Michael Paul Miller is an emerging artist in the contemporary art world who originated from the heartland of Wisconsin. Since his first solo show in 2003, Miller's work has been exhibited in the Museum of Wisconsin Art, Coos Art Museum, New York City, Seattle, and other notable locations throughout the nation. Most recently, his work was awarded, “Best Artwork” in the 2009 Issue of Crosscurrents.
Miller's postmodern new symbolic realist paintings created under the title, The Salvaged, explore the depths of the human condition and attempt to deconstruct the impotent psyche of modernity through the setting of a post-apocalyptic environment. Nationally recognized Executive Art Director and Artist, Jake Seniuk writes:
Miller’s salvaged ones are emblematic of our dawning era of diminishment and retrenching, of restoring hope to a world whose spent resources and spiritual impotence will require new and leaner tools for coping. As in true history paintings, Miller’s scenes of burning fields and salvaged souls are records of a personal, social and environmental crucible in which new paradigms of survival are taking shape.
Currently, Miller works at his studio located in Port Angeles, WA and teaches at Peninsula College as a tenure-track professor of art. Previously he held faculty positions at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Carroll University, Carthage College, and Herzing College.
Miller holds a Master of Arts and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Painting from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Painting and Graphic Communications from the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. Academic Awards/Honors include the Edith L. Gilbertson Scholarship, the Chancellor's Merritt Award for art, and a faculty nomination for the 2006 Dedalus Foundation Grant.
Miller is represented by Pacini Lubel Gallery in Seattle, and by Denise Bibro Fine Art in New York City.
