VIV MILLER
b.1979, Melbourne
Education
2004 Master of Visual Art, Victorian College of Arts, Melbourne
2000 Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours), University of South Australia, Adelaide
2002 - 2003 Downtown Art Space board member, Adelaide
2005 - 2006 BUS Gallery board member, Melbourne
Selected Solo exhibitions
2011 The Sun Room, Neon Parc, Melbourne
2009 Totally Now Forever, Neon Parc, Melbourne
2007 Heavy, ACCA@ Mirka, Mirka Tolarno Hotel, Melbourne
2007 Heavy, Neon Parc, Melbourne
2007 Heavy, Cube, Canberra Contemporary Art Spaces, Canberra
2006 Everything Altogether Feels Heavy, Neon Parc, Melbourne
2005 The Power Part II, with Gareth Durant, Studio 12, Gertrude
Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne
2005 The Power, Bus Gallery, Melbourne
2004 Real World, Cube, Canberra Contemporary Art Spaces, Canberra
2004Nature is Thick, West Space, Melbourne
2003 Prospect 1, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide
2002 Easily Amused, Ausdance Studio Mezzanine, Adelaide
2002 Une exposition dans un petite hangar, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide
Selected group exhibitions
2011 Song Of The Woods, Sarjeant Gallery, Whanganui, New Zealand
2011 Neon Parc, Neon Parc, Melbourne
2010 PICA Salon, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, WA
2009 Chromophobia, Ryn Renshaw Gallery, Brisbane
2009 Hazelhurst Art on paper award, Hazelhurst Regional Art Gallery
2009 The Shilo Project, Ian Potter Museum Of Art, Melbourne (touring)
2009 Art For Science, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne
2008 MentorMentored4, The Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide
2008 101 Tokyo Contemporary Art Fair, Tokyo
2008 An ever expanding universe, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth
2008 Melbourne Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
2008 Bus vs. Blindside: Rumble in the Library, City Library Gallery, Melbourne
2007 Bad Brains, a little blah blah, Ho Chi Minh City
2007 Event 1, MSSR, Brisbane
2007 New Work 3, Screen Space, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth
2007 ABN AMRO 2006 Emerging Artist Award, ABN AMRO Tower, Sydney
2007 ABN AMRO 2006 Emerging Artist Award, Optus Centre, Melbourne
2007 Too Near, Too Far: An Introduction to Australian Independent Art Scene, Careof Centre for
Visual Art, Milan
2007 Strange Beauty, Linden - St Kilda Centre for Contemporary Arts, Melbourne
2007 Paper Cuts, Peloton, Sydney
2006 Gertrude Studios 2006, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne
2006 Things Will Be Great, MOP Projects, Sydney
2006 Snapshot, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide
2006 Reflections in a Golden Eye, Linden - St Kilda Centre for Contemporary Arts, Melbourne
2006 ABN AMRO 2006 Emerging Artist Award, ABN AMRO Tower, Sydney ABN AMRO 2006
2006 Emerging Artist Award, Optus Centre, Melbourne
2006 One God, no masters, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington
2006 Contemporary Collection Benefactors Auction, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2006 Melbourne Reign, Michael Carr Art Dealer, Sydney
2006 Kids Stay Free, Neon Parc, Melbourne
2006 Material Witness: Representations and Space, The Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide
2006 Mountain Film Festival 2006, Hobart
2006 Local Video & Performance Night, Downtown Art Space, Adelaide
2005 Paper Chase, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne
2005 Summer exhibition 2005, Brian Moore Gallery, Sydney
2005 The Air Between Us: Gertrude Studios 2005, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne
2005 A Short Ride in a Fast Machine, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne
2005 Nature by Proxy, Brian Moore Gallery, Sydney
2005 What If, The Wedding Circle, Sydney
2005 New Painting Heroes, Downtown Art Space, Adelaide
2005 A portable model of…, Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart
2005 A portable model of…, Latrobe Regional Art Gallery, Gippsland
2004 Address Book, Bus Gallery, Melbourne
2004 Gold, Victorian College of the Arts, Student Gallery, Melbourne
2004 ANZ Visual Arts Fellowship 2004, ANZ Building, 380 Collins Street, Melbourne
2004 Manifesto, Downtown Art Space, Adelaide
2004 The Containers Project, Next Wave Festival, Federation Square, MelbourneDowntown goes to Perth, Bread Box Gallery, Perth
2003 Love Letter to China, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
2003 Love Letter to China, Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing
2002 Plans and Disasters, Downtown Art Space, Adelaide
2002 Shop Art (installation in Leigh Street), Adelaide
2001 In the Face of Certain Disaster, The Project Space, CACSA
2001 GIRLS, Top Floor (Curator), Adelaide
1999 Twenty x Twenty, Artspace, The Adelaide Festival Centre
Awards
2008 Australia Council, Japan Studio
2006 Australia Council New Work Emerging Grant
2004 Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces Studio Residency
2000 'Artist-in-Studios 2001' grant for studio residency at the Experimental Art Foundation, South
Australian Youth Arts Board
Selected bibliography
Lucy Birmingham, ‘Australia’s Art Market Draws New Collectors After Mineral Boom’, Bloomberg, 17 August.
www.bloomberg.com
‘Best in Tokyo 101 Artfair’, Ping Magazine, 11 April, www.pingmag.jp
Pip Christmas, ‘Sky’s the limit for diversity’, The West Australian, >Wednesday 11 June
Melissa Keys, ‘An Ever Expanding Universe’, catalogue essay, Perth Institute of Contemporary
Art, Perth
Sam Leach, ‘Viv Miller’, Artist Profile, Issue 5, pp.42-45.
Peter McKay, ‘Mentor Mentored4’, catalogue essay, The Contemporary Art Centre of South
Australia, Adelaide
Judith McGrath, ‘An Ever Expanding Universe’, Art Guide Australia (exhibition preview),
July/August, pp.18-19.
John Neylon, ‘Lash and link’, The Adelaide Review, January 2009, issue 347, p.29.
Melissa Keys, ‘Strange Beauty’, catalogue essay, Linden - St Kilda
Centre for Contemporary Arts
Danny Lacy, ‘Heavy’, catalogue essay for New Work 3, Perth Institute of
Contemporary Arts
Mark Amery, ‘Hothouse flowers’, The Dominion Post (NZ), 27 October.
Ashley Crawford, ‘Viv Miller’, Australian Art Collector, issue 38, p.299.
Ashley Crawford, ‘Hell’s Kitchen’, Michael Carr Art Dealer
Ashley Crawford, ‘Kids stay free’, Preview, The Sunday Age, April 16, pp.30-31.
Bridget Currie, ‘Local Video and Performance Nights’, Artlink, vol.26, no.4, p.123.
Nerina Dunt, ‘Material Witness: Representations and Space’, dB magazine, issue #381, 15 – 28
March.
Kelly Gellatly, ‘Reflections in a Golden Eye’, catalogue essay, Linden - St Kilda Centre for
Contemporary Arts.
Lily Hibberd, ‘Viv Miller’, un Magazine, issue 7.
Jeff Kahn, Jeff, ‘Everything Altogether Feels Heavy’, Neon Parc
Chris Reid, ‘Material Witness: Representations and Space’, Australian Art Collector, Issue 35,
January – March 2006, p.259.
Wendy Walker, ‘Impressive showcase for today’s artists’, The Australian, August 11, p.16.
Jena Woodburn, ‘Material Witness: Representations and Space’, The Contemporary Art Centre
of South Australia
Artbank, Calender 2005
Michael Ascroft, ‘The Power Part II’, catalogue essay, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces,
Melbourne.
Jo Higgins, Jo, ‘What If – The Wedding Circle’, State of the Arts, 25 May, www.stateart.com.au.
Stephanie Radok, ‘Minimal paint’, The Adelaide Review, May – June no.269, p.22.
Mark Siebert,‘Exodus? Adl v Mlb’, Vitamin, vol.5, pp.24-25.
Sera Waters, ‘New Painting Heroes’, un Magazine, issue 5, pp.56-7.
Maria Bilske, ‘Undiscovered Artists’, Australian Art Collector, issue 28, April – June, p.97.
Georgina Safe, ‘Galleries go mobile’, The Australian, Tuesday May 18, p.17
Maria Bilske, ‘Peasants and Other Shit’, catalogue essay for Prospect 1,
Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia.
Stephanie Radok, Review of Plans and Disasters and Modern Love Pictures at Downtown Art
Space, Artlink, vol.23, no.1, p.91.
Stephanie Radok, ‘Your mind and you’, The Adelaide Review, June no.237, p.14.
Jena Woodburn, ‘Prospect 1’, Broadsheet, volume 32, no.2, p.36.
Wendy Walker, 'Talking to the animals', The Advertiser, Sat. June 7, p.86.
Ken Bolton, ‘How Do I Look?’, Eyeline, Number 48, pp.48-49.
Collections
Artbank, Sydney, BHP Billiton, Melbourne, Joyce Nissan Collection, Melbourne, Macquarie Bank, Sydney and New
York, Proclaim, Melbourne, UBS, Brisbane, Scanlan & Theodore, Private collections in Australia, New Zealand and South East Asia