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BIOGRAPHY
1951 Born in Houston, TX
The artist currently lives and works in Austin, TX
Education
1974 B.F.A., University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Yale Summer School of Music and Art, New Haven, CT
1971 Museum of Fine Arts School, Houston, TX
1969-71 Attended University of Texas, Austin, TX
Awards and Grants
1999 Legend Award, Dallas Visual Arts Center
1987 1987 Texas Art Award
1985 National Endowment for the Arts
1982 National Endowment for the Arts
Anne Giles Kimbrough Fund, Dallas Museum of Art
1979 National Endowment for the Arts
1974 Full Scholarship, Yale Summer School of Music and Art
Solo Exhibitions Group Exhibitions
2006
Melissa Miller: Works on Paper, Nave Museum, Victoria, TX
2005
Melissa Miller: Recent Works on Paper, The Ellen Noel Art Museum, Odessa, TX
2004
Melissa Miller—New Paintings, Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL
Bestiary: Works on Paper by Melissa Miller, Mary Baldwin College, Staunton, VA
A Beastiary: Works on Paper by Melissa Miller, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
2003
New Paintings, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, TX
New Paintings, Betty Moody Gallery, Houston, TX
2001
Melissa W. Miller, St. Edwards University, Fine Arts Gallery, Austin, TX
1999
Melissa Miller, Dallas Visual Arts Center, Dallas, TX
1995
Melissa Miller: Paintings 1986-1995, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY;
Texas Gallery, Houston, TX (catalog)
1991
Melissa Miller: The Artist’s Eye, Kimball Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX
1990
Paintings, Georgia State University Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1989
Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, MT
1986
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX
1985
Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY
1984
Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY
1983
Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
1981
Projects Gallery, Art Museum of South, Texas, Corpus Christi, TX
Perspectives Gallery, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX (catalog)
1978
Young Artists Series, Amarillo Art Center, Amarillo, TX (catalog)
Group Exhibitions Solo Exhibitions
2006
Bestiary: A Juried Group Exhibition, Froelick Gallery, Portland, OR
2005
Land, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, Texas
2004
5th Anniversary Exhibition, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX
Perspectives @ 25: A Quarter-Century of New Art in Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
Flatbed Press: Texas Grit, William Cempbell Contemporary Art, Fort Worth, TX
Mythmakers and Storytellers, Nancy Scanlin Gallery, Helms Fine Arts Center, Austin, TX
Texas Paint, Part One: More True Stories, Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, TX
Texas Vision, The Barrett Collection, The Meadows Museum, Dallas, TX
21/30 Artistas Graficas de Texas, Galleria del Instutio de Artes Plasticas de la Universidad Veracruzana, Veracruz, Mexico
B-side: Studio & Design Faculty Show, 2004, Creative Research Lab, Austin, TX
2003
Flip, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX
2002
Next, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX
Re: Vision Five Women Re- Vision, The University of Texas at San Antonio Art Gallery, San Antonio, TX
Groundwork, Recent Work by Faculty in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at Austin, Creative Research Laboratory, Austin, TX
Wild Life: The Other Tradition, Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL (catalog)
2001
Beauty Without Regret, Belles Artes Gallery, Santa Fe, NM (catalog)
Artists Collect Art, Nancy Wilson Scanlan Gallery, Helm Fine Arts Center, Austin, TX
Private Collections: Artists, Curators and Collectors, The Gallery at the University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX
Melissa W. Miller, St. Edwards University, Austin, TX
2000
Plano Walls: Texas Artists...A Glimpse at Local Private Art Collections, Art Centre of Plano, Plano, TX
Crossing State Lines: Texas Art from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Opening Exhibition, Davis Gallery, Austin, TX
Uniquely Texas Icons, New Braunsfels Museum of Art, New Braunsfels, TX
25 Year Anniversary, Betty Moody Gallery, Houston, TX
The Sixty-Second Annual ART FACULTY Exhibition, Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art,
1999
Group Show, Gallery Artists, Lyons Matrix Gallery, Austin, TX
Group Show, Gallery Artists, Betty Moody Gallery, Houston, TX
1998
Family Ties, Lyons Matrix Gallery, Austin, TX
Flatbed Prints, Flatbed Press, Austin, TX
Link, Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, TX
New Works by Contemporary Artists, Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Contemporary Texas Artists: Connie Arismendi, James Cobb, Melissa Miller and Kathy Vargas, Weil Gallery, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi, TX
Exhibition of Selected Works by Faculty, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX
1997
Fresh Ink: Austin Print Workshops, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX
Real(ist) Women, Selby Gallery, Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL
New Works by Gallery Artists, Lyons Matrix Gallery, Austin, TX
Finders/Keepers, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
Link, Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, TX
Dog Days Group Exhibit, Lyons Matrix Gallery, Austin, TX
Two Austin Connoisseurs Collect Texas Art, Scanlan Art Gallery, St. Stephen’s Episcopal School, Austin, TX
Animal Tales: Contemporary Bestiary and Animal Paintings, Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, Stamford, CT
Holiday Exhibition, Parchman Stremmel Galleries, San Antonio, TX
1996
Pinned to the Wall, Parchman Stremmel Galleries, San Antonio, TX
Three-Artist Exhibition: Melissa Miller, David Everett, and Sally Chandler, Lyons Matrix Gallery, Austin, TX
Interplay: Celebrating the poems of Pablo Neruda, Slover McCutcheon Gallery, Houston, TX
Link, Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, TX
Bucking the Texas Myth: Scouting the Third Frontier, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX
Myths & Magical Fantasies, California Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido, CA
Establishment Exposed, Dallas Visual Arts Center, Dallas, TX
1995
Images of Nature III, Martin-Rathburn Gallery, San Antonio, TX
Link, Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, TX
Flatbed Press Group Exhibition, Rachel Harris Gallery, Fort Worth, TX
Texas Myths and Realties, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
1994
Drawings, Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, TX
1993-94
The 43rd Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (catalog)
1993
Animal Attraction, The Haggar University Gallery, University of Dallas, Dallas, TX
15th Anniversary Show, Austin Visual Artists Association, Gallery 201, Austin, TX
Lawndale Retrospective Exhibition: A Housewarming Event, Lawndale Art and Performance Center, Houston, TX
1992
Mind and Beast: Contemporary Artists and the Animal Kingdom, traveling to Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX; Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN; Tuscon Museum of Art, Tuscon, AZ; Canton Art Institute, Canton, TX; Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne
100th Anniversary Prints, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX
Master Prints from the Rutgers Center for Innovative Printmaking: The First Five Years, The Gallery at Bristol-Myers Squibb, Princeton, NJ; traveling to the Du Bois Gallery, Lehigh University, Lehigh,
44th Annual Academy-Institute Purchase Exhibition, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
1991
Group Exhibition, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY
1990
Baltimore Collects: Painting and Sculpture Since 1960, Baltimore Art Museum, Baltimore, MD
Black & White, Linda Cathcart Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Drawings, Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
Feather, Fin & Fur, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX
42nd Annual Purchase Exhibition, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
Northwest x Southwest: Painted Fictions, Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA; traveling to Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, MT; Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA; Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Houston, TX
1989
Land Scope, Vrej Baghoomian, Inc., New York, NY
Deep Woods: Concerning Nature in Recent Painting, Drawings and Sculpture, Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota, Duluth, MN
Making Their Mark: Women Artists Today, a Documentary Survey 1970-1985, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH; traveling to New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA and The Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Texas Women, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.; traveling to Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX
Illustrious Alumni, University Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM (catalog)
Guest Artists in Printmaking, Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas, Austin, TX
1988
Life Stories, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Texas Art, The Menil Collection, Richmond Hall, Houston, TX
Twentieth-Century Art in the Museum collection: Direction and Diversity, Museum of fine Arts, Houston, TX
Group Exhibition, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY
Looking South: A Different Dixie, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
1988 Texas Exhibit, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.
Review Exhibition, Center for Women and Their Work, Austin, TX
One + One: Collaborations by Artists and Writers, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; traveling to the Nave Museum, Victoria, TX
Zoomorphism: Animals in Art, Trammell Crow Center, Dallas, TX
Printmaking in Texas, University of Texas, Austin, TX
1987
Texas Group Exhibition, James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Third Coast Review: A Look at Art in Texas, The Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
Texas, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Rental Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, Austin Visual Arts Association, Austin, TX
Animals, Main Art Gallery, California State University, Fullerton, CA
Creatures Great and Small, Schmidt and Bingham Gallery, New York, NY
1986
Texas Group Show, Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
Directions, Hirschorn Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (catalog)
MacIntosh/Drysdale Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Texas!, Tilden-Foley Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Western States Biennial, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY (traveling)
A Sense of Place: Contemporary Southern Art, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN (catalog)
1985
Fresh Paint, The Musuem of Fine Arts, Houston, TX (catalog)
Women of the American West, Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT
Private Treasures - Public View, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX
Jungle Fever, The Harcus Gallery, Boston, MA
Texas Currents, San Antonio Art Institute, San Antonio, TX (catalog)
1984
New Directions for the Michener Collection, Archer Huntington Gallery, University of Texas, Austin, TX
Five Texans in Venice, University of Texas, San Antonio, TX
Paradise Lost/Paradise Regained, The Venice Bienniale, Venice, Italy (catalog)
El Arte Narrativo, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico (catalog)
Biennial III, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
10 Years Later: An Exhibition of Yale-Norfolk Alumni and Faculty, Art Barn Gallery, Norfolk, CT
Bunnies, White Columns, New York, NY
Four Texas Painters, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL
1983
New Figurative Drawing in Texas, San Antonio Art Institute, San Antonio, TX
Texas Images and Visions, Archer M. Huntington Gallery, University of Texas, Austin, TX; traveling to Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi and Amarillo Art Center, Amarillo, TX
1983 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (catalog)
Southern Fictions, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX (catalog)
Certain Realties, University Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM (catalog)
Invitational Group Exhibition: Painting, Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI
The End of the World: Contemporary Visions of the Apocalypse, The New Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX
Perspectives, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX
1982
New Works, Summer ‘82, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX (catalog)
Patrick Gallery, Austin, TX
1981
Longview Invitational 1981, Longview Museum and Arts Center, Longview, TX
Wendy Edwards and Melissa Miller, Mattingly Baker Gallery, Dallas, TX
1980
Texas Only, Texas Fine Arts Association Summer Exhibition, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX
Introductions ‘80, Robinson Galleries, Houston, TX
1980 New Orleans Triennial, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA (catalog)
Texas Fine Arts Association 1980 Annual Exhibitions, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX
Visions and Figurations, California State University, Fullerton, CA
1979
Vital Signs, Aperture Gallery, Austin, TX
Austin Contemporary Art Exhibition, Trinity House Gallery, Austin, TX
The Amarillo Competition, Amarillo Arts Center, Amarillo, TX
Women in Sight: New Art in Texas, Dougherty Cultural Arts Center, Austin, TX
New Works, Melissa Miller and Claudia Reese, Laguna Gloria at First Federal, Austin, TX
1978
Austin Contemporary Visual Arts Association, St. Edwards University, Austin, TX
Works on Paper: Southwest 1978, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, TX
1977
Women and Their Work, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX
Painting and Sculpture Exhibition, One Seguin Art Center, Seguin, TX
1974
Southwest Fine Arts Biennial, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM
1973
A.S.A. Gallery, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Public Collections
3M Company, Austin, TX
Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY
American Airlines, Dallas, TX
AMOCA, Houston, TX
ARCO, Dallas, TX
Chase Manhattan Art Collection, New York, NY
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX
First National Bank, Chicago, IL
The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Interfirst Bank, Houston, TX
Modern Museum of Art, Fort Worth, TX
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.
The Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
Payne Webber, New York, NY
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Texas Tech University