Jeremy Millar is an artist living in Whitstable and currently AHRC Research Fellow in the Creative and Performing Arts at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, University of Oxford. He has exhibited widely in the UK and abroad including Tramway, Glasgow; NGCA, Sunderland; CCA, Vilnius; Rooseum, Malmö; Bloomberg Space, London; and the Metropole Galleries, Folkestone. Recent exhibitions and screenings include ‘Plum Tree Blossom’, commissioned by Inverleith House, Edinburgh, to complement works by John Cage and Merce Cunningham; the Vigeland Museum in Oslo; Sleeper in Edinburgh; and Tate Modern, London. A permanent public work was installed in Folkestone in 2006. A monograph on his work, Zugzwang (almost complete), with an essay by Brian Dillon, was published in 2006. A major new commission, 'Given', opened at the National Maritime Museum, London, in September 2009; during October 2009 new works were also exhibited in 'the Object of the Attack' at David Roberts Art Foundation, London, and in 'The Dark Monarch: Magic and Modernity in British Art' and Tate St Ives. His work 'Projector' (2007) will be exhibited at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, from November 2009, with another new work, 'Object to be Activated' being exhibited at 7.9 Cubic Metres at Kingston University in December 2009.
Following his landmark exhibition 'The Institute of Cultural Anxiety — Works from the Collection' at the ICA, London, in 1994, Millar became Programme Organiser at The Photographers’ Gallery, London, from 1995 until 2000. Here he curated many exhibitions including ‘Roman Signer / David Shrigley’ (1997), ‘Airport’ (1997), ‘Speed’ (1998, also at Whitechapel Art Gallery), ‘MayDay’ (1999), ‘Blue Suburban Skies’ (1999) and ‘Boris Mikhailov’ (2000). In 2000 he was co-curator (with Barbara London, MoMA NY) of ‘escape’ at media_city Seoul, in Korea. In 2002, he curated a twenty-year survey exhibition of Peter Fraser’s work at The Photographers’ Gallery and was the inaugural Director of the Brighton Photo Biennial 2003. He has also conceived ‘Every Day is a Good Day’ for Hayward
Touring, the largest exhibition to date of the visual art of John Cage,
which will open at Baltic in 2010. He has been on the panel of many awards including the Spectrum Photography Prize, Hannover, (1995), The Paul Hamlyn Foundation Awards to Artists (2001), and the Citigroup Photography Prize (2004). He is the recipient of fellowships from Nesta, the Arts Foundation, and AHRC.
He has published over eighty texts in a number of international publications. His books include Confessions (Bookworks, 1996), Airport (edited with Steven Bode, 1997), Speed — Visions of an Accelerated Age (edited with Michiel Schwarz, 1998), Peter Fraser (2002), Place (with Tacita Dean, Thames and Hudson, 2005) and The Way Things Go (Afterall Books, 2007). He has also contributed to many artists' publications, amongst them Tacita Dean, Roni Horn, Douglas Gordon, Jeremy Deller and Alan Kane, Marine Hugonnier, Beat Streuli, Graham Fagen, Keith Tyson, Graham Gussin, Adam Chodzko, Joachim Koester, Sam Taylor-Wood, Liam Gillick, Pierre Huyghe, Roman Signer, Simon Starling, and Jane and Louise Wilson. He has also contributed magazines and journals such as to Afterall, Art Monthly, Artforum.com, Blueprint, frieze, Modern Painters, Parkett, Sight and Sound, and Trans>, and is a member of the editorial board of Afterall. He has also spoken at numerous museums, galleries and art schools in Europe and the USA.
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