John Miller (American artist)

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John Miller
Born1954 (1954)
Cleveland, Ohio
Nationality American
Education1979 California Institute of the Arts, M.F.A
Known for contemporary art, painting, sculpture, photography, and video art.
Notable workMiddle of the Day series
Movement Abject art
AwardsWolfgang Hahn Prize (2011); Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (D.A.A.D.) Berliner Kunstlerprogramm, Berlin Residency (1991)

John Miller (born 1954) is an artist, writer, and musician based in New York and Berlin. He received a B.F.A. from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1977. He attended the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program in 1978 and received an M.F.A. from California Institute of the Arts in 1979. Miller worked as a gallery attendant at Dia:Chelsea. [1] He is currently Professor of Professional Practice in Art History at Barnard College [2]

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Exhibitions

A Refusal to Accept Limits (2007) installed at the Rubell Museum DC in 2022 A Refusal to Accept Limits, 2007, John Miller at Rubell DC 2022.jpg
A Refusal to Accept Limits (2007) installed at the Rubell Museum DC in 2022

Miller has had several solo museum exhibitions, most recently in 2024 in Kunsthaus Glarus, The Ruin of Exchange presents a selection of John Miller’s artwork ranging from 1994 to the present. In 2016 a mid career survey "I Stand, I Fall" at the Institute of Contemporary Art / ICA, Miami curated by Alex Gartenfeld. The exhibition "brings together some 75 works that trace Miller’s use of the figure throughout his career in order to incisively comment on the status of art and life in American culture." [3] Other solo museum exhibitions include one at the Museum Ludwig Cologne (2011) in conjunction with his being awarded the Wolfgang Hahn Prize, [4] a mid career retrospective at the Kunsthalle Zürich (2009), [5] the Kunstverein in Hamburg (1999), [6] Le Magasin in Grenoble (1999), and MoMA PS1 in New York (1998). His work was included in the Biennale d'Art Contemporain de Lyon in 2005 and in the 2010 Gwangju Bienniale, 10,000 Lives. In 2014, his artwork was included in the Hayward Gallery’s exhibition, "The Human Factor: the Figure in Contemporary Sculpture."

Collections

Miller's work is in the collections of institutions including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Whitney Museum, New York; the Carnegie Museum of Art, [7] Pittsburgh; Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, as well as private collections and foundations like the Rubell Museum in Miami, Sammlung Ringier, Switzerland, Sammlung Schürmann, Aachen / Berlin and the Sammlung Falkenberg in Hamburg. [8]

Awards and honors

In 2011, Miller received the Wolfgang Hahn Prize from the Society for Contemporary Art at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne. [9] In 1991, he received a Fellowship from the Berliner Kunstlerprogramm, German Academic Exchange Service (D.A.A.D.).

Books

In 2000, JRP Edition and the Consortium published The Price Club: Selected Writings, 1977-1996. (Geneva and Dijon: JRP Editions and the Consortium, 2000) In 2001, Revolver Verlag published When Down Is Up: Selected Writings.

JRP-Ringier and the Consortium published a collection of his criticism titled The Ruin of Exchange: Selected Writings in 2012, as part of their Positions series. The Ruin of Exchange is edited by Professor Alexander Alberro (Geneva and Dijon: JRP-Ringier and les Presses du Reel, 2012)

In 2015, Afterall Books published Miller's study Mike Kelley: Educational Complex as part of its One Work series. Miller and artist Mike Kelley met as graduate students at the California Institute of the Arts in the late 1970s. [10]

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References

  1. ↑ Evans, S (2009). Beyond the Turnstile. AltaMira Press. p. 104. ISBN   978-0759112216
  2. ↑ "John Miller: Barnard College". www.barnard.edu. Barnard College. Retrieved 9 September 2014.
  3. ↑ "Exhibition: John Miller". Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami. ICA, Miami. Retrieved 18 May 2016.
  4. ↑ "A Special Award". Gesellschaft für Moderne Kunst am Museum Ludwig, Koln. GMK Koln. Retrieved 23 November 2014.
  5. ↑ "JOHN MILLER 16 AUGUST – 15 NOVEMBER 2009". www.kunsthallezurich.ch. Kunsthalle Zurich. Retrieved 9 September 2014.
  6. ↑ "Parallel Economies: John Miller". www.kunstverein.de. Kunstverein in Hamburg. Retrieved 9 September 2014.
  7. ↑ "Town and Country". cmoa.org/. Carnegie Museum of Art. Retrieved 10 September 2014.
  8. ↑ "Collecting Lines: Drawings from the Ringier Collection". Collecting Lines. Ringier AG / Sammlung Ringier, Zurich. Retrieved 18 May 2016.
  9. ↑ "Prof. John Miller awarded the 2011 Wolfgang Hahn Prize". www.barnard.edu. Barnard College. Retrieved 9 September 2014.
  10. ↑ "Educational Complex: John Miller on Mike Kelley". www.moca.org. MOCA. Retrieved 10 September 2014.
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