Nicole Miller (artist)

Nicole Miller (born 1982, Tucson, AZ) is an artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, California.^[1]

Miller uses film and installations to explore the transformative capabilities of the moving image to reconstruct interpretations of self and culture. Her videos focus on the interplay between preconception and reality in terms of African American identity. The result of her work transforms into a powerful storytelling tool wielded for the possible reconstitution of lost histories and identities.

Life

Miller moved to LA in 2001 to attend the California Institute of the Arts and then obtained her MFA ^[2] from the USC Roski School of Fine Arts.^[1]

In 2014 she had a solo exhibition at the Centre d'Art Contemporain Geneve.^[3] This was titled Death of a School. Her work, The Conductor, was featured at both the High Line^[4] in New York City and at LAXART in Los Angeles.^[2] Her work has also been featured at Kunst-Werke in Berlin.

Additionally, she has participated in major museum exhibitions such as Hammer Museum's Made in LA, The Bearden Project at the Studio Museum in Harlem, and Dallas Biennale at the Dallas Contemporary art museum. In 2014, Miller completed an 18-month project entitled "Believing is Seeing" with The Los Angeles County Museum of the Arts.

Miller's works have also been featured in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA).

Miller has also been the recipient of many awards. She received the Louis Comfort Tiffany Biennial Award in 2012, the Artadia Award and Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant in 2013, the William H. Johnson Prize in 2015 and the Rome Prize in 2016.^[2]

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