Peter d’Agostino
Biography

Peter d'Agostino was born in New York City, 1945 and lived in San Francisco, 1968 -77. He divides his time between the Bay Area and Philadelphia, where he is currently Professor of Film and Media Arts, and Director of the Climate, Sustainability & the Arts working group at Temple University.

EDUCATION
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San Francisco State University, 1975, MA; School of Visual Arts, New York, 1968, BFA
San Francisco Art Institute, 1968;  Accademia di Belle Arti, Naples, Italy, 1966;
High School of Art and Design, New York, 1963, Diploma.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS ( Solo* )

2020     
Peter d’Agostino: A-bombs / Climate walks*  Transmission Gallery, Oakland, CA 
The Brief, Largely Subterranean History of Reese Palley Gallery, San Francisco, 1969–1972
Cushion Works, San Francisco, CA 
2019     
Peter d'Agostino: COLD / HOT Walks, Wars & Climate Change * Martin Art Gallery, Mulhenberg College, PA
2018     
Way Bay, Berkeley Art Museum / Pacific Film Archive, CA
The Edge of the Earth, Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) London
Photography and Language, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles
2017     
World-Wide-Walks: BERLIN-LODZ-SOFIA * Interactive Arts e.V. Kreativikum Eilbek Hamburg, Germany
2016     
World-Wide-Walks @40 ( selected works, 1973-2012 *  video screenings: Interface Cultures, Linz, Austria, FLUX Club, Barcelona; Bellas Artes, EHU, Bilbao; LaboLuz, UPV, Valencia
Photography and Language, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles
2014     
World-Wide-Walks / between earth & water / ICE *  Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center, NY
2011-14
State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970, Orange County Museum of Art (2011-12)  
Berkeley Art Museum / Pacific Film Archive (2012)  Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (2012) 
Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York (2013)  SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico (2013)
Smart Museum of Art, Chicago (2013-14) 
2013     
NFS Press, SF & Tanam Press, NY  Printed Matter, New York
2011-12 
Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974-81, Museum of Contemporary Art ( MOCA) LA 
2011     
Peter d'Agostino :1970s-2010s (Selected Work) * Braunstein / Quay Gallery, San Francisco
God only knows...  Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, California College of the Arts, SF
2010 
World-Wide-Walks / between earth & sky/ Donegal, Lovely Weather, Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny, Ireland
Radical Light: Alternative Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945–2000
2009  
World-Wide-Walks / SOFIA*  Red House Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
The Floating Museum, 1975-78, New Langton Arts, San Francisco
Hollywould, Freewaves Biennial Festival, Los Angeles, CA
2008    
California Video, Getty Museum / Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles
2007   
Between Earth & Sky: MX * Laboratorio Arte Alemeda / Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Mexico City
2006   
SILVER, 25th anniversary retrospective exhibition, Houston Center for Photography,TX
Frontiera Electronica, MACLA, Arte & Cultura Latino Americano, San Jose, CA
2004   
Peter d'Agostino: Video * Lux London, England
2003     
Between Earth & Sky: Roof Walk / Cordoban Ceilings: 1973 / 2003 *
University Paris I, Pantheon-Sorbonne, Fontenay-aux- Roses Art Gallery, France
2002    
L’art vu a distance, Art & Television, 1958-2002, Contemporary Art Center, Limoges, France
2001     
Automania, Berry Center for the Arts, Ramapo College, NJ
2000   
The American Century: Art and Culture, 1900-2000- The Cool World: Film and Video in America,  Part II: 1950-2000, Whitney Museum of American Art
Y00 ( YearZEROZERO ) * Galerie de Arte, University of Brasilia, Brazil; Temple Art Gallery, Rome
Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia
1999     
Peter d'Agostino: Interactivity and Intervention, 1978-99 * Lehman College Art Gallery, New York
The Hundredth Turn, Harvestworks VideoWall,  Rockefeller Center, New York
1998      
Images for the Millennium, Long Island Center of Photography, New York
1997      
Peter d’Agostino: New Video*  School of Visual Arts, Rio de Janeiro; Cultural Space, Brasilia,
ExpoArte, Guadalajara 97, VI International Contemporary Art Festival, Mexico
1995      
InfoArt, Gwangju Biennale, South Korea
New Light: The Electronic Cinema (American Video Art: 1965-1994, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
Art as Signal: Inside the Loop, Krannert Art Gallery, University of Illinois, Champaign
TRACES *  Berkeley Art Museum / Pacific Film Archive;  Weatherspoon Art Museum,  University of North Carolina, Greensboro; Rosenberg Gallery, Goucher College, Baltimore
1994     
VR / RV : a Recreational Vehicle in Virtual Reality*  Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada
1993     
Angles of Incidence: Reflections of MultiMedia Artworks, Banff Centre for the Arts
Peter d'Agostino Video*  Image Forum, Tokyo; ArtSpace, Auckland, New Zealand
1991    
Tele-Visions: Channels for Changing TV, Long Beach Museum of Art  
Construction in Process, Kino Museum, Lodz, Poland
Interactions, Rjksmuseum Twenthe,  Enschede, Holland
Contemporary Philadelphia Artists, Philadelphia Museum of Art
1989    
The Technological Imagination: Machines in the Garden of Art, InterArts Gallery,
   Minneapolis College of Art and Design, MN
A DecAIDs Review * Public Art Fund, Spectacolor Billboard, Times Square, New York
Peter d’Agostino * Student Cultural Center, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
1988     
DOUBLE YOU (and X,Y,Z.) *  Electronic Arts Festival, Rennes, France
Peter d'Agostino *  Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Center for Advanced Visual Studies-20th Anniversary Exhibition, MIT, Cambridge, MA  
1987     
DOUBLE YOU (and X,Y,Z.) *  Philadelphia Museum of Art;  Museum of Modern Art, New York
Surveillance, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), CA
1986   
DOUBLE YOU (and X,Y,Z.) * American Academy in Rome, Italy; Houston Center for Photography;
   East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
TV Generations, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), CA
Resolutions, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), CA
Peter d'Agostino, Institute of North American Studies, Barcelona
1985   
Video: A Retrospective 1974-84, Long Beach Museum of Art, CA
1984   
Reading Television, Museum of Modern Art, New York
From Video to TV, Museum of Modern Art, Bologna and Italian Television (RAI)
Television Interference, Presentation House, North Vancouver, Canada
TeleTapes * Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
1983   
New Metaphors / Six Alternatives, 17th Bienal de Sao Paulo, Brazil
We... *  Franklin Furnace, New York.
1982   
Peter d'Agostino: A Selection of Work, 1977-81 *  The Kitchen Center, New York
Text / Picture Notes, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY
1981   
1981 Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Photographs and Words, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
Peter d'Agostino * Anthology Film Archives, New York;  Boston Film / Video Foundation, MA
1980   
Comings & Goings *  Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art (LAICA), CA
Video: Time and Space, College of Architecture, Barcelona, Spain
1979   
Space-Time-Sound: Conceptual Art  in the San Francisco Bay Area- the 1970s
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
Comings & Goings: Washington (METRO) * Washington Project for the Arts, DC
Generative Issues: A Common Ground, Wright State University Art Gallery, Dayton, OH
Peter d'Agostino: Comings & Goings * Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH
Sound, PS1, New York
Comings & Goings * Projects, XXIX: California, Museum of Modern Art, New York
1978    
Coming & Going: San Francisco (BART) *  San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
Global Space Invasion, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
Problematic Photography, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
ALPHA, TRANS, CHUNG * Lawson de Celle Gallery, San Francisco, CA
ALPHA, TRANS, CHUNG * Wright State University Art Gallery, Dayton. OH
Concepts, Ohio Wesleyan University, OH
ALPHA, TRANS, CHUNG * Artists Space, New York
1977    
America 1976, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
The Annual, San Francisco Art Institute, CA
ALPHA Performed * “Week of International Performance” Museum of Modern Art, Bologna, Italy
ALPHA,TRANS, CHUNG * Cabrillo College Art Gallery, Aptos, CA
Photoerotica, Camerawork Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Recent Bay Area Art, Kemien Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 
1976    
Photography and Language, La Mamelle Art Center and Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
Paradise Regain'd, Paradise Lost * The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA  
PASSAGES * Floating Museum, Fort Point, San Francisco
1975   
The Walk Series *  80 Langton Street Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Video International, Aarhus Museum of Art, Denmark
Projects & Sources: 1965-75 *  Lone Mountain College, SF; Information, San Francisco Art Institute
1974   
PASSAGE * Fort Point, San Francisco, CA
1973   
PROJECTIONS * Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA 
Wall I (Einstein's Birthday), Museum of Conceptual Art, San Francisco, CA
1971     
64 projections * San Francisco screenings:, 817 Kansas Street Studio,  Reese Palley Gallery
1968  
Young Painters, School of Visual Arts, New York
1966  
​Premio dei Capodimonte, Naples, Italy

MAJOR AWARDS AND GRANTS

2019   
Presidential Arts & Humanities Award, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 
2010   
Leonardo / County Donegal, Ireland “Lovely Weather”, Climate Change project award
2009   
American Academy in Rome, Visiting Artist ( and 1997, 1995, 1986 )
2008   
Onassis Foundation Fellow, Athens, Greece; Art / Sci Center & Lab, Visiting Artist, UCLA
2007   
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts grants ( and 1997-2007, 1993-94, 1987-91,1985)
2006   
Fulbright Fellowships: University of Torino, Italy (and Australia, 2003;  Brazil, 1996-97)
2000 
Japan Foundation Millennium Fellow, 1992
1997   
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowships (and 1992-93, 1985-86, 1983-84 )
Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio Center Fellow, Lake Como, Italy
1995   
Prix Ars Electronica, Honorary Award, Interactive Art category
1992   
Pew Fellow in the Arts, Pew Trusts, Philadelphia
1991   
American Film Institute / NEA Regional Fellowship, (and 1988, 1986 )
1990   
National Endowment for the Arts: Artist Fellow
Prix Ars Electronica, Interactive Art Honorary Award
1988   
Contemporary Art Television Fund, Institute of Contemporary Art / WGBH , Boston
1985   
National Endowment for the Arts, Media Arts, Production Grant
1983 - 85  
Center for Advanced Visual Studies, MIT, Artist Fellow
1982   
New York State Council on the Arts, Fellow ( Production Grant 1981)
1981  
Television Laboratory, Artist Residency, WNET-TV, New York
1980   
National Endowment for the Arts: Artist Fellow; Ohio Arts Council, Fellowship
1978   
National Endowment for the Arts: Artist Fellow
1974   
National Endowment for the Arts: Artist Fellow

COLLECTIONS ( Selected )

Museum of Modern Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Oakland Museum of California; Berkeley Art Museum / Pacific Film Archive; Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Long Beach Museum of Art; Santa Barbara Museum of Art; National Gallery of Canada; Arts Council of Great Britain; Kijkhuis, Holland; Kunsthaus, Zurich; Beaux-Arts, Charleroi, Belgium; Bibliotheksdienst, Berlin; Kitchen Center, New York; Kitchen Center, New York;  Donnell Film Library, New York; Electronics Arts Intermix, New York.