Education
MA, Chelsea College of Art, London, 1988
BA, Chelsea College of Art, London, 1987
About The Artist
Yorkshire-born artist and writer Harland Miller has synchronously developed his dual practices and brings them together in his most recognizable artworks, The Penguin Book Series. Here he infuses his comic writing into his lush and sensual painting practice via imagined book titles. Miller’s serial images of worn books ooze a winking melodrama, thanks to expressive brush marks that roil within the deadpan aesthetic of the iconic Penguin readers.
Printing has also been a longstanding part of Miller’s artistic output, and his approach to reproducing his paintings using the processes of silk screen and giclée can be seen as a further investigation into seriality, one influenced by Andy Warhol’s Brillo Boxes and Campbell’s Soup Can prints, as well as Robert Rauschenberg’s use of culturally loaded reproductions.
Miller graduated from the Chelsea School of Art in London, England in 1988 and published his first novel Slow Down Arthur, Stick to Thirty to critical acclaim in 2000. He has had solo exhibitions at White Cube in London in 2012 and the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, England in 2009. His work has been included in group exhibitions at Gallery Hyundai in Seoul, Korea; the Royal Academy of Arts in London and the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, among many others.
He currently lives and works in London, where he is represented by White Cube.
Galleries
White Cube, London
Select Permanent Collections
Work
Exhibitions
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Anything for a Laugh: Humor in Contemporary Art
The works for this exhibition range from works that address serious concerns with humorous affect to others whose intent is more purely comedic. Together, they provide an intriguing snapshot of the manner in which comic strategies manifest themselves in contemporary art.
News
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Harland Miller at Blain|Southern
May 3, 2016
Tonight We Make History (P.S. I Can’t Be There) Blain|Southern, Berlin April 30 – July 30, 2016
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In Production: Harland Miller’s ‘I’ll Never Forget What I Can’t Remember’
October 8, 2015
Harland Miller, I’ll Never Forget What I Can’t Remember, 2015 All photos courtesy of K2 Screen in London.
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Harland Miller at the Segovia Hay Festival
September 28, 2015
Harland Miller’s work will be displayed for the first time in Spain at the Palacio Quintanar in Segovia during the Hay Festival. The exhibition is titled In Dreams Begin Monsters, which is also the name of one of the large scale works in the exhibition – an oil painting from Miller’s black and gold series which is … Continue reading Harland Miller at the Segovia Hay Festival