Jump to content

Ken Miller (curator)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ken Miller
OccupationCurator & Editor

Ken Miller is a curator / writer-editor. He has presented exhibitions in the United States, Europe and Asia, often with private sponsorship. He has published several books of art, fashion and photography and initiated a recurring multimedia feature for T: The New York Times Style Magazine.

Curator

[edit]

City of Tomorrow,[1] a symposium presented by Ford, featured large-scale photographs commissioned by Miller.[2] In 2016, Miller curated murals, sculptures, installations and other visual art for Clarify,[3] an 8 city program presented by music streaming service Spotify; artists presented in Clarify included Saya Woolfalk, For Freedoms, Nina Chanel Abney, among others. In 2015, Miller curated fashion photography for "Artists Series" at Gana Art in Seoul, Korea. In 2014, Miller curated two exhibitions at the Sundance Film Festival. 1MSQFT showcased music and design as part of a cultural programming series for Microsoft. SPACE, with sponsorship by Patagonia, presented landscapes by prominent fine art and fashion photographers;[4][5] photographers exhibited in SPACE included Juergen Teller, Jack Pierson, Nan Goldin and Catherine Opie. In 2012-2013, Miller was curator for Fujifilm’s X-Series cameras; photographers William Eggleston, Stephen Shore, Nan Goldin, Ryan McGinley and Martin Parr were commissioned to shoot original photos using the cameras[6][7] and the resulting photographs were presented at exhibitions in New York at the Aperture Foundation,[8][9][10] Tokyo (at Omotesando Hills), Milan (at Galleria Carla Sozzani).[11] and Seoul (at Hyundai Card Design Library). In 2010, Miller curated a ‘UT’ shirt series featuring black and white photography for apparel brand Uniqlo; the shirts featured contributions from Lee Friedander and Daidō Moriyama, among others, and were sold in Uniqlo stores worldwide.[12][13][14][15] For New York Fashion Week, Miller curated fashion week photos and videos for Milk Studios, in New York with support from Leica cameras and Vimeo.[16] and a series of conversations on art, music, fashion, health and design for MINI Cooper cars.[17] Miller was consulting curator for a 'Saturdays at Phillips'[18] auction of young artists by the Phillips de Pury auction house.[19]

Tokion magazine founded Creativity Now, an annual arts and media conference in New York and Tokyo. Speakers at the conference were drawn from a variety of creative disciplines, and included musicians Brian Eno, Kim Gordon and James Murphy; fashion designers Proenza Schouler and Kim Jones; artists Tom Sachs, Doug Aitken and Raymond Pettibon; photographers Nan Goldin, Inez and Vinoodh, and Ryan McGinley, directors Lynne Ramsay, Mike Mills, Gaspar Noé, and John Cameron Mitchell; and graphic designer Peter Saville. In 2008 the Creativity Now conference won AdAge's Vanguard Award.[20]

Works as editor

[edit]

Miller is the editor of PICTURES, which looks at "post-pictorial" photography, with a contribution from The New York Times Magazine photography director Kathy Ryan; PICTURES "celebrates the possibilities of the medium in and of itself".[21] Target; 20 Years of Design for All[22] by Chandelier Creative with Rizzoli International collects the retailer's two decades of collaborations with designers such as Philippe Starck, Marimekko and Michael Graves, fashion designers such as Victoria Beckham, Stephen Sprouse, Alexander McQueen and Rodarte and celebrities such as Chrissy Teigen and Gwen Stefani.[23] Miller was interviewer and text editor for The Newsstand,[24] published by Skira Rizzoli in conjunction with an exhibition[25] at the Museum of Modern Art and Fondation Luis Vuitton in Paris. Miller was an editor of Opening Ceremony,[26] a monograph on the fashion brand and retailer, published by Rizzoli.[27] Miller is author-editor of SHOOT: Photography of the Moment,[28] a fashion and fine art ‘snapshot’ photography compilation published with Rizzoli[29] and supported with events and exhibitions at the New Museum in New York,[30][31] Berkeley Art Museum,[32] Tate Modern in London,[33] Colette in Paris, FOAM Fotografiemuseum in Amsterdam, UCCA in Beijing, and PARCO in Tokyo. Miller was editor of Revisionaries, A Decade of Art in Tokion,[34] published with Abrams Image.[35] Miller was editor of Tokion magazine, a youth-culture oriented design, arts and style magazine. Tokion published two separate editions in English and Japanese, with distribution in North America, Europe and Japan.[36] modo,[37] was designed by IDEO.

Works as writer

[edit]

Since 2013, Ken has been a writer for T: The New York Times Style Magazine, contributing "Under the Influence", a recurring multimedia feature that profiles artists, musicians and designers.[38] He has written travel books and contributed travel writing to National Public Radio.

References

[edit]
  1. ^ "City of Tomorrow Symposium". fordcityoftomorrow.com. Retrieved 2017-09-26.
  2. ^ Vaterlaus-Staby, Andrew. "How Ford Is Reframing The Future Of Mobility". PSFK. Retrieved August 8, 2017.
  3. ^ "Spotify – Web Player".
  4. ^ Graver, David. "Sundance 2014: SPACE and 1MSQFT". Coolhunting. Retrieved January 20, 2014.
  5. ^ Carr-Harris, Dory (2014-01-27). "How Sundance Is Generating a New Creative Culture". PSFK. Retrieved January 27, 2014.
  6. ^ Storm, Christian (2013-01-30). "The Roster for Ken Miller's 'Photography' Show Will Blow Your Mind". Vice.
  7. ^ LaBarre, Suzanne (February 2013). "New Work From Photography's Greats, All Shot on the Same Camera". Fast Company. Retrieved February 1, 2013.
  8. ^ "Photography exhibition". Aperture Foundation.
  9. ^ "Aperture's 'Photography' Exhibition Combines Big Names, Punchy Colors..." Huffington Post. 2013-02-03. Retrieved February 3, 2013.
  10. ^ "Photography at Aperture Gallery". Musee Magazine. Archived from the original on April 3, 2014. Retrieved February 6, 2013.
  11. ^ Stella, Marta. "Photography: da Richardson a McGinley la nuova mostra alla Galleria Carla Sozzani". Marie Claire. Retrieved October 31, 2012.
  12. ^ Browne, Alix (2010-06-24). "Art on Your Sleeve". T: The New York Times Style Magazine. Retrieved June 24, 2010.
  13. ^ "Uniqlo Shoots for the Basic". Interview magazine. 2010-05-17.
  14. ^ Fischer, David. "Uniqlo UT Series "A Function of Forms"". Selectism. Retrieved June 28, 2010.
  15. ^ Weinstein, Greg. "'A Function of Forms' Collection by Ken Miller". Slam X Hype. Retrieved July 8, 2010.
  16. ^ "Commissions". Milk Made. Archived from the original on 2011-12-31.
  17. ^ "MINI's Creative Use of Space". MINI Space. Archived from Creative Use of Space the original on 2014-07-02. {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help)
  18. ^ "Urban Art Adds Ultracool Edge to Apr 25 Phillips de Pury Sale". Auction Central News.
  19. ^ Panousopoulos, Spyridon (23 April 2009). "Redefining Urban Art at The Auction House". Flavorwire. Retrieved April 23, 2009.
  20. ^ Dumenco, Simon (2008-10-06). "The American Magazine Vanguard Awards". AdAge.
  21. ^ "Ken Miller's New Book Pictures Photography Anew". Sight Unseen. 22 February 2021.
  22. ^ Target. Rizzoli. 2019. ISBN 978-0847867363.
  23. ^ "Target Is Bringing Back 20 Years of Collaborations From Rodarte, Proenza Schouler, Missoni, and More". Vogue. August 2019.
  24. ^ The Newsstand. Rizzoli. 2015. ISBN 978-0-8478-4755-6.
  25. ^ "Ocean of Images: New Photography 2015". MoMA.
  26. ^ Opening Ceremony. Rizzoli. 2012. ISBN 978-0-8478-3870-7.
  27. ^ Lipke, David (2012-08-16). "Opening Ceremony Reflects on 10 Years". WWD.
  28. ^ Miller, Ken (2009). SHOOT. Rizzoli. ISBN 978-0847831937.
  29. ^ Miller, Ken; Martin, Penny; Shore, Stephen (2009-09-15). SHOOT. Rizzoli. ISBN 9780847831937.
  30. ^ "SHOOT Captures Photography of Modern Times". Paper Magazine. 2009-09-24.
  31. ^ "In the Heat of the Moment". Nowness.
  32. ^ "L@te at BAMPFA". BAM/PFA. Archived from the original on 2015-09-10.
  33. ^ "Shoot 'Em Up". Dazed Digital. Dazed and Confused. 2009-10-13.
  34. ^ Revisionaries. Abrams Image. 2008. ISBN 978-0-8109-9437-9.
  35. ^ "Revisionaries: A Decade of Art in Tokion". Powell's.
  36. ^ "A Tsunami of Japanese Pop Culture". BusinessWeek. Archived from the original on November 7, 2014. Retrieved July 25, 2004.
  37. ^ Green, Penelope (2000-09-24). "Mirror, Mirror: A Life Coach to Hold in Your Hand". The New York Times.
  38. ^ "Under the Influence". T: The New York Times Style Magazine.
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ken_Miller_(curator)&oldid=1243862097"