Nicole Miller
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.
Nicole Miller (b. 1982, Tucson) lives and works in Los Angeles. 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.
Exhibitions at carlier | gebauer
Biography
Texts
- Awardee Spotlight: A Dialogue with Nicole Miller. Artadia, 2023
- Eileen G’Sell: Nicole Miller Bears Witness Through Sound. Hyperallergic, 2022
- Kate Sutton: Michael in Black. Bookforum, 2022
- Zoé Samudzi: Nicole Miller’s New Film Compares African American Resilience to the Bodily Fortitude of Astronauts. Art in America, 2019
Publications
Nicole Miller
Michael in Black
Edited with introduction by Lauren Mackler and Nicole Miller.
Text and image contributions by Jared Sexton, Hannah Black, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Greg Tate, Ocean Vuong, Negar Azimi, Anna Deavere Smith, Nikita Gale, Kazu Hiro, Ligia Lewis, Jasper Marsalis. Interview with Bradford Young, Nicole Miller, Dr. Yvonne Cagle, Alonzo King.
co-published by CARA and Public Fiction, 2022