Karin Müller was born in Heidelberg, Germany, in 1963. She has received numerous awards and fellowships, among them an artist commission from the Getty/CAL Arts Grant in 2001. She is represented by Diane Rosenstein Fine Art in Los Angeles and Julie Saul Gallery in New York.
Her work has been placed in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Whitney Museum, New York; LACMA, Los Angeles, among others. She has published three monographs, Angels in Fall, On Edge and Timbercove. While in residence, Ms. Müller created a series about the native land and how disappearance translates in the landscape of the Southwest.