Biography

Peter Granser

Peter Granser is self-educated and was invited to the World Press Photo Masterclass in 2001. He was given the Arles Discovery Award and the Deutscher Sozialpreis in 2002, as well as the Oskar-Barnack Award in 2004. In 2006 Peter Granser was a stipendiary of the German Kunststiftung Baden-Wuerttemberg and was awarded the Helmut-Kraft-Foundation Talent Art Prize in 2011. His works have been exhibited internationally and are presented in public collections such as the Houston Museum of Fine Arts,USA, the Fundación Ordóñez-Falcó, Spain,  the ARTIUM Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, the Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland, the Alison and Peter Klein Collection, Germany and the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Graphische Sammlung, Germany.

He published 5 books to date:
2003                  Sun City, Benteli, Switzerland
2005                  Alzheimer, Kehrer,Germany / La Fabrica, Spain
2006                  Coney Island, Hatje Cantz, Germany/Galerie Mennour, France
2008                  SIGNS, Hatje Cantz, Germany / MoCP, USA
2011                  Peter Granser 2000-2007, Superlabo, Japan

In May 2012 his new book „J´ai perdu ma tête" will be published by Kodoji, Switzerland.

Peter Granser is a member of the POC-Project: www.poc-project.com

Please click here to download Peter Granser's CV (in PDF format).