Mitchell-Innes & Nash

Christopher Miner

Biography

CHRISTOPHER MINER

Born: 1973, Jackson, Tennessee

2000 M.F.A., Yale University School of Art
1998 M.A., University of Mississippi
1996 B.A., University of Tennessee


SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2010 Jones Hall Gallery, University of Memphis, TN, Every Other Girl in the World, (November 1 – November 26)
2009 Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, Easter for the Birds (January 15 – February 14)
2007 Galerie im Regierungsviertel, Berlin, The Best Decision Ever Made (April 28 – May 12)
2006 Mitchell-Innes & Nash, NY, How Beautiful Heaven Must Be (January 13 – February 11)
2003 Bellwether Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, This Creature, I Am (January 10 – February 10)


GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2011 Florida Atlantic University Galleries, southXeast, Boca Raton, FL (January 29 – April 9)
2010 PICA, Time-Based Art Festival, Portland, Oregon (September 9 – 19)
Alice Austen House Museum, Staten Island, Housed (July 1 – September 5)
2009 Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, Mississippi Invitational
On Stellar Rays, New York, LOVER
2008 Autocenter, Berlin, The End was Yesterday
2007 Stonefox Artspace, New York, Divine Find (September 19 – November 6)
Galerie Naechst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwaelder,Vienna, Austria, Prater Art Sessions
Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Ursula Blickle Videoarchive
Galerie Im Regierungsviertel, Venice, Italy, Ginnungagap/Pavilion of Belief
New York Underground Film Festival, New York, NYUFF
Rooftop Film Festival, New York, Eternal Love
Axiom Gallery, Boston, MA, Selected Works from ASPECT
M*A*S*H New York, Curated by Omar Lopez-Chahoud and Amy Smith-Stewart
(February 22 – 26)
The Museum of Modern Art, Documentary Fortnight Expanded, “Niagara Falls”
(February 14)
IFC Center, Idiot Joy Showland, Organized by John Pilson and Claudia Altman-Siegel (February 20)
2006 Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany, Terrain Vague (November 24 – January 5, 2007)
Taiwan International Festival, Taipei, TIDF (October 27 – November 5)
Mary Boone Gallery, NY, Upstate (October 5 – October 28)
Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC, Now! (October 13 – January 14, 2007)
Skestos Gabriele Gallery, Chicago, IL, Family First (January 6 – February 4)
Angela Hanley, Los Angeles, CA, TBA (December 17, 2005 – January 30, 2006)
2005 PS1, Long Island City, NY, Greater New York (March 13 – September 26)
Art Basel, Miami, Art Kabinett
Parker’s Box Gallery, NY, Ecstasy2 x 3 (October 28 – October 31)
New York, Video Salon, Hosted by Eva Respini
Hunter College Gallery, New York, NY, Faculty Show
2004 Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, Premieres
Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY Queens International
New York, NY, eFlux
Boston, MA, Aspect Vol. 3: the Artist as Content
2003 Tate Britain, London, Blinky
Thomas Erben Gallery, NY, Dialogue 2
2002 New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY, Videodrome II
2000 Hunter College Times Square Gallery, New York, NY, Fido TV


GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS:

2003 Presidential Initiatives in Teaching and Learning, Hunter College, New York, NY
2000 Alice Kimball English Traveling Grant, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Emerging Artist Grant, Digital Media Center for the Arts
1999 Shickle-Collingsworth Prize, Yale University, New Haven, CT


BIBLIOGRAPHY:

2009 Ken Johnson. “Christopher Miner ‘Easter for the Birds,’” The New York Times, February 13
Lauren O’Neill-Butler. “Christopher Miner,” Artforum.com, February
2007 Feifer, Jason. “Jesus Wept,” Dig, Boston, MA.
2006 Mike Wilson. Reviews, ArtForum, April
Merrily Kerr. Art Reviews: “Christopher Miner: ‘How Beautiful Heaven Must Be,” Time Out New York. February 9-15
Roberta Smith. Art in Review: “Christopher Miner: How Beautiful Heaven Must Be,”
The New York Times, February 3
2005 Jill Spalding. Our Correspondents, Ed. 20, WPS1 Radio, December 12
Berwick Berwick. Arts & Letters, New York Sun, December 5
2004 Holland Cotter. "For New Art, Just Take the 7 Train," The New York Times, November 12
2003 Jerry Saltz. “Rays of Light,” Village Voice, NY, January 22-28
M. Wilson. “New York News,” Contemporary Magazine, UK, no.49, April


PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:

Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

Artist Exhibitions

Christopher Miner - How Beautiful Heaven Must Be - January 13 - February 11, 2006
Christopher Miner - Easter For the Birds - January 15 - February 14, 2009

Artist Images

Auction
2000
Video, ed. of 10
7 min.



The Best Decision Ever Made
2004
Video, ed. of 5
17 min. 40 sec.


Self-Portrait
2000
Video, ed. of 10
13 min. 50 sec.