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Ken Miller is a curator, writer-editor and creative director. He has presented exhibitions in the United States, Europe and Asia, often with private sponsorship, and has published three books of art, fashion and photography. He writes regularly for several publications, including initiating a recurring multimedia feature for T: The New York Times Style Magazine.
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In 2016, Ken curated murals, sculptures, installations and other visual art for Clarify, an 8 city program presented by music streaming service Spotify. Artists presented in Clarify included Saya Woolfalk, Ivan Depeña, For Freedoms, Nina Chanel Abney, among others.
In 2015, Ken curated fashion photography for "Artists Series" at Gana Art in Seoul, Korea. In 2014, Ken curated two exhibitions at the Sundance Film Festival. 1MSQFT showcased music and design as part of a cultural programming series for Microsoft; SPACE, with sponsorship by Patagonia, presented landscapes by prominent fine art and fashion photographers. Photographers exhibited in SPACE included Juergen Teller, Jack Pierson, Lee Friedlander, Nan Goldin, Catherine Opie, Todd Hido and Mike Brodie.
In 2012-2013, Miller was curator for Fujifilm’s X-Series cameras. Photographers William Eggleston, Stephen Shore, Nan Goldin, Terry Richardson, Ryan McGinley and Martin Parr were commissioned to shoot original photos using the cameras. The resulting photographs were presented at exhibitions in New York at the Aperture Foundation, Tokyo (at Omotesando Hills), Milan (at Galleria Carla Sozzani). and Seoul (at Hyundai Card Design Library).
In 2010, Miller curated a ‘UT’ shirt series featuring black and white photography for apparel brand Uniqlo; the shirts featured contributions from Lee Friedander and Daidō Moriyama, among others, and were sold in Uniqlo stores worldwide. In 2011, he curated fashion week photos and videos for Milk Studios, in New York with support from Leica cameras and Vimeo.
For Fall 2008 New York Fashion Week, Miller curated a series of conversations on art, music, fashion, health and design for MINI Cooper cars. In 2009, Miller was consulting curator for a 'Saturdays at Phillips' auction of young artists by the Phillips de Pury auction house.
In 2003, Tokion founded Creativity Now, an annual arts and media conference in New York and Tokyo. Speakers at the conference were drawn from a variety of creative disciplines, and included musicians Brian Eno, Kim Gordon and Anthony Hegarty; fashion designers Proenza Schouler; artists Matthew Barney, Tom Sachs, Doug Aitken and Raymond Pettibon; directors Lynne Ramsay, Mike Mills, Gaspar Noé, Neil LaBute and John Cameron Mitchell; and graphic designer Peter Saville. Creativity Now was presented from 2003-2006 and in 2008 the conference won AdAge's Vanguard Award.
Works as editor
In 2015, Miller is interviewer and text editor for The Newsstand by Lele Saveri and Alldayeveryday, published by Skira Rizzoli in conjunction with an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art.
In 2012, Miller was an editor of Opening Ceremony, a monograph on the fashion brand and retailer, published in 2012 with Rizzoli. Julie Schumacher and Rory Satran were also editors of the book, with Opening Ceremony’s founders Carol Lim and Humberto Leon as authors and additional contributions from Spike Jonze and Chloë Sevigny. Opening Ceremony chronicled the first 10 years of the store’s history through advertising imagery, private snapshots, quotes and anecdotes.
In 2009-2010, Miller was editor of two issues of Spread Artculture magazine with cover profiles of Pharrell Williams and M.I.A.
Miller is author-editor of SHOOT: Photography of the Moment, a fashion and fine art ‘snapshot’ photography compilation published in 2009 with Rizzoli. SHOOT was supported with events and exhibitions at the New Museum in New York, Berkeley Art Museum, Tate Modern in London, Colette in Paris, FOAM Fotografiemuseum in Amsterdam, UCCA in Beijing, and PARCO in Tokyo, with additional events and exhibitions in Barcelona, Berlin, Dublin, and Mexico City.
In 2008, Miller was editor of Revisionaries, A Decade of Art in Tokion, published with Abrams Image. Revisionaries compiled art and interviews from nearly 100 artists who had contributed to the magazine.
From 2001-2007, Miller was editor of Tokion magazine, a youth-culture oriented design, arts and style magazine. Tokion published two separate editions in English and Japanese, with distribution in North America, Europe and Japan. As editor, Miller conducted numerous interviews with artists including Yoko Ono, Maurizio Cattelan, Mike Kelley, Yayoi Kusama, Ed Ruscha and Jeff Koons; musicians including Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, Timbaland, Björk and Thurston Moore; filmmakers including Gus Van Sant, Michel Gondry, Harmony Korine, Miranda July and Judd Apatow; actors Samantha Morton, Chloë Sevigny and Isabelle Huppert; chef Nobu Matsuhisa; basketball player Yao Ming; and stuntman Evel Knievel.
In 1999-2000, Ken Miller was editor in chief for the New York office of modo, a wireless handheld guide to culture and nightlife from Scout Electromedia. Design for modo was provided by IDEO with an advertising campaign by Wieden+Kennedy.
Works as writer
Since 2013, Ken has been a writer for T: The New York Times Style Magazine, contributing "Under the Influence", a recurring multimedia feature that profiles artists, musicians and designers such as Kara Walker, Kim Gordon and Alex Katz. He has additionally written for New York Magazine, W, Interview, V, Details, Purple and Business of Fashion. He has written travel books for Rough Guides and contributed travel writing to National Public Radio.