Name Nick Muellner | Education Yale University | |
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Nick Muellner is a photo-based artist, writer, and curator who lives and works in Brooklyn and Ithaca, New York. He was born and raised in Montreal, Canada. His work has been exhibited at ClampArt and Stark Galleries in New York City and Locks Gallery in Philadelphia. His project "Re-enactment (Winter’s Campaign)", was presented at Project Room in Philadelphia. In addition to solo and group exhibitions, he has collaborated on curatorial projects and multimedia works, including The Evolution of Closed Systems and Other Propagandas, an interactive video game based on the relationship between Pong, human intimacy, Maoist doctrine, and the tyranny of market capitalism. Muellner’s creative and curatorial projects have been reviewed in Artforum, High Times, and The New Yorker, among other publications.He has recently begun photographing fireflies and pairing that with musings on Gertrude Stein and her book Tender Buttons.
Muellner received a BA in comparative literature, with a minor in Molecular Biochemistry and Biophysics, from Yale University and an MFA in photography from Tyler School of Art, Temple University. He teaches Photography and Critical Studies at the Roy H. Park School of Communications, Ithaca College.