SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
PUBLIC
LECTURES
KATHRYN
MILLER
2005
Desert
Photography: The Other Side of Paradise, Palm Springs Desert Museum,
Palm Springs, California. Photography and tumbleweeds.
2004
Arroyo Pescadero Interpretive Arena, a rammed
earth amphitheater that seats 50 people with an exterior berm
landscaped with plants native to the Whittier Hills. The designed outdoor classroom and
surrounding plantings establish a port of entry to the wilderness area. The
Puente Hills Landfill Native Habitat Preservation Authority oversees wilderness park. The
project was funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Park
Service and done in collaboration with artist Andreas Hessing.
2003
Mostra Asfalto, Palazzo della Triennale, Milan, Italy. Photography, artists' books
and mixed media.
Ecoart=radical approaches to restoring the earth, Ecoartspace, Beacon, N.Y. Photographs and artists'
books.
Creative
Interventions, Ecological Design Center, School of Architecture and
Allied Arts, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon. Photography,
artists' books and mixed media.
Art and
Community Landscapes/Area 52, water clean-up project for the Arroyo
Seco, Sycamore Grove Park, Los Angeles. Constructed wetlands to remove pollutants and
clean up water quality. Steel dams,
limestone and plants. Funded
by the National Endowment for the Arts, New England Foundation for the Arts and
in partnership with the National Park Service Rivers and Trails Conservation
Association.
2002
Ecovention,
Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio. Mixed media and
photography.
The Function
of Art / The Art of Function, Kellogg
Gallery, California State Polytechnic, Pomona, California. Mixed media.
Snapshots, Aldrich
Museum of Contemporary Art, Richfield, Conn. Photography.
2001
Water Works, BC Space
Gallery, Laguna Beach, California. Mixed media and
photography.
Post-Landscape:
Between Nature and Culture, Pomona College Museum of Art,
Claremont,
California. Mixed
media and artist book.
Cross
Pollination,
Holland Tunnel Gallery, Brooklyn, NY and Los Angeles Arboretum,
California. Travelling
exhibition. Mixed media.
2001 (cont.)
Filtration/Separation
Anxiety,
Gallery Route One, Point Reyes, California.
Installation and
photography.
2000
Snapshots, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore,
Baltimore, Maryland. Photography.
1998
BROADCAST, curated by Kim
Abeles, Fresno City College, California.
Mixed media and photography.
1997
The
Grasslands: An Urban Wasteland Transformed, official launch and public
reception for the Melbourne International Festival of Art. A site specific native grass revegetation project which I began working on in May - June
of 1995 under the Westgate Freeway, Melbourne, Australia.
The Russian Thistle Crisis, Claremont Graduate School of Art,
Claremont, California.
Installation and photography. Photography and mixed
media.
25 Pieces of
Art,
Open Space Gallery, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Sculpture and photography.
1st Annual
Plastic Fantastic Exhibition (Diana & Holga
cameras only), E3 Gallery,
New
York, NY. Photography.
The Garden Show, Portland Institute for Contemporary
Art, Portland, Oregon. Installation.
Blow
Up,
SITE Gallery, Los Angeles, California. Photography.
BROADCAST, curated by Kim Abeles, Clarion College, Pennsylvania. Mixed media and
photography.
1996
Gallery
1825 Open, group
exhibition, Gallery 1825, Los Angeles, California.
House of Art, A Group Exhibition,
Southwest corner of 11th and Dartmouth Streets, Claremont, California. Architectural alterations
and installations.
1996 (cont.)
The Cup and
the Teapot: The Extraordinary Diversity of a Simple Form, Clark Humanities
Museum, Scripps College, Claremont, California. Photography.
8th Annual
Fringe of the Fringe Art Auction Fundraiser Benefit 1996, Claremont Graduate
School, Claremont, California. Photography.
1995
Grasslands: A
site-specific art installation and native grass re-vegetation project under the
Westgate Freeway, Melbourne, Australia.
Under the
Freeway: An Exhibition, Linden Gallery, St. Kilda, Melbourne,
Australia. Installation.
Secrets of the Garden, Gildea
Resource Center, Community Environmental Council (CEC),
Santa Barbara,
California. Mixed
media.
Lawns
in the Desert , "Social
Engagements: Observations and Personal Narratives",
Municipal Art
Gallery, Los Angeles, California. mixed media
and photography.
Los Angeles Artists, Fran Willis Gallery, Victoria,
British Columbia, Canada.
Mixed media and photography.
BROADCAST, curated by Kim Abeles, Rio Hondo
College Art Gallery, Los Angeles, California. Mixed media and
photography.
1994
Quirks of
Nature,
San Bernardino Valley College Gallery, San Bernardino, California.
Mixed media.
Faculty Art
Exhibition, Salathé Gallery,
Pitzer College, Claremont, California.
Mixed media and photography.
1993
Les Environs, Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, New York, N.Y. Mixed media installation.
Pomona College Invitational Exhibition, Montgomery
Gallery, Pomona College, Claremont, California. Mixed media.
How
Long Can A Good Thing Last? Santa Monica
Museum of Art, Community Focus
Gallery, Santa
Monica, California. Sculpture/ mixed media.
The
Coastal Project 1988-1993 A Retrospective, College of Creative Studies
Gallery,
University of
California, Santa Barbara, California.
Dennison
Library Artists' Book Show, Scripps College, Claremont, California.
Fringe of the
Fringe "Faculty of the Claremont Colleges", DA Gallery,
Pomona, California.
Mixed media and photography.
How Long Can A
Good Thing Last? Santa Barbara Arts
Commission, Channing Peak Gallery, Santa Barbara, California. Mixed media and
photography.
1992
Faculty
Exhibition:
College of Creative Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara,
California. Living sculptures.
Women's Center
Exhibition,
Women's Center, University of California, Santa Barbara, California. Photography.
The Subdivision, Isla Vista, California. Site specific public
installation and park revegetation project.
Master of Fine
Arts Exhibition,
University Art Museum, University of California,
Santa
Barbara, California. Mixed
media installation.
6th
Annual Coastal Project,
Santa Barbara, California. Performance.
Oak Ridge
Valley Homes - Deconstructing a Development Site. University of California, Santa Barbara, California. Installation with public
participation, public space.
1991
Landscape
Replaced, Gallery 1434,
University of California, Santa Barbara, California. Mixed Media Installation.
First Year
Master of Fine Arts Show, University Center Gallery,
University of California, Santa Barbara, California. Mixed Media.
Prism of the
Spirit,
Gallery 1434. University
of California, Santa Barbara, California. Ceramics and mixed media.
1990
New Leaf Gallery, Richmond, California. Outdoor ceramic and cast fiberglass resin
chairs.
1989
Anticipating Civilization, Mud Gallery, Syracuse University,
Syracuse, New York.
Mixed
media installation.
1988
Pacific
Prints, 1988. 4th
Biennial Print Competition. Pacific Art League of Palo Alto, California. Monoprint.
Fate of Animals, Worth Rider Gallery, University of
California, Berkeley. Mixed
Media.
Traveling
Exhibition,
Oregon State University and Southern Oregon State University. Serigraph.
2005
Intersections
of Art and Science, lecture series, Pomona College, Claremont, California.
9/13/05.
2004
Nature vs. Pavement for the gardenLAb experiment,
Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California. Lecture and performance.
9/18/04
Ecoartspace
panel discussion, gardenLAb, Art Center College of
Design, Pasadena, California.
10/16/04.
2003
Art, Ecology
and Restoration presented at the Annual National Park Service Rivers and
Trails Conservation Assistance Program Annual Training, Santa Catalina Island,
California.
Viewing Nature:
Art, Ecology and Restoration- Lecture
Viewing
Nature: Framing the Landscape - Workshop
Your
Town/ Designing Its Future
The
Kings River Region: Navigating the Currents of Change Symposium
Reedley,
California
Making the
Invisible Visible: The Art of Environmental Restoration
Association
of Environmental Professionals conference, Land, Laws and Spirit: Practical
Tools for Environmental Planning, Monterey, California, March 30-April 1, 2003.
Santa Barbara International Film Festival. Introduced Rivers and Tides,
a film by Thomas Riedelsheimer about artist Andy
Goldsworthy.
2002
Creative Arts
and the Environment
Symposium
on Environmental Affairs
Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Oregon.
2001
Ecology and
Art: Ways of Seeing
A
panel in conjunction with the exhibition: “Post Landscape: Between Nature and
Culture”
Pomona
College, Claremont, California
1999
Respecting
Ecology: Field Notes on Integrating Art and Science
Panelist for Off the
Mainstream, Into the Mainstream, CAA- College
Art Association National Conference, Los Angeles.
The ART of Restoration, panelist, Bioneers
Conference, San Rafael, California.
1997
Grasslands : An Urban Wasteland
Transformed, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. Forum chaired by Jane Shepherd, Professor of
Landscape Architecture, RMIT. October 22, 1997, Melbourne, Australia.
The Russian Thistle Crisis and Other Works, Claremont
Graduate School of Art, Claremont, California.
Art and
Science Symposium, College of Creative Studies, University of California,
Santa
Barbara, California.
1996
Working Down
Under (the
freeway) in Melbourne, Australia. Marching
and Chowder Society, Pitzer College, Claremont, California.
1995
Grasslands:
An Environmental Art Project, Urban Art Forum, Melbourne,
Australia.
Social
Engagements: Observations and Personal Narratives:Conversations with the
Artists, Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
1994
Crossing Over:
How Can Art Interface with Environmental Studies? Lecture presented to the Environmental
Studies Department, Pitzer College, Claremont, California.
Where Does The
Artist Fit In? Lecture for the Sociology of Art class, Sociology
Department, Pitzer College, Claremont, California.
Art and
Environment. Lecture for the Visual Ecology class,
Environmental Studies Department, Pitzer College, Claremont, California.
1993
Non-sanctioned
Acts and Guerrilla Art, Artists' Lecture Series, College of Creative Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara,
California.
The Evolution
of A Seed Bomb, Artists' Lecture Series, Pomona
College, Claremont, California.
Art in
Alternative Spaces, Santa Monica Museum of Art lecture series, Santa Monica,
Seduction and Discord in the Frozen Dinner by Kathryn Miller 2005
Edition of 7
Nature Vs Pavement by
Kathryn Miller 2003
Edition of 3
Seed Bombs: A Short History by Kathryn Miller 2002
(Collection of Contemporary
Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio)
Lawns in the Desert by
Kathryn Miller and Michael Honer, 2001.
(Collection of the
Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio)
Edition of 10
Edition of 10
The Russian Thistle Crisis by Michael Honer and Kathryn
Miller, 1997
Edition of 500
Under the Freeway/Grasslands: An Environmental Art Project by Michael Cathcart and Kathryn
Miller, 1995.
Edition of 250
A Short History of Turkey Dogs by Kathryn Miller, 1993
Edition of 5
Articulating the Void
/ Los Angeles: The Urban Tank by
Kathryn Miller, 1992
Edition of 1
Seed Bombs and Subdivisions by Kathryn Miller, 1992
Edition of 9
Field Notes from
"The Subdivision Project" by Kathryn Miller, 1992
Edition of 8
A Hard Book by
Maria Mandamour Asfaltada
(artist's alias) 1991
(Collection of Museum of Modern
Art, NY)
Edition of 26
2005
Marilyn
Cooper and Katherine Plake Hough, Contemporary Desert Photography: The Other
Side of Paradise. Palm
Springs Art Museum exhibition catalog.
Steven
Biller, Eyes on
the Desert, Palm Springs Life, December 2005 pp.24-28
Helen
Lessick, Public
Art in California, Public Art Review, Winter 2005.
2004
Kathryn
Miller, The Seed Bomb Project,
Ecological Restoration, University of Wisconsin Press, Issue 22, Number 1,
2004.
2003
Asfalto: Il Carattere
Della Citta:
A cura di Mirko Zardini, Exhibition Catalog
for La Triennale di Milano by Mondadori Electra
S.P.A, Milano, Italy
Becky
Ohlsen, Dirt-Birds
and the Russian Thistle Crisis, Art and The Environment, The Bear Deluxe
Art Issue # 20, p. 44-46, Fall 2003, Orlo Publisher,
Portland, Oregon.
2002
Ecovention,: Current Art to Transform Ecology,
exhibition catalog, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, RAM
publications.
Sarah
Boxer, Photography Review | 'Snapshots' , The New York Times, Arts Section,
March
8, 2002.
Steve
Payne, From Little Things…Seed Balls -
Seeds Encased in A soil-Clay-Water Mixture May Prove Valuable in Bush
Regeneration Work, The Organic Gardener: Gardening Australia, Australian
Broadcasting Company, Winter 2002, pp.65-67.
Devorah Knaff, Notaby Different Shows Convey Spirit of Freedom,
The Press-Enterprise,
March 14, 2002, p. D 14.
Jay
Leno Show, March 7, 2002. Actress Rene
Russo takes one of my seed bombs on
the show and talks about the need to restore native plants back to the
California landscape.
Rick
Polito, A
Museum for All the Earth/Exhibitions of Ecological Art from Around the World
appear on Web Site www.greenmuseum.org, Marin Independent Journal, February
11, 2002, p. E1.
2001
Rebecca
McGrew and Colette Dartnall, POST-LANDSCAPE: between
NATURE and CULTURE, exhibition catalog, Pomona College Museum of Art.
Alicia
Miller, The Growing Impact of Ecological Art,
ARTWEEK, April 2001, Vol. 34 #4.
K. Miller
p.10 Bibliography
2001 cont.
W•E•A•D
Women Environmental Artists Directory, ed. by Jo Hanson & Susan Leibovitz Steinman, Spring 2001, San Francisco, California.
Kathryn
Miller, Shifting Neighbourhoods,
The Organic Gardener: Gardening Australia, Australian Broadcasting
Company, Spring 2001, p.41.
Kathryn
Miller, A Short History of Seed Bombs,
The Organic Gardener : Gardening Australia, Australian
Broadcasting Company, Spring 2001, p. 64-65.
Thomas
McGovern, 'Post-Landscape: Between Nature and Culture' at Pomona College,
ARTWEEK, November 2001, Vol.32 #11, p.22.
2000
Michael
O'Sullivan, 1,300 Snapshots, One Surreal Show, The Washington Post, On Exhibit p. 66,
November 17, 2000.
Steve
Payne, Natural Lawn Care, The
Organic Gardener: Gardening Australia and ABC TV, Summer
2000, pp.4 and 55.
Peter
Warshall, ECO-ART,
Whole Earth Access, Summer 2000, p.92-95.
Barry A. Berkus: Architecture, Art, Parallels, Connections, by Barry A. Berkus, Images Publishing Group Pty. Ltd. 2000.
Interview for radio station KOOP, Austin, Texas. Interviewer:
Chuck Freeman
Topic:
Profile of an Artist/Ecologist. 45
minutes, aired Thursday, September 29, 2000.
1999
Diana
Scott, "Garden Varieties:
"Eco-activists plant new seeds of dissent within conceptual
art", San Francisco Bay Guardian, October 27, 1999, p.68.
Sharon
Abercrombie, "Art, Humor, and Restoring the Earth", Earth Light,
Fall 1999, Issue 35, pp.23-24, 28.
Carl
Hertel, "Sprawl and the Death of the Rio
Grande", The Northside
Signpost (New Mexico), August 1999, p. 15, 17.
1998
Alex
Selenitsch, "Putting Art in the Landscape",
Artlink, Australian Contemporary Art
Quarterly, Vol. 18 # 2 June-August 1998, p. 29-31.
1997
Interview for ABC National Public Radio, November 4, 1997,
Melbourne, Australia.
Anna
Clabburn, "Laugh, Scream, Groan and Giggle: the
Critic's Verdicts",
The Age, Visual Arts,
p. C4, Monday November 3, 1997, Melbourne, Australia.
1997 cont.
Anna
Clabburn, "Replanting Our Natural
Heritage", The Age, p. C7, Wednesday, October 29, 1997,
Melbourne, Australia.
Robyn
McKenzie, "Art Goes to Ground", Herald Sun, p. 88, Friday,
October 24, 1997, Melbourne, Australia.
Anna
Clabburn, "Melbourne Festival 1997", The Age, p. 1, Friday October 17, 1997.
Amruta Slee, "UNDER THE FREEWAY an artist's impression", HQ Magazine, p. 28, Nov/Dec 1997, Sydney, Australia.
Under the
Freeway-Grasslands, 12th Melbourne International Festival of Art Program
Magazine, 16 October to 1 November 1997 p. 42, Melbourne, Australia.
1996
Michael
Lifton, "A Picture Perfect House", Claremont
Courier, May 8, 1996.
Phillip
W. Browne, "Pair of Aging Houses Now Modern Art", Daily Bulletin,
May 6, 1996.
1995
Josefin Israelachvili, "Earthly Delights", Santa Barbara Independent,
September 14, 1995.
D.J.
Palladino, Art Scope, "Mental Environment:
Secrets of the Garden: An Environmental Art Exhibition", Santa Barbara Independent,
September 7, 1995.
Marie Sierra-Hughes, "Grassroots
of Days Old and New", Visual Arts Review, Herald Sun, Wednesday,
July 5, 1995 (Melbourne,
Australia).
Jo Chumas, "Urban Dump is
Set to Become a 'Green' Work of Art", Port Phillip/Caufield
Leader, June 26, 1995 (Melbourne,
Australia).
Ted Hopkins, "Grasslands and Trashlands", Herald Sun WEEKEND, June 24, 1995
(Melbourne, Australia).
Scott Canty,
"Social Engagements: Observations
and Personal Narratives ", Catalog, January 31 - April 2, 1995. Municipal Art Gallery, City
of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department.
Peter Frank, "Social Engagements,
Generation of Mentors", L.A. Weekly, Thursday March 30, 1995.
1993
Joan Crowder, "Good to the Last
Drop", Santa Barbara News Press, Scene, March 19, 1993.
Roberta Smith, "Group Shows in Soho for a Weekend of Gallery Hopping", The New York Times, Friday, January 15, 1993.
1993 cont.
Kerry Blakenship,
"Art for Our Sake", Santa Barbara Independent, March 11, 1993.
1992
Mai Harmon,
"Trash Display Canned by Fed-up Officials", Daily Nexus,
University of California, Santa Barbara, November 12, 1992.
Ivy Weston, "At CCS the World is
Their Canvas", Daily Nexus, University of California, Santa
Barbara, October 19, 1992.
Christian Lincoln, "Masters at
Work", Daily Nexus, University of California, Santa Barbara, April
30, 1992.
Joan Crowder, "
Final Projects by Masters", Santa Barbara News Press, May 1, 1992.
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