Keith Miller

Updated December 2012

keith2miller@gmail.com

 

 

 

Education

 

 

2001

MFA, Stony Brook University; Stony Brook, NY

 

 

Full tuition scholarship

 

 

Graduate Certificate in Art and Philosophy, Stony Brook University; Stony Brook, NY

 

1988

BFA, State University of New York (SUNY), College at Purchase; Purchase, NY

 

 

 

 

Solo Exhibitions

 

2006

Paintings, Trinity Galleryl Atlanta, GA

 

2004

Fights and Dances, Great Neck Arts Center; Great Neck, NY

 

2003

Trees and Landscapes, Object Image Gallery; Brooklyn, NY

 

2002

Small Paintings, Spoke the Hub Cultural Center; Brooklyn, NY

 

 

New York Mills Regional Cultural Center; NY Mills, Minnesota

 

2000

Confessions, Melville Gallery; Stony Brook, NY

 

 

Paintings, Melville Gallery; Stony Brook, NY

 

1999

Hurricane Mitch Photo Project, Union Gallery; Stony Brook, NY

 

1998

Galería Frida Kahlo; Mexico, D.F.

 

 

Galería Biblioteca Universidad Iberoamericana; Puebla, Mexico

 

1996

Casa de la Cultura; Cholula, Mexico

 

 

Galería La Obra; Puebla, Mexico

 

1995

Casa de la Cultura; Puebla, Mexico

 

 

 

 

Group Exhibitions

 

2011

Featuring all, Chace Randall Gallery Gallery, Andes, NY

 
 

Marie L. Matthews Gallery, Princeton, NJ

 

2009

Trees, Omni Gallery, Uniondale, NY

 

2006

Faculty show,  Hillwood Museum, C.W. Post; Brookville, NY

 

2005

Melbourne vs, New York, Kaleide Theater; Melbourne, Australia

 

2004

Faculty Show, Hillwood Museum, C.W. Post; Brookville, NY

 

 

Anderson Center; Red Wing, MN

 

2003

Object Image Gallery; Brooklyn, NY

 

 

Faculty Show, Hillwood Museum, C.W. Post; Brookville, NY

 

 

Gallery North; Setauket, NY

 

2002

Faculty Show, Hillwood Museum, C.W. Post; Brookville, NY

 

2001

MFA Thesis Show, Staller Center for the Arts; Stony Brook, NY

 

 

The Other Self, Curator, Gallery North; Setauket, NY

 

1999

CAA Annual MFA Show, Hunter College; New York, NY

 

1998

MFA Group Show, Melville Gallery; Stony Brook, NY

 

1997

Galería Kin; Mexico, D.F.

 

 

 

 

Professional Experience

 

2009-Present

Curator

The Gallatin Galleries, NYU (Gallatin School for Individualized Study); New York, NY

2008- Present

Adjunct Lecturer

Marymount Manhattan College; New York, NY

2006-Present

Adjunct Lecturer

New York University (Gallatin School for Individualized Study); New York, NY

2004-2006

Adjunct Lecturer

New School University; New York, NY

2001- 2008

Adjunct Instructor

Long Island University, C.W. Post; Brookville, NY

2002-2009

Interim Director

Stony Brook University; Stony Brook, NY

 

Curator

Stony Brook University; Stony Brook, NY

2002

Instructor

Columbia University Summer High School Program; NYC

 

Independent Curator

Museum of Long Island; Stony Brook, NY

 

Instructor

Spoke the Hub Cultural Center; Brooklyn, NY

2001

Adjunct Lecturer

SUNY College at Purchase; Purchase, NY

2000 - 2001

Adjunct Instructor

Suffolk County Community College; Selden, NY

 

Adjunct Instructor

Stony Brook University; Stony Brook, NY

 

Sculpture Technician

Stony Brook University; Stony Brook, NY

 

Contributor

Replica21 (In Spanish); Mexico City, D.F.

1999

Instructor

Stony Brook University; Stony Brook, NY

1998

Contributor

Artvance (In Spanish); Mexico City, D.F.

1997-2002

Contributor

Art Papers; Atlanta, GA

1996-1998

Weekly columnist

La Jornada de Oriente (In Spanish); Puebla, Mexico

1996-1998

Weekly columnist

Síntesis (In Spanish); Puebla, Mexico

 

 

 

Studio Courses Taught

 

2011

First Person, Present Tense: Video Production

New York University (Gallatin School for Individualized Study); New York, NY

2009 - 2011

Theory to Practice

New York University (Gallatin School for Individualized Study); New York, NY

2006

Renaissance Studio

(New School University)

 

Direct Painting in Oil

(New School University)

2001-2004

Figure Drawing

(Spoke the Hub Cultural Center)

2001

Intro to Drawing

(Suffolk County Community College)

2000

Foundation Drawing

(Stony Brook University)

 

Intro to Sculpture (T.A.)

(Stony Brook University)

1999

Foundation Painting

(Stony Brook University)

 

 

 

History and Theory Courses Taught

 

2006- Present

Thinking About Seeing

(New York University, Gallatin School)

2006-2009

Critical Approaches to Photography

(New York University, Gallatin School)

2005

Renaissance to Modern Art

(Long Island University)

2004

Realism and Contemporary Art

(New School University)

2002- Present

Modern Art (1850-1970)

(Long Island University)

 

Intro to the Arts

(Long Island University)

 

Contemporary Art (1945-2000)

(Long Island University)

 

History of Visual Communication

(Long Island University)

2002

Critical Reading and Study Skills

(Columbia University)

2001

Media, Society and the Arts

(SUNY, College at Purchase)

 

Visual/Social Analysis: Video Documentary

(SUNY, College at Purchase)

 

Modern Art

(Suffolk County Community College)

2000

Intro to the Western Humanities/ Art Section

(Suffolk County Community College)

 

 

 

Publications

 

 

2009

Moving Money: Art, capital and thedematerialization of value. Catalog Essay

 

2007

No more is known: Anonymity and the murders of women in Ciudad Juarez

 

 

Artslant.com; Reviews and Interviews

 

 

Me, Myself and Mao: Myth and the paintings of Yin Zhaoyang; Catalog Essay

 

 

Dust and Silence: Ji Hyun Seo: Catalog Essay

 

2005

This dream, America, Catalogue essay

 

 

Say it LOUD! Catalog essay

 

2004

Marriage, Catalog essay (with Tara Burk)

 

 

This is for Real: War and the Contemporary Audience, Catalog essay

 

2003

Noun/Verb, Catalog essay

 

 

Face to Face: 200 Years of Figurative Art on Long Island, Catalog essay

 

2002

Art Papers: Narrative Dress: Shirin Neshat and Legally Blonde˛

 

 

The objective landscape (web catalog)

 

2001

Art Papers Review of several art exhibits

 

 

Art Criticism : Journalistic criticism: Popular entertainment or Populist critique?˛

 

 

Replica21: Postal desde Nueva York˛ (In Spanish)

 

 

The Other Self (web catalog)

 

1999

Art Papers Review of several art exhibits

 

 

Artvance: Martín Ramirez (In Spanish); Review of several art exhibits

 

 

The Statesman Review of several exhibition and cultural events

 

1998

Art/Text: Ridiculum vitae

 

 

Art Papers Review of several art exhibits

 

 

El Síntesis Weekly column on culture and the Arts (In Spanish)

 

1997

La Jornada de Oriente Weekly column on culture and the Arts (In Spanish)

 

 

 

 

Curatorial Projects

 

2011

Where I am now, The Gallatin Galleries, NYU

December 2011

This is what democracy looks like, The Gallatin Galleries, NYU

October 2011

  Haiti in the collective imagination, The Gallatin Galleries, NYU March 2011
2010-11 Disposable: Ciudad Juarez and the War on Women, The Hat Gallery, Valencia Spain July 2011
  Disposable: Ciudad Juarez and the War on Women, The Gallatin Galleries, October 2010
2009 Finding work: Labor in contemporary art, The Gallatin Galleries, NYU October 2009

 

Moving money: Art, Capital and the Dematerialization of Value; The Gallatin Galleries, NYU

March 2009

2008

Moving money: Art, Capital and the Dematerialization of Value

November 2008 - February 2009

  450 WOMEN HAVE BEEN MURDERED IN CIUDAD JUAREZ  

2008

Picturing America; SAC Gallery, Stony Brook University; Stony Brook, NY 

October 2008

2007

450 WOMEN HAVE BEEN MURDERED IN CIUDAD JUAREZ

 

 

                       SAC Gallery, Stony Brook University; Stony Brook, NY                                   

October 2007

 

ŇReparations,Ó SAC Gallery, Stony Brook University; Stony Brook, NY                             

February 2007

2006

Watch This: When Art and TV Collide

 

 

                       SAC Gallery, Stony Brook University; Stony Brook, NY                                   

December 2006

2005

Revisioning Nature, SAC Gallery, Stony Brook University; Stony Brook, NY

October 2005

 

This dream, America, Art League of Long Island; Dix Hills, NY

April 2005

 

Say it LOUD!, Nikki S. Lee & Iona Rozeal Brown, A Hip Hop Conversation

 

 

                       SAC Gallery, Stony Brook University; Stony Brook, NY

February 2005

 

Leonda Finke: 40 Years, SAC Gallery, Stony Brook University; Stony Brook, NY  

September 2005

 

                       SAC Gallery, Stony Brook University; Stony Brook, NY

February 2005

2004

Marriage, with Tara Burk, SAC Gallery,

November 2004

 

                       Stony Brook University; Stony Brook, NY

 

 

Cinco: Five Latin American Women, SAC Gallery,

September 2004

 

                       Stony Brook University; Stony Brook, NY

 

 

Drawing Conclusions, Islip Museum of Art; Islip, NY

June 2004

 

Transitional spaces, SAC Gallery, Stony Brook University; Stony Brook, NY

May 2004

 

This is for Real: War and the Contemporary Audience, with L. Alex Couri

March 2004

 

                       SAC Gallery, Stony Brook University; Stony Brook, NY

 

 

Brett Cook Dizney, SAC Gallery, Stony Brook University; Stony Brook, NY

February 2004

2003

Face to Face: 200 Years of Figurative art on Long Island

Summer 2003

 

                       Long Island Museum; Stony Brook, NY

 

 

Threadbare: Subversive Aesthetics, SAC Gallery,

 

 

                       Stony Brook University; Stony Brook, NY

March 2003

 

[Blank]: In pursuit of an American History, with Stephanie Dinkins,

 

 

                       SAC Gallery, Stony Brook University; Stony Brook, NY

February 2003

 

Noun/Verb, Hillwood Museum, Long Island University

October 2003

2002

Before and After, SAC Gallery, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY

September 2002

 

The Objective Landscape, Gallery North; Setauket, NY

March 2002

 

The Other Self, Gallery North, Setauket; NY

March 2001

 

 

 

Selected Conferences

 

2011

#Occupytheory, with Nick Mirzoeff, Stephen Duncombe and SaadiaToor

November 2011

 

Symposium of Curatorial inteventions, Organized by Lisette Olivares

Novembr 2011

2010 Canary in a coal mine: The war on Women in Ciudad Juarez and the new Drug War October 2010

2007

The Murders of Women in Ciudad Juarez; SAC Gallery

October 2007

 

Keith Miller, Paintings; Heckscher Museum of Art; Hicksville, NY

April 2007

 

Reparations; SAC Gallery

February 2007

2004

Marriage, SAC Gallery

November 2004

 

Is this for Real?: TodayŐs War SAC Gallery

March 2004

2003

On being and acting: Noun/Verb; Hillwood Art Museum

October 2003

2002

The Objective Landscape: A History" Gallery North

March 2002

2000

Realism: Gustave Courbet to Jerry Springer

November 2000

 

                       Northeast Popular Culture Assn. Conference

 

1999

The Hurricane Mitch Photo Project;  Stony Brook University

November 1999

 

Kitsch and the Body: Plastic Surgery and Body Manipulation˛

March 1999

 

                       Graduate Student Conference, Stony Brook University

 

1996

A brief history of the Still Life (In Spanish);

April 1996

 

                      Universidad Autonoma de Puebla, Mexico

 

 

 

 

Selected Bibliography

 

2002

"Looking at the World." Goble, Kristin; Times Beacon Record

3/28/02

2001

"The Other Self." Harrison, Helen; The New York Times

1/28/01

 

"The Other Self." Bridson, Susan; L. I. Week

1/01

1999

"Weathering the Storm." Chan; Kitty; The Statesman

4/4/99

1998

"Obra de Keith Miller." Ramírez, Domingo; El Universal

4/14/98

1997

"Art transplant." Wright, Anthony; Mexico City Times

5/19/97

 

"Keith Miller." Domínguez, Amelia; Síntesis 

1/3/97

 

 

 

Residencies, Awards

 

2008

Artist-in-Residence, Emily Harvey Foundation; Venice, Italy

 

2004

Artist-in-Residence, Anderson Arts Center, Minnesota

 

2003

Artist-in-Residence, St. MichaelŐs College, Vermont

 

2002

Artist-in-Residence, New York Mills Regional Cultural Center, Minnesota

 

2001

Artist-in-Residence, I-Park, Connecticut

 

1998-2001

Full tuition scholarship, Stony Brook University