Education
1971-72 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, MS, Painting
1961-64 University of Utah, BFA, Painting
1957-60 University of Notre Dame, Fine Arts
One-Person Shows
2015 SJIMA, Friday Harbor, WA, Unlike Earth: Watercolor
2013 Artsource International, New York City, New York
2012 25CPW Gallery, New York City, New York
1994 Lead Gallery, Seattle, Washington
1994 Ricciardi Gallery, Astoria, Oregon
1985 Waterworks Gallery, Friday Harbor, Washington
1979 Kimball Art Center, Park City, Utah
1978 Canessa Gallery, San Francisco, California
1977 Paducah Art Guild, Paducah, Kentucky
1976 Paducah Art Guild, Paducah, Kentucky
1975 Bryce Canyon, Utah
1974 Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, Utah
1974 Sheldon Galleries, Lincoln, Nebraska
1974 Bradley Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1972 University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Two-Person Shows
2018, 19 Multiverse, Friday Harbor, WA., with Ian Boyden
2015 Jamie Ellsworth Gallery, Friday Harbor, WA., with Dana Roberts
2013 WM McCauley Gallery, Friday Harbor, WA
2010 Concepia Gallery, Friday Harbor, Washington
1999 Waterworks Gallery, Friday Harbor, Washington
1989 Chetwynd Staplyton Gallery, Portland, Oregon
1989 Ricciardi Gallery, Astoria, Oregon
1988 Blue Heron Center for the Arts, Vashon, Washington
1987, 86 Waterworks Gallery, Friday Harbor, Washington
Group Shows
2018 Four Artists, One Day, Marie Boe Building
2016, 17, 18 SJIMA Annual Artist Registry Show, Friday Harbor, WA
2016 CPSA 24th Annual International Exhibition, Tacoma, WA
2015 2015 Abstract Painting Competition, Seattle
2014 Space Gallery, Denver
2013 Art/C’sur, Southhampton, NY
1998 Lead Gallery, Seattle
1996-97 Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe
Rediscovering the Landscape of the Americas:
(Paintings from Mexico, Canada, and U.S.A., traveling to
museums in all three countries after opening in Santa Fe)
1993-94 Babcock Galleries, New York
Artist as Native: Reinventing Regionalism
(After opening in New York traveling to:
Middlebury College Museum of Art, Vermont;
Albany Institute of Art, Albany, New York;
Owensboro Museum of Fine Art, Kentucky)
1992, 91, 90 Waterworks Gallery, Friday Harbor,
1989 Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, Washington:
50th Northwest Watercolor Annual
1989 Davidson Galleries, Seattle, Washington
1989 Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, Washington
1989 Chetwynd Staplyton Gallery, Portland, Oregon
1989, 88 Waterworks Gallery, Friday Harbor, Washington
1988 Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, Washington:
8th Northwest International Art Competition
1987 Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, Washington:
7th Northwest International Art Competition
1982,80,78,64,62
Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, Utah:
Utah Annual Juried Exhibit
1980 Salt Lake Art Barn, Salt Lake City, Utah:
New Directions
1979 Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, Utah
Utah Originals
1978 Los Robles Gallery, Palo Alto, California
Friends of the Earth Invitational
1978 College of Southern Utah Invitational, Cedar City, Utah
1975 Jailhouse Gallery, Moab, Utah
1975 Sheldon Galleries (museum), Lincoln, Nebraska
A Sense of Place: The Artist and the American Land
Life Project
1994-2004 We designed and hand built our home.
Rebuilt original cabin into studios.
Publications and Films
2013 MENREMARKABLEVISIONARIES: Miller, Joe- Lyrical Landscapes, by Polly Guerin, November 2
1997 Rediscovering the American Landscape
(color catalog for the traveling exhibition)
1993 The Artist as Native: Reinventing Regionalism
Alan Gussow, John Driscoll; Pomegranate Artbooks, San Francisco, California
1980 New Directions (color catalogue for exhibition)
1976 The Joe Miller Painting a Painting for a Film Film
Produced by Roger Darbonne, Oxnard, California
1974 A Sense of Place: The Artist and the American Land
Two-hour documentary of eleven artists across the U.S.A.
Produced by Nebraska Educational Television.
Grants
1989 Fellowship, Vermont Studio Colony
1977-78 National Endowment for the Arts and Kentucky Arts Commission:
Artist-in-Residence at Kenlake State Park, Kentucky
1974 National Endowment for the Arts:
Artist-in-Residence at Arches, Zion, and Bryce National Parks
Collections
Sheldon Galleries, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska
Chuo Trust, New York City, New York
StarVest Partners, New York City, New York
Roberts and Rehon Law Offices, San Jose, California
Numerous private collections.