Rate My Professor Sean Miller

Miller's multidisciplinary practice explores power structures in contemporary art and politics through obsessive activities, absurd scenarios, humor, and extreme aesthetics, employing media such as sculpture, installation, performance, photography, and web-based works, with a strong emphasis on collaboration, collective action, and relational aesthetics. Key projects include founding and directing the John Erickson Museum of Art (JEMA) in 2003, a location-variable museum featuring collaborations with artists like Yoko Ono, Ben Patterson, Philip Corner, and Gregory Green; the Crude Life Portable Biodiversity Museum in 2016 with Brandon Ballengee and Prosanta Chakrabarty, funded by the National Academies Keck Futures Initiative; Drifting Cabinets: A Portable Collection of Gulf Biodiversity in 2019; the film Exquisite Moving Corpse in 2022 with Chip Lord and Jack Massing; and Fluxus in the Swamp, co-curated with Billie Maciunas. His work has been exhibited internationally at venues including Villa Croce Museo d’Arte Contemporanea and Spazio Unimedia (Genoa, Italy), Deitch Projects Art Parade (New York), National Museum of Ireland (Dublin), Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art (Gainesville), Indianapolis Museum of Art, and Contemporary Museum (Baltimore). Notable publications include 'Inquiry Based Collaborative Learning: The Workshop for Art Research and Practice at the University of Florida' (Future Forward, 2011, with B. Taylor), 'Art Museum Dust Collection: Wearing Away Museum Grounds' (Textile: The Journal of Cloth and Culture, 2010, with Kelly Cobb), and contributions to SOIL: Seattle’s Artist-Run Gallery 1995–2005 (2005). He received the Creative Catalyst Fund Grant for 'Re-Purposing the Wunderkammer' in 2013.