John Miller (American artist)

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John Miller

John Miller, Now We're Big Potatoes (1992)

Born

1954
Cleveland, Ohio

Nationality

American

Education

1979 California Institute of the Arts, M.F.A

Known for

contemporary art, painting,sculpture, photography, and video art.

Notable

Middle of the Day series

work(s)

Movement

Abject art

Awards

Wolfgang Hahn Prize (2011); Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (D.A.A.D.)

Berliner Kunstlerprogramm, Berlin Residency (1991)

John Miller (full name John Eldon Miller, Artist, Writer and Professor of Professional Practice, Art History Department, Barnard College)

[1]

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.
fromCalifornia Institute of the Arts in 1979.
Contents
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1 Exhibitions
2 Collections
3 Galleries
4 Awards and honors
5 Writing

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5.1 Books
5.2 Catalogs
5.3 Publications
6 References
7 External links

Exhibitions[edit]
Miller has had solo exhibitions at the Museum Ludwig Cologne (2011) in conjunction with his being awarded the Wolfgang Hahn Prize, [2] a
mid career retrospective at the Kunsthalle Zrich (2009),[3] the Kunstverein in Hamburg (1999), [4] Le Magasin in Grenoble (1999), andMoMA
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.[5] In 2014, his artwork was included in the Hayward Gallerys exhibition, The Human Factor: the Figure in Contemporary
Sculpture.

Collections[edit]
Miller's work is in the collections of institutions including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Whitney Museum of American
Art, New York; the Carnegie Museum of Art,[6] Pittsburgh; Museum Ludwig, Cologne,Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Museum of
Contemporary Art, North Miami, as well as foundations like the Rubell Family Collection in Miami and the Sammlung Falkenberg in
Hamburg.

Galleries[edit]
Metro Pictures Gallery, New York
Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris
Galerie Nagel-Draxler, Cologne
Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin
Meyer Riegger Galerie, Karlsruhe
Campoli Presti, London

Awards and honors[edit]

In 2011, Miller received the Wolfgang Hahn Prize from the Society for Contemporary Art at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne.[7] In 1991, he
received a Fellowship from the Berliner Kunstlerprogramm, German Academic Exchange Service (D.A.A.D.).

Writing[edit]
Books[edit]
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-Ringer and the Consortium recently published a collection of his criticism titled The Ruin of Exchange: Selected Writings 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 will publish his study Mike Kelley: Educational Complex as part of its One Work series. John Miller and artist Mike
Kelley met as graduate students at the California Institute of the Arts. [8]

Catalogs[edit]
A Refusal to Accept Limits. Zrich, Switzerland: Kunsthalle Zrich and JRP/Ringier Kunstverlag AG, 2010, curated by Beatrix Ruf with texts
by Alexander Alberro and Nora Alter, Branden W. Joseph and Jutta Koether.
Shooting Log. Brussels: MFC- Michle Didier, 2009.
Regift. New York: Swiss Institute, 2009 curated by John Miller with texts by John Miller, Nic Guagnini, and Joshua Decter.
Between Artists: Maria Eichhorn/ John Miller. New York: A.R.T. Press, 2008.
Consolation Prize: Mike Kelley and John Miller. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2001 with texts by Roy Arden, Mike Kelley
and John Miller.
Economies Paralleles/Parallel Economies. Grenoble: Le Magasin, 1999, curated by Yves Aupettitalot and Lionel Bovier with texts by Yves
Aupettitalot, Lionel Bovier, Mike Kelley, John Miller, Robert Nickas and Nancy Spector.
White Studies: Richard Hoeck & John Miller. Vienna: Kunsthalle Wien, 1998 with texts by Gerald Matt, Lucas Gehrmann, and Andreas
Spiegl.
A Trail of Ambiguous Picture Postcards. Kyoto: Korinsha Press /CCA Kitakyushu, Japan, 1997.
Rock Sucks/Disko Sucks. Berlin: daadgalerie, 1992, texts by Dennis Cooper, Isabelle Graw and Nancy Spector.
Text. New York: Artist Book, self-published, 1980.
Cinematic Moments. New York: Artist Book, self-published, 1979.
Take It or Leave It: Institution, Image, Ideology. New York and London: Prestel in association with the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2014
with texts by Anne Ellegood and Johanna Burton et al.
American Exuberance. Miami: Rubell Family Collection, 2011, with texts by Kathryn Andrews, Frank Benson, John Miller, Richard Prince et
al.
Manifest-O. Brooklyn: New York: Concrete Utopia, 2010, curated by Melanie Kress and Rosie DuPont with foreword by Melanie Kress.
Middle Man. New York: Threes Company, 2010, curated by Alex Gartenfeld and Piper Marshall with texts by the curators and Dan Graham,
Nicols Guagnini and John Miller.
Mapping. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1994, curated and text by Robert Storr.

Publications[edit]
Now Even the Pigsre Groovin, Dan Graham: Works, 1965-2000, Dsseldorf: Richter Verlag;republished in Frires amricanes, Vincent
Pcoil, ed. and trans., Dijon: les presses du reel; Dan Graham: October Files, Alex Kitnick, ed., Cambridge, Massachusetts: the MIT Press.
Art Schools, the Internet and the Violin Playing Mermaids: a Conversation between John Miller and Tony Conrad, Mousse Contemporary
Art Magazine, No. 28, AprilMay, 2011: 48-61.
Painting, Object, Theater, Monika Baer, (Kln: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Knig, 2011).
POP RIGHT NOW: Roundtable with Bettina Funcke, Massimiliano Gioni, John Miller, moderated by Joanna Fiduccia, with a postscript by
Boris Groys, and artworks by Darren Bader, Kaleidoscope, No.11 (Summer 2011): pp. 93-105.
Tomorrow Is the Question: John Miller on the Art of Ilene Segalove, Artforum, Vol. 50, No. 2 (October 2011): pp. 26267.
Mike Kelley - From My Institution to Yours: a Personal Remembrance, art agenda, February, 2012.
No, Angela Bulloch (Rotterdam: Witte de Witte Center for Contemporary Art, 2012).
The Universal Solvent, Jim Shaw - Left Behind: Essays, edited by Charlotte Laubard and Jim Shaw (Bordeaux: les presses du rel
andCAPC muse d'art contemperain de Bordeaux).

References[edit]
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Jump up^ "John Miller: Barnard College". www.barnard.edu. Barnard College. Retrieved 9 September 2014.
Jump up^ "A Special Award". Gesellschaft fr Moderne Kunst am Museum Ludwig, Koln. GMK Koln. Retrieved 23
November 2014.
Jump up^ "JOHN MILLER 16 AUGUST 15 NOVEMBER 2009". www.kunsthallezurich.ch. Kunsthalle Zurich. Retrieved 9
September 2014.
Jump up^ "Parallel Economies: John Miller". www.kunstverein.de. Kunstverein in Hamburg. Retrieved 9 September 2014.
Jump up^ "Gwanju Biennale". www.wikipedia.org. Wikipedia. Retrieved 9 September 2014.
Jump up^ "Town and Country". http://www.cmoa.org/. Carnegie Museum of Art. Retrieved 10 September 2014.
Jump up^ "Prof. John Miller awarded the 2011 Wolfgang Hahn Prize". www.barnard.edu. Barnard College. Retrieved 9
September 2014.
Jump up^ "Educational Complex: John Miller on Mike Kelley". www.moca.org. MOCA. Retrieved 10 September 2014.

External links[edit]

http://www.metropicturesgallery.com/artists/john-miller/
http://lownoon.com/
http://www.galeriebarbaraweiss.de/index.php?w=aw&id=18
http://nagel-draxler.de/artists/john-miller/
http://www.praz-delavallade.com/
http://www.meyer-riegger.de/en/
http://www.campolipresti.com/john-miller-@/artists.html?artist=7&page=images
http://artonline.jp/personals/index.html

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1954 births

Living people

American contemporary artists

California Institute of the Arts alumni

Artists from Cleveland, Ohio

American installation artists

20th-century American painters

21st-century American painters

Conceptual photographers

American photographers

Video artists

Postmodern artists

20th-century American sculptors

21st-century American sculptors

Rhode Island School of Design alumni

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