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Resonance of Place

Ruth Miller




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Gross McCleaf Art Gallery

Ruth Miller appears courtesy of Lohin Geduld Gallery, New York, NY.

Born 1930 in Columbia, Missouri

EDUCATION
University of Missouri, BA
Art Student’s League, New York, NY

ONE AND TWO PERSON EXHIBTIONS
2008Lohin Geduld Gallery, New York, NY (with Natalie Charkow-Hollander)
2005Eleanor D. Wilson Museum, Hollins University, Roanoke, VA
2004The Alexandre Hogue Gallery, Tulsa, OK (illustrated catalog)
2002Drawing Retrospective (traveling exhibition with illustrated catalog)
• New York Studio School Gallery, New York, NY (May 23-June 29)
• Jaffe-Friede & Strauss Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH (November 12-December 15)
• The Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford College, Haverford, PA (April 4-May 4, 2003)
Bowery Gallery, New York, NY
1999Jaffe-Friede & Strauss Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH (illustrated catalog)
1998Bowery Gallery, New York, NY
1996Swiss Hospitality Institute, Washington, CT (with Alexandre Purves)
1995Galleria ISA Montecastello di Vibbio, Umbria, Italy
Dorry Gates Gallery, Kansas City, MO (with Andrew Forge)
1993Bowery Gallery, New York, NY
1992Washington Arts Association, Washington Depot, CT (watercolors)
1988New York Studio School Gallery, New York, NY
1982Washington Arts Association, Washington Depot, CT
1979New York Studio School Gallery, New York, NY
1969Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA (with Bill Freeland)
1965Warehouse Gallery, Arden, DE
1964Lincoln Gallery, Westchester, PA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009Resonance of Place, Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2008DrawingAtlas, Lohin Geduld Gallery, New York, NY
2005Faculty Show 2005, Washington Arts Association, Washington Depot, CT
Artists at Work, Kent Fine Art, Kent, CT, Paris and New York
Drawing Today 2005, New Arts Gallery, Litchfield, CT
Between Perception and Invention: Three Generations of Figurative Artists, Sharon Arts Center, Peterborough, NH
Poetic Dimensions in the Modern Still Life, Emily Lowe Gallery, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY
2004Escapes and Double Takes, West Wind Studio, Washington Depot, CT
Water Currents, Kouros Gallery, New York, NY
Drawing Today, New Arts Gallery, Litchfield, CT
Transforming the Page, William Bailey curator, National Academy of Design Museum, New York, NY
The Artist’s Eye, Wolf Kahn curator, National Academy of Design Museum, New York, NY
2003Zeuxis, Uncommon Perspectives, Attleboro Museum for the Arts, Attleboro, MA
Trees, Paesaggio Gallery, West Hartford, CT
Working from Nature, Marymount College, Tarrytown, NY
2002The Artist’s Eye, National Academy of Design Museum, New York, NY
Zeuxis, New England College Gallery, Henniker, NH
2001176th Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design Museum, New York, NY
Zeuxis at Kouros, Kouros Gallery, New York, NY
2000Women’s View: Two Generations of Women Artists from New York, The Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford College, Haverford, PA
Zeuxis: Still Life, The Human Presence, (traveling exhibition), The Painting Center, New York, NY
Washington, Pride of Place, The Gunn Historical Museum, Washington, CT
175th Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design Museum, New York, NY
1999Kinds of Drawings, Belk Gallery, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC
174th Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design Museum, New York, NY
Artists-Mentors, Denise Bibro Fine Art, Inc. New York, NY
Drawing Plus One, New York Studio School Gallery, New York, NY
Ecstacy & Silence: 10 Contemporary American Painters, Delaware College of Art and Design, Wilmington, DE
1998173rd Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design Museum, New York, NY
Zeuxis Still Life, Erector Square Gallery, New Haven, CT
1997Field of Vision, Kendall Art and Design, Hudson, NY
Member’s Show, Bowery Gallery, New York, NY
1996Perception Synthesis, New York Studio School Gallery, New York, NY
30-mile Circle, Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, CT
Member’s Show, Bowery Gallery, New York, NY
Member’s Drawing Show, Bowery Gallery, New York, NY
Out of the Ordinary, Marymount Manhattan College, New York, NY
1995Couples, Munson Gallery, New Haven, CT
170th Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design Museum, New York, NY
1994Member’s Show, Bowery Gallery, New York, NY
169th Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design Museum, New York, NY
1993Contemporary Still Life, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Folks, ND
The Private Eye, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
The Inaugural Show, The Painting Center, New York, NY
Works by Women Artists, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA
Their Faces and Their Work, Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, CT
French Ideals and French Idylls, New York Studio School Gallery, New York, NY
Formative Past: Present Form, New York Studio School Gallery, New York, NY
199212 X 12, Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, CT
167th Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design Museum, New York, NY
1991Member’s Show, Bowery Gallery, New York, NY
Waterbury Arts, Waterbury, CT
1990Discourse, New York Studio School Gallery, New York, NY
1 plus 2, Bowery Gallery Invitational, New York, NY
Candidates for Art Awards Exhibition, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
1989Virginia Lynch Gallery, Tiverton, RI
1988Vision and Tradition, Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ
Vision and Tradition, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME
Still Life, Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York, NY
Face Off: Artists by Artists, Washington Arts Association, Washington Depot, CT
1986Portraits, New York Studio School Gallery, New York, NY
1985Survival of the Fittest II, Ingber Gallery, New York, NY
1983Artists working in New Haven, New Haven, CT (invitational)
1982Seventeen from New Haven, New Haven, CT (invitational)
Artist’s Choice, Swain School of Design, New Bedford, MA, (invitational)
Invitational Exhibition, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
1980Invitational Exhibition, Hartford Civic Center, Hartford, CT
1975In Praise of Space, Westminster College, Westminster, PA
1967Four Man Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
Warehouse Gallery, Arden, DE
1961-69Delaware Art Museum Annual Exhibition, Wilmington, DE
1961Maryland Regional Exhibition, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
1956-58Judson Church, New York, NY

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Donohoe, Victoria, Review, Philadelphia Inquirer, April, 2003
Kramer, Hilton, Review, The New York Observer, August, 2002
Smith, Roberta, Review, The New York Times, June, 2002
Naves, Mario Review, The New York Observer, June, 2002
Everett, Deborah, Review, The Brooklyn Rail, March, 2002
Naves, Mario, Review, The New York Observer, August, 2001
Naves, Mario, Review, The New York Observer, June, 2001
Grimes, Nancy, Review, Art In America, June, 1999

AWARDS AND GRANTS
Oscar Williams and Gene Derwood Award, The New York Community Trust, 2003
Henry Ward Ranger Purchase Award, National Academy’s 175th Annual Exhibition, 2000
Benjamin Altman Landscape Prize, National Academy’s 174th Annual Exhibition, 1999
Emil and Dines Carlsen Still Life Award, National Academy’s 172nd Annual Exhibition, 1997
Certificate of Merit, National Academy’s 170th Annual Exhibition, 1995
Ingram Merrill Foundation Grant, 1995, 81
Academician, National Academy of Design, 1994
Associate, National Academy of Design, 1994
Hirshberg Company Award, Maryland Regional Exhibition, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1961

PRINCIPAL PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Delaware Art Museum
University of Delaware
Corcoran Gallery
Bryn Mawr College
National Academy of Design
Hood Museum, Dartmouth College
Eleanor D. Wilson Museum, Hollins University

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
1973-presentTeacher of drawing and painting at the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture, New York, NY
1991-93Graduate Program, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
1989-93International School of Art, Umbria, Italy
1990Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
1986-88Studio Art School of the Aegean, Samos, Greece
1981-82Yale Norfolk Summer School, Norfolk, CT
1975-78University of Hartford, Hartford, CT
1974-75Queens College, New York, NY
1967-71Philadelphia School of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA

VISITING ARTIST
2005Western Connecticut State University, MFA Painting Program
Artist-in-Residence, Hollins University, Roanoke, VA
2004Mayo Distinguished Visiting Artist, University of Tulsa
2003Western Connecticut State University, MFA Painting Program
1999Artist-in-Residence, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH


 
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