Maxwell Graham is honored to present Virtual encounters, an exhibition of new work by John Miller. This is Miller’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. This is approximately Miller’s 35th one- or two-person exhibition in New York.

Virtual Encounters features three child mannequin sculptures. Miller made his first mannequin sculpture, My Friend, in 1989 and his first child mannequin sculpture in 1993.

Each of the sculptures on view includes a sign with a quotation from Charles Baudelaire, Albert Camus or Oscar Wilde. These declare:

To live and die before the mirror
It is the spectator not life that art really mirrors
It is my right to look at myself in the mirror.

John Miller was born in 1954 in Cleveland, Ohio, and lives and works in New York and Berlin. In the 1970s, he studied at the Rhode Island School of Design, the Whitney Independent Study Program, and the California Institute of the Arts.

Miller has had solo institutional exhibitions at Kunsthaus Glarus, Kunsthalle Bielefeld; Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin; Museum im Bellpark Kriens; ICA Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; Neuer Berliner Kunstverein; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Kunsthalle Zürich; Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva; Le Magasin, Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Grenoble; and the Kunstverein Hamburg. He participated in the 1985 and 1991 Whitney Museum of American Art's Biennial and the 2010 Gwangju Biennale. In 2011 the Museum Ludwig in Cologne awarded Miller the Wolfgang Hahn Prize.

Miller's criticism has appeared in Artforum, October, Texte zur Kunst. JRP and Les Presses du Réel published compilations of his writing as The price club: selected writings, 1977-1996 in 2000 and The ruin of exchange in 2012.

John Miller is currently Professor of Professional Practice, Department of Art History at Barnard College/Columbia University.