Known for her evocative videos and multimedia installations, California-based artist and filmmaker Nicole Miller frequently addresses themes such as race, translation, and the politics of representation. Notions of embodiment and articulation are common threads throughout Miller’s work. In recent years, a core aspect of her practice has involved collaborating with young people, especially youth of color. Her video installations examine how societal pressures and the violence of racism condition the experience of growing up in the United States, including how youth are perceived.
Her work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions internationally. Selected solo exhibitions include Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis (2022); SFMoMA, San Francisco (2019); The High Line, New York (2014); KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2014); Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneve (2014); Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2013); and LAXART, Los Angeles (2009). Miller has received numerous prestigious awards, including the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Award (2018), Rome Prize (2016), William H. Johnson Prize (2015), Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant (2013), Artadia Award (2013), and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Biennial Award (2011), among others. She is an associate professor in the department of visual arts at University of California, San Diego.
Selected Works
Nicole Miller
I’m Afraid, 2020
Synthesizer generated RGB laser animation
dimensions variable
Nicole Miller
A Signal, 2022
Synthesizer generated RGB laser animation
dimensions variable
Nicole Miller
Nicole Miller, Athens, California 2016
multi channel video installation
Nicole Miller
For Now, 2018
Synthesizer generated RGB laser animation
dimensions variable
Nicole Miller
Pino, 2018
video, 14.20 min
Nicole Miller
To the Stars, 2019
single channel HD video with laser animation, dimensions variable, 56.27 min
Nicole Miller
Michael in Black, 2018
bronze cast of Michael Jackson’s kneeling figure, poured from a mold made directly from his body around 1986, black patinated bronze
107 × 40 × 56 cm
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External Exhibitions
Solo Exhibition
A Sound, a Signal, the Circus | Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, St. Louis
25.03.–25.06.2022
Solo Exhibition
To the Stars | Midway Contemporary, Minneapolis
07.10.–14.11.2020
Solo Exhibition
Athens, California | CAAM California African American Museum, Los Angeles
14.03.–09.09.2018