The Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami presents I Stand, I Fall, a comprehensive survey of work by John Miller, marking the first American museum exhibition dedicated to the influential conceptual artist. “I Stand, I Fall” 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. The exhibition features a range of media, including painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, installation and video; never-before-seen works from the 1980s; new large-scale sculptures; and the artist’s most ambitious architectural installation to date – a vast and immersive mirrored labyrinth, on view in ICA Miami’s Atrium Gallery through May 15.

John Miller (b. 1954) is an artist, critic, and musician whose work has been exhibited in major museums and collections worldwide. Over the course of thirty years, Miller has produced a diverse body of work that, in addition to figuration, addresses language, valuation, social hierarchy and abjection. He has had solo exhibitions at Kunsthalle Zurich, Musée d’art moderne et Contemporain in Geneva, MoMA PS1, and Ludwig Museum, where he was awarded the Wolfgang Hahn Prize by the Society of Contemporary Arts in 2011. His work was included in the 1985 and 1991 Whitney Biennials, as well as the 2005 Lyon Biennial. Miller’s work is in the collections of the Whitney Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Carnegie Museum of Art, the Museum Ludwig, the Stedelijk Museum, and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami. Miller is an artist critic, whose writings often address the role of aesthetics in culture. He has contributed to Artforum, e-flux and Texte Zur Kunst, and his major publications include The Price Club: Selected Writings, 1977-1996 (JRP Editions and the Consortium, 2000); The Ruin of Exchange (Geneva and Dijon: JRP-Ringier and les Presses du Reel, 2012); and Mike Kelley: Educational Complex (London: Afterall Books, 2015). He currently lives in New York, where he is the Professor of Professional Practice in Art History at Barnard College, and in Berlin.

John Miller “I Stand, I Fall” is organized by ICA Miami and curated by Deputy Director & Chief Curator, Alex Gartenfeld.

This exhibition is made possible in part through a generous gift from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

Major support provided by A. Lange & Söhne, the Laurans A. & Arlene H. Mendelson Charitable Foundation, Inc, and the Ray Ellen and Allan Yarkin Fund for Contemporary Art. Support for curatorial research is provided through a generous gift by Dr. Kira and Mr. Neil Flanzraich.

Additional support by Metro Pictures, New York.