Associate Professor, B.A.

Studio Art | Painting

Department of Art & Art History

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Curriculum Vitae

mwmiller@mail.utexas.edu

- Office: ART 4.412

- Phone: +1 512-471-6066

- Mail Code: - D1300

Associate Professor Melissa M. Miller received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of New Mexico in 1974. Miller has been a visiting lecturer and guest artist at over twenty universities, colleges, and art institutes. She is widely known for her expressionistic paintings that use animals as metaphors for human situations and dilemmas. Miller has exhibited work at many of the major museums in America. These include the Hirshhorn and Corcoran Museums in Washington D.C.; the Brooklyn Museum of Fine Arts; the New Orleans Museum; the San Francisco Museum; the Fine Arts Museums in Houston, Dallas, and Ft. Worth. Her work has been included in the prestigious Whitney Biennial and the Venice Biennial. The artist is the recipient of three individual Artist Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her works can be found in many public collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C.; and the Contemporary Museum, Honolulu. Her work is currently represented by Moody Gallery in Houston, and Dunn and Brown Contemporary in Dallas, Texas.