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
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
2007
Spectacular City, NRW Kunstforum, Dusseldorf, Deutschland
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
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
Karin Apollonia Müller & Rodney Sappington, Angels in Fall: Karin
Apollonia Müller, Hamburg, Germany, Kruse Verlag, 2001
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
George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
Howard Stein, The Joy of Giving Something, New York
IFA, Berlin, Germany
FRAC, Paris, France
Los Angeles County Museum, California
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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