Résumé
Born in SW France on January 1, 1987.
Lives and works in Los Angeles, California.
Biosketch
Yogan Müller is a French-Algerian photographer, first-generation graduate, and educator. His work engages with the urgency of the ecological crisis and its impact on landscapes and communities. Yogan works with photography, photogrammetry, drones, artificial intelligence, and the book form. Research, critical approaches to landscape, fieldwork, and design are central to his process.
After the unexpected losses of his father in February 2022 and his step-father in June of that same year–both were born and grew up in Algeria, métisse identity, displacement, and fractured roots are themes that came to the fore.
In October 2019, he moved to Los Angeles and joined the Counterforce Lab, a group of ecologically-minded artists and designers led by Rebeca Méndez at the UCLA Design Media Arts (DMA) Department. He started teaching at DMA in January 2020. Occasionally, Yogan has worked for fine art photographer Mona Kuhn, and designer Rebeca Méndez in Los Angeles.
In November 2018, he graduated with one of the first practice-based PhDs in Photography from ENSAV La Cambre and Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. In his thesis, he explores how photography made us enter the picture of the Anthropocene. He conducted fieldwork in SW Iceland to be at the forefront of geological scales and human footprint.
Yogan has taught at UCLA Design Media Arts, the Penumbra Foundation in New York, and the University of Bordeaux in France.
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Born in SW France on January 1, 1987.
Lives and works in Los Angeles, California.
Biosketch
Yogan Müller is a French-Algerian photographer, first-generation graduate, and educator. His work engages with the urgency of the ecological crisis and its impact on landscapes and communities. Yogan works with photography, photogrammetry, drones, artificial intelligence, and the book form. Research, critical approaches to landscape, fieldwork, and design are central to his process.
After the unexpected losses of his father in February 2022 and his step-father in June of that same year–both were born and grew up in Algeria, métisse identity, displacement, and fractured roots are themes that came to the fore.
In October 2019, he moved to Los Angeles and joined the Counterforce Lab, a group of ecologically-minded artists and designers led by Rebeca Méndez at the UCLA Design Media Arts (DMA) Department. He started teaching at DMA in January 2020. Occasionally, Yogan has worked for fine art photographer Mona Kuhn, and designer Rebeca Méndez in Los Angeles.
In November 2018, he graduated with one of the first practice-based PhDs in Photography from ENSAV La Cambre and Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. In his thesis, he explores how photography made us enter the picture of the Anthropocene. He conducted fieldwork in SW Iceland to be at the forefront of geological scales and human footprint.
Yogan has taught at UCLA Design Media Arts, the Penumbra Foundation in New York, and the University of Bordeaux in France.
Contact the studio
︎ contact at yogan dash muller dot com
︎ yoganmuller
Education
2024: Long-Term Photobook Program, Penumbra Foundation, New York, United States.
2018: Practice-based PhD in Photography, ENSAV La Cambre and Université libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.
2010: MA Moving Image (rank: 2), University of Bordeaux, France.
2008: BA Moving Image, University of Bordeaux, France.
2007: B.Sc. Math, University of Bordeaux, France.
Selected exhibitions
2024: Paths, group show curated by Sam Heydt coinciding with the 60th Venice Biennale, Palazzo Pisani Revedin, Venice, Italy.
2024: Coaction: Collaborations in Art, Science, Design, Games, and Technology (group), UCLA New Wight Gallery, UCLA Broad Art Center, Los Angeles, CA.
2024: Present Tense #2, Medium Photo Festival, San Diego, CA.
2024: Static Fire, Marshall Contemporary (group), Los Angeles, CA.
2023: Nuits de la Photo, Halle de la Villette (group show), Paris, France.
2023: Voies OFF festival, Arles, France.
2023: The Biophilia Treehouse, UCLA Broad Art Center (group show), Los Angeles, USA.
2023: Brewery Art Walk, Ryan McIntosh studio (two-person with Ryan McInstosh), Los Angeles.
2023: Photo Forward LA, Danziger Gallery (two-person with Ryan McIntosh), Santa Monica, USA.
2022: Art in the time of Corona vol.2, DabArt Gallery (group show), Los Angeles, USA.
2022: Obscura x NFT Art Venice Biennale, SuperChief Gallery (group show), European Cultural Center, Venice, Italy.
2022: NFT NYC 22, Superchief Gallery (group show), New York, USA.
2022: Photo Rotterdam 2022, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
2022: Two Years After the Storm, The Hot Shot Muffler (group show and NFT drop), Los Angeles, USA.
2022: Parisian Ecologies, Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College (solo show), Claremont, California.
2021: Art in The Time of Corona vol. 1, Dabart Gallery (online group show),Los Angeles, USA.
2020: Phenomenology of Hope, online group show.
2018: Practice-based thesis, Galerie Été 78 (solo show), Brussels, Belgium.
2018: A Forest, L'Iselp (group show), Brussels, Belgium.
2018: O.S.D., Cheval Noir artist residency, Brussels, Belgium.
2018: Paradis infernaux/Enfer paradisiaque, Sixth triennial of Photography and Architecture (group show), Faculté d’architecture La Cambre-Horta, Brussels, Belgium.
2017: O.S.D., SÍM Artist residency (group show), Reykjavík, Iceland.
2017: Hraun , Reykjavík Photography Museum–Skótið (solo show), Reykjavík, Iceland.
2016: O.S.D., AIRE artist residency, Brussels, Belgium.
2015: Hraun, L'Iselp (solo show), Brussels, Belgium.
2015: O.S.D., L’Iselp artist residency (solo show), Brussels, Belgium.
2015: The Cloud of Unknowing, ENSAV La Cambre (group show), Brussels, Belgium.
2014: La chaleur de l'usure, De Martken (group show), Brussels, Belgium.
2014: Sérendipité, Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts (group show), Brussels, Belgium.
2013: O.S.D., NES artist residency (group show), Skagaströnd, Iceland.
2012: Projective spaces, Forum des Arts de Talence (solo show), Semaine du son 2012, France.
2012: O.S.D., Scrime artist residency (solo show), Bordeaux, France.
2011: La part des anges, Institut Culturel Bernard Magrez (group show with Charlotte Villard), Château Pape-Clément, Bordeaux, France.
2011: O.S.D., SÍM artist residency (group show), Reykjavík, Iceland.
2010: Multiple Bordeaux, city-wide solo show in mobile displays, Bordeaux, France.
Awards and grants
2024: Penumbra Foundation Long Term Program scholarship, New York, NY, USA.
2022: ‘Two Years After the Storm,’ Obscura DAO Community Commission with the patronage of Jim Goldberg (Magnum Photos), USA/Metaverse.
2021: “Who We Are” grant, Obscura DAO, USA/Metaverse.
2019: Bourse du talent #80, finalist, Paris, France.
2011: Special prize, Bernard Magrez Cultural Institute, Bordeaux, France.
2009: City of Bordeaux Cultural Fund, Bordeaux, France.
2007: French student photographer of the year, 3rd prize, Paris, France.
Books
2025 (upcoming): Tracy Hills, two-volume set with Ryan McIntosh, Radius Books, Santa Fe, NM, USA.
2023: Telotypes, self-published, 100 copies, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
2023: Tracy Hills, self-published proof-of-concept with Ryan McIntosh, 50 copies, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
2022: Who We Are, Setanta Books, London, UK.
2018: Paysage : de démarche en (dé)construction photographique, self-published practice-based PhD thesis, 12 copies, Brussels, Belgium.
Teaching
2024: Desma 173, Special Topics in Visual Communication and Image, “Drones and LA Water Narratives.” Guest lecturers: AnMarie Ramona-Mendoza (UCLA Luskin), Bonny Bentzin (UCLA Deputy Chief Sustainability Officer), Debra Scacco (Artist). Winter quarter, UCLA Design Media Arts.
2023: Desma 160, Special Topics, “Photography, Exponential” (AI and the photographic image). Guest lecturers: Ahmed Elgammal (Rutgers University), Margaret Murphy, Minne Atairy (Barnard College). Fall quarter, UCLA Design Media Arts.
2023: Desma 404, Visiting MFA tutorials, spring quarter, UCLA Design Media Arts.
2023: Desma 173, Special Topics in Visual Communication and Image: “Drones + Photogrammetry.” Guest lecturers: Ben Lerchin (UCLA DMA MFA), Kate Cavanaugh (UCLA Geography and IoES Ph.D. candidate), Kyle Cavanaugh (UCLA Geography). Winter quarter, UCLA Design Media Arts.
2022: Desma 195B, Corporate Internships. Fall quarter, UCLA Design Media Arts.
2022: Desma 160, Special Topics, “Photography and Ecology.” Guest lecturer: Alejandro Cartagena. Fall quarter, UCLA Design Media Arts.
2022: Desma 199, Independent Directed Research, Mentor, UCLA Design Media Arts.
2022: Desma 154, Word and Image, “Care!,” spring quarter, UCLA Design Media Arts.
2022: Desma 404, Visiting MFA tutorials, spring quarter, UCLA Design Media Arts.
2021: Desma 99, Independent Directed Research. Fall quarter, UCLA Design Media Arts.
2021: Desma 160, Special Topics, “Photography and Ecology.” Guest lecturer: Karen Hellman (Getty Museum). Fall quarter, UCLA Design Media Arts.
2021: Desma 404, Visiting MFA tutorials, spring quarter, UCLA Design Media Arts.
2021: Desma 404, Visiting MFA tutorials, winter quarter, UCLA Design Media Arts.
2021: Desma 160, Special Topics, "Photography and Ecology." Guest lecturers: Marie-José Jongerius, Mark Ruwedel, Rebeca Méndez. Winter quarter, UCLA Design Media Arts.
2020: Desma 160, Special Topics, "Anthropocene and Digitization." Guest lecturers: Jean-François Blanchette (UCLA IS), Johanna Drucker (UCLA DMA & IS), Yvonne Lee (LACMA), Sharon Mustri (BloombergNEF), David Nuñez (MIT Museum). Fall quarter, UCLA Design Media Arts.
2020: Desma 154, Word and Image, "For Good Measure," co-taught with Pr. Dr. Rebeca Méndez. Spring quarter, UCLA Design Media Arts.
2020: Desma 404, Visiting MFA tutorial, Winter quarter, UCLA Design Media Arts.
2020: Desma 173, Special Topics in Visual Communication and Image, "Landscape Photography and Energy.” Winter quarter, UCLA Design Media Arts.
Academic honors and grants
2024: UCLA Unit-18 Professional Development Award, Los Angeles, USA.
2023: UCLA Green Initiative Fund, with the Counterforce Lab, Los Angeles, USA.
2022: UCLA Green Initiative Fund, with the Counterforce Lab, Los Angeles, USA.
2021: UCLA Institute for Digital Research & Education, Workshop and Seminar Grant, Los Angeles, USA.
2021: UCLA Transdisciplinary Acceleration Grant, with the Counterforce and Pamela Yeh labs, Los Angeles, USA.
2020: UCLA Green Initiative Fund, with Counterforce Lab, UCLA, USA.
2017: Alice et David van Buuren fund, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.
2010: FSDIE fund (’Fonds de Soutien aux Initiatives Etudiantes,’ i.e., Student Initiative Fund), University of Bordeaux, France.
Workshops
2011: Magnum Photos workshop, FotoDoks festival, October 12-16, Munich, Germany.
2009: Magnum Photos Masterclass workshop, Noorderlicht photography festival, September 2-6, Gröningen, The Netherlands.
2008: Magnum Photos masterclass workshop, October 8-12, University of Brighton, UK.
Press & publications
2024: Photographers on Photographers with Ryan McIntosh, Lenscratch. Online: http://lenscratch.com/2024/08/photographers-on-photographers-yogan-muller-in-conversation-with-robert-adams/
2024: UCLA IoES Magazine. Online: https://www.ioes.ucla.edu/article/ucla-counterforce-labs-yogan-muller-publishes-book-on-la-aqueduct-following-cop21/
2024: UCLA SOAA Spring 2024 Faculty Spotlight. Online: https://arts.ucla.edu/single/faculty-spotlight-spring-2024/
2023: “This week on Cargo no. 293,” Newsletter. Online: https://blog.cargo.site/293
2022: “Two Years After the Storm: Obscura Community Commission.” Online: https://mirror.xyz/obscuradao.eth/I5qCXQuheGVUMazXtPXtXkaSx_xbbeN0dsyn8XO4zdg
2022: “Obscura Season 1 Retrospective,” online: https://mirror.xyz/obscuradao.eth/SnQNwAiEoKK75KgzTA2u7zxLApt18qXnJYNJlNCbS8Y
2022: Brileigh Hardcastle, “Two Years After the Storm: Community Commission Interview,” online: https://mirror.xyz/obscuradao.eth/vO42ztyCeQHCOkEyO9YqHQ3coUnVhH1WW4a_JlhotnA
2022: “Parisian Ecologies Symposium,” online: https://www.pomona.edu/museum/events/2022/04/parisian-ecologies-symposium
2020: Ashley Lifton, “With online instruction, DESMA classes foster collaboration and creativity”, The Daily Bruin. Online: https://new.dailybruin.com/post/with-online-instruction-desma-classes-foster-collaboration-and-creativity
2020: Pando Populus feature, online: https://pandopopulus.com/blog/arcadia-and-the-western-imagination/
2020: “Topography of a Spirit”, Interview with Mona Kuhn, L’Œil de la photographie. Online: https://loeildelaphotographie.com/fr/evenement/los-angeles-topography-of-a-spirit-conversation-entre-mona-kuhn-et-yogan-muller/
2018: Jean-Marc Bodson, “C’est ici le paradis?,” La Libre Belgique (BE/FR). Online: https://sites.archi.ulb.be/triphot/IMG/pdf/2018_La_Libre_Belgique.pdf
2018: 6è Triennale “Photographie et Architecture.” Online: https://loeildelaphotographie.com/fr/evenement/photographie-et-architecture-6e-edition/
2018: “Bruxelles, Triennale Photographie et Architecture, Exposition.” Online: https://cellule.archi/fr/diffusion-promotion/actualites/2018-01/triennale-photographie-et-architecture
2018: “Paradis et enfers architecturaux à Bruxelles,” Réponses Photo (FR). Online: https://www.reponsesphoto.fr/actualites/paradis-et-enfers-architecturaux-a-bruxelles-24305.html
2015: Danielle Leenaerts, “Ce que la recherche fait à l’art”, L’Art Même (Belgium), no. 67, p. 41-42, read online.
2014: Dirk Dehouck, “La recherche en art : Perspectives et enjeux,” L’Art Même (Belgium), no. 62, p. 12-14.
Artist residencies
2018: Cheval noir, Brussels, Belgium.
2017: SÍM, Reykjavík, Iceland.
2016: AIRE, Dexia Art Center, Brussels, Belgium.
2015: ISELP, Brussels, Belgium.
2013: NES, Skagaströnd, Iceland.
2012: SCRIME, University of Bordeaux, France.
2011: SÍM, Reykjavík, Iceland.
Internships
2009: Magnum Photos, London, UK.
2006: Agence France Presse, Paris, France.
2006: Agence France Press, Bordeaux, France.
Collections
Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BnF), Paris, France.
Galerie Été 78, Brussels, Belgium.
Obscura Museum (Metaverse).