dan miller

Born 1961, Castro Valley, California
Has practiced at Creative Growth since 1992

Dan Miller’s artwork is composed of overlays of words and imagery that often build to the point of abstraction. Each work contains a written record of Miller’s interests in hardware stores, lightbulbs, electrical sockets and familiar people, however only a few words are identified in its final stage. Miller was encouraged at an early age to write words and numbers in order to communicate. This became the primary influence on his artistic practice, transforming text into graphic elements, and employing an abstracted visual language as a tool of inquiry and expression.

Miller has had solo exhibitions at White Columns, Andrew Edlin Gallery, and Ricco Maresca Gallery in New York, and Diane Rosenstein Gallery in Los Angeles. His work was included in Venice Biennale in 2017, and has been included in exhibitions at the Berkeley Art Museum; The Museum of Everything, London; Gavin Brown’s enterprise, Rachel Uffner Gallery and Partners & Spade, New York; Gallery Paule Anglim, Jules Maeght and 836M in San Francisco; Nina Johnson Gallery, Miami; John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan; Galerie Christian Berst and ABCD, Paris. Miller’s work is included in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Centre Pompidou, the Folk Art Museum, the Berkeley Art Museum, the Mad Musée, and the Collection de l’Art Brut, Lausanne. Miller’s work is also included in the private collections of David Byrne, Cindy Sherman, Maurizio Cattelan, Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg, Thea Westreich and Ethan Wagner, Nicolas Rohatyn and Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn, Andy and Kate Spade, among many others.

La obra de arte de Dan Miller se compone de superposiciones obsesivas de palabras e imágenes que a menudo se construyen hasta el punto de la abstracción. Cada obra contiene un registro escrito de los intereses de Miller en ferreterías, focos, enchufes y personas conocidas, sin embargo solo se identifican unas pocas palabras en su etapa final. Miller se le enseñó a una edad temprana a escribir palabras y números para comunicarse. Esto se convirtió en la influencia principal en su práctica artística, transformando el texto en elementos gráficos y empleando un lenguaje visual abstracto como herramienta de investigación y expresión.

Miller ha realizado exposiciones individuales en White Columns, Galería Andrew Edlin y Galería Ricco Maresca en Nueva York, y Galería Diane Rosenstein en Los Ángeles. Su trabajo fue incluido en la Bienal de Venecia en 2017 y ha sido incluido en exposiciones en el Museo de Arte de Berkeley; El Museo de Todo, Londres; la empresa de Gavin Brown, Galería Rachel Uffner y Partners & Spade, Nueva York; Galería Paule Anglim, Jules Maeght y 836M en San Francisco; Galería Nina Johnson, Miami; Centro de Artes John Michael Kohler, Sheboygan; Galería Christian Berst y ABCD, París. El trabajo de Miller está incluido en las colecciones permanentes del Museo de Arte Americana Smithsoniano, el Museo de Arte Moderna de Nueva York, el Centre Pompidou, el Museo de Arte Folklórica, el Museo de Arte de Berkeley, el Mad Musée y la Collection de l'Art Brut. , Lausana. El trabajo de Miller también se incluye en las colecciones privadas de David Byrne, Cindy Sherman, Maurizio Cattelan, Martin y Rebecca Eisenberg, Thea Westreich y Ethan Wagner, Nicolas Rohatyn y Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn, Andy y Kate Spade, entre muchos otros.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2022
Dan Miller: Large Works, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York
To all the Kings who have no Crowns, Carl Freedman Gallery, Margate
Outsider Art Fair, New York
Lines of Thought, BAMPFA, Berkeley
Gesture of Lines, Tokyo Shibuya Koen-dori Gallery, Tokyo

2021
Outsider Art Fair, New York
Figure Out: Abstraction in Self-Taught Art, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York
4x8-bridges, online exhibition, 8-bridges
NADA, Miami
Vibrant, Nina Johnson Gallery, Miami
Can’t Beat California, Golestani Gallery, Düsseldorf
NADA, Miami

2020
Important Paintings and Textiles, solo exhibition, Diane Rosenstein Gallery, Los Angeles
NADA FAIR, online exhibition
Frieze, online exhibition, presented by Andrew Edlin
UNTITLED Art Fair, San Francisco, presented by Diane Rosenstein Gallery
Outsider Art Fair, New York
Felix Art Fair, Los Angeles
Monochromatic Minds, Jennifer Lauren Gallery, London
NADA, Miami
Art Paris, Paris
Art Brut Global, online exhibition, Outsider Art Fair
Outsider Art Fair, Paris
Six Decades Collecting Self-Taught Art, American Folk Art Museum, New York, curated by Emelie Gevalt and Valérie Rousseau
An Alternative Canon: Art Dealers Collecting Outsider Art, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, curated by Paul Laster

2019
The Creative Commons, ArtYard, Frenchtown
Outsider Art Fair, New York
Outsider Art Fair, Paris
a la prochaine, Jules Maeght Gallery, San Francisco
Art Paris, Paris
The Seven Year Itch, Diane Rosenstein Gallery, Los Angeles
Freize Art Fair, New York, presented by Andrew Edlin
Gifted: The Self-Taught Genius of Creative Growth, Nina Johnson Gallery, Miami, curated by Kim Hastreiter
CE x CG x NIAD, Minnesota Street Projects, San Francisco

2018
Outsider Art Fair, Paris
Art Gives Back, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco
NADA Art Fair, New York
NADA Art Fair, Miami
Dan Miller, solo exhibition, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York
Outsider Art Fair, New York
D’Dessin Art Fair, Paris
Dan Miller, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York

2017
Viva Arte Viva, 57th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, curated by Christine Macel
Vive l’Art: Dan Miller and Judith Scott, 836M, San Francisco
Outsider Art Fair, New York
Dan Miller: Recent Paintings, solo exhibition, Diane Rosenstein Gallery, Los Angeles
Everyday Visionaries, Target, New York
The Museum of Everything Presents, MONA, Australia
NADA Art Fair, Miami

2016
Duvel Moortgat Fund, Madmusée, Liège, Belgium
American Dream, Direct Art Gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany
Large Drawing, 836M, San Francisco
NADA Art Fair, Miami
Outsider Art Fair, Paris
Escape Routes, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, curated by Amy Chaloupka
Click, Diane Rosenstein Gallery, Los Angeles
Art Fair Tokyo, Tokyo
Art Osaka, Osaka
Signed & Numbered, Jules Maeght Gallery, San Francisco
The 2016 Wynn Newhouse Awards Exhibition, The Palitz Gallery at Syracuse
University Lubin House, New York
D’Dessin Paris Contemporary Drawing Fair, Paris
Celebrating a Vision: Art and Disability, SFO Museum, San Francisco
International Airport, San Francisco
World Made By Hand, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York
Outsider Art Fair, New York

2015
dRAW, Intuit Museum, Chicago, curated by Jan Petry
New Art Dealers Alliance Fair, Miami
Extra Celestial, Crosstown Arts, Memphis
Outsider Art Fair, Paris
Groupings, ParkLife Gallery, San Francisco
Outsider Art Fair, New York
D’Dessin Paris Contemporary Drawing Fair, Paris
Art Fair Tokyo, Tokyo
The Apartment, Vancouver

2014
Purple States, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, curated by Sam Gordon
Drawing Now Art Fair, Paris
Art Paris Art Fair, Galerie Christian Berst, Paris
Outsider Art Fair, New York
Outsider Art Fair, Paris
Graphein 2, Galerie Christian Berst, Paris
Mental Contours III. – Lines of Force, Artinbox Gallery, Prague
Creative Growth: Dan Miller, solo exhibition, Ricco Maresca Gallery, New York
New Art Dealers Alliance Fair, Miami
Mental Contours III.- Lines of Force, Artinbox Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic

2013
Graphein, solo exhibition, Galerie Christian Berst, Paris
Outsider Artists, Oakland Museum of California at the Oakland International Airport, curated by Philip Linhares
New Art Dealers Alliance Fair, Miami
Cutlog Art Fair, Paris
Cutlog Art Fair, New York
Outsider Art Fair, Paris
Undercover Genius, Petaluma Arts Center, Petaluma
Ten Years, Wallspace Gallery, New York
Dan Miller and Judith Scott: Creative Growth, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, curated by Matthew Higgs
Margins to Mainstream: Contemporary Artists with Disabilities, Sonoma County Museum, Santa Rosa
Drawing Now Art Fair, Paris
Creative Growth, Galerie Art Cru, Berlin
Creative Growth, Park Life Gallery, San Francisco
Outsider Art Fair, New York

2012
New Art Dealers Alliance Fair, Miami
Cutlog Art Fair, Paris
Outsider Art Fair, New York
Independent Art Fair, New York
Frieze Art Fair, New York
Drawing Now Art Fair, Paris
Graphein, Galerie Christian Berst, Paris
Creative Growth, Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, curated by Amie Scally
Inside Out, Galleri NordNorge, Harstad, Norway
Different and Special, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Korea
John Hiltunen +1, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, curated by Matthew Higgs

2011
Outsider Art Fair, New York
Create, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley
Exhibition #4, Museum of Everything, London
New Art Dealers Alliance Fair, Miami
Revealed, Galerie Drylewicz, Paris

2010
Outsider Art Fair, New York
Georg Jensen, New York
Large Drawings, Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York
Dan Miller Types and Draws, solo exhibitions, Yukiko Koide Presents, Tokyo
In the House, Madmusée, Liège, Belgium

2009
Dan Miller, solo exhibition, White Columns, New York
Creative Growth, Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin, curated by Matthew Higgs
Entre les Lignes: Paintings & Drawings by Naomie Kremer and Dan Miller, Galerie Impaire, Paris Partners & Spade, New York
Chromatic: 35 Colorful Years of Creative Growth, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco

2008
Glossolalia: Languages of Drawing, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Outsider Art Fair, New York
Communication Breakdown, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York
Communication Breakdown, Galerie Impaire, Paris
Intuit Fair of Folk and Outsider Art, Chicago

2007
Dan Miller, White Columns, New York
Creative Growth, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York
Creative Growth Art Center, abcd la galerie, Montreuil, France
Intuit Fair of Folk and Outsider Art, Chicago
Armory International Fair of New Art, New York
Outsider Art Fair, New York

2006
Collection L’Art Brut, Lausanne
Visionary Output: Work by Creative Growth Artists, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco
Outsider Art Fair, New York

2005
Autism/Asperger’s/Art, Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York
Leon Borensztein and His Friends: A Look at Creative Growth Artists and Their Work, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
Outsider Art Fair, New York
Intuit Fair of Folk and Outsider Art, Chicago
Headfooters Gallery, Cleveland