John Miller (Art History professor)

John Miller
John Miller, Now We're Big Potatoes (1992)
Born	1954 (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 work	Middle of the Day series
Movement	Abject art
Awards	Wolfgang 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. He is currently Professor of Professional Practice in Art History at Barnard College

Miller has had several solo museum exhibitions, most recently 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." Other solo museum exhibitions include one at the Museum Ludwig Cologne (2011) in conjunction with his being awarded the Wolfgang Hahn Prize, a mid career retrospective at the Kunsthalle Zürich (2009), the Kunstverein in Hamburg (1999),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."

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, Pittsburgh; Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, as well as private collections and foundations like the Rubell Family Collection in Miami, Sammlung Ringier, Switzerland, Sammlung Schürmann, Aachen / Berlin and the in Hamburg.