daelim Contemporary Art Museum, Seoul,
Korea (August 28 - October 13, 2002)
2001
Die Welt als
Ganzes, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney, N.S.W., Australia
Die
Welt als Ganzes, SK-Stiftung, Cologne, Germany
Mental Wilderness,
Gale Gates, Brooklyn, New York
1997
Wirklich, Fotomuseum in
Stadtmuseum, Munich, Germany
Contemporary German Photography, Galerie
Neuger Riemschneider, Berlin, Germany; Galerie Wittenbrink, Munich, Germany; Galerie
Reckerman, Cologne, Germany; Galerie Lehmann, Dresden, Germany
1996
Das Deutsche Auge, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
1995
Atomium, Kodak European Panorama of Young Photography, Arles
1994 Photography as an Art, Pforzheim, Germany
1992 Best
Masterworks of NRW, Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum, Hagen, Germany
1991
Internationale Phototage, Herten, Germany
Award for
Young Journalism, Agfa Haus, Leverkusen, Germany
1989 The
Other Side of Photography, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
SELECTED
AWARDS AND GRANTS
2006 Lijiang studios, recidency Program, Lijiang,
Yunnan, China
2001 The J. Paul Getty/CalArts Commission, Los Angeles,
California
2000
Lannan Residency, Galisteo, NM.
Getty/Cal
Arts commission, Los Angeles, CA.
1996
Friends of the Villa
Aurora Fellowship Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, CA.
Oscar Barnack Award,
World Press Award for Humanitarian Photography.
1995
DAAD Fellowship
in Los Angeles and American Samoa.
Award of Kodak European Panorama of Young
Photographers, Arles, France.
1994 Appointed to the German Society for Photography, DGPh.
1993
Price of Emma, Award for female
journalism.
Award of Science, Honor for the best Masterwork in 1992, GHS
Essen, Folkwang-School.
1991
Award of Kodak AG and Fellowship
for the Masterwork.
Award for Photography as an Art, Pforzheim, Germany.
1990 Honor of Kodak AG, Nachwuchsforderpreis.
1989
Award of the
German Consulate, Bonn, Germany.
Award of the German Ministry of Education
and Science, Bonn, Germany.
PUBLICATIONS AND REVIEWS
2011 Timber Cove, Nazraeli Press, monograph
2009
On Edge, Nazraeli Press, monograph
Into the Sunset: Photography's
Image of the American West, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
2008
Verschwindende Landschaften Dumont, Cologne, Germany
2006
Spectacular City, Catalogue, NAI Publishers
Garten der Kunst, Skulpturenpark Graz Hatje Cantz, Germany
2005
10 Years Villa Aurora, Villa Aurora e.V., Berlin, Germany
Looking at Los Angeles DAP, New York, USA
2004 Karin Apollonia Muller, ARTnews, May
2003 A World In One City, Los Angeles Times, May 4
2002 L.A.Now Art Center College of Design/Pasadena Distributed
by University of California Press
2001
Angels in Fall:
Karin Apollonia Müller, Hamburg, Germany, Kruse Verlag, monograph
Kim
Zorn Caputo (ed.), Angels in Fall, Blind Spot, New York, USA, No 17, April/June
Choreography of Power, Kunstforum International, Ruppichteroth, Germany,
No 153, January 2001, pp 135-36
2000
Angels in Fall,
Exit, London, England, No 1, October 2000
Angels in Fall, Zoo, London,
England, October 2000, pp 234-35
Ulf Erdmann Ziegler, Die Welt als Ganzes
(exhibition catalogue), Berlin, Germany, Hatje Cantz, 2000, pp 104-106 Alena Williams,
Karin Apollonia Müller, Art Issues, Los Angeles, California, USA, November
2000, p 46
1999 Art Issues
1998
Contemporary
German Photography, Bookforum/Artforum, New York
Charles Arthur Boyer,
News of the World's Happiness: The New German Photography, Art Press, Paris,
France, No 232, February 1998, pp 25-30
Jodie Zellen, Angels in Fall,
Art Scene, Los Angeles, California, May 1998
1997
Markus Rasp
(ed.), Contemporary German Photography, Cologne, Germany, Taschen, 1997
Michael Althen, Wirklich (exhibition catalogue), Munich, Germany,
Stadtmuseum Munich, 1997, pp 13-14, 48-54
1996
Das Deutsche
Auge: Fotojournalismus in Deutschland (exhibition catalogue), Munich, Germany,
Schirmer-Mosel, 1996
COLLECTIONS
Allen Memorial
Museum, Oberlin, Ohio
AXA Corporation, New York
Deutsche Bank Collection,
New York
FRAC, Paris, France
George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
Howard Stein, The Joy of Giving Something, New York
IFA, Berlin, Germany
LA
County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Martin Margulies Collection, Miami,
FL
Mellon Financial Corporation, Pittsburgh
Museum of Modern Art,
New York
New School University, New York
New York Public Library,
New York
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa

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