Peter's Biography
Artist Statement
Solo Exhibitions
1990
Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington. D.C., Terra Sancta: Images of Israel, NepaL, and the American West
1984
Photoworks Gallery, Richmond, Virginia
1983
Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, Virginia
1979
Wolfe Street Gallery, Washington. DC.
Marcuse Pfeifer Gallery, New York, NY.
Baily Art Museum, (New name: Fralin Museum) Charlottesville. Virginia
1977
Wolfe Street Gallery, Washington, DC.
Eric Schindler Gallery, Richmond, Virginia
Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC.
Panopticon Gallery, Boston, MA.
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia
1975
Wolfe Street Gallery, Alexandria, Virginia
Group Exhibitions
1989
Kathleen Ewing Gallery, Washington. D.C. Dog Days Dog Show
1988
Kathleen Ewing Gallery, Washington, D.C. Dog Days Dog Show
1986
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Recent Acquisitions in Photography
1984
Dalsheimer Gallery, Baltimore, MD, Artscape
198I
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Recent Acquisitions
Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, Virginia Photographers x Photographers
1980 -1982
One of a Kind: A Traveling exhibit of Polaroid photography, at:
Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, Penn
Houston Museum, Houston, Texas
Denver Museum, Denver Colorado
Carpenter Center, M.I.T., Cambridge, Mass.
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington,DC.
1980
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond Virginia, Virginia Photographers 1980 juried by Linda Connors. selected for traveling exhibition)
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Recent Acquisition: Photographs
Washington Project for the Arts, Washington Photographers of the Seventies (curated by Shirley True)
1979
Washington Project for the Arts, Washington. D.C.. Invitational Exhibition
Wolfe Street Gallery, Washington. D"C. Small Works on Paper
1978
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Virginia Photographers 1978 (Thomas Barrow. Judge)
The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Virginia Photographers 1978. Traveling exhibit
Corcoran Gallery of Art. The Stillife in Photography
Washington Project for the Arts, Washington. DC (Second anniversary exhibit.)
International Artfair, Bologna. Italy
1977
Washington Project for the Arts, Washington. DC (Second anniversary exhibit.)
Grace Gallery, Reston. Virginia, Four Photographers
1976
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington.DC. The Nation's Capital Photographers (Samuel Wagstaff Judge; Honorable Mention.)
Intuitive Eye Gallery, 21 Critics in Search of a Photographer Washington, D.C.
Intuitive Eye Gallery, Self-Portraits, Washington.DC.
1975
Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC.
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia (Juried by Aaron Siskind.)( Certificate of Distinction, two-year traveling exhibit.)
Publications
One of a Kind, Belinda Rathbone, ed., Godine, Boston. 1979
Virginia Photographers 1975. Catalogue
Virginia Photographers 1 978. Catalogue
Lightwork, A magazine for photographers, vol. 1. no. 2, April 1975.
Art in America, July 1978
Art in America, July 1979
Terra Sancta: Images of Israel, Nepal, and the American West, catalogue (featuring work by Frank DiPerna, Arnold Kramer, Bernis von zur Muehlen, and Peter von zur Muehlen) Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington,D.C., 1990.
Public Collection
American University Museum, Washington, D.C.
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona