1966 Born in Storm Lake, IA
EDUCATION
1993 The University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, MFA
1992 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
1989 The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, BFA
AWARDS
2018 NYSCA/NYFA Fellowship in Painting
2014 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship
Pollock-Krasner Award
2009 The Rutsch Award
2006 Pollock-Krasner Award
2004 Hassam, Speicher, Betts and Symons Purchase Funds, American Academy of Arts and Letters
2000 The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Space Grant
1999 Elizabeth Foundation Award
1998 Pollock-Krasner Award
1993 Margaret Calder Hayes/Tevis Jacobs/UAM Council Founder's Prize, UC Berkeley
Binney & Smith Art Grant
1992 Marian Hahn Simpson Fellowship, UC Berkeley/Matching Fellowship through Skowhegan
James Phelan Scholarship, UC Berkeley
Jack & Gertrude Murphy Fellowship, The San Francisco Foundation
ART COLLECTIONS
American University Museum, Katzen Arts Center
Baltimore Museum of Art
Clifford Chance
Daum Museum of Contemporary Art
Des Moines Art Center
Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt
John Simon Guggenheim Foundation
Microsoft
SEI/West Family Collection
Sioux City Art Center
The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum
ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2022 "Elsewhere," 860 Washington Street, New York, NY
2017 Ameringer/McEnery/Yohe, New York, NY
2014 "Food," 527 Madison Avenue, New York, NY
2013 "Big Paintings, 1997-2013," American University Museum, Katzen Arts Center,
Washington, DC (catalog)
2011 "Food Paintings," Feature Inc., New York, NY
2009 "Alexander Rutsch Award and Exhibition," Pelham Art Center, Pelham, NY
2007 Feature Inc., New York, NY
2006 Feature Inc., New York, NY
2003 Feature Inc., New York, NY
2002 Feature Inc., New York, NY
Clifford-Smith Gallery, Boston, MA
TWO AND THREE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2024 "The Thing Is," Xico Greenwald, Tracy Miller and Mary Jo Vath, 1GAP Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2023 "Kitchen Sink, Allison Gildersleeve & Tracy Miller," Platform Project Space, Brooklyn, NY
2021 "Broken Dishes: Pamela Cardwell, Tracy Miller, Nancy Shaver with poet Charity Coleman," Soloway, Brooklyn, NY
2016 "More, Sarah Bedford & Tracy Miller," Mrs. Gallery, Maspeth, NY
2015 "Ellen Berkenblit, Lee Maida, Tracy Miller," Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY
2004 “(3: Duk Ju Kim, Tracy Miller and John Salhus),” Curated by John Hock, gallery co, Minneapolis, MN
2002 “True Paint, Charles Andresen, Tracy Miller and Santi Moix,” Curated by Andrew Chesler, Jay Grimm Gallery, New York, NY
2000 “Mamie Holst & Tracy Miller,” Feature Inc., New York, NY
“Tracy Miller & Sam Gordon,” M du B, F H & g., Montreal, Canada
1995 “Tracy Miller, Suzy Barnard, Melissa Wood,” SF Museum of Modern Art Rental Gallery,
San Francisco, CA
1994 “Painting & Drawing,” Elizabeth Ferran & Tracy Miller, Belcher Street Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“The Berkeley Connection: Erika Ranee & Tracy Miller,” Weintraub Gallery, Sacramento, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 "On Drawing," Orwell's Garden, Brooklyn, NY
"The Unfolding of Things," Cynthia Winings Gallery, Blue Hill, ME
"Mercury Rising," Bookstein Projects, New York, NY
2023 "Sustenance," Curated by Lin Lisberger and Myron Beasley, Portland Public Library, Portland, ME
"25th Group Show," 527 Madison Ave, New York, NY
"A Painting is a Painting is a Painting," ArtPort Kingston, Kingston, NY
2022 "rivers, threads, folds," Artcake, Brooklyn, NY
"Nancy Shaver: Copper and Propane, a photograph: what it is and what it isn't," F, Houston, TX
2021 "Tasting Menu," The Barns Art Center, Hopewell Junction, NY
"You Again," Curated by Franklin Evans, Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY
"Still Lifes from the Collection," Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, MO
"Downtown 2021," Curated by Sam Gordon, La Mama Galleria, New York, NY
2020 "Skirting the Line," Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, ME
"20/20," Philip Slein Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2019 "Voracious Eye," Curated by Linda Griggs and Suzanne Varni, The Clemente, New York, NY
2018 "Be Still Life," Curated by Sue and Phil Knoll, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
"People, Places, Things...," Philip Slein Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2017 "Sitting Still," BravinLee programs, New York, NY
"Hat Tip," LABspace, Hillsdale, NY
"Art on Paper 2017," Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
"Cakehole," Mrs. Gallery, Maspeth, NY
"Abandoned Luncheonette," Jeff Bailey Gallery, Hudson, NY
2016 "A Feast for the Eyes," Curated by Franklin Hill Perrell, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY
"Chow," LABspace, Hillsdale, NY
"Nancy Shaver: Dress the Form," Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY
"Drishti," Curated by Elizabeth Heskin and Patricia Spergel, 1285 Avenue of the Americas Gallery, New York, NY (catalog)
2014 "Food for Thought," Curated by Hallie Cohen and Millie Falcaro, Hewitt Gallery of Art, Marymount Manhattan College,
New York, NY
"Let's Go Let Go: In Memoriam Hudson," 33 Orchard, New York, NY
"Cancel All Our Vows," Organized by Nancy Shaver and Taylor Davis, Dodge Gallery, New York, NY
"A Moveable Feast: Art, Food and Migration," College of St. Elizabeth, Morristown, NJ
2012 "Punt," Feature Inc., New York, NY
"Bred and Fed," Shoot the Lobster, Iowa City, IA
"Slow Food, Fast Food," Gallery 151, New York, NY
2011 "bodybraingame," Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
"Legacy Collection Exhibition II," Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City, IA (catalog)
"Feast," Lemberg Gallery, Ferndale, MI
"Threads," Curated by Claire McConaughy, Bergen Community College, Paramas, NJ
2010 "Sweetness and Light," Curated by Linda Griggs, Hampden Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amhearst, MA (catalog)
"Food," Incident Report Viewing Station, Hudson, NY
2009 “Pink Panther," Curated by Amy Smith-Stewart, Kumukumu Gallery, New York, NY
“Newman's Subconscious," Curated by Suzanne Adelman and Keith Walsh, West LA College,
Los Angeles, CA
“Appetizing Pictures,” Hudson Guild, New York, NY
“Populate This Form,” Feature Inc., New York, NY
“Push, Pull, Scrub…Drip, Drip,” Curated by Frank Trankina, Northern Illinois University
Museum, Dekalb, IL
2008 “Shit,” Feature Inc., New York, NY
“Edibles,” Work Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
“Gravity and Transformation,” Curated by Suzanne Adelman, Kristi Engle Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2007 “True Faith,” Curated by Paul Brainard, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York, NY
“Thoughts,” Feature Inc., New York, NY
“Sugar Buzz,” Lehman College Art Gallery, New York, NY
2006 “The Line of Beauty,” Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts, New York, NY
2005 “Summer Sustenance: A Gourmand’s Delight,” Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
“The Sun Rises in the Evening,” Feature Inc., New York, NY
2004 “Food for Thought,” Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY, 2004 (catalog)
“Exhibition of Work by Newly Elected Members and Recipients of Honors and Awards,”
American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
“Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture,” American Academy of Arts and Letters,
New York, NY
2003 “Lumpenedlyness,” Lump Gallery, Raleigh, NC
“Mighty Graphitey,” Feature Inc., New York, NY
2002 “Artist to Artist,” Ace Gallery, New York, NY (catalog)
2001 “Baker’s Dozen,” Julie Baker Fine Arts, Grass Valley, CA
2000 “Aintings & Rawings,” Feature Inc., New York, NY
1999 “Fellowship Show,” A.I.R., New York, NY
“You Are What You Eat,” Paramount Center for the Arts, Peekskill, NY
1998 "A Skowhegan Decade," David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY
1993 “To Excess,” The Victoria Room, San Francisco, CA
“MFA Exhibition,” University Art Museum, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
1992 “Wet Paint II,” Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
BIBLIOGRAPHY
February 17, 2023, Two Coats of Paint, "Circumstantial: Elizabeth Hazan, Allison Gildersleeve, and Tracy Miller," interview (reproductions)
April 29, 2021, Brooklyn Rail, "Broken Dishes," by William Corwin (reproduction)
June, 2020, Down East, "See the CMCA's Latest Shows from the Comfort of Home," by Will Grunewald, pages 24--25 (reproductions)
March 15, 2020, Portland Press Herald, "Female Painters Boldy Defy Definition in Timely Show at CMCA," by Bob Keyes (reproduction)
February/March, 2020, New American Paintings, #146, Selections by Jerry Saltz, pages 116-119 (reproductions)
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Spring, 2015, Brooklyn Magazine, "Inside Five Artists' Studios," by Kristin Iversen, pages 60-61 (reproductions)
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Summer, 2011, Edible Hudson Valley, "Edible Imprint," page 56 (reproduction)
Summer, 2011, "Sioux City Art Center Quarterly Calendar," (cover)
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December 8, 2003, The New Yorker, “Goings on About Town,” page 28
November 20, 2003, The New York Times, “Tracy Miller and Fright Wig”, by Ken Johnson, page E36
August 8, 2003, The New York Times, “Mighty Graphitey,” by Roberta Smith, page E31
May, 2002, Artists to Artists, catalog, pages 320-321 (reproductions)
February 28, 2002, TimeOut, Issue No. 335, “Tracy Miller,” by Meghan Dailey, page 59 (reproduction)
February, 2002, Artweek, “’Baker’s Dozen’ at Julie Baker Fine Art,” by Terri Cohn, page 23
January 10, 2002, Boston Phoenix, “What’s in a Name?” by Christopher Millis (reproduction)
January 5, 2002, Retro-Rocket, “Art Around Town,” by Paul Parcellin
December 2, 2001, Sacramento Bee, “Things looking up in new Grass Valley Gallery,” by Victoria Dalkey
May 28, 1993, East Bay Express, “The Aesthetics of Loss,” by Ramsay Bell Breslin