Miles Ladin

Visual Artist Miles Ladin creates drawings, photography, and paintings with mordant wit. His satiric art explores contemporary society, both mainstream and the world of privilege, from a critical standpoint.

Whether focusing on New York City black tie galas, the world of high fashion, carnival culture or the medical industrial complex, his work is a visual commentary about wealth, power, fame, desire and identity. Dark humor and visual complexity permeate his artistic vision.

His photography relating to celebrity culture has been internationally exhibited, and collected. Starting in the 1990s his work was regularly published in The New York Times, W Magazine, and WWD. In addition to photographic prints, his practice includes artist’s books that integrate ideas about literature, biography, and narrative. These editions include the 2015 “Supermodels at the End of Time”, which is included in the MoMA / Franklin Furnace Artist Book Collection. This volume combined Ladin’s photography from the 1990s with text by Bret Easton Ellis. In 2016 Ladin created an installation for Hudson Guild, NY that combined 20 years of his imagery that formed a sardonic commentary on the American Dream.

In his latest body of work Ladin scalps the ...

1993
SCHOOL OF VISUAL ARTS, New York, NY
Master of Fine Arts, Photography and Related Media
Mentors: Larry Fink, Nan Goldin

1990
CONNECTICUT COLLEGE, New London, CT
Bachelor of Arts, Studio Art
Mentor: Barkley Hendricks

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026 Hurts Whole Lot, Hudson Guild, New York, NY (catalogue)
2021 And The Revel Went Whirlingly On, Nieuwe Gaanderijen, Oostende, Belgium (catalogue)
2019 Masquerade, The Java Project, Brooklyn, NY
2019 Fashion Summer, CB Gallery, Katonah, NY
2017 American Dreamin’, Hudson Guild, New York, NY (catalogue)
2016 Supermodels at the End of Time, Station Independent Projects, New York, NY
2015 The Spectacle of Fashion, Cummings Arts Center, New London, CT (catalogue)
2014 Sun Stroke, Station Independent Projects, New York, NY
2009 Sun Stroke Stimulus, The Wolfsonian Museum, Miami, FL (brochure)

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Sophie Calle. It’s up to you Darling, Musée Picasso, Paris, France
2017 Intersections, Cummings Arts Center, New London, CT
2016 Buy The Book Fair, Central Booking, New York, NY
2016 WE:AMEricans, Station Independent Projects, New York, NY
2015 Magical Art: Tricking the Eye, Hudson Guild Gallery, New York, NY
2014 Mr Somebody & Mr Nobody, Pop-Up Gallery during #ABMB, Design District, Miami, FL
2011 First Class / Second Class, Asya Geisberg Gallery, New York, NY
2010 Made Out of Beautiful, Parlor Gallery, Asbury Park, NJ
2010 Station Independent Projec...