GRAHAM MILLER
Born Hong Kong 1966
Lives in Fremantle Western Australia
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Playing the Man, Linden New Art, Melbourne
2021 Playing the Man tours regional Western Australia- Goldfields Arts Centre, Kalgoorlie May-June
2021 Playing the Man, Beach St Gallery as part of Fringe World Perth
2019 Playing the Man, Turner Galleries, Perth
2015 WA Focus: Graham Miller, Art Gallery of Western Australia
2015 Photographs: Graham Miller, Turner Galleries, Perth
2014 All that is Solid Melts into Air, Turner Galleries, Perth
2013 Graham Miller Photographs, One Eyed Jacks Gallery, Brighton, England
2010 Waiting for the Miracle, Turner Galleries, Perth
2010 American Photographs, New Edition Bookshop, FotoFreo Fringe 2010
2008 Pingyao International Festival of Photography, China
2007 Kaunas Photo Festival 07, Lithuania (Prize Winner)
2007 Suburban Splendour, Turner Galleries, Perth
2006 Suburban Melancholy, FotoFreo - The City of Fremantle Festival of Photography, Fremantle
2002 Mementos, FotoFreo International Festival of Photography, Fremantle
2000 The Epic of the Everyday, Photography Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
1998 Streetwise:New York Street Photography, Photography Gallery of Western Australia,Perth
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 Meet the Pattis, Perth Centre for Photography
2020 Panacea: The City of Fremantle Art Collection and a Response to Covid19, Fremantle Arts Centre
2019 Civilization: The Way We Live Now, National Gallery of Victoria
2019 Freighting Ideas: How Did I Get Here?, an Art Gallery of Western Australia regional touring exhibition- Katanning Gallery, Collie Art Gallery, Ningaloo Centre Exmouth, Bunbury Regional Art Gallery, Geraldton Regional Art Gallery, Carnarvon Library and Gallery, East Pilbara Art Centre
2018 WAu!, Rovaniemi Art Museum, Finland
2017 Wish You Were Here, Perth Centre for Photography
2017 Instincts, Mt Rokko International Photo Festival, Japan
2016 City of Perth Photographic Commission, Perth Centre for Photography
2016 Seeking Asylum in Country : Western Australian Landscapes, PSAS, Fremantle
2014 New Passports, New Photography, Art Gallery of Western Australia
2014 Bowness Prize Finalist, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne
2014 Contemporary Landscapes in Photography (CLIP Award), Perth Centre for Photography (Prize Winner, Judges Commendation)
2013 Making Pictures of People, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Missouri, USA
2013 Momentum: 21 Years of PCP, curated by Paola Anselmi, Perth Centre for Photography, WA
2012 Negotiating this world: Contemporary Australian Art, National Gallery of Victoria,Melbourne
2012 Anthology: A Biennial of Contemporary Photography, Southeast Museum of Photography,Florida, USA
2012 Looking at the Land - 21st Century American Views, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, USA
2011 Recent Photography- Tania Ferrier, Brad Rimmer, Max Pam, Graham Miller, Fremantle Arts Centre, WA
2011 100 Portraits, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, NSW
2011 Remix, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, WA
2011 The Truth is Not in the Mirror, Haggerty Museum, Milwaukee, USA
2010 Collective, Perth Centre for Photography, WA
2010 100 Portraits- 100 Photographers, Night Gallery, FotoWeek DC, USA
2010 8 DAYS, Perth Centre for Photography, Australia
2010 (Por)trait Revealed, Rayko Photo Center, San Francisco USA
2010 CLIP Award, Perth Centre for Photography
2010 Yokohama Photo Festival, Japan
2009 Food For Your Eyes Slideshow, F/stop Festival, Leipzig, Germany
2009 Pingyao International Festival of Photography, China
2009 Transient States, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, Perth
2008 Recontres Photographie Internationale de Niort, Scene Nationale Le Moulin du Roc, France
2008 Kaunas Photo2008, Lithuania
2008 Darkness Falls, Melbourne Art Fair, The Turner Galleries, Royal Exhibition Building
2008 Hijacked, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Australia and Berlin, Germany
2007 Phosphorus 15, Perth Centre for Photography
2007 In Transit, Alliance Française, Sydney
2006 Image Inner Mongolia Project, China Photo Press, Beijing, China
2006 Melbourne Art Fair, The Church Gallery, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
2005 City of Joondalup Invitation Art Award, Perth
2005 Sydney Art 05, Horden Pavilion, Sydney
2005 Between a Blink and Recognition, The Church Gallery, Perth
2004 Artitude, Burswood Convention Centre, Perth
2004 City of Perth Photomedia Award, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art
2003 Difficult and Dangerous Times, Fremantle Arts Centre
2000-2003 New Australiana tours nationally
2000 New Australiana, Australian Centre for Photography, Festival of Sydney
1999 Over the Fence- WA Comedy Short Film Festival, Film and Television Institute,Fremantle
1998 Metropolis Super 8 Film Festival, Fremantle (People's Choice Award)
1998 Visionaries, Moores Building Contemporary Art Gallery, Fremantle
RESIDENCY
2008 Pourl'Instant , Niort, France
AWARDS
2015 Prix Pictet Award, Nominee
2014 Bowness Prize, Finalist, Monash Gallery of Art
2014 CLIP Award, finalist and
2009 Honourable Mention Hey,Hot Shot!, Second Edition
2009 Selection SantaFe Review, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
2009 Nominee Leopold Godowsky, Jr. Colour Photography Awards USA
2008 Nominee Santa Fe Prize for Photography , USA
2008 Shortlisted final six for Critical Mass Photolucida Award, USA
TEACHING
2003-2015 Adjunct/Sessional Lecturer (Photomedia), EdithCowan University
1998 Arts worker, DADAA (WA) Disability in the Arts,Disadvantage in the Arts
ART EDUCATION
1996-1999 Bachelor of Communications (Photomedia) First Class Honours, Edith Cowan University
COLLECTIONS
National Gallery Victoria, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Lawrence Wilson Gallery Collection, Haggerty Museum of Art Milwaukee, Southeast Museum of Photography Florida, Parliament House Collection Canberra, Murdoch University Collection, Edith Cowan University Collection, City of Fremantle Collection, City of Perth Collection, St John of God Collection, Art Bank, Royal Perth Hospital Collection, numerous private collections in Australia and internationally
SELECTED ONLINE PRESS
2015 Exhibition Catalogue WA Focus Graham Miller Art Gallery of Western Australia
2015 ABC Radio National Perth Photographer shares dramatic Urban Images
2015 Landscape Stories, Issue 19 Australia http://www.landscapestories.net/
2015 Q&A : Graham Miller, The Heavy Collective, http://theheavycollective.com/post/120497094993/qagraham-miller
2014 Waiting for the Miracle, Medium, https://medium.com/stories-behind-photography/waiting-for-the-miracle-by-graham-miller-974f79806e85
2014 Naima Morrelli, Suburban Splendour- an interview with Graham Miller, Trouble Magazine, http://www.troublemag.com/suburban-splendour-an-interview-with-graham-miller/
2014 Jeff Hamada, Graham Miller, BOOOOOOOM, http://www.booooooom.com/2014/05/19/photographer-graham-miller-2/
2014 AmericanPhotographs, Juxtapoz Art and Culture Magazine, http://www.juxtapoz.com/photography/american-photographs-by-graham-miller
2013 Amanda Gorence, Evocative Photographs inspired by Leonard Cohen’s Waiting for the Miracle, FeatureShoot, http://www.featureshoot.com/tag/graham-miller-photography/
2013 Jeffrey Saddoris, The Ambiguity of images: Graham Miller, Faded and Blurred, http://fadedandblurred.com/articles/the-ambiguity-of-images-graham-miller/
2011 Exhibition Catalogue The Truth is Not in the Mirror, Haggerty Museum Milwaulkee
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2015 From Here On, Ain’t Bad Magazine
2012 101 Contemporary Australian Artists (National Gallery of Victoria)
2011 The Truth is Not in the Mirror | Photography and a Constructed Identity, Exhibition Catalog (Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University)
2010 Donal Fitzpatrick, All Bark and No Dog, The West Australian, Today p 7, Friday November 12
2010 Anne Marsh, LOOK| Contemporary Australian Photography Since 1980 (Macmillan Art Publishing)
2010 Lyn Diciero, New Light Illuminates Ordinary Life,The West Australian, Tuesday Oct 19, Today lift-out p10
2010 COURRIER INTERNATIONAL, Portfolio, Issue 1011,18-24 Mar 2010, Paris, France
2009 David Bromfield, WAVES, Edith Cowan University Art Collection (Edith Cowan University)
2008 VISION MAGAZINE Issue 11, November 2008, pp118-123, Beijing China
2008 PHOTOWORLD MAGAZINE, Issue 332, October 2008, pp54-61, Beijing China
2008 Sandy Oliver, Down the Barrel, INSITE, Issue 18,Spring 2008
2008 Mark McPherson and Max Pam editors, HIJACKED, Volume 1, Australia/America(Big City Press)
2008 Robert Cook, Lonely Ain't No Eyesore, PHOTOFILE,Issue 82 Guilty Secrets Summer 2008
2007 Ric Spencer, Angst meets serenity in blue The West Australian Weekend Extra, Sat 14 July
2007 Susan Bright, Go West, C INTERNATIONAL PHOTO MAGAZINE, issue 4
2007 Ric Spencer Mobile Babel Gives Ambiguity Back toImages, Weekend West Australian, Sat 3 Feb
2006 Sara Haq Fabulous Faraway Foto Festival, HOTSHOE: FRESH PERSPECTIVES ON CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY, London Jun/Jul 2006
2006 Robert Cook Planets Essay for Suburban Melancholy2005
2006 Ric Spencer Subtle Meanings in the Infrastructure,The Weekend Western Australian, Sat 14 May
2003 Robert Cook Lunar Language on West Australian photomedia artists, PHOTOFILE MAGAZINE Issue 69 Suburbia
2001 Daniel Palmer Shorts on emerging photomedia artists, PHOTOFILE MAGAZINE, Issue 62 Fresh
2000 David Bromfield Substance Reigns Big Weekend, The Weekend West Australian, Sat 8 April
2000 Robert Cook Glimpses into Hidden Suburbia The West Australian, Wed 29 March
2000 Joanne McCulloch Ordinary Suburbia lens itself to the Bizarre, The Australian, Fri Mar 17