Born 1954, Cleveland, Ohio, lives and works in New York City and Berlin. Attended Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, 1977, BFA; Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program, New York, 1978; California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California, 1979, MFA

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2024

John Miller & Mike Kelley, Galeria Nagel Draxler, Berlin, Germany

Video Art at Midnight, Babylon Kino, Berlin, Germany

Ruin of Exchange, Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus, Switzerland

2023

New Horizon, Meliksetian Briggs, Dallas, Texas

Last Words (with Richard Hoeck), Magazin 4, Bregenz, Austria

Imaginary Interventions, Various Small Fires, Seoul, South Korea

2022

Civic Center, Essex Street Gallery, New York

2021

Public/Counter-Public, Kunsthalle Bielefeld

Egocentric Preserves, Galerie Johann Widauer

The Right Not to be Stared At or Examined, Praz-Delavallade, Los Angeles

2020

Poverty, National Exemplar, Iowa City, Iowa

The Collapse of Neoliberalism, Metro Pictures, New York

An Elixir of Immortality, Schinkel Pavilon, Berlin

2019

Mannequin Trilogy, 80 WSE, New York, New York

Other Subjectivities, Galerie Barbara Weiss, Meyer Riegger Galerie, Berlin

2018

The End of History, Meliksetian + Briggs, Los Angeles

Mark Dion, John Miller, Galerie Nagel Draxler, Berlin, Germany

Almost There (with Aura Rosenberg), Teen Party, Brooklyn, New York

Comedy of Manners, Museum im Bellpark, Kriens, Switzerland

2017

The Insanity of Place, Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin, Germany

Walking in the City, Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France

2016

The Dark Ages, Studio for Propositional Cinema, Düsseldorf, Germany

Hard Hat/Soft Hard Hat, Mannequin Death (with Richard Hoeck), Galerie Marc Jancou, Geneva

Mannequin Death (with Richard Hoeck), Metro Pictures, New York; Meliksetian/Briggs, Los Angeles

Relations in Public, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles

Paintings from the early 80's to the present, Meyer Riegger Galerie, Karlsruhe

Sex Appeal of the Inorganic (with Richard Hoeck), Galerie Johann Widauer, Innsbruck

I Stand, I Fall, Institute of Contempoary Art, Miami, Florida

2015

Here in the Real World, Metro Pictures, Mary Boone Gallery, New York

Open to All Ages and Ethnicities (with Takuji Kogo), NBK (Neuer Berliner Kunstverein), Berlin

Mannequin Death (with Richard Hoeck), Offsite, Rosinierre, Switzerland and Galerie Marc Jancou, Geneva, Switzerland

John Miller, Dominik Sittig, Galerie Nagel Draxler, Cologne

Counter Publics, Campoli Presti, London

2014

A Moveable Feast – Part XIII, Campoli Presti, Paris

Do It Again!, Meliksetian Briggs Gallery, Los Angeles

2013

The Middle of the Day, Shoot the Lobster, Martos Gallery, New York

Subjective Monuments, Marc Jancou Contemporary, Geneva

The Grotesque, Kubus, Vienna

Social Portraits, Meyer Riegger Galerie, Karlsruhe

2012

The Petrified Forest, Galerie Praz-Delavallade

Something for Everyone,(with Richard Hoeck), MJBriggs/Anna Meliksetian Gallery, Los Angeles

New Realities, Patrick Painter Gallery

Suburban Past Time, Metro Pictures

2011

The Wolfgang Hahn Prize, Museum Ludwig, Köln

2010

The Totality of Everything That Actually Exists, Galerie Barbara Weiss

Dan Graham, John Miller, Christine Mayer, Munich

The Grotesque, Galerie Johann Widauer

A Holiday in Other People’s Misery, Galerie Christian Nagel

2009

The Natural Order, Patrick Painter Gallery, Los Angeles

Kunsthalle Zurich

2008

11 Sessions (with Karin Schneider and Matt Keegan), Orchard 47, New York

John Miller, Meyer Riegger Galerie, Karlsruhe

Is That All There Is?, Sutton Lane, London

Camouflage on a Mannequin (with Richard Hoeck), Michael Hall Contemporary Art, Vienna

2007

Back to the Garden, Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris

The New Honeymooners, Metro Pictures & Friedrich Petzel Gallery

The Middle of the Day (online), Jeffrey Charles/Henry Peacock

Michael Hall Contemporary Art, Vienna

2006

Something for Everyone (with Richard Hoeck), Jeffrey Charles/ Henry Peacock, London

Total Transparency, Metro Picture

2005

Something for Everyone (with Richard Hoeck), Engholm Engelhorn Galerie, Vienna; Galerie Hans Widauer, Innsbruck; cable tv broadcast (CAC TV), Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, Lithuania

Plakat (poster project with Richard Hoeck), Kunstraum Innsbruck

The Middle of the Day, Galerie Barbara Weiss

Praz-Delavallade, Paris

2004

Total Transparency, Richard Telles Fine Arts

Everything Is Painted Brown, Metro Pictures

493 KB From the Administered World, Jeffrey Charles Gallery, London

2003

A Mutually Beneficial Encounter, Galerie Christian Nagel, Köln

Everything Is You, Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris

Ich (36/175/74), Meyer Riegger Galerie

2001

Deliveries in Rear, Kunst., Tiroler Sparkasse, Innsbruck, Austria

Double Date, Galerie Barbara Weiss

2000

Consolation Prize (with Mike Kelley), the Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Pilot, Richard Telles Fine Arts, Los Angeles

The Middle of the Day, Art + Public, Geneva, Switzerland

1999

Parallel Economies, Le Magasin, Centre National d¹Art Contemporain de Grenoble, France;

travelled to the Kunstverein in Hamburg, Germany

Pillars of Salt, Galerie Barbara Weiss

Hard Hat (with Richard Hoeck), Kunst-Werke Berlin, Germany

No Place to Hang Your Hat
(with Richard Hoeck), Kunstraum Hans Widauer, Innsbruck;Turin

Bienniale, Turin, Italy

The Lugubrious Game, Meyer Reigger Galerie, Karlsruhe

Opposite Day, Metro Picture

1998

For the Good Times, Richard Telles Fine Arts

Low Noon, Galerie & Edition Artelier, Graz, Austria (with Richard Hoeck); Kunst ohne Unikat,

steirischer herbst, Neue Galerie Graz; Foundation Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon

White Studies, Kunsthalle Wein, Vienna, Austria (with Richard Hoeck); Vorarlberger Kunstverein, Bregenz, Austria

Alive with Pleasure (digital projections), Candy Factory, Yokohama, Japan

John Miller: Painting and Sculpture, P.S. 1, Long Island City, New York

1997

"A Trail of Ambiguous Picture Postcards," Center for Contemporary Art, Kitakyushu Project Gallery, Tokyo (cat.)

1996

Richard Telles Fine Arts

The Middle of the Day, Kunstburo, Museum fur Literatur am Oberrhein, Karlsruhe, Germany

Field Manual for a Tautology, Galerie Thomas Riegger, Karlsruhe, Germany

Homage an Karl May, Galerie Barbara Weiss

1995

The Middle of the Day, Metro Pictures

The Middle of the Day, Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin

Galerie Rizzo

1994

Richard Telles Fine Arts, Los Angeles

1993

The Long March, the Narrow Road, Metro Pictures

Art & Public, Geneva

Galerie Rizzo, Paris (with Michael Jenkins)

Museum Robert Walser, Hotel Krone, Gais, Switzerland

1992

"Rock Sucks/Disko Sucks," daadgalerie, Berlin; Bruno Brunnet Fine Arts, Berlin

Laboratorium Gallery, Center for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw

Jablonka Galerie, Cologne

1991

Roy Boyd Gallery, Santa Monica, California

Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York

1990

Galerie Isabella Kacprzak, Cologne

Standard Graphik, Cologne

...But the Flesh is Weak, Metro Pictures

1988

Metro Pictures, New York

Galerie Sophia Ungers, Koln (with Jennifer Bolande)

1987

American Fine Arts Co., New York

1986

Metro Pictures, New York

1985

Rosamund Felsen, Los Angeles

Metro Pictures, New York

1984

Rosamund Felsen, Los Angeles

Metro Pictures, New York

1983

"Recent Work," The Kitchen, New York

1982

White Columns, New York