Ian van Coller was born and raised in South Africa. He moved to the United States in 1992, where he received a BFA from Arizona State University and MFA from the University of New Mexico. Since 2006, van Coller has been a professor of photography at Montana State University in Bozeman, where he lives with his wife, two children and two dogs. His work has been widely exhibited in the United States and internationally, and is included in over forty public collections, including The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Getty Research Institute, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and The South African National Gallery. Van Coller is a 2018 John Simon Guggenheim fellow as well as a fellow of The Explorers Club.
