Peter Burr is a digital and new media artist based in Brooklyn, New York, born August 3, 1980.
Having received a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University in 2002, Peter specializes in animation and installation.
He has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Sundance New Frontier Story Lab Fellowship, a Creative Capital Award, and film/video prizes at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2016, among others.
His work has been exhibited at The Zabludowicz Collection, The Institute for Contemporary Art, Richmond, 3-Legged Dog in New York, San Francisco Cinematheque's experimental festival CROSSROADS, Supernova Digital Animation Festival in Denver, Documenta 14 in Athens, and Centre Pompidou in Paris.
He was also a touring member of the collective MOBILIVRE-BOOKMOBILE.
In 2005, he founded the video label and touring animation roadshow Cartune Xprez.
He was an artist-in-residence at MacDowell Colony and the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts.
In 2015, he was named one of the "best unrepresented artists."