Gary Miller

A n I n t r o d u c t i o n t o
C o n t e m p o r a r y N a t i v e A r t i s t s i n C a n a d a

G a r y M i l l e r

b. 1950, Six Nations Reserve, Brantford, Ontario
First Nations Affiliation: Cayuga

An eleven-year stay in Residential School in Brantford impelled Gary Miller's interest and reliance on art as a means of expression. He studied at the Ontario College of Art, graduating with honours in 1974. Miller continued with medical illustration and art history courses at the University of Toronto, and now works in a representational and occasionally in an impressionistic style. The receipt of copious numbers of commissions have kept the artist active; Miller has completed several portrait commissions as well as book and catalogue covers, book illustrations, and a mural accompanied by one of his poems for a school in Scarborough, Ontario. Miller has won grants from the Ontario Arts Council from 1977-80, and was recognized on the occasion of the Queen's Silver Jubilee with an invitation to dine with her and then-Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.

S E L E C T E D E X H I B I T I O N S

1991	First Nations Art ‘91. Woodland Cultural Centre, Brantford, Ontario A Brush with Miller. Belleville Public Library, Belleville, Ontario
1988	Portraits and Landscapes. Algonquin Art Gallery, Bancroft, Ontario Best of Our Collection. Woodland Cultural Centre, Brantford, Ontario
1987	A Celebration of Contemporary Native Art. Southwest Museum, Los Angeles, California Native Life Native Art. Bank of Hong Kong Building, Vancouver, British Columbia
1986	Ascending Culture. Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, Ottawa, Ontario Indian Art '86. Woodland Cultural Centre, Brantford, Ontario Art of the Seventh Generation: Iroquois Symbols on Canvas and Paper. Roberson Centre for the Arts and Sciences, Binghamton, New York New Beginnings. Native Business Summit, Toronto, Ontario Belleville Public Library & Gallery, Belleville, Ontario
1985	Challenges. An Exhibition for the Holland Festival at the Meervaart Cultural Centre, Amsterdam, Holland Bringhall Gallery, Toronto, Ontario Indian Art '85. Woodland Cultural Centre, Brantford, Ontario

S E L E C T E D C O L L E C T I O N S

Assembly of First Nations, Ottawa, Ontario
British Columbia Provincial Museum, Victoria, British Columbia
Canadian Embassy, Washington, D.C.
Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull, Québec
Chiefswood Museum, Six Nations, Ontario
Elder's Lodge, Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory, Ontario
First Nations Technical Institute, Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory, Ontario
Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta
Government of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
Her Majesty's Royal Collection, London, England
Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
The Loyalist College Collection, Belleville, Ontario
Native Canadian Centre, Toronto, Ontario
Ontario College of Art, Toronto, Ontario
Royal British Columbia Museum, Victoria, British Columbia
Sainte-Marie Among the Hurons, Penetanguishene, Ontario
Thunder Bay Art Gallery, Thunder Bay, Ontario
Woodland Cultural Centre, Brantford, Ontario

S E L E C T E D B I B L I O G R A P H Y

Indian Art '84. Brantford, Ontario: Woodland Cultural Centre, 1984.

Kuzyk, Jane. "Gary Miller: Portrait of an iconoclast." Ontario Indian 4, no. 2 (February 1991): 30-38.

Robillard, Yves. "La souverainete culturelle des Amérindians." Le Devoir, 18 June 1991, p. B-3.

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