Peter Gabriel Hoffman
Born 1984, Hinsdale Ill.
Lives + Works in Durham, NC.

Education
2019
Master of Fine Arts – The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
2009
Master of Arts – Ohio University
2006
Bachelor of Science  – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Exhibitions
2020
Fragments: The Rubenstein at Duke University, Durham, NC. (2 person collaborative media work with Michael Zhang)
The Living Dune: Arts Everywhere Pop-up 140 W. Franklin Street Suite 160. Chapel Hill, NC (2 person collaborative show with Ben Alper)
2019
At the Margins: Experimental Engagements in Science, Literature & Arts, View Point Gallery, Irvine, CA (group)
Evidence, Useful Fictions, Galerie Hus, Paris, Fr (group)
Sky-high Skies, Transpace, Normal, IL (group)
Sacred Wasteland, Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC (group)
Under the Rug, The Fruit, Durham, NC (group)
2018
Anti-Nostalgia, The Carrack Modern Art, Durham, NC (group)
File under: Landscape, The Alcott Gallery At UNC, Chapel Hill, NC (2-person)
2017
Untitled: Works from the Loop, Spectre Arts, Durham, NC (solo)
Digiscapes – LUMP Gallery, Raleigh, NC (Group)
2016
A Great Sum in Parts, Osnova Gallery, Moscow (Group)
Landscape (Group), Filter Photo Space, Chicago
2014
The Ones We Love, Viaduct Gallery, Des Moines, Iowa (Group)
2013
The Chicago Project V (10 year anniversary), Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago
2012
Celebrate Forests, Roper Arts Gallery at Frostburg State University, Frostburg, MD (Group)
ADP Workshop Exhibition – Pittsburgh, PA (Group)
2011
Celebrate Forests: Glimpses Into the Communities and Ecosystems that Sustain Us All, Dairy Barn – Athens, Ohio (Group)
Street Stories – Kiernan Gallery – Street Stories – Lexington, VA (Group)
PXL, ANKA Gallery, Portland, OR (Group)
2010
Scene on the Street, Vermont Photo Space Gallery – (Group)
Unpublished, Unseen? Fotografia Festival – Rome, Italy (Group)
Onward, Project Basho –, Philadelphia, PA (Group)
2009
Slideluck Potshow, Chicago
Assume Nothing, Union Street Gallery, Chicago Heights, IL (Group)
Fovea Exhibitions – Man vs. Nature Projection Series, Beacon, NY (Group)
2008
People and Land- Photographs of Sustainable Forestry
and Rural Culture, Stuart Opera House, Nelsonville, Ohio (Three person show)

Collections
Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University
Detroit Center for Contemporary Photography
Joan Flasch Artist’s Book Collection – School of the Art Institute, Chicago
John Cleary Library – Houston Center for Photography
Documentary Photography Archive – Ohio University Library
Sloan Art Library – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Franklin Furnace Artists Book Collection, Brooklyn, NY

Books and independent publications
Monographs
2018
Glass Corner Designed with Elana Schlenker
2014
Again and Again Designed by Elana Schlenker, Edited by Melissa Catanese (Self-Published, Out of print)
2012 
Oak Hill Trails: Ten Photographs (Self-Published)
2010
Bryan House: Beginnings (Self-Published, Out of Print)

Other Book Publications
2018
New Materialism: Publisher – BonniersKonsthall + Art and Theory Publishing (contributing photographer)
2016
It Could Be Worse: Publisher: ADP Workshop (contributor)
Mossless 4: Public/Private/Portait (contributor)
2015
The Monocle Guide to Cosy Homes: Publisher – Gestalten (Berlin) (Contributor)
Oranbeg Press:Interleaves II
2014 
The Ones We Love Volume 1 (contributor)
2011
Collect.Give: The Book (contributor)
Romka Magazine: Issue #6 (contributor)
Our Choice (iPad edition) by Al Gore (contributor)
FOAM Magazine: A Book of Beds (Group)
2010
American Photography 26 (Group)

Select Editorial + Commercial Clients + Publications
AARP, Art in America, Bloomberg Businessweek, Chicago Magazine, The Chicago Tribune, Christie’s Magazine, CNN, Condé Nast Traveler, Crate and Barrel/CB2, Curbed, Der Spiegel (Germany), Education Week, enRoute (Canada), The FADER, FT: Financial Times Magazine (U.K), GO Magazine, GOOD, The Guardian: Weekend Magazine (U.K.), Guernica, INC. Magazine, Intro (Germany), Le Figaro (France), Medium.com, Michigan Ave. Magazine, Monocle, MSNBC, National Geographic, Newsweek, The New York Times, Nike, NPR, Nylon Guys, re:porter (Canada), Runner’s World, Running Times (R.I.P.), The Telegraph (U.K.), Time Inc., The Times of London, TimeOut Chicago, US News and World Report, Urban Outfitters, The Wall Street Journal, Winkreative, VSCO and others.

Select Non-Profit clients and collaborators
Alliance for the Great Lakes, Bryan House Community Development Corporation, The Kellogg Foundation, Loaves and Fishes Community Services, Illinois Academy of Family Physicians, lllinois Geographic Information Systems Association, The National Network of Forest Practitioners, The Ocean Conservancy, Ohio University, The Rebuild Foundation, The University of Illinois at Chicago and others.

Select Awards/Recognition
2014
PDN 30 Nominee
2013
Named to the Art Director’s Club Young Guns class of 2013 (ADC Young Guns 11)
Prix Pictet Nominee
2010
American Photography 26 – Selected for book publication

Grants, fellowships, residencies
2019
UC Davis and École Polytechnique Graduate Fellow, Useful Fictions Symposium, Paris, France
2012
Blueberry View Artist’s Residency (Benton Harbor, Michigan)
Bruce Gilden Masterclass Scholarship recipient: Look3 Festival of the Photograph in Charlottesville, VA
2010
Puffin Foundation – Artist’s Grant (for Bryan House work)
2009
Ohio University Graduate Student Senate Original Work Grant
Scripps College Graduate Work Grant
2008
National Network of Forest Practitioners documentary photography fellow

Artist talks
2018
Photographs Are a Start – Common House, Charlottesville, VA (July 19, 2018)
2015
Carnegie Mellon University
2013
Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design

Curation, production and other initiatives
2019 – Current
Founding member of Sleeper.Studio, an alternative publishing effort
2013 
Co-producer and Co-Curator for ADP Workshop: Making it Home at UnSmoke Systems, Braddock PA

Select Press and select online features
2020
Collater.al (Italy) Glass Corner Feature
BOOOOOOOM: Glass Corner Feature
2019
Photo-Emphasis: Project Spotlight
Humble Arts Foundation Group Show 61: Loss
2017
Lenscratch: Glass Corner
INDY Week: Peter Hoffman: Works from the Loop 2013-2017
2016 
VSCO: Fox River Derivatives
Hundredweight.us: Glass Corner
Art Director’s Club: Interview
2015
LENSCRATCH: Interview
Oranbeg Press: Included in Interleaves II + Net 16
Detroit Center for Contemporary Photography PAGES: Again and Again
Wavepool: Interview
Cult: Talent
American Photo: Glass/Corner Interview
2014
National Geographic PROOF Q&A: Peter Hoffman’s Again and Again
The Ones We Love Project: Peter Hoffman
Radar: Portfolio
Communication Arts FRESH: Peter Hoffman
This is Paper: Peter Hoffman, Again and Again
Aint Bad Magazine: Peter Hoffman
Woodlead: Interview
2013
This is the What: 10 Minutes with Peter Hoffman
PDN (Photo District News) Magazine Photo of the Day: Like Oil and Water
Time Magazine – LightBox: Burned to Nothing: When Photographers Destroy Their Own Negatives
Fast Company: Why This Photog Sets His Negatives Ablaze
Phaidon: Why does this photographer set his film on fire?
Juxtapoz Magazine: The Effects of Oil: The Photography of Peter Hoffman
The Huffington Post: Peter Hoffman Photos Show What Happens When You Set An Oily Negative On Fire
Gizmodo: What Happens When You Soak a Negative In Gasoline and Set It on Fire
PetaPixel: Photos Created by Coating Negatives with Gasoline and Setting Them On Fire
Top Photography Films: Sincerely and Simply
Feature Shoot: Photographer Coats Negatives With Gasoline for Series on Clean Water Scarcity
CNN Photos: Aftershocks of the Christchurch Earthquake
The New Yorker: Photo Booth – Photographing Climate Change
The Heavy Collective –Q&A
2012
Don/Dean Blog: Interview about Loop Work
Guernica Magazine: Bryan House
Interview at The Press (Christchurch, NZ) 
2011
Interview at The Naperville Sun
Beautiful Decay: Bryan House
Urbanautica: Post-Landfill Landscapes
Leica Camera: Peter Hoffman: Photojournalism to Conceptual Work
Prison Photography: Peter Hoffman’s Bryan House
Mullitover: Untitled Interview
Collect.Give Featured Print Sale
2010
Verve Photo Featured Photographer
Photopol.us Peter Hoffman sometimes wonders what if Nietzsche or Kierkegaard took photos

Teaching
2019 – current
Lecturer at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill – Depts. of Art+Art History, Hussman School of Media + Journalism
2018 – 2019
Graduate Teaching Fellow at University of North Carolina Chapel-Hill Dept. of Art + Art History
Curriculum Designer – University of North Carolina Chapel-Hill
2010 – 2011
Adjunct Instructor in Digital Photography at Harrington College of Design, Chicago Ill.
2010 – 2011
Summer Photography Instructor at Upward Bound Columbia College, Chicago Ill.
2008 – 2009
Ohio University Graduate Instructor