Miller has had several solo museum exhibitions, most recently in 2016 a mid career survey "I Stand, I Fall" at the Institute of Contemporary Art / ICA, Miami curated by Alex Gartenfeld. The exhibition "brings together some 75 works that trace Miller’s use of the figure throughout his career in order to incisively comment on the status of art and life in American culture." Other solo museum exhibitions include one at the Museum Ludwig Cologne in conjunction with his being awarded the Wolfgang Hahn Prize, a mid career retrospective at the Kunsthalle Zürich, the Kunstverein in Hamburg, Le Magasin in Grenoble, and MoMA PS1 in New York. His work was included in the Biennale d'Art Contemporain de Lyon in 2005 and in the 2010 Gwangju Bienniale, 10,000 Lives. In 2014, his artwork was included in the Hayward Gallery’s exhibition, "The Human Factor: the Figure in Contemporary Sculpture."
Collections
Miller's work is in the collections of institutions including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, and the , as well as private collections and foundations like the Rubell Family Collection in Miami, Sammlung Ringier, Switzerland, Sammlung Schürmann, Aachen / Berlin and the :de:Sammlung Falkenberg|Sammlung Falkenberg in Hamburg.
Awards and honors
In 2011, Miller received the Wolfgang Hahn Prize from the Society for Contemporary Art at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne. In 1991, he received a Fellowship from the Berliner Kunstlerprogramm, German Academic Exchange Service.
Books
In 2000, JRP Edition and the Consortium published The Price Club: Selected Writings, 1977-1996. In 2001, Revolver Verlag published When Down Is Up: Selected Writings. JRP-Ringier and the Consortium published a collection of his criticism titled The Ruin of Exchange: Selected Writings in 2012, as part of their Positions series. The Ruin of Exchange is edited by Professor Alexander Alberro In 2015, Afterall Books published Miller's study Mike Kelley: Educational Complex as part of its One Work series. Miller and artist Mike Kelley met as graduate students at the California Institute of the Arts in the late 1970s.
Catalogs
A Refusal to Accept Limits. Zürich, Switzerland: Kunsthalle Zürich and JRP/Ringier Kunstverlag AG, 2010, curated by Beatrix Ruf with texts by Alexander Alberro and Nora Alter, Branden W. Joseph and Jutta Koether.
Economies Paralleles/Parallel Economies. Grenoble: Le Magasin, 1999, curated by Yves Aupettitalot and Lionel Bovier with texts by Yves Aupettitalot, Lionel Bovier, Mike Kelley, John Miller, Robert Nickas and Nancy Spector.
White Studies: Richard Hoeck & John Miller. Vienna: Kunsthalle Wien, 1998 with texts by Gerald Matt, Lucas Gehrmann, and Andreas Spiegl.
A Trail of Ambiguous Picture Postcards. Kyoto: Korinsha Press /CCA Kitakyushu, Japan, 1997.
Rock Sucks/Disko Sucks. Berlin: daadgalerie, 1992, texts by Dennis Cooper, Isabelle Graw and Nancy Spector.
Text. New York: Artist Book, self-published, 1980.
Cinematic Moments. New York: Artist Book, self-published, 1979.
Take It or Leave It: Institution, Image, Ideology. New York and London: Prestel in association with the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2014 with texts by Anne Ellegood and Johanna Burton et al.
American Exuberance. Miami: Rubell Family Collection, 2011, with texts by Kathryn Andrews, Frank Benson, John Miller, Richard Prince et al.
Manifest-O. Brooklyn: New York: Concrete Utopia, 2010, curated by Melanie Kress and Rosie DuPont with foreword by Melanie Kress.
Middle Man. New York: Three’s Company, 2010, curated by Alex Gartenfeld and Piper Marshall.
Mapping. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1994, curated and text by Robert Storr.
Publications
"Now Even the Pigs’re Groovin’," Dan Graham: Works, 1965-2000, Düsseldorf: Richter Verlag;republished in Frières américanes, Vincent Pécoil, ed. and trans., Dijon: les presses du reel; Dan Graham: October Files, Alex Kitnick, ed., Cambridge, Massachusetts: the MIT Press.
"Art Schools, the Internet and the Violin Playing Mermaids: a Conversation between John Miller and Tony Conrad," Mousse Contemporary Art Magazine, No. 28, April–May, 2011: 48-61.
"POP RIGHT NOW: Roundtable with Bettina Funcke, Massimiliano Gioni, John Miller, moderated by Joanna Fiduccia, with a postscript by Boris Groys, and artworks by Darren Bader, Kaleidoscope, No.11 : pp. 93-105.
"Tomorrow Is the Question: John Miller on the Art of Ilene Segalove," Artforum, Vol. 50, No. 2 : pp. 262–67.
, art agenda, February, 2012.
"No," Angela Bulloch.
"The Universal Solvent," Jim Shaw - Left Behind: Essays, edited by Charlotte Laubard and Jim Shaw.
