Education

2017 MFA Photography Video and Related Media, School of Visual Arts, NY, NY

1992 BA Photography Bard College

 

Awards/ Fellowships/ Residencies

2021    Wassaic Artist Residency, Wassaic, NY

2019 Artist in the Marketplace (AIM) Fellowship, Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY

2018 New York Art Residency and Studios (NARS) Foundation Artist in Residency, Brooklyn, NY

2018    Wassaic Artist Residency, Wassaic, NY

2012 The Photo Review

2011 Winner - Celeste Prize for Photography

 

Selected Exhibitions

2021  Bronx Calling (Biennial). Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY.

2021  Everybody Dies!, Carriage Trade, New York, NY.

2019  Ad Astra Per Aspera, Wassaic Project Summer Exhibition, Wassaic, NY

2019 Lishui Photography Festival, Lishui, China

2018 Somewhere down the line, there's a fine line between a deadline and the bottom line, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY

2018 Governors Island Art Fair, Governors Island, NY

2017  NEoN Digital Arts Festival, Dundee, Scotland

2017  Re: Art Show, With Clifford Owens, Vincent Tiley, Anders Jones and Alanoud Ahmed 630 Flushing Avenue, 3rd floor Brooklyn, NY

2016  Aperture Summer Open curated by Charlotte Cotton, Aperture Foundation, NY, NY

2015  Vertical Living curated by Alison Zavos, PIX 2015, Seattle, WA

2014  Photography Now 2014, Center of Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY

2014  The Perpetual Instant, New Orleans Photo Alliance, New Orleans, LA

2013  Water!, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO

2013  31st Annual Juried Membership Exhibition, Houston Center of Photography, Houston, TX

2013  Lapsus, Fondazione Studio Marangoni, Florence, Italy

2013  “Welcome to the Real" curated by Marco Antonini, Temp, NY, NY

2012  18th Juried Exhibition juried by Paul Kopeikin, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester MA

2012  New Directions 2011 juried by Debra Klompching, Wall Space Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA and Seattle, WA

2011  Celeste Prize Exhibit, Winner for Photography, Invisible Dog Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2011  Soho Photo National Photography Competition, Honorable Mention, Soho Photo Gallery, Manhattan, N

 

Press

Lescaze, Zoë “Everybody Dies!” ARTFORUM, April, 2021.

Jon Feinstein “7 Photographers on Alzheimer's, Dementia, and Heartbreaking Memory Loss,” Vice, Feb 11, 2020.

Zelony-Mindell, Efrem. newflesh. with essays by Charlotte Cotton and Ashley McNelis. New York: Gnomic Book, 2019.

Kail, Ellyn. “Welcome to the Future: 23 Photos of Vertical Living Around the World,” Feature Shoot, October 2, 2015.

Schiller, Jakob. “What Pictures From a Totally Ruined Polaroid Look Like,” Wired, May 11, 2015.

“Ruined Polaroids by William Miller,” Juxtapoz, December 5, 2014.

Kingsley, Kory Jean. “William Miller,” Aint-Bad, November 28, 2014.

“L'art des ratés (The Art of Failures),” Libération, August 5, 2014

Smithson, Aline. “William Miller: Surface Tension,” Lenscratch, July 8, 2014.

Rosenberg, David. “Making Dead Animals and Toxic Waste Beautiful,” Slate, September 10, 2013. 

Graham, Julie. “Bill Miller: Gowanus Canal, Filthy Waters of Brooklyn,” aCurator, September 4, 2013.

“Gowanus Canal Pollution: Photos By William Miller Show Devastating Beauty Of Toxic Channel,” Huffington Post, June 8, 2013.

“No place for dolphins! Eerie but stunning pictures of New York City's heavily-polluted Gowanus canal,” Daily Mail, March 3, 2013.

Weiss, Francine. “William Miller: Ruined Polaroids,” Loupe Magazine, February, 2013.

Xiao, An. “Turning Ruined Polaroids Into Artful Abstractions,” Hyperallergic, May 17, 2012.

Cuéllar, Manuel “'Cómo hacer expresionismo abstracto con una Polaroi,” El Pais, April 25, 2012.

Zhang, Michael. “Ruined Polaroid Pictures as Abstract Art,” PetaPixel, April 24, 2012.

Mead, Derek. “These Beautiful Destroyed Polaroids Prove Film's Not Dead,” Vice Motherboard, April 13, 2012.

Stanley, Caroline. “Photo Gallery: William Miller’s “Ruined” Polaroids,” Flavorwire, January 20th, 2012.

Lectures and Visiting Artist

2018    Artist Talk, Queens College CUNY MFA, Queens, NY

2017    Artist Talk, NEoN Digital Arts Festival, Dundee, Scotland

2016    Artist Talk, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY

2015    Artist Talk, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY

2014    New York University, New York, NY

2014    Artist Talk, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY

2013    Artist Talk, New York University, New York, NY

 

Publications

Saveur, Harpers, Paris Match, Spin, GQ, Stern, The Globe and Mail, Newsday

 

Clients

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Human Rights Watch, Mercy Corps, Doctors Without Borders, Sundance Channel