(b. 1961)
Dan Miller creates artworks by overlaying 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 the artwork’s 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; Gallery Paule Anglim; among many others. Miller’s work is included in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Centre Pompidou; Folk Art Museum; Berkeley Art Museum; Mad Musée; and 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.