About

Jill Miller's work holds systems of power accountable through satire, material investigation, and the activated body. Working across many forms, she investigates the hidden infrastructures that shape everyday life: who profits from them, who is erased by them, and what it means to make that publicly legible. Her latest work, Hard Reset: An Eco-Humiliation Ritual, uses BDSM-derived performance language to stage a reckoning between herself and an anonymous tech executive, exploring what accountability might feel like when symbolic punishment is the only tool available. Across her corpus of work runs a feminist thread, exploring: works that propose alternatives to patriarchal structures, the way carework is simultaneously essential and unseen, and the unauthorized use of women's bodies and images.

Humor is essential to her practice. It disarms and creates entry points into challenging subjects. She is always in the frame: implicated, exposed, and vulnerable.

Miller’s selected exhibitions include: the Palo Alto Art Center, California; AMP Art Fair, San Francisco; Woods Art Museum, Hamburg, Germany; FAB Art Gallery, University of Alberta, Canada; Kibbutzim College of Education Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel; Institute of Contemporary Art, San Francisco; Czong Institute for Contemporary Art, Korea; California Museum of Photography, UC Riverside; CMU Miller Institute for Contemporary Art, Pittsburgh, PA; National Museum of Fine Arts, Santiago, Chile; Sesnon Gallery, UC Santa Cruz; Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Israel; Erman B. White Gallery, Bethel University, Kansas; United Art Fair, Pragati Maidan, New Delhi, India; Mercer Union Centre for Contemporary Art, Toronto, Canada; Pittsburgh Biennial, Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA; Galerie Christophe Gaillard, Paris; Musée d'Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne (MAC/VAL), France; MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles; CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid; National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; de Siasset Museum, Santa Clara, California; Musee Ingres, Montauban, France; Lord Hall Gallery, University of Maine; Walter and McBean Galleries, San Francisco Art Institute; The Menil Collection, Aurora Picture Show, Houston, TX; The Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C.; Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France; Centre National d'Art Contemporain, France; British Film Institute, London, England; National Center for Contemporary Arts, Moscow, Russia.

She is the recipient of many grants including: C/Change grant by the Goethe Institute and Gray Area Art Center, Arts Council England Award, California Arts Council ‘Artists in Communities’ Grant; Wikimedia Individual Engagement Grant; STUDIO for Creative Inquiry Grant; Berkeley Center for New Media Seed Award; Regents Junior Faculty Fellowship, and Creative Discovery Grant.