Peter Whittenberger

Peter Whittenberger is an experimental animator and video artist whose work explores the landscape as a living archive of time and history, containing the data of all Earth’s species. Growing up in Southeastern Montana, Whittenberger received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Montana, Missoula in Printmaking and his Master of Fine Arts from the University of Nevada, Reno in Interdisciplinary Art. Currently, Whittenberger lives and works in Reno, Nevada, with his wife, two dogs, two cats, and a ferret.

Whittenberger has presented his work at the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Nevada Museum of Art, the Torrence Art Museum, Harvard University CAMlab, the Sie Film Center, and Superblue Miami. He has screened both nationally and internationally including at the Millennium Films Workshop (Brooklyn, New York, USA) the Digerati Experimental Media Festival (Denver, Colorado, USA), the Future Visions Festival (Tokyo, Japan), the FILE Festival (Sao Paulo, Brazil), the RPM Festival (Boston, Massachusetts, USA), the Simultan Festival (Timisoara, Romania), Chroma Art Film Festival (Miami, Florida, USA), Festival Fotogenia (Mexico City, Mexico), the Melbourne International Animation Festival (Melbourne, Australia), the International Video Poetry Festival (Athens, Greece), Fest Anča (Žilina, Slovakia) and many others throughout the world. He has been awarded a funding grant from the Puffin Foundation, received the Reno-Tahoe Artists Award for Best in Digital Media, and is a Nevada Arts Council Fellowship Award recipient.