| 2006 | Residency Program at Lijiang Studios, Lijiang, Yunnan, China |
| 2001 | The J. Paul Getty/CalArts Commission, Los Angeles, CA, USA |
| 2000 | Lannan Foundation Residency Program (Santa Fe), Galisteo, NM, USA |
| 1996 | Friends of the Villa Aurora Fellowship (Berlin) |
| 1996 | Pacific Palisades, CA, USA |
| 1995 | DAAD Fellowship, Los Angeles, USA and American Samoa, Polynesia |
| 1995 | Kodak European Panorama of Young Photography Award, Arles, France |
| 1994 | Appointed to the DGPh (German Society for Photography), Cologne, Germany |
| 1993 | Award for Female Journalism, Emma, Cologne, Germany |
| 1992 | Award of Science, Honored for the Best Masterwork, Essen, Germany |
| 1991 | Kodak Fellowship for Deutsche Landschaft, Cologne, Germany |
| 1991 | Award for Photography as an Art, Pforzheim, Germany |
| 1990 | Award of the German Consulate, Bonn, Germany |
| 1990 | Award of the German Ministry of Science, Bonn, Germany |
| Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA |
| New School, New York, New York, USA |
| New York Public Library, New York, USA |
| Whitney Museum, New York, USA |
| George Eastman House, Rochester, USA |
| Allen Memorial Museum, Oberlin, Ohio, USA |
| San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, SF, CA, USA |
| University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA |
| IFA, Berlin, Germany |
| FRAC, Paris, Frankreich |
| 2007 | Edges, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA |
| 2005 | Bunkerscapes, Van der Grinten galerie, Cologne, Germany |
| 2004 | Terra Cognita, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, USA |
| 2003 | Angels in Fall, van der Grinten Galerie,Cologne, Germany |
| 2002 | Bunkerscapes, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA |
| 2001 | Angels in Fall, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA |
| 2001 | Angels in Fall, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, New York, USA |
| 1999 | Silent Summer, Craig Krull Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA |
| 1999 | Angels in Fall, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA |
| 1997 | Tryptic, DG Gallery, Munich, Germany |
| 1997 | Angels in Fall, Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA |
| 1996 | Angels in Fall, Sam Francis Gallery at Crossroads School for Arts |
| Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, USA |
| 1992 | Myth of Tahiti: More a Notion than a Place, Essen/Orangerie, Essen, Germany |
| 1992 | Deutsche Landschaft, Essen/Orangerie, Essen, Germany |
| 2009 | Into the Sunset: Photography´s Image of the American West
MoMA - The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA |
| 2009 | This side of paradise, Muée de l´Elysée, Lausanne, CH |
| 2008 | This side of paradise, Huntington Museum, Pasadena, CA, USA |
| 2008 | Real Photography Award, LP II Art Exhibition Centre, Rotterdam, Niederlande |
| 2007 | Spectacular City, NRW Kunstforum, Düsseldorf, Germany |
| 2006 | Spectacular City, NAI, Rotterdam, Netherlands |
| 2006 | Landscape, Recent acquisitions, MOMA, Menschel Gallery, New York, NY, USA |
| 2006 | Land in Translation, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, California, USA |
| 2005 | Transatlantische Impulse, Walter Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany |
| 2005 | The New City: Sub/Urbia in recent photography, |
| 2005 | Whitney Museum, New York, NY, USA |
| 2005 | Facing The Music, RedCat, Los Angeles, CA, USA |
| 2004 | Vagues, Musee Malraux, le Havre, France |
| 2003 | Urban Space, La Verne, California, USA |
| 2002 | Vacant, Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, California, USA |
| 2002 | Die Welt als Ganzes, Centre for Contemporary Photography, |
| Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; |
| 2002 | Bentara Budaya, Jakarta, Indonesia |
| (May 4 – May 18, 2002) |
| 2002 | Daelim Contemporary Art Museum, Seoul, Korea |
| (August 28 – October 13, 2002) |
| 2001 | Die Welt als Ganzes, Sydney College of the Arts, |
| Sydney, N.S.W., Australia (September) |
| 2001 | Die Welt als Ganzes, SK-Stiftung, Cologne, Germany |
| 2001 | Mental Wilderness, Gale Gates, Brooklyn, New York, USA |
| 1997 | Wirklich, Fotomuseum in Stadtmuseum, Munich, Germany |
| 1997 | Contemporary German Photography, Galerie Neuger Riemschneider, |
| Berlin, Germany |
| 1997 | Galerie Wittenbrink, Munich, Germany |
| 1997 | Galerie Reckerman, Cologne, Germany |
| 1997 | Galerie Lehmann, Dresden, Germany |
| 1996 | Das Deutsche Auge, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany |
| 1995 | Atomium, Kodak European Panorama of Young Photography, Arles, France |
| 1993 | Photography as an Art, Pforzheim, Germany |
| 1992 | Best Masterworks of NRW, Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum, Hagen, Germany |
| 1991 | Internationale Phototage, Herten, Germany Award for Young Journalism, |
| Agfa Haus, Leverkusen, Germany |
| 1995 | The Other Side of Photography, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| 2009 | On Edge, Nazraeli Press, Portland, OR, USA |
| 2009 | Into the Sunset, MoMA, New York, USA |
| 2008 | Verschwindende Landschaften, Dumont, Cologne, Germany |
| 2006 | “The Photobook”, A History vol II by Martin Parr and Gerry Badger, |
| Phaidon, London, GB |
| 2006 | Garten der Kunst, Skulpturenpark Graz Hatje Cantz, Germany |
| 2005 | Looking at Los Angeles DAP, New York, USA |
| 2002 | L.A.Now Art Center College of Design/Pasadena Distributed by |
| University of California Press |
| 2001 | Karin Apollonia Müller & Rodney Sappington, Angels in Fall: |
| Karin Apollonia Müller, Hamburg, Germany, Kruse Verlag, 2001 |
| 2001 | Kim Zorn Caputo (ed.), ‘Angels in Fall’, Blind Spot, New York, USA, |
| No 17, April/June 2001 |
| 2001 | ‘Choreography of Power’, Kunstforum International, Ruppichteroth, Germany, |
| No 153, January 2001, pp 135-36 |
| 2000 | ‘Angels in Fall’, Exit, London, England, No 1, October 2000 |
| 2000 | ‘Angels in Fall’, Zoo, London, England, October 2000, pp 234-35 |
| 2000 | Ulf Erdmann Ziegler, Die Welt als Ganzes (exhibition catalogue), |
| Berlin, Germany, Hatje Cantz, 2000, pp 104-106 |
| 2000 | Alena Williams, ‘Karin Apollonia Müller’, Art Issues, Los Angeles, California, |
| USA, November 2000, p 46 |
| 1998 | Contemporary German Photography, Bookforum/Artforum, NY, USA |
| Charles Arthur Boyer, ‘News of the World’s Happiness: |
| The New German Photography’, Art Press, Paris, France, |
| No 232, February 1998, pp 25-30 Jodie Zellen, |
| ‘Angels in Fall’, Art Scene, Los Angeles, CA, USA, May 1998 |
| 1997 | Markus Rasp (ed.), Contemporary German Photography, Cologne, Germany, |
| Taschen 1997 |
| 1997 | Michael Althen, Wirklich (exhibition catalogue), Munich, Germany, |
| Stadtmuseum Munich, 1997, pp 13-14, 48-54 |
| 1996 | Das Deutsche Auge: Fotojournalismus in Germany (exhibition catalogue), |
| Munich, Germany, Schirmer-Mosel |
| 2008 | UCLA, Advanced Photography, Graduate Seminar, Spring |
| 2008 | UCR, Beginning Photography, Winter |
| 2007 | Visiting Artist UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA |
| 2006 | Photography-Workshop, Sri Lanka, in collaboration with the |
| Goethe-Institute, Germany |
| 2005 | Photography-Workshop, Guadalajara, Mexico,in collaboration with the |
| Goethe-Institute, Germany |
| 2002-2005 | Guest Professor for Photography, Freie Universität Bozen, Italy |
| 2004 | Visiting Artist, California Institute for the Arts, Valencia, USA |
| 2003 | Guest Lecture and studio visits at Otis, Santa Monica, USA |
| 2003 | Guest Lecture at Marymount University , Santa Monica, USA |
| 1997-1998 | Independent Studies, Pasadena, USA |