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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.

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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

© 2025 by Caitlin Miller.

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