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DEBORAH JAFFE MILLER
website: debbymillerart.com
email: debbyjm1@gmail.com
instagram: @debbymillerart

Born in Cleveland, Ohio
Lives and works in Palo Alto, California

EDUCATION
2012        MFA, Studio Arts, John F. Kennedy University, Berkeley, California
1987        BFA, Graphics/Packaging, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California
1976-78   Medical Illustration, Cleveland Institute of Art/Case Western Reserve University, 
               Cleveland, Ohio
1975        BFA, Painting/Drawing, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018 “Guns and Butter," Monterey Peninsula College Art Gallery, Monterey, California
“Guns and Butter II,” Thornton Tomasetti, San Francisco, California
2016       "Look Homeward: Shades of Costco," Rhodes Gallery, Contra Costa College, San Pablo, California
2012       “Cradle of Wet and Burning,” Arts & Consciousness Gallery, JFKU, Berkeley, California
2010       “Incantations,”  Tarnegal Design Gallery, Palo Alto, California
2009      “Cathedral’s Grace,” Law Library, JFKU, Berkeley, California
               “Dreams Manifest,”  Works in Progress Gallery, JFKU, Berkeley, California
2007 “Romantic Landscapes,”  Works in Progress Gallery, JFKU, Berkeley, California
1999       “Madderlake,”  Audiobooks, Belmont, California

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 “Prima Materia,” Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, California 2023 “Rewilding the Body Eclectic,” Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff, Canada 2023 “People,” Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol CA, 2nd place award 2020 “The de Young Open,” de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
2019 “Regarding the Wild,” March 3 - 31, One Brooklyn Bridge Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2017         Statewide 2D Competition & Exhibition, Triton Museum, Santa Clara, California
2015        "Nourish," Napa Valley Art Museum, Yountville, California
2014        “In Artis Res,” Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont
2013        “Luminous Worlds,” O’Hanlon Center for the Art, Mill Valley, California
2012        “Art as Liminal Space,” Arts & Consciousness Gallery, JFKU, Berkeley, California
                “Graduate Exhibition,” Arts & Consciousness Gallery, JFKU, Berkeley, California
               “Nexus,” Arts & Consciousness Gallery, JFKU, Berkeley, California
2008       “4 X 4,” Arts & Consciousness Gallery, JFKU, Berkeley, California
2006       “ACE Exhibition,” Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California

AWARDS, PUBLICATIONS, AND RESIDENCIES
2024 “Prima Materia,” collaborative graphic novel, edited by Danièle Archambault 2023 “Rewilding the Body Eclectic” residency, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity 2020 VSC Creative Imperative, Vermont Studio Center/online 2019 ChaNorth Residency, September, Pine Plains, New York
Berlin/Studio, June-August, Berlin, Germany
2018       Vermont Studio Center Resident, September, Johnson, Vermont
2017        Tournesol Award finalist, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, California
2016       "In the Gray Lands," Catalogue essay by Maria Porges
      "Shades of Costco," review by Marci Suela, The Advocate, February 3, 2016
2015       “Being an Artist in the 21st Century,” San Jose State University Shift Magazine, No. 5
2014       Vermont Studio Center Resident, September, Johnson, Vermont
2013 Vermont Studio Center Resident, October, Johnson, Vermont
2012       Susan Seddon Boulet Award, John F. Kennedy University, Berkeley, California

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Deborah J. Miller, Vermont Studio Center, 2014