Born in Burlington, Vermont, Peter Miller is an artist specializing in film and photography based in Essen, Germany and Paris, France. He received his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and apprenticed to be a silversmith. His film and photographic works are preoccupied with magic and generally investigate the phenomena of the cinema and its constituent, irreducible elements: lens, light, flicker, audience, projection, etc.
His works are in numerous private collections as well as public collections such as the Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; SFMOMA, San Francisco, USA; the Innogy Stiftung, Essen, Germany; and FRAC Midi-Pyrénées, France. His films have been screened at festivals including the Berlinale, Viennale and the Toronto, London and Rotterdam International film festivals and are distributed by Light Cone in Paris and Arsenal in Berlin. His work has been shown in international reviews such as the 57th Biennale of Venice and the Biennale of Contemporary Photography as well as online by Kottke.org, Boing Boing and Gizmodo. He is represented by Galerie Crone in Berlin and Vienna.
"The work of American artist Peter Miller, who lives in Germany, still hints at his childhood dream of becoming a magician. Today, however, Miller’s preoccupation with magic finds expression primarily in the media of film and photography. He also creates installations and sculptures, spatial interventions, and works drawing on the tradition of 1970s performance art. Utilizing a wide variety of forms and materials, he explores the history of the technical media and their constituent, irreducible elements: light, chemistry, audience, flicker, optics, and perspective."
- Kathrin Schönegg, C/O Berlin Foundation
