Lothar Osterburg works as sculptor, photographer, and animation filmmaker and is master printer in etching and photogravure. In 2010 he was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship, as well as an Academy Award in Art from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has received two NYFA grants and one by the AEV Foundation. Osterburg was three times artist in residence at the MacDowell Colony, and has been to residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Liguria Studies Center in Bogliasco, Italy, the Anderson Ranch Arts Center and the Hiu No’Eau Arts Center in Maui. His work has been shown in numerous international solo and group exhibitions including the Fitchburg Museum of Art, Moeller Fine Art, New York, and most recently in solo shows at Lesley Heller Gallery in New York, the 3rd Print Biennial at ICPNA in Lima Peru, and an upcoming solo show at Moeller Fine Art in Berlin. His work is included in the collections of the New York Public Library, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Fine Arts Museum Houston, the Fitchburg Art Museum, the Spencer Art Museum in Lawrence, KS and the Chazen Museum of Art, in Madison, WI. He is currently on the faculty of Bard College and The Cooper Union, and has taught at Columbia University, Pratt Institute and the Lacoste School of the Arts, France.