
ROBERT B. MILLER
Senior Lecturer in Art / Photography Program HeadLewis & Clark College
Portland, Oregon 97219
503-768-7386
EDUCATION:
- M.F.A., The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1983
Photography, Sculpture and Performance - B.F.A., University of Oregon, 1977
Photography and Graphic Design - Center for Creative Studies, College of Art and Design, Detroit, Michigan, 1972-1973
Photography and Ceramics
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
| 1983 – Present | Senior Lecturer in Art, Photography Program Head, Lewis & Clark College, Portland, Oregon |
| 1989 – 1995 | Lecturer in Photography, Photography Department Head, University of Portland, Portland, Oregon |
| 1987 – 1995 | Freelance Photography Business, specializing in people photography, location and studio work, Portland, Oregon |
| 1984 – 1989 | Photography Instructor, Portland Community College, Portland, Oregon |
| 1979 – 1981 | Photography Instructor, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, Oregon |
| 1970 – 1972 | Photographer's Mate, PH 3, United States Navy, Far East |
SELECT ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS:
- Pushdot Art Gallery, Portland, Oregon
"Hybrid Technology/Digital to Platinum/Palladium," Lewis & Clark College grant portfolio, October 2006 - Alysia Duckler Gallery, Portland, Oregon
"Triptykes," March 2005 - Humboldt Art Center, Morris Graves Museum, Eureka, California
"Ruins of Desire," July 2002 - Rogue Valley Art Center, Medford, Oregon
"Artists Captured," December 1996 - Sparkasse-Gallerie, Einbeck, Germany
"Sacred Space," August 1996 - Buckley Art Gallery, University of Portland, Portland, Oregon. 1992
- Multnomah County Library, Portland, Oregon
"Portraits of Oregon Artists," 1989 - Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Curator of photography exhibition, 1989 - Art Gym, Marylhurst College, Portland, Oregon
"Portraits of Oregon Artists," 1987 - University Art Galleries, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, Indiana. 1985
- Contemporary Crafts Gallery, Portland, Oregon
"Portraits of Oregon Artists," 1981 - Oregon Art Institute, Portland, Oregon
"Artists of Oregon Exhibit," 1978
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
- The Ronna and Eric Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art, Lewis & Clark College, Portland, Oregon
Faculty exhibition, January 2008, October 2003, November 1998 - The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
"Four Corners of the World," November 2001 - Lewis & Clark College, Portland, Oregon
Gender Symposium Art Exhibition: Photographs dealing with gender-specific issues, 1990-2006 - Blue Sky CD Project
"Eye of a City. A City of Eyes," Portland Photography, 1975-1999 - Oregon Historical Society, Portland, Oregon
"Visual Chronicle of Portland," 1993 - Sloan Galleries, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, Indiana
"The American Southwest – Paintings, Photographs, Etchings, Sculpture," 1993 - Oregon Historical Society, Portland, Oregon
"Visual Chronicle of Portland," 1990 - Northview Gallery, Portland Community College, Portland, Oregon
- "Established/Emerging," invitational exhibition of Portland photographers, 1989
- The Index Gallery, Clark College, Vancouver, Washington
"Face It–Twelve Northwest Photographers," 1987 - Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, Oregon
"Landscapes and Portraits of Artists," 1986 - University of Colorado and Boulder Center for The Visual Arts, Boulder, Colorado
"Naked," 1985 - Oregon Art Institute, Portland, Oregon
"Photography, Recent Acquisitions," 1983 - The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
"Photo Transformation," 1983 - Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska
"Ranchos de Taos, A Photographic History," 1982. Also Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, Colorado; Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas. Reproduced in Images of Spirit and Vision. Ranchos de Taos Church, Museum of New Mexico Press, 1987.
GRANTS AND AWARDS:
- Lewis & Clark College Faculty/Student Summer Research grant, "Enlarged Digital Negatives To Platinum/Palladium Printing," 2005
- Lewis & Clark College travel grant, Society for Photographic Education Conference, 1996 through 2006
- Lewis & Clark College travel grant, "The Genre of the Still Life," field work, New York, New York, 1997
- Lewis & Clark College/University of Portland/Reed College Project Grant, Portland, Oregon. "A Photographic Essay: Re-Visioning Culture Through Faces," 1993
- Metropolitan Arts Commission, Visual Arts Grant, Portland, Oregon. "Symbolic Narratives," 1992
- The Contemporary Crafts Association. Artists in Schools Program, 1984-1985
- Oregon Arts Commission. Special Exhibits Grant, 1978
- Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico, Taos, New Mexico. Artist in Residence, 1978-1979
