SELECT SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023

Offerings Rubine Red Gallery, Palm Springs CA

2021
Always Together with You
Museum of Museums, Seattle WA

2019
Offerte
The Factory, Seattle WA

Time Machines AURA, Seattle WA

2015
Les Fleurs du Mâle Revision Space Gallery, Pittsburgh PA

2014
Les Fleurs du Mâle 4Culture, Seattle WA

2013
Wild Boys Vermillion, Seattle WA

2010
Photography by Steven Miller Curated by Ellen Falsenthal, Everett Community College, Everett WA

2007
Bound Davidson Contemporary, Seattle WA

Milky: Photographs by Steven Miller, Curated by Pamela Sachant, Northern Georgia College and State University, Dahlonega GA

2004
Milky Gallery 110, Seattle WA

2003
Roadside Attractions Gallery 110, Seattle WA

SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2020
Looking Outside
James Harris Gallery, Seattle WA

2019
A Kind of Reunion Curated by George Brandt, Gallery 110, Seattle WA

Look How Far We’ve Come Curated by Timothy Rysdyke, Columbia Tower Sky View Observatory, Seattle WA

2017
Where We Find Ourselves Curated by Jordan Rockford, Penn State Abington, Pennsylvania; University of the Arts in Center City, Philadelphia, PA

2015
Art AIDS America
Curated by Rock Hushka and Dr. Jonathan D. Katz, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA; Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw, GA; and The Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY

Out of Sight Curated by Greg Lundgren, King Street Station, Seattle, WA

2013
Wayfinder: Forging Identity Curated by Adam Miller, The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA
Polari Curated by Steven Miller, True Love Gallery, Seattle, WA

2012
Beyond the Western Lands Curated by Steven Miller, Soil, Seattle, WA

We Are Such Faggots: Steven Miller and Adrain Chesser True Love Gallery, Seattle WA

Intersections: Interpretations and Reflections of Queer Artists Curated by Ashley Hollender, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA

A Northwest View: Sexual Difference in American Portraiture Curated by Rock Hushka, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA

Author and Subject: Contemporary Queer Photography Curated by Ann Pallesen, Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, WA

2011
Smoke Farm Curated by Jennifer Zeyl, Arlington, WA

Performance/Art Seattle City Hall, Seattle, WA

Degenerate Art Ensemble Curated by Robin Held, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA

2010
Fototage Trier 2010 Curated by Christoph Tannert, Viehmarktthermen Trier, Germany

Implied Violence: Yes and More and Yes and Yes and Why Curated by Robin Held, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA

Suggestions of a Life Being Lived: A Queer Exploration of Three Public Themes Curated by Daniel Orendorff and Adrienne Roberts, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA

2009
Seattle City Light Portable Works: Part 1 Seattle Municipal Tower Gallery, Seattle WA

Gay Men Play Curated by Chris Boot, New York Photo Festival, Brooklyn NY

2008
Cut and Paste
Curated by Tracey Fugami and Jason Huff, Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland WA

Digitalia: Intimacy in the Hyperreal Curated by Evan Garza, Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston TX

2007
Body Image Seattle Art Museum Rental/Sales Gallery, Seattle WA

Eighth Northwest Biennial Jurors: David Kiehl, Print Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art; and Rock Hushka, Curator of Contemporary and Northwest Art, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma WA

Baroque Revival The Gallery, Tacoma Community College, Tacoma WA

2006
Resonance: 11th Annual Photographic Competition Exhibition Juror: Paul Kopeikin, Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle WA

Referencing Nature Seattle Art Museum Rental/Sales Gallery, Seattle WA

Persona Davidson Contemporary, Seattle WA

Swallow Harder: Selections from the Ben and Aileen Krohn Collection Curated by Robin Held, Frye Art Museum, Seattle WA

2003
Photographic Center Northwest Member’s Juried Exhibition Juror: Elizabeth A. Brown, chief curator of Henry Art Gallery, Seattle WA

2002
Personal Viewpoints: 7th Annual Photographic Competition Exhibition Juror: Michael Kenna, Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle WA

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Seattle City Light Portable Works Collection, Seattle WA
Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma WA
Northern Georgia College and State University, Dahlonega GA
4 Culture King County Public Art Collection Courthouse Portable Works Purchase, Seattle WA

COLLABORATIONS

Beaster and Bear - with Adrain Chesser and Timothy White Eagle
Published and exhibited in Istanbul, Germany, Philadelphia, New York and the Northwest, 2009-present

Implied Violence/St. Genet
Co-creating photographs published and exhibited in Austria, Watermill, Guggenheim, Frye Art Museum, 2010-present

Degenerate Art Ensemble
Co-creating photographs published across Europe and the US, 2001-present

AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES

2021 Vashon Artist Residency, Vashon WA
2010 Photo Center Northwest Print Sponsorship Program, Seattle WA
2007 Espy Foundation Artist Residency, Oysterville WA
2004 Artist Trust EDGE Professional Development Program for Visual Artists, Seattle WA

LECTURES

2021
Crosscuts Arts Panel

2014
Les Fleurs du Mâle, 4Culture, Seattle WA

2013
Pecha Kucha, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue WA

2012
Tricksters Forever, Adrain Chesser and Steven Miller, Photographic Center NW, Seattle WA
Chaos, Tricksters & Temporary Autonomous Zones: Creating New Queer Utopias, Western Washington University, Bellingham WA

2010
Guest artist lecture, Everett Community College, Everett WA

2008
Inappropriate Behavior, Pacific Northwest College of the Arts, Portland OR
Instant Messages, Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston TX

2007
Body Image, Seattle Art Museum Council, Seattle WA
Guest artist lecture, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle WA
Making Mischief, Northern Georgia College and State University, Dahlonega GA
Visiting artist lecture, Espy Foundation, Oysterville WA
Guest artist lecture, University of Arizona Photography Department, Tucson AZ

2006
Referencing Nature, Seattle Art Museum/Rental Sales Gallery, Seattle WA
Swallow Harder, Frye Art Museum, Seattle WA

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

Ruben Floating, Cover photography for The Sun Magazine, 2023

Steven Miller’s Spiritual Skinny Dipping, Corianton Hale, The Stranger, 2022

Stranger Suggests: Subsumption at Museum of Museums, Jas Keimig, The Stranger, 2021

The Story Behind Steven Miller’s Brilliant Quarantine Portraits, Stefan Milne, Seattle Met Magazine, 2020

Offerte, Show Catalog, essay by C. Davida Ingram, published by Cave Homo, 2019

ART AIDS AMERICA, Show Catalog, published by Tacoma Art Museum, 2015

Les Fleurs du Mâle, Monograph, essay by C. Davida Ingram, published by DINOSAUR, 2015

How Do You Make Art About Incarceration? by Jen Graves, The Stranger, Seattle, 2014

The Future List – The Ritualist: Steven Miller, Mark Baumgarten, City Arts Magazine, 2013

Suggestions of a Life Being Lived: A Queer Exploration of Three Public Themes, Edited by Danny Orendorff and Adrienne Skye Roberts, 2011

Holy Wood: Ein Plädoyer für den Baum Holger Mayer, editor, Berlin, Germany, 2011

Adrain Chesser & Steven Miller, Seattle, feature shoot, New York City, 2011

Portfolio .default Magazine, Istanbul, Turkey, 2011

Portfolio Matthew Lawrence, Headmaster Magazine, Providence, Rhode Island, 2010

Milky, Monograph, published by Decode Books, 2009

Get Milked, Interview and portfolio in Bear Magazine, Spring 2009

Rampant Rabbits, Interview in London Gay Times, October 2008

Digitalia: Intimacy in the Hyperreal, Sean Carroll, Art Lies, A Contemporary Art Quarterly, Fall 2008

Queer Zines, Edited by AA Bronson and Philip Aarons, 2008

Digitalia: Intimacy in the Hyperreal, Dusti Rhodes, Houston Press, Houston, TX, January 2008

Digitalia: Intimacy in the Hyperreal, Perpetual Art Machine, January 2008

Desire in Digital, Marisa Olson, Rhizome at the New Museum, New York, NY, January 2008

Queer Subversion, New York Arts Magazine, New York, NY, July 2007

Origin Stories, Kit Bond, GAE Magazine, Seattle, WA, June 2007

Interview and Portfolio, Massimo Magrini, Slurp Magazine, Milan, Italy, June 2007

The Artist Lineup for Tacoma Art Museum’s Northwest Biennial is Irresistible, Regina Hackett, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, March 16, 2007

Where the Action Is, Rock Hushka, City Arts Magazine, Tacoma, WA, March 2007

Overwhelming Pieces of Art..., Rosemary Ponnekanti, Tacoma News Tribune, Tacoma, WA, Feb 16, 2007

Best Bet: Arts – “Persona”, Regina Hackett, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Seattle, WA, March 31, 2006

Seattle Erotic Art Festival participants often as interesting as the displays, Athima Chansanchai, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Seattle, WA, March 27, 2006

Visual Arts Critics’ Picks – “Persona”, Sheila Farr, Seattle Times, Seattle, WA, March 26, 2006

Swallow Harder – Selections from the Ben and Aileen Krohn Collection, Gary Faigin, Artdish.com, Seattle, WA, March 18, 2006

The Frye’s ‘Swallow Harder’ is an adventure in edgy contemporary art, Regina Hackett, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Seattle, WA, March 3, 2006

A strong lineup of diverse works in Davidson’s ‘Persona’ exhibit, Regina Hackett, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Seattle, WA, March 3, 2006

Persona-fied, Molly Norris Curtis, Art Access, Seattle, WA, March 1, 2006

Queer Eye, Queer Identities, David S. Areford, show catalog, Boston, MA, January 23, 2006

Icebox Gallery: Anything but Cold, Staci Peper, Tacoma Weekly, Tacoma, WA, January 12, 2006