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Peter G. Bill Tel: 212-929-6411 • e-mail: pbill23@yahoo.com • http://www.chashama.org/pbill

Education:
BA 1993 Reed College Major: Studio Art
MFA 2001 University of Washington Major: Painting

Experience:
•Chashama -New York.
Artist in residence: Worked from studio on Times Square, painting, filming, documenting other
artists/performances, and redesigning website. Collaborated with other artists to create installations and curate and run exhibitions at Chashama. www.chashama.org
present
•TRAFIKAfilms -New York.
Partner: Conceptualized structure and direction of non-profit company. Created web page, organized and maintained small video lab and office, aided artists in editing and creating videos, worked with school children from the After School Program to make a short video broadcast on NY1, and created films screened at international film festivals.
2000-2001
•CARTAH lab -Seattle,WA.
TA: Assisted teaching video installation classes to create videos and output them to a variety of media. Designed web pages, Created instructional materials, and aided in maintenance and acquisition of computers for the CARTAH lab.
Nov ‘99 June ’01.
•Trimedia -Prague, Czech Rep.
Freelance Designer: Web design, including conceptualizing and producing graphical elements for pages; designed interface for CD-ROM project; created titles for movie projects using the Media100 and Adobe Aftereffects; conceptualized and designed project for broadcast TV. Worked with students at FAMU to create installations.
April ‘98 -Sept ‘99
www.trimedia.cz
•Prognosis Weekly -Prague, Czech Republic
Production Manager: Involved in all aspects of layout and printing of a weekly newspaper with a readership of 24,000.Scanned photos; produced illustrations and covers; designed ads and media kits; system manager for a network of PowerPC Macintosh computers; and dealt with the printer in optimizing print quality and actual production quality control. As paper closed wrote html documents, which put the papers archives with images on-line through the WWW.
September ’94-March ’95
•Reed College software development lab (or D-lab)-Portland, OR
Student intern: Duties included; computer hardware maintenance, software development, teaching Photoshop, and research.
Summer 1992
•Országos Grafikai Muhelyj-Vác, Hungary
Lithographer, freelance artist.
Fall 1991
•Atelier Franck Bordas-Paris, France
Apprentice lithographer, studio hand, and paper cutter
Spring to fall 1991

Awards:
2003 NEA artist grant
2001-3 Chashama artist in residence, NYC
1999-2001 Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Research in The Arts and Humanities
at the University of Washington






Exhibitions/screenings/installations
(solo)
•Peep-o-rama NYC December ’03-January ’04
The Last Pornography
•Peep-o-rama NYC October ’02
Peepshow II
•Chashama Gallery NYC May ’02
paintings
•Nico Gallery Seattle May ’01
Magdalena’s Window and Other Stories
•Galleri Vrontos Copenhagen July ’99
works
•Kulturni-Socialni Centrum Prague Winter-Spring ’97
paintings
•The Globe Gallery Prague Winter ’95 and ‘96
Paintings

(group)
•The Kitchen, NYC October ’02
Necessary Translations
Produced event and showed
collaborative video poem: Dream of the City
included on DVD
•CrossPathCulture NYC Oct. ‘01-June ‘02
Various video installations/paintings
•Marymount College Tarrytown, NY May ‘02
video collaboration in dance performance
•Oasis film and Video festival NYC May ‘02
Dream of the City
•PoetryProject NYC NYC April ‘02
•Henry Art Gallery Seattle May ‘01
MFA 2001
•Henry Art Gallery Seattle Jan-May ‘01
TERRAFORM I
•SOIL Gallery Seattle Jan.‘01
Hlavní /Main Train Station
•Bellevue Art Museum film and video fest Seattle June, 2000
The Orchard
•Radost f/x Prague Winter 1997
•Open studios: The Distillery Boston 1994
•Wave Gallery New Haven 1993
•Flux Gallery Portland, OR 1992
•Fuse Gallery Portland, OR 1991

Murals
•New York City, 42nd St. March 2002
Placebo Sunrise
For the Chashama foundation.
•Sarajevo June 1998
Peoples bus
Mural completed with the help of local youths
(see online movie on my web page “weekend in Sarajevo ”)
•New Haven April 1994
All the world’s but a stage

Commisions:

New York City May 2003
Hudson River Walk
Large format acrylic painting
For The Hudson River Park Conservancy


Technical Proficiencies:
Software: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe AfterEffects, FinalCut Pro, Quark Express, Adobe Illustrator, Media Cleaner Pro, Adobe GoLive, Cinema 4-dXL, HTML, Flash.
Hardware: All Macintosh systems, Windows, flat bed scanners, filmscanners, Nextstations, some UNIX.
Cameras: Sony PD-150, VX-2000, PD-100, Canon XL-1, several one-chip models, and Super-8.
Printmaking: Stone print lithography, Intaglio, Silkscreen

References:
Paul Berger peberger@u.washington.edu
Professor, U.W.

Standa Miler miler@trimedia.cz
Professor, FAMU Prague

Norman Lundin lundin@u.washington.edu
Professor, U.W.