How can I buy a work by Justin Henry Miller?

Bruno David Gallery handles the sale of available works by Justin Henry Miller. For prices and availability, email info@brunodavidgallery.com or call +1 314 696 2377.

Where can I see work by Justin Henry Miller in person?

At Bruno David Gallery, 7513 Forsyth Boulevard, Saint Louis, Missouri 63105, during public hours or by appointment. His work is also in the collections of Fort Wayne Museum of Art and South Bend Museum of Art.

Where is Justin Henry Miller based?

Justin Henry Miller lives and works in Cape Girardeau, Missouri.

Has Justin Henry Miller had an exhibition at Bruno David Gallery?

Yes. Hustle and Glo (31 August to 29 September 2018); ROUGE | RED (March 2021) are among his exhibitions at the gallery. Catalogues can be read in the gallery’s Publications library at brunodavidgallery.com/publications.

Justin Henry Miller

Justin Henry Miller is a Cape Girardeau-based painter who pictures invented biomorphic creatures and the aftermath of scientific experiments gone wrong. His images draw on science fiction, anatomical illustration, cartoons, and contested practices such as cloning and transgenic breeding, and his figures waver between success and failure in what he calls a “dayglo world of desolation.” He traces these subjects to growing up on a horse farm near Arcola, Illinois, where he watched his father inoculate and selectively breed horses.

Miller works mainly in oil and acrylic, often on wood panels he builds and sands himself, and he also paints over found vintage photographs, adding alien figures to old portraits to create new narratives. He names the Pop Surrealists Mark Ryden, Camille Rose Garcia, and Jeff Soto among his influences. For Hustle and Glo (2018), works on paper about the daily flood of images and the way memory layers them, he applied one color after another while masking out linear images, then removed the masked areas back to the white paper.

Miller earned a BA in art education (2002) and an MA (2003) from Eastern Illinois University and an MFA from the University of Notre Dame (2006). After teaching at the University of Saint Francis in Fort Wayne, Indiana, from 2007 to 2012, he joined Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau, where he is a professor and area head of painting and has coordinated the River Campus Art Gallery. Eastern Illinois University gave him its Outstanding Graduate Alumni Award in 2013.

His solo exhibitions include The Fallout Kingdom (2016) and RUOK (2026) at Zg Gallery in Chicago, which represents him, and Regards from the Black Hole (2023) at the Contemporary Art Center of Peoria. His work appeared in New American Paintings (2019) and is in the collections of the Fort Wayne Museum of Art and the South Bend Museum of Art. Miller joined Bruno David Gallery in 2018; the gallery presented Hustle and Glo, his first solo exhibition there, later that year and published its catalogue, and included him in the 2021 group exhibition ROUGE | RED.

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