Petra Mueller Email Instagram @studiopetramueller

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Artist. Designer. Publisher. Founder, the letters.

Building a new era for spatial computing. A+B=C

Brief Bio.

Petra Mueller studied botany and plant genetics (virus free seed potato project, with the farmers of the Pemberton Valley), Department of Plant Sciences, University of British Columbia.

Graduated in experimental printmaking (lithography : Bob Evermon) and film and video (David Rimmer) at the Emily Carr College of Art and Design, Vancouver. Card carrying member of Group K, that included the cinematographer Kim Derko, amongst others, 1985.

Worked on the Last Film Search project, National Film and Sound Archive of Australia; with the legendary Harold Brown from the British Film Archive.

MFA, Photography, Concordia University, 1992.

Taught the course "Women and Technology" at the Department of Communication Studies, Concordia University, Montréal

Worked as a designer in the Montréal technology sector and part of the original team that created a more human business focused knowledge-network for the tech dudes and gals in the global Independent technology developer community.

Distribution committee, Vidéographe, Montréal, 1990’s, invited by Ségolène Roederer. On the administrative board of Galerie Dazibao, Montréal, 1990’s, invited by France Choinière.

Presently a member of the printmaking collective Atelier Circulaire, Montréal and the experimental film collective La Collective Lumière, Montréal.

Petra Mueller is a recipient of a Research Council Nature and Technologies Fellowship (formerly FCAR) and J.W. McConnell Research Fellowship, as well as a Canada Council for the Arts Project Grant.

Born in Berlin Germany, Canadian citizen.



 

Private and Public Art Collections

Hyman Kreitman Collection, Tate Library and Archive at Tate Britain, London.

Hirsch Library Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas.

Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Germany.

Collection patrimoniale des livres d’artistes et d’ouvrages de bibliophilie, Bibliotheque et Archives nationales du Quebec,Canada.

Library and Archives, National Gallery of Canada.

E.P. Taylor Research Library & Archives, Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada.

Collection des Photographes, Bibliotheque Nationale de France.

International Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales Research Library and Archive, Australia.

Thomas Fisher Rare Book Collection, University of Toronto, Canada.

Simon Fraser University Galleries Collection, Vancouver, British Columbia.

Malaspina Printshop Archives of the City of Burnaby Permanent Collection, Burnaby Art Gallery, British Columbia.

Artist Publications, Artexte, Montreal, Quebec.