Dan Miller

Dan Miller was born in 1961 in Castro Valley, California, and has been affiliated with Creative Growth since 1992. His artwork is composed of obsessive overlays of words and imagery that often build to the point of abstraction. Each work contains a written record of Miller’s interests in hardware stores, lightbulbs, electrical sockets, and familiar people; however, only a few words are identified in its final stage. Largely nonverbal, Miller was taught at an early age to write words and numbers in order to communicate. This became the primary influence on his artistic practice, transforming text into graphic elements and employing an abstracted visual language as a tool of inquiry and expression.

Miller has had solo exhibitions at White Columns, Andrew Edlin Gallery, and Ricco Maresca Gallery in New York; Galerie Christian Berst in Paris; and Diane Rosenstein Gallery in Los Angeles. His work was selected for the Venice Biennale in 2017 and has been included in exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, and Berkeley Art Museum, among others. Miller’s work is included in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum of Modern Art, Centre Pompidou, American Folk Art Museum, Berkeley Art Museum, Mad Musée, and the Collection de l’Art Brut, Lausanne.