peter campus (b. 1937, New York, NY) is an influential artist in the canons of new media and video art. After receiving a Bachelor of Science in Experimental Psychology from Ohio State University in 1960, he studied at the City College Film Institute and participated in the experimental workshops at WGBH TV. campus received the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 1975, and the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 1976. His work has been exhibited extensively with solo shows at the Jeu de Paume, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Culturgest, Whitney Museum of American Art, Kunsthalle Bremen, Centre Pompidou, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, The High Museum, and University of Michigan Museum of Art. campus is represented in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Parrish Art Museum, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Centre Pompidou, Hamburger Bahnhof – National Galerie der Gegenwart, Harvard Art Museums, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Walker Art Center, Weatherspoon Art Museum, and Tate Modern.
