Nick Miller
Co Sligo, Ireland
Born in London, he moved to Ireland in 1984 and is based in Co Sligo. Known for reinvigorating the traditional genres of Landscape, Portrait and Still-Life.
MessageNick Miller (b 1962, London). One of Ireland's highly regarded contemporary artists, Miller’s work explores realms of direct and lived encounter through reinvigorated approaches to the traditional genres of portrait, landscape and still-life. His expanded practice includes film, drawing and sculpture. Miller, a member of Aosdána since 2001, was recipient of the inaugural Hennessy Portrait Award at the National Gallery of Ireland 2014. He has exhibited widely in Ireland and internationally, including solo shows at the Irish Museum of Modern Art and R.H.A. Dublin, the New York Studio School, Centre Culturel Irlandais Paris, and his work is held in major public and institutional collections.
Selected Exhibitions include:
"RED DUST", College Lane Gallery, Howth, Dublin (May 1st-27th June 2026); "This Holding Sea" Art Space Gallery, London, (Oct 29th-Dec 23rd 2026);"Still Nature", Art Space Gallery, London, (8th Sept - 21st Oct 2022); "Sanctuary: Nick Miller and Patrick Hall", Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin, (June 2022); "Rootless | new paintings", Art Space Gallery, London, (Feb-March 2019); "Rootless", Oliver Sears Gallery, Dublin, (Oct-Nov 2018); "Vessels: Nature Morte", Art Space Gallery, London (Sept-Oct 2016); "Nick Miller and the Studio of Edward McGuire", Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (Nov 19th, 2015 - May 2nd, 2016); "Vessels: Nature Morte" RHA Gallery, Dublin (2015). “Sitting” Laois Arthouse, Stradbally, Co Laois (2014);”YARD" Rubicon Gallery Dublin (2012); "Painting Patrick: after Olympia & Venus" The Heritage Council, Kilkenny Arts Festival; "Tree House 360˚ "Concord Art Association (2011) Concord, MA, USA. Curated by OH Projects, Boston;"Tree House 360˚" Rubicon Gallery Dublin(2010) "Truckscapes - Paintings from a mobile studio" New York Studio School, New York (2008) "Truckscapes- Drawings from a Mobile Studio" Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris (2007), Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick (2008), Rubicon Gallery, Dublin (2008); "Standing Sitting Lying: Watercolours" Rubicon Gallery, Dublin (2006); "Genre", The Butler Gallery (2004), The Castle, Kilkenny ; "Figure to Ground", Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin (2003); "Closer" Rubicon Gallery, Dublin; Art Space Gallery, London (2000-01); Kilkenny Arts Festival; "Paintings & Drawings" Rubicon Gallery Dublin (1998); Art Space Gallery, London (1999); "Figure", The Lowe Gallery, Atlanta USA (1996); "Paintings", Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast; (1996) "South African Works", The Irish Museum of Modern Art Dublin (1994); "Paintings & Drawings", Galerie D’Eendt, Amsterdam (1992) and "The Shadow Line", The City Arts Centre, Dublin (1991); "Zoo Work", Eve Linders, Dublin (1989); Twilights Raw, Project Arts Centre, Dublin (1988). "Chen + Miller : East + West" at The Model Arts and Niland Gallery, Sligo.
Curatorial and collaborative projects include:
"Beginnings" Patrick Hall ,The Model, Sligo (2021); "RDS Visual Arts Awards exhibition", RDS Dublin (2017); "Nick Miller and the Studio of Edward McGuire", Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (Nov 19th, 2015 - May 2nd, 2016); "Hilton Miller, Paintings", Highgate Gallery, London (2011); "Chen ZhongSen" Micro-carvings and paintings (2002) at The Model Arts and Niland Gallery, Sligo, The Rubicon Gallery Dublin and Chester Beatty Library, Dublin
Collections include:
National Gallery of Ireland, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin City Council; The Hugh Lane, Irish Life PLC, RTE, The Arts Council (Ireland), European Investment Bank (Luxembourg), Independent Newspapers (Ireland), The National Drawing Collection : LCGA (Limerick Municipal Collection), The Niland Collection (Sligo), Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Boyle Civic Collection, Fujian Teachers College (China), Dublin Institute of Technology, Allied Irish Bank, Irish Permanent, Ulster Bank. Fundacion Privada Sorigue, Lleida Spain.
Statement
All images © Nick Miller | www.nickmiller.ie