Peter Hutton
Detroit, Michigan, 1944 - 2016, Poughkeepsie, New York
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- Male
b. 1929, Bronx, New York; d. 2023, New York, New York
De Quincy, Louisiana, 1946 - 2020, Cecelia, Louisiana
Johannesburg, South Africa, 1955 -
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BiographyFilmmaker. Studied painting, sculpture, and film at the San Francisco Art Institute, B.F.A., M.F.A. Has produced more than fifteen films, most of which are portraits of cities around the world. Associate professor at Hampshire College and at Carpenter Center, Harvard University; visiting associate professor, SUNY at Purchase. Recipient of awards from the Yale Film Festival (first prize); Massachusetts State Council on the Arts; New York CAPS; New York Artists Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts; D.A.A.D. Berlin; New York State Council on the Arts. Recipient of Dutch Film Critics Award, Rotterdam Film Festival; Guggenheim Fellowship; Rockefeller Fellowship. Films exhibited at Museum of Modern Art (1978, 1988, 1994), Whitney Biennial (1985, 1990, 1995), National Film Theatre of London, Art Institute of Chicago, University of California, Rhode Island School of Design, Collective for Living Cinema, Toulon Festival, Film Forum, and Berlin Film Festival, among many others. Faculty, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts. (1984–) Professor of Film.