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Keith Miller

Part-time Faculty
km96@nyu.edu
613 - 1 Wash Pl

Office Hours
Wednesday 11:00 TO 1:00 (BY APPT)

B.F.A., Painting, SUNY, Purchase, 1988
M.F.A., Painting, Stony Brook University, 2001

Keith Miller is a filmmaker, artist and curator based in Brooklyn. His most recent feature, Five Star, premiered at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival where it won Best Editing for a Narrative Feature, and went on to win several other awards. It had its international premiere at the Venice Biennale and went on to play numerous festivals including Thessaloniki, Cairo, Rio De Janeiro, Seattle, New Orleans and many more. It will be distributed in North America by Xlrator Media and internationally by AMC/Sundance International. It will be in theaters in NY and LA Summer 2015. As part of the development and production of Five Star, he was awarded a Jerome Film and Video grant and a Rooftop Production grant.  His first feature film, Welcome to Pine Hill, was awarded the Grand Jury Prize at Slamdance Film Festival 2012, the Grand Jury Prize at the Atlanta Film Festival, the FIPRESCI Grand Jury Prize for New American Cinema at the Seattle International Film Festival, a Special Jury Prize for Performance at the Sarasota Film Festival and an Honorable Mention at the Nashville Film Festival. In North America it is distributed by Oscilloscope Laboratories and internationally by AMC/Sundance International. Keith was recently named a 2015 Guggenheim Fellow for his long-term Whitman Project, inspired by Five Star.  As part of this he is currently developing his next feature film, The Translator. His teaching is focused on the intersection of theory and practice when looking at, thinking about, and making art, film and Visual Culture. The ongoing relevance of the many forms of realism and surrealism are central to this approach. His paintings have been shown in New York, Atlanta, and Mexico. He was the curator and director of the SAC Gallery at Stony Brook University from 2002-2008. Since 2008 he has been the curator of the Gallatin Galleries.  

Awards & Honors

2022

Keith Miller Gallatin Adviser of Distinction

Keith Miller is a filmmaker, artist and curator based in Brooklyn, and Curator of the Gallatin Galleries. His most recent feature, Five Star, premiered at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival where it won Best Editing for a Narrative Feature, and went on to win several other awards

Conferences & Residencies

2018

Keith Miller 2018 Residency at The Camargo Foundation

Filmmaker, artist, and curator of The Gallatin Galleries, Keith Miller, was awarded a Summer 2018 BAU Institute Residency Award at The Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France.

Teaching and Research Interests

modern and contemporary art; Realism; figurative painting; narrative cinema; video art; filmmaking 

Recent News

CREATIVE WORK

Brooklynification, a new comedy series written, directed, and produced by Professor Keith Miller, premiered in December 2016 on BRIC TV. The series will air its second season on April 30, 2018.

AWARDS AND HONORS

Along with Nicholas Mirzoeff, Miller was awarded an a NYU arts grant to create the first episode of a video series based on Mirzoeff's book How To See The World.

Miller was awarded a 2015 Guggenheim Fellowship in Film-Video from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to support "The Whitman Project," ten films set within the Walt Whitman Houses, located in the Fort Greene neighborhood of Brooklyn.

He received the Gallatin Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching for 2013-2014. The award recognizes educators for their outstanding teaching; their ability to inspire their students; a pedagogical approach that is creative and rigorous; expert advising and mentoring skills; and contributions to their field.

His feature film Five Star was selected for the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival’s World Narrative Competition, and had its world premiere at the festival. He was awarded Best Editing in a Narrative Feature Film from the Festival in April 2014. In January 2014, he curated the 2014 Gallatin Faculty Art Show, held in The Gallatin Galleries.  

Keith Miller