Adam Miller

Born 1979 in Oregon, USA
Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York

Born in Oregon in 1979 Adam Miller is known for large-scale, multi-figure paintings dealing with myth, politics and human drama. His painting ventures into the scale and complexity of European Mannerism while updating the subjects to tell stories of contemporary life. He studied in Florence Italy with Michael John Angel and in New York with Nelson Shanks. Miller has exhibited at The Musee national des Beaux-arts du Quebec, The McCord Museum, The Mesa Contemporary Museum.

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Education

Florence Academy of Art, Florence, Italy

Apprenticeship to Allen Jones

 

Shows

2023

The Loves of the Gods, Solo Exhibition, Gallery Poulsen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Gallery Poulsen 20, Gallery Poulsen, Copenhagen, Denmark

2022

Art Miami 2022, Gallery Poulsen, Miami, FL

Lost in Translation – New Art From New York and Other Places part XIII, Gallery Poulsen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Art Herning 2022, Gallery Poulsen, Denmark

Gallery Poulsen’s Winter Salon, Gallery Poulsen, Copenhagen, Denmark

 

2021

New World Disorder, Gallery Poulsen, Copenhagen, Denmark

 

2020:

Apocalypse Now, Gallery Poulsen, Denmark

The Fall of Troy, Utica College, Utica NY

Drawings for an Allegory of Life, Utica College, Utica, NY

 

2019:

All Doors are not the same, Booth Gallery, New York, NY

Painting the Figure Now, Wausau Museum of Contemporary art Wausau, WI

Go Wild, Gormleys fine Art, Dublin and Belfast

 

2018:

Nocturne, Booth Gallery, New York, NY

Drawing Show, Florence Academy of Art

Drawing Show, Dacia Gallery, New York, NY

 

2017

McCord Museum, Montreal Canada

Musee National Des Beaux-Arts Du Quebec, Quebec City, Canada

Solace, Booth Gallery New York

 

2016

“Fourth Wall” – Group Show, Booth Gallery, NY

2015

Art Hamptons, RJD Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY

Looking Forward into the Past, RJD Gallery, Bridge Hampton, NY

Salon De Junio, Machala, Ecuador

 

2014

Behind Narrative, One Art Space, New York, NY

Twilight in Arcadia, Copro Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

 

2013

Vered Contemporary collectors choice

East Hampton NY

Scope Miami, Copro Gallery

6×9, National Arts Club, New York, NY

Beyond Eden, Los Angeles Municipal Gallery, Hollywood , CA

20th Anniversary Show, Copro Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

Messin With the Master, Mesa Contemporary Museum, Mesa, AZ

Art MRKT Hamptons, Vered Gallery, Bridge Hampton, NY

Art on the Edge, Vered Gallery, East Hampton, NY

Far From Utopia, Solo Show, National Arts Club, New York, NY

Nocturnes, National Arts Club

 

2012

Winter Show, Galerie L’Oeil du Prince, Paris, France

Converge, 25 CPW Gallery, New York, NY

Among the Ruins, Solo Show, Copro Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

 

2011

Dark Water, Copro Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

Spring Show, Falcon Art Community, Portland, OR

Introducing, Slag Gallery, New York, NY

 

2010

Chelsea Art Museum, Young Associates Show, New York, NY

Mighty Tanaka Presents: Elegant Discord, Brooklyn, NY

Mosquito Hawk Gallery, Solo Show, Shelter Island, NY

Art Hamptons, Gitana Rosa Gallery, Bridge Hampton, NY

AAF Art Fair, New York, NY

Verge Art Fair, Mighty Tanaka Presents, New York, NY

Gitana Rosa Gallery, Hung Show,Brooklyn, NY

Grand Prize, Artist’s Magazine, All media competition

Corpus Hermeticum, at The Great Nude Invitational, New York, NY

C2 Gallery, Patchogue, NY

 

2009

Hybridism, Mighty Tanaka Presents, New York, NY

Carnival, Gitana Rosa Gallery, New York, NY

One man show, Gallery Molinar, Tiburon, CA

One man show, The Art Bar, Tiburon, CA

Best of Show, Le Nouveau Baroque, Galerie Joelle, Paris, France

The Metamorphosis Project, Art Space, Richmond, VA

 

Bibliography

McGill university press

Globe and Mail

CBC

McCleans

Brooklyn Rail

Juxtapose

Radio Canada

Montreal Gazette

La presse

La Devoir

La Soleil

Quillette

69 Magazine

American Arts Quarterly

High Fructose

Wall Street Journal

East Hampton Star

Fine Art Connoisseur

Artist’s Magazine

American Artist Magazine

American Art Collector

Informed Collector

Brooklyn Eagle

Lake Oswego Gaurdian

 

Selected links:

https://www.klassikmagazine.com/adam-miller-master-in-any-era-mythology-and-humanism-from-oregon-lives-and-works-in-brooklyn-ny/

https://consent.yahoo.com/v2/collectConsent?sessionId=3_cc-session_2d24d690-79e4-4795-86ec-113707e2af3d

https://montrealgazette.com/news/quebec/decoding-quebec-by-adam-miller-whos-in-the-oil-painting

https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/new-york-artists-masterpiece-depicts-quebecs-shaping-of-canada

https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/magazine/adam-miller-a-painter-of-contemporary-epics/

https://steemit.com/art/@jameszenartist/an-artist-s-post-of-appreciation-and-inspiration-the-paintings-of-adam-miller

The Artist Adam Miller