Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University

The Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University is the contemporary art gallery of Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon University is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States....

in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to...

. It is located on the university campus on Forbes Avenue at Morewood Avenue, in the Oakland and Shadyside neighborhoods.

About

The Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University supports the creation, understanding and growth of contemporary art through exhibitions, projects, lectures, events and publications. The gallery aspires to engage diverse audiences and to create and strengthen communities through art and ideas. A unit of Carnegie Mellon College of Fine Arts

Carnegie Mellon College of Fine Arts

The College of Fine Arts at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA oversees the Schools of Architecture, Art, Design, Drama, and Music; along with its associated centers, studios, and galleries....

, the three-story, 9000 square feet (836.1 m²) space is free and open to the public and located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

History

The Miller Gallery was founded in 2000 by Regina Gouger Miller, artist, educator, businesswoman, arts patron and alumna of Carnegie Mellon School of Art

Carnegie Mellon School of Art

The Carnegie Mellon School of Art at Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is a degree granting institution and a division of the Carnegie Mellon College of Fine Arts...

.

During the last ten years, the Miller Gallery has exhibited work by Michelle Stitzlein

Michelle Stitzlein

Michelle Stitzlein is an American artist who creates found object art / sculpture from recycled materials. She received a BFA in 1989 from the Columbus College of Art and Design . She and her husband Nathaniel Stitzlein founded Art Grange Studios in Baltimore, Ohio...

,Laylah Ali, Janine Antoni

Janine Antoni

Janine Antoni is a contemporary artist whose work focuses mostly on process. She often uses her whole body or different parts of it, such as her mouth, hair, eyelashes, and brain as tools and with them performs everyday activities to create her artwork.She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College...

, The Art Guys

The Art Guys

The Art Guys are a collaborative artist team based in Houston, Texas....

, Michael Bevilacqua, Catherine Chalmers, Michael Ray Charles

Michael Ray Charles

Michael Ray Charles is an African American painter born in Lafayette, Louisiana.He spent most of his youth growing up in Los Angeles, California, New Orleans, Louisiana and St. Martinville, Louisiana. He graduated from St. Martinville Senior High School 1985. Later that fall he entered McNeese...

, Julia Christensen, Minerva Cuevas

Minerva Cuevas

Minerva Cuevas is a Mexican conceptual artist.She studied at the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas. UNAM . She is known for the social and political research that guide her projects usually developed as site-specific interventions. Her production includes installation, video and photographic...

, Nicole Eisenman, Inka Essenhigh

Inka Essenhigh

Inka Essenhigh is a painter based in New York.Essenhigh studied at the Columbus College of Art and Design in Ohio and the School of Visual Arts in New York ....

, Karen Finley

Karen Finley

Karen Finley is an American performance artist, whose theatrical pieces and recordings have often been labelled "obscene" due to their graphic depictions of sexuality, abuse, and disenfranchisement...

, Rachel Harrison

Rachel Harrison

Rachel Harrison is a sculptor based in New York.Harrison's work has been seen in many exhibitions including:‘Posh Floored as Ali G Tackles Beck’ at Arndt & Partner in Berlin,...

, Arturo Herrera

Arturo Herrera

Arturo Herrera is a Venezuelan visual artist who exhibits internationally, known for his melding of cartoons and collage. He has had one-person exhibitions at Centre d’Art Contemporain, Dia Center For The Arts, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Whitney Museum of American Art, UCLA Hammer...

, Tran T. Kim-Trang, Glenn Ligon

Glenn Ligon

Glenn Ligon is an American conceptual artist whose work explores race, language, desire, sexuality, and identity. He engages in intertextuality with other works from the visual arts, literature, and history, as well as his own life.-Early life and career:...

, Kerry James Marshall

Kerry James Marshall

Kerry James Marshall is an artist born in Birmingham, Alabama. He grew up in South Central Los Angeles and now lives in Chicago where he previously taught at the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois at Chicago...

, Larry Miller, Takashi Murakami

Takashi Murakami

is an internationally prolific contemporary Japanese artist. He works in fine arts media—such as painting and sculpture—as well as what is conventionally considered commercial media —fashion, merchandise, and animation— and is known for blurring the line between high and low art...

, Yoshitomo Nara

Yoshitomo Nara

is a Japanese artist. He currently lives and works in Tokyo, though his artwork has been exhibited worldwide. Nara received his B.F.A. and an M.F.A. from the Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music. Between 1988 and 1993, Nara studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, in Germany. Nara...

, Shirin Neshat

Shirin Neshat

Shirin Neshat شیرین نشاط is an Iranian visual artist who lives in New York. She is known primarily for her work in film, video and photography.-Background:Neshat's parents were upper middle-class...

, Christy Rupp, Ester Partegas, David Shrigley

David Shrigley

-Life and career:Shrigley was born in Macclesfield on 17 September 1968, the younger of two children born to Rita and Joseph Shrigley. Shrigley grew up in Oadby, Leicestershire, England...

, Al Souza, subRosa, Sarah Sze

Sarah Sze

Sarah Sze is a contemporary artist who lives and works in New York City. Sze uses ordinary objects to create sculptures and site-specific installations.-Early life:Sze graduated Summa Cum Laude from Yale University in 1991...

, TermiteTV, Fred Tomaselli

Fred Tomaselli

Fred Tomaselli is an American artist. He is best known for his highly detailed paintings on wood panels, combining an array of unorthodox materials suspended in a thick layer of clear, epoxy resin...

, Kara Walker

Kara Walker

Kara Walker is a contemporary African American artist who explores race, gender, sexuality, violence and identity in her work. She is best known for her room-size tableaux of black cut-paper silhouettes, such as The Means to an End--A Shadow Drama in Five Acts.-Biography:Walker was born in...

, Olav Westphalen, Gail Wight, Sue Williams, The Yes Men

The Yes Men

The Yes Men are a culture jamming activist duo and network of supporters created by Jacques Servin and Igor Vamos. Through actions of tactical media, The Yes Men primarily aim to raise awareness about what they consider problematic social issues. To date, the duo has produced two films: The Yes Men...

, and many others.

Notable Carnegie Mellon College of Fine Arts alumni that have exhibited at the Miller Gallery include Dara Birnbaum

Dara Birnbaum

Dara Birnbaum, born in 1946 in New York ,USA, where she continues to live and work, uses video to reconstruct television imagery using as material such archetypal formats as quizzes, soap operas, and sports programmes. Her techniques involve the repetition of images and interruption of flow with...

, Mel Bochner

Mel Bochner

Mel Bochner is an American conceptual artist. Mr. Bochner received his BFA in 1962 and honorary Doctor of Fine Arts in 2005 from the School of Art at Carnegie Mellon University...

, Jacob Ciocci

Jacob Ciocci

Jacob Ciocci is an American visual artist, performance artist and musician. Along with sister Jessica Ciocci and friend Ben Jones, he is one of the three remaining founding members of Paper Rad, an artist collective based in both Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Providence, Rhode Island...

(Paper Rad

Paper Rad

Paper Rad is a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania/Providence, Rhode Island art collective that makes comics, zines, video art, net art, MIDI files, paintings, installations, and are in a variety of bands...

), Peter Coffin (artist)

Peter Coffin (artist)

Peter Coffin is an artist based in New York City. His work is exhibited internationally and features in several prominent collections....

, John Currin

John Currin

John Currin is an American painter. He is best known for satirical figurative paintings which deal with provocative sexual and social themes in a technically skillful manner. His work shows a wide range of influences, including sources as diverse as the Renaissance, popular culture magazines, and...

, Cassandra C. Jones, Joyce Kozloff, Eileen Maxson

Eileen Maxson

Eileen Maxson is an interdisciplinary artist working at the confluence of video, installation and performance.Maxson received her MFA from Carnegie Mellon University, her BFA from the University of Houston and attended the De Ateliers program in Amsterdam, Netherlands.Maxson's works have been...

, Shana Moulton, Rich Pell (Institute for Applied Autonomy, Center for PostNatural History), Blithe Riley, Fereshteh Toosi, Paul Vanouse, and Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol

Andrew Warhola , known as Andy Warhol, was an American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art...

Exhibition History

2010-2011

WHATEVER IT TAKES: Steelers Fan Collections, Rituals, and Obsessions, Curated by Jon Rubin + Astria Suparak

2009-2010

29 CHAINS TO THE MOON: Artists' Schemes for a Fantastic Future, Guest curated by Andrea Grover
EXPERIMENTAL GEOGRAPHY, Guest curated by Nato Thompson, Organized by iCI (Independent Curators International)

CONTESTATIONAL CARTOGRAPHIES SYMPOSIUM

2008-2009

From The Vault: Carnegie Mellon 2009 BFA Senior Exhibition
Upper Management: Carnegie Mellon 2009 MFA Thesis Exhibition
Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now
Keep It Slick: Infiltrating Capitalism with The Yes Men
Your Town, Inc.: Big Box Reuse with Julia Christensen

2007-2008

Nancy Crow: Works from 1988–2008
Preserving a Legacy: Elizabeth Catlett
Elizabeth Catlett
Elizabeth Catlett Mora is an African-American sculptor and printmaker. Catlett is best known for the black, expressionistic sculptures and prints she produced during the 1960s and 1970s, which are seen as politically charged....

Mora
MAYDAY! BFA Senior Exhibition 2008
A Moratorium On Make-Believe: MFA Thesis Exhibition 2008
Transit 2008
Plastic Poetics - Ian Finch, Sarah E. Wood, Maya Schindler and Colin Zaug Curated by Cara Erskine

2007

Patricia Maurides, Michelle Stitzlein
Michelle Stitzlein
Michelle Stitzlein is an American artist who creates found object art / sculpture from recycled materials. She received a BFA in 1989 from the Columbus College of Art and Design . She and her husband Nathaniel Stitzlein founded Art Grange Studios in Baltimore, Ohio...

and Julie Stunden
George Nakashima
George Nakashima
George Katsutoshi NakashimaGeorge Katsutoshi NakashimaGeorge Katsutoshi Nakashima( was a Japanese-American woodworker, architect, and furniture maker who was one of the leading innovators of 20th century furniture design and a father of the American craft movement...

Revealed: The Carnegie Mellon Collection
Dee Briggs
Glassnost
To Get To The Other Side BFA Senior Show 2007
Findings MFA 2007 Thesis Exhibition
Tides An exhibition of new work from Northern Ireland

2006

Dean Kessmann, Pamela Howard, Paul Dickinson Fall Exhibition
Joyce Kozloff: Exterior and Interior Cartographies
TRAPPINGS: Stories of Women , Power and Clothing
ARTSCOOL 2006 BFA Senior Exhibition
Pittsburgh Banal 2006 MFA Thesis Exhibition
100% Centennial

2005

Groundworks: Environmental Collaboration in Contemporary Art
Animal Nature
Spectacular! Spectacular!: School of Art Class of 2005 Exhibition
Too Far Gone: 2005 MFA Thesis Exhibition
Michael Rovner: Recent Work
David Robbins (artist): Ice Cream Social

2004

Dialogue in a Landscape: The Kraus Campo, A Garden for Carnegie Mellon University by Mel Bochner
Mel Bochner
Mel Bochner is an American conceptual artist. Mr. Bochner received his BFA in 1962 and honorary Doctor of Fine Arts in 2005 from the School of Art at Carnegie Mellon University...

and Michael Van Valkenburgh
Michael Van Valkenburgh
Michael R. Van Valkenburgh is an American landscape architect and educator. He has worked on a wide variety of projects in the United States, Canada, Korea, and France including public parks, college campuses, sculpture gardens, city courtyards, corporate landscapes, and private gardens-Early...
A Fiction of Authenticity: Contemporary Africa Abroad
Associated Artists of Pittsburgh: 94th Annual Exhibition
Watfa Midani: Recent Paintings
110 Percent: School of Art Class of 2004 Exhibition
Shock and Awesome: MFA thesis exhibition 2004
Adam Frelin: Recent Work
Typographically Speaking: The Art of Matthew Carter
Matthew Carter
Matthew Carter is a type designer. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Carter's career in type design has witnessed the transition from physical metal type to digital type...

2003

Supervalitragilisticexcelluminaceous: School of Art Faculty Exhibition
Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba
Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba
Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba was born in Tokyo to a Japanese mother and a Vietnamese father in 1968, the year of the Tet Offensive staged by the Vietcong and North Vietnamese troops. He earned an M.F.A. from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 1994 after receiving his B.F.A. from the School of the...

/Matrix 203: Memorial Project Vietnam
Affirmative Actions: Rudy Shepherd
The Paper Sculpture Show
...like, intense: BFA Senior Exhibition 2003
Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear: MFA Thesis Exhibition 2003
Comic Release: Negotiating Identity for a New Generation

2002

Paradise Now: Picturing the Genetic Revolution
Passage: Shirin Neshat
Shirin Neshat
Shirin Neshat شیرین نشاط is an Iranian visual artist who lives in New York. She is known primarily for her work in film, video and photography.-Background:Neshat's parents were upper middle-class...
Works: Dominique Blain
Nothing Isn't Nothing: Roger Sayre
384 Units: BFA Senior Exhibition
Happenstance: MFA Thesis Exhibition 2002
Plenty: Nancy Davidson

2001

Pittsburgh's Spirit: William D. Wade
Displacement: Simone Jones
Birdscape: Michael Pestel and Jeroen Van Westen
Vocabulary: Dale McNutt
Perspective: Paul Warne
Aether: Delanie Jenkins, Shari Mendelson, Linn Meyers, Paul Stremple, Paul Villinski
Just Another Market Mop Up: Andrew Johnson
con|cealing re-vealing, Creating and Bridging Gaps in Visual Communication: Kenneth Hiebert
The Mechanoid's Bloodline, a digital media installation: Keith Piper (artist)
Keith Piper (artist)
Keith Piper is a British artist, curator, critic and academic. He was a founder member of the BLK Art Group, an association of black British art students, mostly based in the West Midlands region of the UK. His work explores multi-media elements such as tape/slide, sound and video within an...
Sextete-a-Tete: MFA thesis exhibition 2001
Reversions: Kimberly Burleigh
The George and Helen Spelvin Folk Art Collection: curated by Beauvais Lyons
Skating on the Eye (Patiner Sur L'oeil): Richard Purdy
Reflections on the Natural Way: Dan Namingha
Dan Namingha
Dan Namingha is an important Native American painter and sculptor. He was born in Keams Canyon, Arizona and is a member of the Hopi-Tewa tribe. He currently lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.-Education:*University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas...

2000

Digital Explorations: works from the Schools of Architecture and Design at Carnegie Mellon
Nagoya Zokei Works on Paper (on Mino-Washi Japanese Handmade Paper)
Kindred Spirits: Marlene Aron, Peggy Lynn Cox, Marilee Keys, and Anne Wolf
New (re)Presentation of Latin America on Video: curated by Carolina Loyola Garcia
African Spirits in the New World, A Celebration of African Religious Art and its New World Descendants: from the collection of Dr. Frank McGlynn
Cortocircuito: Short Circuit: Patricia Villalobos Eccheverria
Fusion! Artists in a Research Setting: organized by the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry and Robert Atkins
Auto/Visual/Indi/Visible: Carnegie Mellon School of Art Faculty Exhibit
Get Empty: MFA Thesis exhibition 2000
Living Documentaries, a video installation by Termite TV: Anula Shetty, Carl Lee, Michael Kuetemeyer, and Dorothea Braemer
Conservations in the Rustbelt, Brownfields into Greenways: Nine Mile Run Project Group
Swells and Extensions: Sharon Louden
Sharon Louden
Sharon Louden is an American Artist b. 1964.Louden is known for her whimsical use of the line. Her paintings, drawings, animations, sculpture and installations are often centered around lines or linear abstractions and their implied or actual movement. Through her work she creates what she calls...

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