John Miller Installation View; 1990
John Miller Installation View; 1990
Left: My Body Stunk But I Kept My Funk, 1989 Acrylic-paint, modelling clay on canvas, mirror, ø 127 cm x 2 cm; Right: My Friend; 1989, dummy, coloured clothes, acrylic-paint, 183 x 51 x 20 cm
John Miller, My Body Stunk But I Kept My Funk, 1989
Acrylic-paint, modelling clay on canvas, mirror, ø 127 cm x 2 cm
John Miller Installation View; 1990
Left: World Without End; 1989 Papier-mâché, plaster, plastic figures, acrylic-paint, ø 91 cm; Right: Untitled (in 7 parts); 1988, wood, papier-mâché, modelling clay, plaster, acrylic-paint, 9 x 61 x 122 cm (each)
John Miller Untitled; 1989
Modelling-paste, plastic-figures, acrylic paint on canvas, 162 x 122 cm (each)
John Miller Untitled; 1989
Mirror, acrylic-paint, 160 x 122 cm (each)
John Miller Property Values II (8 pieces); 1989
Papier-mâché, plaster, foam-material, plastic-modells, acrylic-paint, 122 x 15 x 15 cm each
John Miller, Property Values, 1989
Detail
John Miller, Property Values II, 1989
Detail
John Miller; 1990
John Miller Untitled (5 drawings); 1988/89
Graphite on paper, framed, small sizes
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12.01.1990 - 10.02.1990
1954
born in Cleveland, Ohio
lives and works in New York and Berlin
solo exhibitions (selected)
2013
Subjective Monuments, Marc Jancou Contemporary, Genf
John Miller, Meyer Riegger, Karlsruhe
2012
New Realities, Patrick Painter Gallery, Los Angeles
The Petrified Forest, Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris
Suburban Past Time, Metro Pictures, New York
2011
Wolfgang Hahn Preis KÖLN, Museum Ludwig, Köln
2010
A Holiday in Other People’s Misery, Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne
The Totality of Everything That Actually Exists, Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin
Dan Graham, John Miller, Christine Mayer, Munich
The Grotesque (with Richard Hoeck), Galerie Johann Widauer, Innsbruck
2009
Kunsthalle Zürich, Switzerland
The Natural Order, Patrick Painter Gallery, Los Angeles
2008
Is that all there is?, Sutton Lane, Paris
Meyer Riegger, Karlsruhe
John Miller/Jutta Koether: Music Performance, NBK, Berlin
2007
The Office Party and the Communist Party, Schürmann, Berlin
Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris
2006
Something for Everyone (with Richard Hoeck), Jeffrey Charles / Henry Peacock, London
Metro Pictures Gallery, New York
2005
Something for Everyone (with Richard Hoeck), Engholm Engelhorn Galerie, Vienna; Galerie Hans Widauer, Innsbruck; cable tv broadcast (CAC TV), Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, Lithuania
Plakat (poster project with Richard Hoeck), Kunstraum Innsbruck
The Middle of the Day, Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin
Praz-Delavallade, Paris
2004
Total Transparency, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
Everything Is Painted Brown, Metro Pictures Galelry, New York
Jeffrey Charles Gallery, London
2003
Ich (36/175/74), Meyer Riegger, Karlsruhe
A Mutually Beneficial Encounter, Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne
Everything Is You, Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris
2002
Screen Memories, Einstein Forum, Potsdam
2001
Deliveries in Rear, Kunst., Tiroler Sparkasse, Innsbruck
Double Date, Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin
2000
Consolation Prize (mit Mike Kelley), The Belkin Gallery; University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
1999
Parallel Economies, Le Magasin, Centre National d´Art Contemporain de Grenoble
Pillars of Salt, Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin
The Lugubrious Game, Meyer Riegger, Karlsruhe
Opposite Day, Metro Pictures Gallery, New York
Parallel Economies, Kunstverein Hamburg, Germany
1998
For the Good Times, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
Low Noon (mit Richard Hoeck), Galerie & Edition Artelier, Graz
White Studies (mit Richard Hoeck) Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
Alive with Pleasure (digital projections), Candy Factory, Yokohama, Japan
John Miller: Paintings and Sculptures, P.S. I, Long Island City, New York
1997
Hommage an Karl May, Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin
A Trail of Ambigious Picture Postcards, CCA Kitakyushu Project Gallery
1996
The Middle of the Day, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
The Middle of the Day, Kunstbüro im Museum für Literatur am Oberrhein, Karlsruhe
Field Manual for a Tautologie, Galerie Thomas Riegger, Karlsruhe
1995
The Middle of the Day, Metro Pictures Gallery, New York, Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin
Galerie Rizzo, Paris
1994
Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
1993
The Long March, the Narrow Road, Metro Pictures Gallery, New York
Art & Public, Genf
1992
Rock Sucks/Disko Sucks, daadgalerie, Berlin, CFA, Berlin
1990
Galerie Isabella Kacprzak, Cologne
…but the flesh is weak, Metro Pictures Gallery, New York
1988
Metro Pictures Gallery, New York
Galerie Sophia Ungers, Cologne
1987
American Fine Arts, New York
1982
White Columns, New York
Metro Pictures Gallery, New York
Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles
group exhibitions (selected)
2012
Flying, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
KEINE ZEIT, Erschöpftes Selbst/Entgrenztes Können , Österreichische Galerie Belverdere, 21er Haus, Vienna
Standard Operating Procedure, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
Shake and Bake, Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris
2011
Case Histories, Alex Zachary, New York
After Images, The Jewish Museum of Belgium, Brussels
Über die Metapher des Wachstums, Kunstverein Frankfurt
Freundschaft, Brandenburgischer Kunstverein, Potsdam, D
We Regret to Inform You There Is Currently No Space for Abstract Painting, Martos Gallery, New York
Kitakyushu Biennial, Kitakyushu, Japan
Carte Blanche – All of the Above, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
process time, Meyer Riegger, Berlin
2010
Sonic Youth etc.: Sensational Fix, Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, Spain; LiFE, Saint-Nazaire, France; Museion, Bolzano, Italy; Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden
Middle Man, Three’s Company, New York; Galerie Max Hans Daniels, Berlin
Nachleben, Goethe Institut, New York
Filmschönheit, Galerie Mezzanin, Vienna; Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne; Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
Mixed Use, Manhattan: Photography and Related Practices 1970s to the present, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
Larger Than Life, Stranger Than Fiction, 11th Triennale Kleinplastik Fellback, Stadt Fellback Kulturamt, Germany
Portugal Arte 10, Lisbon
Wait for Me at the Bottom of the Pool, Bridgehampton, New York
Gwanju Bienniale, Gwanju, Korea
Manifest-O, Concrete Utopia, Brooklyn, New York
bigminis, Le CAPC musée d´art contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
Tutti Frutti Summer Love, Hard Hat, Geneva
2009
Nimporte quoi, Musee d’art Contemporain, Lyon
Every Revolution is a Roll of the Dice, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Slough, David Nolan Gallery, New York
no comedy – no tragedy, no encore – no applause, Light Industry, Brooklyn, New York
Cave Painting, PSM Gallery, Berlin; Gresham’s Ghost, New York
Collection of…, White Columns, New York
The Audio Show, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
Frankenstein, Forde Espace dart contemporain, Geneva
Top 10 Allegories, Fancesca Pia Gallery, Zurich
Infinitesimal Eternity: Images Made in the Face of Spectacle, 32 Edgewood Avenue Gallery, Yale School of Art, New Haven, Connecticut
Amerikana, Realismus Studio der Neuen Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst (NGBK), Berlin, Germany
ZEIGEN. Eine Audiotour durch Berlin, Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin
Interim in Three Rounds: Round Two, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
2008
Bad Planet, Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Sculpture Trail, Grieder Contemporary, Küsnacht, Switzerland
Sonic Youth Etc.: Sensational Fix, LiFE, Lieu international des Formes Emergentes International Space for Emerging Arts, Saint-Nazaire France
Museion, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Bolzano, Italy
Tales of the Grotesque, Karma International, Zurich, Switzerland
Aurum, Centre PasquArt, Biel, Switzerland
Regroup Show, Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York
Shot Spot, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, Massachusetts
Power Structure, Andrew Roth Gallery, New York
Too Hot Not to Be Naked, Galerie Sassa Trülzsch, Berlin
The Skat Players, Vilma Gold, London
Paul Thek. Werkschau im Kontext zeitgenössischer Kunst, Sammlung Falckenberg, ZKM, Karlsruhe
Every Revolution is a Roll of the Dice, Ballroom Marfa, Marfa
2007
Zwischen zwei toden / between two deaths, ZKM Karlsruhe (with Jan Mancuska)
INTO ME OUT OF ME, MACRO, Rom
THE BONG SHOW or This Is Not a Pipe, Leslie Tonkonow, New York
The Gold Standard, PS1 MoMA, New York
2006
Dark Places, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, California
Periferic, Romania Biennial, Romania
Vincule a. Politicas de la Afectividad, Estiticas del Biopoder, Medialab Madrid
ALLE-GORY, Mandarin, Los Angeles
2005
Das neue Europa. Kultur des Vermischens und Politik der Repräsentation, Generali Foundation, Vienna
L`oeuvre en programme, Galerie Ilka Bree, Bordeaux
AUTOmobilise, Musee d`art contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux
Screening – Something for Everyone, Metro Pictures Gallery, New York
Kunst in Schokolade, Museum Ludwig, Imhoff-Stollwerck-Museum, Cologne
Living and Working in Vienna, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; Austrian Cultural Forum, New York
Roy Arden, Michael Krebber, John Miller, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
Orchard Gallery New York
Metro Pictures Gallery, New York
Private View, 1980-2000: Collection Pierre Huber, Musee cantonal des Beaux-Arts des Lausanne, Laussanne
When Humour Becomes Painful, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich
After All That Can Be Said, Galerie Kienzle & Gmeiner, Berlin
Experience de la duree, Biennale d`Art Contemporain de Lyon, Lyon
Alle-gory, Mandarin, Los Angeles, California
Talk to the Land, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
Superstars, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
Synthesis and Distribution: Experiments in Collaboration, Pace University Galleries, New York
Minimalist Kitsch & Visionäre Sammlung, Vol. 1, Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich
2004
Global Consulting, New York
The Middle of the Day, MAMCO, Geneva
Body Display: Performative Installation, Secession, Vienna
Before the End, Le Consortium, Dijon
Mike Kelley: the Uncanny, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool
Scream, IASPIS, Stockholm
Made in Berlin, Art Forum, Berlin
Writing, Images, Ideas: Walter Benjamin and the Art of Present Day, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin
Something for Everyone, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria
Channel 0, CATV Project, Akiyoshidai International Art Village, Yamaguchi
Untitled painting show, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
Last One on is a Soft Jimmy, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
2003
there is no land but the land(up there’s just a sea of possibilities), Meyer Riegger, Karlsruhe
Faking Real, Leroy Nieman Gallery, Columbia University, New York
Drawings, Metro Pictures Gallery, New York
Perfect Models, Galerie Remont, Belgrade, Serbia
Artists’ Gifts, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Candy Factory Projects: Boogie-Woogie Wonderland, Akiyoshidai International Art Village, Yamaguchi,Japan
They like them so long as they’re on a stage, (performance with Richard Hoeck), Transmitter Musikfestival,Hohenems, Vorarlberg, Austria
Sandwiched, Public Art Fund and the Wrong Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
3-2-1, Gallery M, New York
Jessica Stockholder: Table Top Sculpture, Gorney Bravin + Lee, New York
Art Focus 4, Jerusalem Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
2002
From the Observatory, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
The Empire Strikes Back, ATM Gallery, New York
Schuermann Sammlung, K21, Düsseldorf, Germany
2001
Homes for the Soul: Micro-architecture in Medieval and Contemporary Art, The Henry Moore Foundation, Leeds, England
Tele(visions): Kunst Sieht Fern, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
Superman in Bed, Das Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund
Trade, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland; travelled to Nederlands Foto Institut, Rotterdam,Holland
Ziviler Ungehorsam: Sammlung Falckenberg, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover
Drawings, Galerie Biedermann, Munich
John Miller, Fred Wilson, Pae White, Metro Pictures Gallery, New York
1999
Playtimes, Magasin-L´ecole, Centre National d´Art Contemporain de Grenoble
Wir leben zwischen Wänden, Kunstamt Kreuzberg / Bethanien, Berlin
Metro Pictures Gallery, New York
Bad Bad: That´s a Good Excuse, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany
Transmute, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Art in the Age of the Consumer: Works from the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Feldman Gallery, Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles
Le Capital, (Inscriptions, Tabeaux, Diagrammes & Bureau d´Etudes), Contemporary Art, CenterSète
Stadtluft. Der urbane Raum als Medium von Macht, Kunstverein, Hamburg
No Place To Hang Your Hat (mit Richard Hoeck), Kunstraum Johan Widauer, Innsbruck
Malerei, INIT Kunst-Halle Berlin
The Promise of Photography: Selection from the DG Bank Collection, P.S 1, New York
Get Together: Art as Teamwork, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
1998
Das Jahrhundert der künstlerischen Freiheit. 100 Jahre Secession, Secession, Vienna
Tell me a Story: Narration in Contemporary Paintings and Photography, Le Magasin, Centre National d´Art Contemporain de Grenoble
Raum Aktueller Kunst Martin Janda, Vienna
Figurative Sculptures, Patrick Painter Gallery, Los Angeles
Fast Forward: Trademarks, Kunstverein in Hamburg
Kunst ohne Unikat (mit Richard Hoeck), Steirischer Herbst, Neue Galerie Graz; Foundation Calouste Gulbenkian, Lissabon
Painting, Now and Forever, Pat Hearn Gallery, New York
Entropie zu Hause, Suermont Ludwig Museum, Aachen
Songs from a Room, Meyer Riegger, Karlsruhe
1997
Laying Low, Kunsternes Hus, Oslo
Artists and Photographs, (Bruce Naumann, Ed Ruscha, John Miller, Xavier Veilhan), Museum für Literatur am Oberrhein, Karlsruhe
Display, Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, Kopenhagen
Jeopardy, Richard Artschwager, John Miller, Forde, Genf
1996
Radikale Bilder, 2. Österreichische Triennale zur Photographie, Neue Galerie Graz
Artists and Photographs, (Bruce Naumann, Ed Ruscha, John Miller, Xavier Veilhan),Cabinet des estampes, Genf
L´Art du Plastique, Ecole National Supérieure des Beaux-arts, Paris
Art at the End of the 20th Century, Musée d´Art Conemporani, Barcelona
1995
Altered States, American Art in the 90s, Forum for Contemporary Art, St.Louis
Malerei in den 90er Jahren, Neue Galerie, Graz
1994
Mapping, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Suture, Phantasmen der Vollkommenheit, Salzburger Kunstverein, Austria
Das Jahrhunder des Mulitple, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
1993
The Abject: Repulsion and Desire in American Art, Whitney Museum,New York
Nachtschattengewächs, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel
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Balberro, Alexander (ed.), The Ruin of Exchange And Other Writings on Art, JRP-Ringier, Zurich and Les presses du réel, Dijon 2013.
XXX Macarena: Performance, Kunsthalle Zürich, 28. August 2009 (Jutta Koether, John Miller and Tony Conrad), 12″ vinyl record, 41:54 min., From the Nursery/Primary Information, New York 2010.
Selling Short: XXX Macarena (Jutta Koether and John Miller), Import series audio CD, MFC-Michèle Didier and Les Presses du Réel, Dijon 2009.
Shooting Log, MFC-Michèle Didier, Brussels 2009.
Between Artists: Maria Eichhorn/John Miller, New York: A.R.T. Press, New York 2008.
“493 KB,” Next Level: if…, No. 7 (Edition 1, Vol. 4), Bluesmodernist Ltd., London, 2005: pp. 112-115. (ill.)
Something for Everyone (DVD with Richard Hoeck), Hoeck-Miller-Riff Productions, Vienna 2005.
I’ve been listening to depressing music lately. Maybe because I’m depressed., Geneva: Cabinet des Estampes and Köln: Walther König Verlag, Cologne 2004.
Gibt´s mich wirklich, Vier Räume aus der Sammlung Schürmann, K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein- Westfalen, nach der gleichnamigen Ausstellung, Düsseldorf 2003.
Performative installation, Köln 2003.
Fatalism and Fun, Support Agentur, Berlin 2003.
Traces of Corporeality in the Ramble, (with Robert Nickas), Into the Abyss (Spring 2003), Powerhouse Books, New York pp. 20-25; republished in Bob Nickas, Theft Is Vision, JRP-Ringier & Les Presses du Réel, Zurich and Dijon, 2008, pp. 42-52.
John Miller. Trisha Donnelly, in: Artforum 2002.
John Miller. When down is up, ausgewählte Schriften 1987-1999, Revolver-Archiv für aktuelle Kunst, Frankfurt am Main 2001.
Wake-Up Time (with Takuji Kogo), Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen 2000.
…it looked comical: each house had a chimney rising into the sky, but nothing next to it, Cabinet des estampes, Geneva 2000.
The Price Club: Selected Writings, 1977-1996, JRP Editions, Geneva and Les presses du réel, Dijon 2000.
The Middle of the Day, Volume II, Köln 2000.
All you can eat, nach der gleichnamigen Ausstellung, Leipzig 2000.
Consolation Prize. Mike Kelly & John Miller, zur gleichnamigen Ausstellung, Columbia 2000.
John Miller. A trail of ambiguous picture postcards, Tokyo 1997.
Barbara Hess: Ein amerikanisches Trauerspiel, in Texte zur Kunst, Dez.99, S.224- 226.
John Miller. Economies/ Parallel Economies, nach der gleichnamigen Ausstellung, New York 1999.
A Trail of Ambiguous Picture Postcards, Korinsha Press, Kyoto and the Center for Contemporary Art, Kitakyushu 1997.
John Miller: Das Rebellischste, was wir je gemacht haben, war abends rumzulaufen und die Kühlerverzierungen von Luxuslimousinen abzureisen, in : Kunst- Bulletin, Mai 1996.
It was a beautiful day, in the seventies. I watched people on pogo sticks in the park, Cabinet des estampes, Geneva and Kunstbüro, Museum für Literatur am Oberrhein, Karlsruhe 1996.
“Art as Discourse,” Sprechen ¸ber Kunst, Oktagon Verlag, Stuttgart, compiled by Bernd G. Milla.
John Miller, Christina Frey, Photographien aus der Sammlung Allan Porter, Kunsthalle Pallazo, Basel 1994.
John Miller: Die Ware als Thema in der Country Music, in: Schattenlinien, Nr.8+9, 1994.
Mike Kelley und John Miller: too young to be happy – too old to be a punk, in: Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin, Berlin 1994.
Rock sucks, disco sucks, nach der gleichnamigen Ausstellung, Berlin 1992.
Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 1991, S.171-174.
The True Voice, Benjamin Weissman (ed.), Storytellers, vol. 1, Foundation for Art Resources (F.A.R.), Los Angeles 1986; excerpted in Ferro Botanica, no. 4, Steel Garden Press, Hoboken 1984, p. 59-70.
Cave Canem, Dan Walworth and John Miller (eds.), Cave Canem Books, New York 1982.
Contamination, Cave Canem Books, New York 1982; excerpted in Details, Musée de Grenoble, Grenoble 1981, self-published novella.
Real Life Magazine, New York, Spring-Summer 1982, p. 22-24 and Barney, Fred & Barney Press, no. 3, Los Angeles 1983, pp. 28-30.
Mixup, 45 rpm vinyl disc (face 1: Mixup, face 2: Hi Sheriffs of Blue), Tweet Records, New York 1981; excerpt face 1: Mixup included in Tellus, no. 7., audiocassette.
Cinematic Moments, New York: self-published.