RAiR | 1977-78

Peter Bilan

Peter Bilan's first museum experiences were at the Roswell Museum and Art Center when stationed at Walker Air Force Base in the early 1960s. He returned to the museum to exhibit his sculptures in 1978. Born in Bowling Green, Ohio, Peter Bilan (b. 1940) earned a BS in Art Education in 1967 at Ashland College in Ohio. While studying for his MA at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff in 1968-69, he began exploring fabricated kinetic sculpture.  Peter moved to Albuquerque in 1971 to curate art at the Museum of Albuquerque until 1977, after which he taught sculpture at the University of Mexico. In the late 1990s, he founded the company Imaginair Designs crafting rubber stamps of a wide range of aircraft.