S H A L A M I L L E R
1993. Born in Cleveland, Ohio.
EDUCATION/RESIDENCIES
New York Film Festival Artist Academy, 2019
La Selva Film Accelerator Lab with Lucrecia Martel, 2019
Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, 2017
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2017. Bachelor of Fine Arts.
École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, FR, 2016. Bachelor of Fine Arts.
Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah GA, 2012-2013 Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography.
Alliance Française de Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2014 - 2016
SOLO SHOWS
ii-V-I, Chart Gallery, New York, NY, 2021
GROUP SHOWS
Moveable Image, Academy Art Museum, Easton, MD, 2022
I Belong to This, Huxley-Parlour, London, UK, 2021
The Skin I Live In, Lyles & King, New York, NY, 2021
Live From New York, Helena Anrather, New York, NY, 2021
In a Silent Way, Dakar Biennale, Dakar, Senegal, 2018
To Break the Ocean, AC Institute, New York, NY, 2018
Eclipsing, Arts Incubator, Chicago, IL, 2018
Multiple Sides of the Bed, MINKA Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY, 2017
BFA Show, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL, 2017
DeNue, SUGS Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2016
Relational Aesthetics of Some Sweet Strangers, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, 2016
15 (Because We Are Here For the Walls That Say Maybe), Fat City Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2015
Blackness is More Than One Story, Siragusa Gallery - SAIC, 2015
Intersection, Siragusa Gallery - SAIC, 2015
Fresh Juju, Black Harvest Film Festival, Gene Siskel Film Center, 2014
SCAD Foundations Honors Show, Savannah College of Art and Design, 2013
SOLO SCREENINGS
Heat Situated/Necessary Accessories, The Nightingale Cinema, Chicago, IL, 2017
GROUP SCREENINGS
The Get Free Telethon, Red Bull Arts, 2020
New Cinema Club, 2020
Ten Toes Down, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL, 2018
Sincerely, Yours, Microlights, Milwaukee, Wi, 2018
PUBLICATIONS
Tender Noted, Wendy's Subway, 2022
Touch, Sable Elyse Smith, Swiss Institute, 2021
Public Excess Issue No. 1, 2016
MOUTH, SAIC BFAW Publication, 2015
SAIC Photography Department Catalog, 2014 & 2015
Body, Manifold, SUGS Gallery publication c/o Amina Ross, 2015
PERFORMANCES
If improvisation could serve as a manual, if gesture could serve as a guide, Artist's Space, New York, 2022
The Belly of the Wail, Swiss Institute, New York, NY, 2022
Dreaming Otherwise, Performance Space New York, New York, NY, 2021
To America, Death of Classical, Green-Wood Cemetery, New York, NY, 2020
If the wind were water we’d all be really whet… by Kaleigh Moynihan, Prairie Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2017
The Walk, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2017
Last Week by Beau O’Reilly, Curious Theatre Branch, Prop Thtr, Chicago, IL, 2017
‘I Can’t Reach the Sugar on My Back’ - An Anti Love Song About Love Songs Made With Butter in My Hands and a Dandelion to My Chin by Shala Miller. Reading, Curious Theatre Branch Rhinofest Vaudeville, Prop Thtr, 2017
The Play by Kayleigh Moynihan, Activate Chicago in Association with the Loop Alliance (Creative Director: Cheryl Pope), 2015
LECTURES/TALKS
Magic Hour Podcast, 2021
Silent Reading Hour, Sparkle Nation, Montez Press Radio, 2020
Intersectionality Critique Panel, panelist, SAIC, 2014 & 2015
ACHIEVEMENTS
Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture Fellowship, 2017
Student Leadership Award, SAIC, 2017
Goldman Sachs Scholar, 2015
SAIC Dean’s List for Outstanding Sophomores, 2015
Excellence in Leadership Award, SAIC, 2015
SAIC Merit Scholarship, 2013
SCAD Merit Scholarship, 2012-2013
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