Melissa Miller
Exhibitions
Melissa Miller: Paintings, 2014, Talley Dunn Gallery
Melissa Miller: New Paintings, 2002, Dunn and Brown Contemporary
Biography
| 1951 |
Born in Houston, Texas |
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Currently lives and works in Austin, Texas |
Education
| 1974 | Yale Summer School of Music and Art, New Haven, Connecticut |
| 1974 |
B.F.A., University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico |
| 1971 |
Museum of Fine Arts School, Houston, Texas |
| 1969-71 |
University of Texas, Austin, Austin, Texas |
Grants And Awards
| 2013 | Artist's Residency, Lux Art Institute |
| 2011 | Texas State Two-Dimensional Artist of the Year |
| 2010 | National Council of Arts Administrators, 2010 Distinguished Achievement in the Arts Award |
| 2008 |
Texas Artist of the Year, Art League Houston |
| 2004 |
Anonymous Was A Woman Award |
| 2002 | College of Fine Arts Dean’s Fellow Appointment, University of Texas |
| 1999 | Legend Award, Dallas Visual Arts Center |
| 1987 |
Texas Art Award |
| 1985 |
National Endowment for the Arts |
| 1982 |
National Endowment for the Arts |
| 1979 | National Endowment for the Arts |
| 1974 | Full Scholarship, Yale Summer School of Music and Art |
Solo Exhibitions
| 2014 | Melisa Miller: Paintings, Talley Dunn Gallery, Dallas, Texas |
| 2013 | Melissa Miller, Lux art institute, Encinitas, California |
| 2011 |
Melissa Miller: Habitat, The Grace Museum, Abilene, Texas |
| 2008 |
Melissa Miller: Texas Artist of the Year 2008, Art League Houston, Houston, Texas |
| 2007 |
Melissa Miller: Works on Paper, Betty Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas |
| 2006 |
Melissa Miller: Works on Paper, Nave Museum, Victoria, Texas |
| 2005 | Melissa Miller: Recent Works on Paper, Ellen Noel Art Museum, Odessa, Texas |
| 2004 |
A Beastiary: Works on Paper by Melissa Miller, Mary Baldwin College, Stanton, Virginia |
| 2003 |
Melissa Miller: New Paintings, Betty Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas |
| 2002 | Melissa Miller: New Paintings, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, Texas |
| 2001 |
Melissa W. Miller: Paintings, St Edwards University, Austin, Texas |
| 1999 |
Melissa Miller, Dallas Visual Arts Center, Dallas, Texas |
| 1995 |
Melissa Miller: Paintings 1986- 1995, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, New York; Texas Gallery, Houston, Texas |
| 1991 |
Melissa Miller: The Artist’s Eye, Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas |
| 1990 |
Paintings, Georgia State University Art Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia |
| 1989 |
Melissa Miller, Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, Montana |
| 1986 |
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas; Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas |
| 1985 |
Melissa Miller, Texas Gallery, Houston, Texas |
| 1984 |
Melissa Miller, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, New York |
| 1983 |
Melissa Miller, Texas Gallery, Houston, Texas |
| 1981 |
Projects Gallery, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas |
| 1978 |
Young Artists Series, Amarillo Art Center, Amarillo, Texas |
Group Exhibitions
| 2018 |
Flatbed Press: Proofs and Processes, Wichita Falls Museum of Art, Wichita Falls, TX |
| 2017 |
Menagerie: Animals on View, Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY |
| 2016 |
Flora and Fauna, Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, TX |
| 2015 | the Aviary- Birds of Flatbed, Flatbed Press and Gallery, Austin, Texas Destination Unknown, Talley Dunn Gallery, Dallas, Texas |
| 2014 | Women in Art & Academia, Martin Museum of Art, Baylor University, Waco, Texas |
| 2013 | Untamed, Walton Arts Center, Fayetteville, Arizona Back Room, Talley Dunn Gallery, Dallas, Texas |
| 2012 | The Medium is the Message, The Gallery at the University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas |
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2011 |
New Variations, Talley Dunn Gallery, Dallas, Texas |
| 2010 |
35 Year Anniversary Exhibition, Betty Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas |
| 2009 | animalkind, University Art Gallery, San Diego State University, San Diego, California 10th Anniversary Exhibition, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, Texas |
| 2008 | Atelier 2008: Selections from the Departmnt of Art An Art History Faculty at the University of Texas at Austin, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas Something New, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, Texas Lone Star Legacy II: The Barrett Collection of Contemporary Texas Art, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas The Texas Chair Project, Austin Mueum of Art, Austin, Texas |
| 2007 | Measured Strokes – Spontaneous Beasts, Paintings by Sarah Canright and Melissa Miller, Sarafim School of Fine Arts, Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas Solos: 20th Anniversary Exhibitions, Selby Gallery, Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, Florida California in Connecticut; The Joanne and William Rees Collection, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut Everything, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, Texas |
| 2006 | Beastiary: A Juried Group Exhibition, Froelick Gallery, Portland, Oregon Fresh Ink, Flatbed Editions, Nancy Scanlin Gallery, Austin, Texas |
| 2005 | Land, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, Texas |
| 2004 | Flatbed Press: Texas Grit, William Campbell Contemporary Art, Fort Worth, Texas Mythmakers and Storytellers, Nancy Scanlin Gallery, Helms Fine Arts Center, Austin, Texas Texas Paint, Part One: More True Stories, Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, Texas Perspectives@ 25, Aquarter Century of New Art in Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas 5th Anniversary Exhibition, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, Texas Texas Vision, The Barrett Collection, The Meadows Museum, Dallas, Texas 21/30 Artistas Graficas de Texas, Galleria del Instituto de Artes Plasticas de la Universidad Veracruzana, Veracruz, Mexico b-side: Studio & Design Faculty Show, 2004, Creative Research Lab, Austin, Texas |
| 2003 | Flip, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, Texas |
| 2002 | Wild Life : The Other Tradition, Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, Florida Groundwork, Recent Work by Faculty in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at Austin, Creative Research Laboratory, Austin, Texas Re: Vision Five Women Re- Vision, The University of Texas at San Antonio Art Gallery, San Antonio, Texas Next, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, Texas Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth 110, Modern At Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas |
| 2001 | Beauty Without Regret, Belles Artes Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico Artists Collect Art, Nancy Wilson Scanlan Gallery, Helm Fine Arts Center, Austin, Texas Private Collections: Artists, Curators, and Collectors, The Gallery at the University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas |
| 2000 | Plano Walls: Texas Artists... A Glimpse at Local Private Art Collections, Art Centre of Plano, Plano, Texas Crossing State Lines: Texas Art from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas Opening Exhibition, Davis Gallery, Austin, Texas Uniquely Texas Icons, New Braunsfels Museum of Art, New Braunsfels, Texas 25 Year Anniversary, Betty Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas 62nd Annual Art Faculty Exhibition, Blanton Museum, Austin, Texas |
| 1999 | Group Show, Gallery Artists, Lyons Matrix Gallery, Austin, Texas Group show, Gallery Artists, Betty Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas |
| 1998 | Family Ties, Lyons Matrix Gallery, Austin, Texas Flatbed Prints, Flatbed Press, Austin, Texas Link, Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, Texas New Works by Contemporary Artists, Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico Contemporary Texas Artists: Connie Arismendi, James Cobb, Melissa Miller, and Kathy Vargas, Weil Gallery, Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, Texas Exhibition Of Selected Works By Faculty, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, Texas |
| 1997 | Fresh Ink: Austin Print Workshops, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, Texas Real(ist) Women, Selby Gallery, Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, Florida New Works by Gallery Artists, Lyons Matrix Gallery, Austin, Texas Finders/Keepers, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas Dogs Days Group Exhibit, Lyons Matrix Gallery, Austin, Texas Two Austin Connoisseurs Collect Texas Art, Scanlan Art Gallery, St. Stephen’s Episcopal School, Austin, Texas Animal Tales; Contemporary Bestiary and Animal Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, Stamford, Connecticut Holiday Exhibition, Parchman Stremmel Galleries, San Antonio, Texas |
| 1996 | Pinned to the Wall, Parchman Stremmel Galleries, San Antonio, Texas Three Artist Exhibition: Melissa Miller, David Everett, and Sally Chandler, Lyons Matrix Gallery, Austin, Texas Interplay: Celebrating the poems of Pablo Neruda, Slover McCutcheon Gallery, Houston, Texas Link, Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, Texas Bucking the Texas Myth: Scouting the Third Frontier, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, Texas Myths & Magical Fantasies, California Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido, California Establishment Exposed, Dallas Visual Arts Center, Dallas, Texas |
| 1995 | Images of Nature III, Martin-Rathburn Gallery, San Antonio, Texas Link, Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, Texas Flatbed Press Group Exhibition, Rachel Harris Gallery, Fort Worth, Texas Texas Myths and Realities, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas |
| 1994 | Drawings, Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, Texas |
| 1993 | Animal Attraction, The Haggar University Gallery, University of Dallas, Dallas, Texas 15th Anniversary Show, Austin Visual Artists Association, Gallery 201, Austin, Texas Lawndale Retrospective Exhibition: A Housewarming Event, Lawndale Art and Performance Center, Houston, Texas Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. |
| 1992 | Mind and Beast: Contemporary Artists and the Animal Kingdom, traveled to Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, Wisconsin; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas; Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, Tennessee; Tuscon Museum of Art, Tuscon, Arizona; Canton Art Institute, Canton, Ohio; Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, Indiana 100th Anniversary Prints, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas Master Prints from the Rutgers Center for Innovative Printmaking: The First Five Years, The Gallery at Bristol- Myers Squibb, Princeton, New Jersey; traveled to the Du Bois Gallery, Lehigh University, Lehigh, New Jersey 44th Annual Academy-Institute Purchase Exhibition, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, New York |
| 1991 | Group Exhibition, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, New York |
| 1990 | Baltimore Collects: Painting and Sculpture Since 1960, Baltimore Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland Black & White, Linda Cathcart Gallery, Santa Monica, California Drawings, Texas Gallery, Houston, Texas Feather, Fin & Fur, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas 42nd Annual Purchase Exhibition, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, New York Northwest x Southwest: Painted Fictions, Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, California; traveled to Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, Montana; Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington; Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Houston, Texas |
| 1989 | Land Scope, Vrej Baghoomian, Inc., New York, New York Deep Woods: Concerning Nature in Recent Painting, Drawing and Sculpture, Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota, Duluth, Minnesota Making Their Mark: Women Artists Today, a Documentary Survey 1970-1985, Cinncinati Art Museum, Cinncinati, Ohio; traveled to New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana; The Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado Texas Women, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.; traveled to Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas Illustrious Alumni, University Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico Guest Artists in Printmaking, Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas, Austin, Texas |
| 1988 | Life Stories, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington Texas Art, The Menil Collection, Richmond Hall, Houston, Texas Twentieth-Century Art in the Museum Collection: Direction and Diversity, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas Group Exhibition, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, New York Looking South: A Different Dixie, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama 1988 Texas Exhibit, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C. Review Exhibition, Center for Women and Their Work, Austin, Texas One + One: Collaborations by Artists and Writers, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas; traveled to the Nave Museum, Victoria, Texas Zoomorphism: Animals in Art, Trammell Crow Center, Dallas, Texas Printmaking in Texas, University of Texas, Austin, Texas |
| 1987 | Texas Group Exhibition, James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles, California Third Coast Review: A Look at Art in Texas, The Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado Texas, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Rental Gallery, San Francisco, California Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, Austin Visual Arts Association, Austin, Texas Animals, Main Art Gallery, California State University, Fullerton, California Creatures Great and Small, Schmidt and Bingham Gallery, New York, New York |
| 1986 | Texas Group Show, Texas Gallery, Houston, Texas Directions, Hirschorn Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (catalog)MacIntosh/Drysdale Gallery, Washington, D.C. Texas!, Tilden-Foley Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana Western States Biennial, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York A Sense of Place: Contemporary Southern Art, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| 1985 | Fresh Paint, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas Women of the American West, Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Connecticut Private Treasures - Public View, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas Jungle Fever, The Harcus Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts Texas Currents, San Antonio Art Institute, San Antonio, Texas |
| 1984 | New Directions for the Michener Collection, Archer Huntington Gallery, University of Texas, Austin, Texas Five Texans in Venice, University of Texas, San Antonio, Texas Paradise Lost/Paradise Regained, The Venice Bienniale, Venice, Italy El Arte Narrativo, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico Biennial III, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California 10 Years Later: An Exhibition of Yale-Norfolk Alumni and Faculty, Art Barn Gallery, Connecticut Bunnies, White Columns, New York, New York Four Texas Painters, University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois |
| 1983 | New Figurative Drawing in Texas, San Antonio Art Institute, San Antonio, Texas Texas Images and Visions, Archer M. Huntington Gallery, University of Texas, Austin, Texas; traveled to Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas; Amarillo Art Center, Amarillo, Texas 1983 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York Southern Fictions, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas Certain Realities, University Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico Invitational Group Exhibition: Painting, Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island The End of the World: Contemporary Visions of the Apocalypse, The New Museum, New York, New York Perspectives, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas |
| 1982 | New Works, Summer ‘82, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas, Patrick Gallery, Austin, Texas |
| 1981 | Longview Invitational 1981, Longview Museum and Arts Center, Longview, California Wendy Edwards and Melissa Miller, Mattingly Baker Gallery, Dallas, Texas |
| 1980 | Texas Only, Texas Fine Arts Association Summer Exhibition, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas Introductions ‘80, Robinson Galleries, Houston, Texas 1980 New Orleans Triennial, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana Texas Fine Arts Association 1980 Annual Exhibition, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas Visions and Figurations, California State University, Fullerton, California |
| 1979 | Vital Signs, Aperture Gallery, Austin, Texas Austin Contemporary Art Exhibition, Trinity House Gallery, Austin, Texas The Amarillo Competition, Amarillo Arts Center, Amarillo, Texas Women in Sight: New Art in Texas, Dougherty Cultural Arts Center, Austin, Texas New Works, Melissa Miller and Claudia Reese, Laguna Gloria at First Federal, Austin, Texas |
| 1978 | Austin Contemporary Visual Arts Association, St. Edwards University, Austin, Texas Works on Paper: Southwest 1978, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, Texas |
| 1977 | Women and Their Work, Laguna Gloria Museum, Austin, Texas Painting and Sculpture Exhibition, One Seguin Art Center, Seguin, Texas |
| 1974 | Southwest Fine Arts Biennial, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, New Mexico |
Museum Collections
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas
Modern Art Museum of Ft. Worth
Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C.
Payne Webber, New York
Chase Manhattan Art Collection, New York
First National Bank, Chicago
Interfirst Bank, Houston
ARCO, Dallas
AMOCA, Houston
3 M Company, Austin
American Airlines , Dallas
El Paso Museum of Art
The Orlando Museum of Art
Sweet Briar College, Anne Gary Pannell Art Gallery Collection, VA
The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Public Collections
Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo
AMOCA, Houston, TX
ARCO, Dallas, TX
Chase Manhattan Collection, Manhattan, NY
First National Bank, Chicago, IL
Press
| 2014 | Yareah Magazine, "Dallas Exhibitions. Melissa Miller: Paintings. January 11 – February 15, 2014. Talley Dunn Gallery," Yareah Magazine, January |
| Brettel, Rick, "The work of venerable “animal painter” Melissa Miller and photographer Rima Canaan Lee shine at Talley Dunn," Guide Live powered by The Dallas Morning News, January | |
| Goodrich, Terry, "Martin Museum of Art will host "Women in Art and Academia" Exhibit," Baylor University Media, May | |
| 2013 | Chute, James, "Melissa Miller's Animal Instincts," The San Diego Union Tribune, June |
| 2009 | Pincus, Robert L., "Animal Kingdom," The San Diego Union Tribune, March |
| 2007 | McMahan, Hillar, "Life's Rich Pageant: Artist Profile, Melissa Miller," Cantanker |
| 2004 | Smit, Jonathan, " Melissa Miller's Animal Kingdom," Texas Co-Op Power, July |
| Cohen, Rebecca S., "Melissa Miller," ArtLies, September |
Gallery Artists
- Anila Quayyum Agha
- Helen Altman
- David Bates
- Tim Bavington
- Natasha Bowdoin
- Julie Bozzi
- Margarita Cabrera
- Dale Chihuly
- Rachel Cox
- Leonardo Drew
- Jeff Elrod
- Vernon Fisher
- Pia Fries
- Francesca Fuchs
- Ori Gersht
- The Estate of Joseph Glasco
- Kana Harada
- Joseph Havel
- Butt Johnson
- Ted Kincaid
- Rima Canaan Lee
- Melissa Miller
- Cynthia Mulcahy
- Amy Myers
- Robyn O'Neil
- Aaron Parazette
- Sam Reveles
- Linda Ridgway
- Susie Rosmarin
- Matthew Sontheimer
- Erick Swenson
- Liz Ward
- Sarah Williams
- Molly Wood
- Xiaoze Xie
