Michael Paul Miller

Michael Paul Miller is an emerging artist in the contemporary art world who originated from central Wisconsin and is now living in the Olympic Northwest of Washington. Since his first solo show in 2003, Miller's work has been exhibited in New York City, Seattle, the Museum of Wisconsin Art, Oregon's Coos Art Museum, and other notable locations throughout the nation. In 2009, his work was awarded, "Best Artwork" in the annual issue of Crosscurrents.

Miller holds a Master of Arts and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Painting from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Painting and Graphic Communications from the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. Academic Awards/Honors include the Edith L. Gilbertson Scholarship, the Chancellor's Merritt Award for art, and a faculty nomination for the 2006 Dedalus Foundation Grant.

Miller's postmodern figurative paintings created under the label, The Salvaged, explore the sublimity of existence through a post-apocalyptic environment emblematic of death, disaster, and desolation, without abandoning subtle indications of hope and beauty. The imagery and subject matter allows for an open-ended inquiry of the bewildering human condition, and may address an extensive...

2007 - M.F.A. - Painting - University of WI - Madison

2006 - M.A. - Painting - University of WI - Madison

2003 - B.F.A. - Painting /Graphics - University of WI - Oshkosh