Keith Miller The Gallatin School of Individualized Study 1 Washington Place, Rm. 613 New York, NY 10003 [email protected] Updated October 2020

EDUCATION MFA. Stony Brook University; Stony Brook, NY 2001 Graduate Certificate in Art and Philosophy. Stony Brook University; Stony Brook, NY BFA. State University of New York (SUNY), College at Purchase; Purchase, NY 1988

FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, GRANTS, RESIDENCIES Artist-in-Residence. BAU Institute, The Camargo Foundation, Cassis, 2018 New York University Visual Arts Initiative Award, with Nicholas Mirzoeff 2017 Guggenheim Fellowship. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation 2015 Jerome Foundation Film Grant for ABOUT A MOUNTAIN (Producer) Award for Excellence in Teaching. Gallatin School, NYU 2014 Cinereach Production Grant for ABOUT A MOUNTAIN (Producer) Best Editing for a Narrative Feature. Tribeca for FIVE STAR Cinereach Development Grant for ABOUT A MOUNTAIN (Producer) 2013 Rooftop Films Equipment Grant for FIVE STAR Jerome Foundation Film Grant for FIVE STAR 2012 Grand Jury Prize. Slamdance Film Festival for WELCOME TO PINE HILL Grand Jury Prize. Film Festival for WELCOME TO PINE HILL Special Jury Prize for Performance. Sarasota Film Festival for WELCOME TO PINE HILL Special Jury Prize: Honorable Mention. Nashville Film Festival for WELCOME TO PINE HILL FIPRESCI Prize for New American Film. Seattle International Film Festival for WELCOME TO PINE HILL IFP Narrative Lab Fellow for WELCOME TO PINE HILL 2011 Artist-in-Residence. Elizabeth Harvey Foundation, Venice, Italy 2008 Artist-in-Residence. Anderson Arts Center, Red Wing, MN 2004 Artist-in-Residence. St. Michael’s College, Colchester, VT 2003 Artist-in-Residence. New York Mills Regional Culture Center, New York Mills, MN 2001 Artist-in-Residence. I-Park, East Haddam, CT Full tuition scholarship. Stony Brook University 1998

FILMS (selected) Narrative Feature Films FIVE STAR. Writer, Director, Editor 2014 Distributed by Xlrator, Sundance International WELCOME TO PINE HILL. Writer, Director, Editor 2012 Distributed by Oscilloscope Laboratories, Sundance International ABOUT A MOUNTAIN. [In production] Producer

Episodic Format BROOKLYNIFICATION, season 1 & 2. 2016- Present Director, Co-Creator, Writer. Commissioned by BRIC TV. Short Films PRINCE/WILLIAM. Writer, Director, Editor. 2010

CV Keith Miller 1 CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY. Director, Editor. 2011 Documentary HOW TO SEE THE WORLD. [In Development] Director, Producer. 2018 In Collaboration with Nicholas Mirzoeff, based on his book, How To See The World. WORKING HANDS. Director, Editor, Cinematographer. Commissioned by Topic.com THIS IS NOT A HOME. Director, Editor, Cinematographer. 2011

FILM FESTIVALS (selected) FIVE STAR. Written, Directed, Edited by Keith Miller 2014 Venice Film Festival (Biennale di Venezia 2014) Tribeca Film Festival. Best Narrative Editing Prize Winner Festival do Rio. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival Bend Film Festival. Best Performance to Primo Grant Tallgrass Film Festival. Award to New Talent to John Diaz American Film Festival. Wroclaw, Thessaloniki Film Festival Stockholm Film Festival Cairo International Film Festival Seattle International Film Festival

WELCOME TO PINE HILL. Written, Directed, Edited by Keith Miller 2012 Slamdance. Grand Jury Prize Winner Atlanta Film Festival. Grand Jury Prize Winner Sarasota Film Festival. Special Jury Prize for Performance Nashville Film Festival. Special Jury Prize: Honorable Mention Independent Film Festival Boston Seattle International Film Festival. FIPRESCI Jury Prize for New American Film BAM Cinemafest Rooftop Films New Orleans Film Festival Filmfest München Warsaw Film Festival

ACADEMIC POSITIONS Part Time Professor. Gallatin School for Individualized Study; New York, NY 2006-Present Curator. The Gallatin Galleries, Gallatin School for Individualized Study; New York, NY 2008-Present Adjunct Lecturer. Marymount Manhattan College; New York, NY 2008- 2013 Adjunct Lecturer. New School University; New York, NY 2004-2006 Adjunct Instructor. Long Island University, C.W. Post; Brookville, NY 2001- 2008 Interim Director and Curator. 2002-2009 SAC Gallery Stony Brook University; Stony Brook, NY Instructor. Summer High School Program; NYC 2002 Independent Curator. Museum of Long Island; Stony Brook, NY Instructor. Spoke the Hub Cultural Center; Brooklyn, NY Adjunct Lecturer. SUNY College at Purchase; Purchase, NY 2001 Adjunct Instructor. Suffolk County Community College; Selden, NY 2000 - 2001 Adjunct Instructor. Stony Brook University; Stony Brook, NY Instructor. Stony Brook University; Stony Brook, NY 1999

CV Keith Miller 2 COMMITTEES AND SERVICE Visual Arts Advisor, The Gallatin Arts Festival 2009 - Present Civic Engagement Committee, Urban Democracy Lab 2016 - Present Interdisciplinary Arts Program Committee 2015 - Present Black History Month Committee 2014 -15 Events Planning Committee 2013 - Present

COURSES TAUGHT The Gallatin School for Individualized Study The Art and Craft ofDirecting for the Screen 2020 - Present The Pleasures and Perils of Contemporary Exhibitions 2018 - Present From Script to Screen: Making the Short Film 2018 - Present Thinking About Seeing 2006 - 2017 Write! Shoot! Edit! Filmmaking Intensive Workshop 2015- 2018 First Person, Present Tense: Video Production 2011 - 2015 Tutorial: Making the Short Film 2014 - Present Tutorial: Curating 2010 Theory to Practice. Studio Art Workshop. 2009 - 2011 Critical Approaches to Photography 2006 - 2009

Other Visual Art Seminar: NYC Art. Marymount Manhattan College 2010 - 2013 Contemporary Art /Art Since 1945. Marymount Manhattan College 2009 - 2014 Renaissance Studio. Oil Painting Workshop. New School University 2006 Direct Painting in Oil. Oil Painting Workshop. New School University Renaissance to Modern Art. LI University, CW Post Campus 2005 Realism and Contemporary Art. New School University 2004 Modern Art (1850-1970). New School University 2002 - 2009 Introduction to the Arts. New School University 2002 - 2009 History of Visual Communication. New School University Critical Reading and Study Skills. Calumbia University, Summer HS Program 2002 Figure Drawing. Spoke the Hub Cultural Center; Brooklyn, NY 2001 - 2004 Introduction to Drawing. Suffolk County Community College; Selden, NY 2001 Foundation Drawing. Stony Brook University; Stony Brook, NY 2000 Introduction to the Western Humanities/Art Section Intro to Sculpture (T.A.). Stony Brook University; Stony Brook, NY 1999 Foundation Painting. Stony Brook University; Stony Brook, NY Media, Society and the Arts. SUNY College at Purchase 2001 Visual/Social Analysis: Video Documentary. SUNY College at Purchase

CURATORIAL PROJECTS *Unless otherwise noted shows are at the Gallatin Galleries, NYU or SAC Gallery, Stony Brook University.

Thematic Shows Helina Metaferia: (Middle) Passage for Dreams Far Away, So Close: Intimacy in the Age of the Virtual 2020 Alison O’Daniel: The Tuba Thieves Sarah Cameron Sunde: Performing with The Sea Alex Callender: Difficult Love (What Scatters and Then Comes Back Together)

CV Keith Miller 3 Jaime Arredondo: Place of Fright, Road of Awe 2019 Conversations on Conflict Photography(with Lauren Walsh Overflow, with Eugenia Kisin and Kirst Robertson. The Gallatin Galleries Steve Locke: in the name of love. The Gallatin Galleries Corpora In Tractus. The Gallatin Galleries 2018 Meleko Mokgosi: Double Bin. The Gallatin Galleries Stephanie Dinkins: Conversations with Bina48. The Gallatin Galleries Matthew Morocco, Complicit. The Gallatin Galleries 2017 Sara Hylton: Women of God. The Gallatin Galleries Sofia Szamosi: Smile, Bitch Sharon Attia: Feminist Fight Club From Outrage To Action. The Gallatin Galleries Heroes, Triumphs, & Victories: Sheila Pree Bright. The Gallatin Galleries So Many Enemies. The Gallatin Galleries 2016 Tim Fielder: Black Metropolis New York, I Love You, But… The Gallatin Galleries 2015 Lost to History (with Lauren Walsh). The Gallatin Galleries Sofia Szamosi: Eat me. Open Source Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2014 Another Green World. The Gallatin Galleries Gallatin Faculty Show. The Gallatin Galleries 2013 These Are The Good Times. The Gallatin Galleries 2012 CPT: Time, History and Memory. The Gallatin Galleries This Is What Democracy Looks Like. The Gallatin Galleries 2011 Haiti In the Collective Imagination. The Gallatin Galleries Disposable: Ciudad Juarez and the War on Women. The Hat Gallery, Valencia Spain 2010 Art for Haiti NYC: Benefit For MSF Disposable: Ciudad Juarez and the War on Women. The Gallatin Galleries Finding Work: Labor in Contemporary Art. The Gallatin Galleries 2009 Moving Money: Art, Capital and the Dematerialization of Value. The Gallatin Galleries Phurba Namgay: Buddhist Painting from Bhutan. The Gallatin Galleries Moving Money: Art, Capital and the Dematerialization of Value. SAC Gallery 2008 Picturing America. SAC Gallery Phurba Namgay: Buddhist Painting from Bhutan. SAC Gallery 450 WOMEN HAVE BEEN MURDERED IN CIUDAD JUAREZ. SAC Gallery 2007 Reparations. SAC Gallery If It Ain’t Broke (with Brookie Maxwell). Gallery 138, New York, NY Watch This: When Art and TV Collide. SAC Gallery 2006 Nzingah Muhammad. SAC Gallery Revisioning Nature. SAC Gallery 2005 This Dream, America. Art League of Long Island; Dix Hills, NY Say it LOUD! Nikki S. Lee & Iona Rozeal Brown. SAC Gallery Leonda Finke: 40 Years, SAC Gallery Marriage (with Tara Burk). SAC Gallery 2004 Cinco: Five Latin American Women. SAC Gallery Drawing Conclusions. Islip Museum of Art; Islip, NY Transitional spaces. SAC Gallery This is for Real: War and the Contemporary Audience (with L. Alex Couri). SAC Gallery Brett Cook Dizney: Blackness. SAC Gallery Face to Face: 200 Years of Figurative Art on Long Island. Long Island Museum; Stony Brook, NY

CV Keith Miller 4 Hijos de ’73. SAC Gallery 2003 Threadbare: Subversive Aesthetics (with Tara Burk). SAC Gallery [Blank]: In pursuit of an American History (with Stephanie Dinkins) SAC Gallery Noun/Verb. Hillwood Museum, Long Island University, Brookville, NY Before and After. SAC Gallery 2002 The Objective Landscape. Gallery North; Setauket. NY The Other Self. Gallery North, Setauket, NY 2001

Student Shows Gallatin Arts Festival. The Gallatin Galleries 2008- Present Reflections, Relationships, And Reuses 2018 AdiosAdieuArrivederci 2016 All You Can Be: Explorations of the Self and Its Mutations. The Gallatin Galleries 2014 We Survived Our Youth. The Gallatin Galleries 2011-12 Where I Am Now. The Gallatin Galleries 2011 Long Island College Art Competition. SAC Gallery 2005-2008

SOLO EXHIBITIONS Paintings. Open Source Gallery; Brooklyn, NY 2013 Paintings. Trinity Gallery Atlanta, GA 2006 Fights and Dances. Great Neck Arts Center; Great Neck, NY 2004 Trees and Landscapes. Object Image Gallery; Brooklyn, NY 2003 Small Paintings. Spoke the Hub Cultural Center; Brooklyn, NY 2002 New York Mills Regional Cultural Center; NY Mills, Minnesota Confessions. Melville Gallery; Stony Brook, NY 2000 Paintings. Melville Gallery; Stony Brook, NY Hurricane Mitch Photo Project. Union Gallery; Stony Brook, NY 1999 Galleria Frida Kahlo; Mexico, D.F. 1998 Galleria Biblioteca Universidad Iberoamericana; Puebla, Mexico Casa de la Cultura; Cholula, Mexico 1996 Galleria La Obra; Puebla, Mexico Casa de la Cultura; Puebla, Mexico 1995

GROUP EXHIBITIONS Faculty Show. Gallatin NYU 2013-14 Case study. Terminus 2000, Atlanta, GA 2012 Chace Randall Gallery, Andes, NY 2011 Marie L. Matthews Gallery, Princeton, NJ Trees. Omni Gallery, Uniondale, NY 2009 Faculty show. Hillwood Museum, C.W. Post; Brookville, NY 2006 Melbourne vs. New York. Kaleide Theater; Melbourne, Australia 2005 Faculty Show. Hillwood Museum, C.W. Post; Brookville, NY 2004 Anderson Center; Red Wing, MN Object Image Gallery; Brooklyn, NY 2003 Faculty Show. Hillwood Museum, C.W. Post; Brookville, NY Gallery North; Setauket, NY Faculty Show. Hillwood Museum, C.W. Post; Brookville, NY 2002 MFA Thesis Show. Staller Center for the Arts; Stony Brook, NY 2001 The Other Self. Curator, Gallery North; Setauket, NY

CV Keith Miller 5 CAA Annual MFA Show. Hunter College; New York, NY 1999 MFA Group Show. Melville Gallery; Stony Brook, NY 1998 Galleria Kin; Mexico, D.F. 1997

PUBLICATIONS Who am I to tell this story: On race and the making of Welcome to Pine Hill in 2012 The Huffington Post Moving Money: Art, Capital and the Dematerialization of Value. Catalog Essay 2009 No More Is Known: Anonymity and the Murders of Women in Ciudad Juarez 2007 Artslant.com; Reviews and Interviews Me, Myself and Mao: Myth and the Paintings of Yin Zhaoyang; Catalog Essay Dust and Silence: Ji Hyun Seo: Catalog Essay This Dream, America, Catalogue essay 2005 Marriage, Catalog essay (with Tara Burk) 2004 This is for Real: War and the Contemporary Audience, Catalog essay Noun/Verb, Catalog essay 2003 Face to Face: 200 Years of Figurative Art on Long Island, Catalog essay Art Papers: Narrative Dress: Shirin Neshat and 2002 The Objective Landscape (web catalog) Art Papers Review of several art 2001 Art Criticism: Journalistic criticism: Popular entertainment or Populist critique? Replica21: Postal desde Nueva York (In Spanish) The Other Self (web catalog) Art Papers Review of several art exhibits 1999 Artvance: Martín Ramirez (In Spanish); Review of several art exhibits The Statesman Review of several exhibition and cultural events Art/Text: Ridiculum Vitae 1998 Art Papers Review of several art exhibits El Síntesis Weekly column on culture and the Arts. Puebla, Mexico. (In Spanish) La Jornada de Oriente Weekly column on culture and the Arts. Puebla, Mexico. (In Spanish) 1997

SELECTED CONFERENCES and TALKS In conversation with Sheila Pree Bright, International Center for Photography 2017 Making Media Matter: Strategies and Tactics for a New Era. Organizer 2016 #Occupytheory. with Nick Mirzoeff, Stephen Duncombe and Saadia Toor 2011 Symposium of Curatorial interventions. Organized by Lisette Olivares Canary in a coalmine: The war on Women in Ciudad Juarez and the new Drug War 2010 The Murders of Women in Ciudad Juarez, With Coco Fusco. SAC Gallery 2007 Keith Miller, Paintings. Heckscher Museum of Art; Hicksville, NY Reparations. SAC Gallery Marriage. SAC Gallery 2004 Is this for Real?: Today’s War, with Nicholas Mirzoeff. SAC Gallery On being and acting: Noun/Verb. Hillwood Art Museum 2003 The Objective Landscape: A History. Gallery North 2002 Realism: Gustave Courbet to Jerry Springer. 2000 Northeast Popular Culture Association Conference The Hurricane Mitch Photo Project; SAC Gallery 1999 Kitsch and the Body: Plastic Surgery and Body Manipulation. Graduate Student Conference. Stony Brook University

CV Keith Miller 6 A brief history of the Still Life (In Spanish). Iberoamericana Universidad, Puebla, Mexico 1996

PRESS (selected) For FIVE STAR 2014-2015 The New York Times. ‘Five Star’ Casts a Cool Eye on Gang Culture NYT Critics’ Pick. “Slow and steady, and with remarkable assuredness, Keith Miller’s “Five Star” plays mean-streets drama in the lowest of keys.” -Janette Catsoulis Variety. Review “…powerfully affecting urban drama that tells a familiar story [...] with such unusual authenticity and dramatic force that it’s as if we’re seeing it for the first time…” -Scott Foundas Indiewire. You’ve Never Seen a Gang Movie Like the Startlingly Realistic ‘Five Star’ Criticwire Grade: A-. “Like John Cassavetes directing an episode of ‘The Wire’…” -Eric Kohn Village Voice. Review “…a dizzying tour-de-force…” Shadow and Act. ‘Five Star’ Is A Refreshing Take On A Setting & Characters Too Often Sensationalized. “…a compelling portrait, and a refreshing take on a setting and characters too often sensationalized.” – Zeba Blay Criterion Cast. Review. “Five Star is quite a superb sophomore effort from a truly talented young voice in independent American cinema….Aesthetically, the film is in many ways a triumph…” Smells Like Screen Spirit. Review. “…a remarkably insightful film… a mesmerizing experience.” Stagebuddy. Review. “Miller’s scenes are so well-written and acted […] refreshing.” Punch Drunk Critics. Review. “…an understated and deeply satisfying urban drama that raises the bar for the entire genre….”

INTERVIEWS The Leonard Lopate Show, WNYC Sway In the Morning WPIX Channel 11 New York BK Live, BRIC TV The Source. “Films like “Five Star” are rare. […] It does what only art can, and that is it makes us feel, and it makes us understand. […] This is a film not to be missed.” Filmmaker Magazine: Five questions with Five Star Director Keith Miller Indiewood/Hollywoodn’t “…a nuanced portrait of two men […] an intimate contemplation of manhood in the modern urban environment.” Rooftop Films. “…raises important questions of race and class through the deeply personal stories of his characters.”

For WELCOME TO PINE HILL 2012-2013 The New York Times. Finding a Space, and Yourself “Thoughtful and adventurous… arrives at a powerful and resonant meaning.” - A.O. Scott The Hollywood Reporter “…uniquely intimate… a breath of fresh air…” The Leonard Lopate Show, WNYC CriterionCast. “It’s a beautifully crafted, and touchingly melancholy drama that is one that should not be missed.” New York Daily News. Review “Something special.” TimeOutNY. Review The Brooklyn Rail. From Brooklyn to Park City: Keith Miller’s Welcome to Pine Hill KPCC’s Film Week with Henry Sheehan. “You don’t get masterpieces, especially from a first time director, but this movie…if I were to do my ten best of the year, this would be my number one.” Hammer to Nail “… small moments become weighted with a rarely felt power and intensity…” TimeOutNY “…moody and mesmerizing… deeply human…”

CV Keith Miller 7 Badass Digest “Atmospheric and Enlightening”

INTERVIEWS PBS thirteen.org Turnstyle News Moveable Feast Filmmaker Magazine

PREVIOUS PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT Instructor. Spoke the Hub Cultural Center; Brooklyn, NY Sculpture Technician. Stony Brook University; Stony Brook, NY Contributor. Replica21 (In Spanish); Mexico City, D.F. Contributor. Artvance (In Spanish); Mexico City, D.F. 1998 Contributor. Art Papers; Atlanta, GA 1997-2002 Weekly columnist. La Jornada de Oriente (In Spanish); Puebla, Mexico 1996-1998 Weekly columnist. Síntesis (In Spanish); Puebla, Mexico 1996-1998

LANGUAGES Fluency in reading, writing and speaking Spanish.

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