Nicholas Muellner

Nick Muellner is a photo-based artist, writer and curator who lives and works in Ithaca, NY. Current projects include the exhibition and artist’s book Moscow Plastic Arts (Arcadia University Art Gallery, 2005) and the forthcoming book The Photograph Commands Indifference (A-Jump Books, 2007). In addition to solo and group exhibitions in New York and Philadelphia, he has collaborated on curatorial projects and multi-media works, and is currently organizing Now Is The Winter, an exhibition of politically and psychologically linked works by U.S. and Russian artists that will open at Proekt_Fabrika in Moscow in May 2007.  Muellner’s creative and curatorial projects have been reviewed in Artforum, The New York Times and The New Yorker, among other publications, and his critical writings, often focusing on Russian and American photographic practice, have recently been published in Art Journal and by Rutgers University Press. 

Muellner received a BA in Comparative Literature from Yale University and an MFA in Photography from Tyler School of Art, Temple University.  He teaches Photography and Critical Studies at the Park School of Communications, Ithaca College.