Brenda Miller
She has shown her work in the 1973 Whitney Biennial, as well as eight exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art. Brenda Miller was born in the Bronx, she studied at Parsons and University of New Mexico, and received and MFA from Tulane University in 1967, before moving back to New York City. Miller’s work was included in the 1971 exhibition Twenty Six Contemporary Women Artists held at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum and the 2022 exhibition 52 Artists: A Feminist Milestone also at the Aldrich.
Brenda Miller
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- 1941 · New York City.
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- United States
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- painter · textile artist
- Known for
- Strata and from American Abstract Artists 50th Anniversary Print Portfolio
- Honours
- Guggenheim Fellowship
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She received three National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships (1976, 1979, and 1987). Her work is in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, and the Harvard Art Museums.
Works named in the authority record are Strata, from American Abstract Artists 50th Anniversary Print Portfolio. Work by Brenda Miller is recorded in the collections of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Vanderbilt Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum and Whitney Museum of American Art. Distinctions recorded are Guggenheim Fellowship.
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Brenda Miller, recorded as a painter and textile artist, was born in 1941. The birth is recorded by the Getty Union List of Artist Names.
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Brenda Miller born at New York City.
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- 1.Fowler, Cynthia. Brenda Miller and Post-Minimalist Art. Woman's Art Journal. 36. 2. 12–19. 2015. 0270-7993.
- 2.Brenda Miller. whitney.org.
- 3.Brenda Miller MoMA. The Museum of Modern Art.
- 4.Lucy Lippard - Twenty Six Contemporary Women Artists. Printed Matter.
- 5.52 Artists: A Feminist Milestone. The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum.
- 6.Brenda Miller Smithsonian American Art Museum. americanart.si.edu.
- 7.Brenda Miller. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen.
- 8.Harvard. From the Harvard Art Museums' collections Strata. www.harvardartmuseums.org.
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Work and production. One work is recorded as notable: Strata, from American Abstract Artists 50th Anniversary Print Portfolio. Miller received Guggenheim Fellowship.
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Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Vanderbilt Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum and Whitney Museum of American Art
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