Biography
Caitlin Miller’s work is defined by her unique personal history – early years of living off the land and with no electricity or running water and later living in NY and London where her art practice began in the shadow of an intensely hedonistic lifestyle. Caitlin began her art studies while taking an experimental sculpture class at St. Martins School of Art. She moved on to the Chelsea College of Art for a BFA and MFA in Sculpture. When Caitlin moved back to New York City in 2000, she kept making artwork and exhibiting while also developing her business skills within the art world at the Artist’s Rights Society and then at The Art Newspaper. Currently, she works as an artist in Gowanus, Brooklyn while raising a child with her wife. She is dedicated to making art and creating sculptures that challenge and illuminate.
Artist Statement
I am a multidisciplinary artist creating sculptures, installations, lights, and performances that explore the body’s relationship to technology, memory, and emotional presence. My work often investigates how fragile organic materials—like clay, threads, or transparent film—interact with the rigid perfection of machine-made forms. I’m interested in the tension between intimacy and disconnection, in a world increasingly shaped by screens and systems, and I use making as a form of language to navigate that terrain.
Much of my process is physical: I climb ladders, saw wood, screw things into place, pressure-cast resin, and build structures. My materials—ceramics, light, photographs, pipes, resin—are chosen for both their sensory qualities and symbolic weight. I often incorporate transparent imagery and modular forms to reflect, layer, and obscure. Architectural elements and lighting are used to construct emotional spaces, while repeated forms and stacking techniques create a surreal, self-contained logic. These installations are meant to feel like places—uncanny but familiar, built from memory and imagination.
At the core of my work is an inquiry into how memory lives in the body—how trauma, inheritance, and identity are stored and passed on. I see making objects as a way to translate these invisible forces into something tangible, something the viewer can move around, inhabit, or even reorganize. For instance, when I work with clay, I often return to memories of the quietness of the Vermont woods, using the permanence of ceramic to give form to something fleeting. The vessels I make act as containers not only of space, but of past lives.
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CAITLIN MILLER
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Brooklyn Ceramic Art Tour, GO-BKLYN Ceramics, May 2025
440 Gallery, Anniversary Group Show, January 2025
Established Gallery, 12 x 12, December 2024
A Space Gallery, Sprout Through Concrete, November 2024
Every Woman Biennial, I Will Always Love You, March 2024
Embrace Creatives Detroit, Mojo Dojo Casa House, January 2024
Visual Aids, Postcards From the Edge, January 2024
Powerhouse Arts, Ceramic Exhibition, October 2023
440 Gallery, Small Works Show, Brooklyn, NY 2023
Between Here and Now, collaborative group exhibition, South Street Seaport, NY May 2022
Old Stone House / Arts Gowanus, Brooklyn Utopias Along the Canal,
Brooklyn, NY, April 2022
Arts Gowanus, Brooklyn Utopias Along the Canal, Outdoor Banner Exhibition, April 2022
934 Gallery & Seventh Son Brewery Pop-Up Exhibition, Getaway, Columbus, OH, 2022
Ely Center for Contemporary Art, Strand, New Haven, CT, 2022
Attleboro Arts Museum, Real or Imagined, Attleboro, MA, 2021
Annmarie Sculpture Garden and Arts Center, Shine: Catching the light, Solomons, MD, 2021
440 Gallery, Over/Time, Brooklyn, NY, 2021
Trestle Art Space Gallery, Personal Prospecting, Brooklyn, NY, 2020
440 Gallery, That’s how the light gets in, Brooklyn, NY, 2020
Bodega Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. (DE)PICT Portraiture Show, 2020
BWAC, Brooklyn, NY. Open Wide 10, 2019, Special Recognition award
Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn NY. Strictly Regulated, 2009
LES Studio, New York. Memories and Transparency, 2009
RESIDENCY
Trestle Art Space, Brooklyn NY, Mentor: Margie Neuhaus
EDUCATION
Chelsea College of Art & Design, Master of Fine Arts, Sculpture, 1999,
Awarded full scholarship.
Chelsea College of Art & Design, Bachelor of Fine Arts, 1998, Honors