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Sean Miller

Associate Professor
  • School of Art + Art History

Sean Owen Miller is best known for collaborative projects that merge the roles of artist, curator, and collector. Miller employs intermedia approaches, experimental exhibition formats, storytelling, and speculative design strategies to examine historical events, institutional frameworks, and scientific knowledge. Miller’s practice seeks to raise awareness, empathy, and wellness in the individual and the natural world. The concept of the archive or cabinet of wonder is an organizing principle for many of his projects. Since 2010, Sean has collaborated with numerous key artists from the Fluxus intermedia art network including Eric Anderson, Philip Corner, Ken Friedman, Bibbe Hansen, Billie Maciunas, Yoko Ono, Ben Patterson, and Ben Vautier. Other notable longtime collaborators include designer Connie Hwang, Chip Lord (Ant Farm), and Jack Massing (Art Guys). Miller is currently working with Ken Friedman on the next edition of the Fluxus Performance Workbook 2028 with Ken Friedman (Published by Punctum Books). In 2022, Sean performed/exhibited in exhibitions: Fluxus 1962 – 2022 Sixty Years in Flux and 88 New Works by Philip Corner, Sean Miller, and Jack Massing (Genoa, Italy). Most recently, Billie Maciunas and Sean Miller co-curated Fluxus in the Swamp, a series of exhibitions, performances, and lectures in Gainesville, Florida supported by Santa Fe College, University of Florida, and the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art. Miller is co-founder of SOIL artist-run gallery (1995) in Seattle, founder of the John Erickson Museum of Art (2003), a location-variable museum, and co-founder of “Crude Life Portable Museum: A Citizen Art and Science Investigation of Gulf of Mexico Biodiversity after the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill.” Sean’s work has been covered in: Art Papers, Art Districts, Activating Fluxus, Burnaway, CBS, New York Times, The Nation, New Art Examiner, Sculpture Magazine, RTÉ, Irish Examiner, International Journal of Surrealism Online (Manifold Edition), Baltimore Sun, Issues magazine, LA Weekly, Houston Chronicle, Modern Art Notes, Seattle Times, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Qantas, Miami New Times, Daytona Beach News-Journal, The Stranger, Seattle Weekly, USA Today, WUFT, ArtStar, Dish Network (2008), Oddities (Science Channel) Season 2, NVTV, Northern Visions Media Centre, April 21, 2008. “How to Start Your Own Country” (2009) Documentary by Jodi Shapiro. Selected exhibition venues include the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, Archivio Emily Harvey (Venice, Italy), ACC Galerie (Weimar, Germany), Deitch Projects (NYC), Golden Thread Gallery (Belfast, U.K.), Leicester Gallery (U.K.), National Sculpture Factory of Ireland, (Cork, Ireland), Contemporary Museum (Baltimore), Raccolte Frugone Museum (Nervi, Italy), UnimediaModern (Genova, Italy), National Museum of Ireland (Dublin, Ireland), Scope Miami Beach, and Orlando Museum of Art. He has work in the collection of Northwestern University, Fondation du Doute (Blois, France), Emily Harvey Foundation, Fondazione Bonotto, and valve, Corporation. Sean teaches/has taught Sculpture + Extended Media courses, Art/Sci courses, drawing, Workshop for Art Research + Practice, seminar courses, and special topics courses during his time with School of Art +Art History.

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