Jean-Paul Miller (b. 1989) is an artist living and working in Los Angeles, CA. Miller's practice subverts industrial methodologies to dissect structures of social control, structures that condition and extract from everyone they reach.
In certain works, the artist cuts, forms, and welds steel into enclosed volumes for inflation. Cavities and pipes channel pressure to expand the walls of enclosure into a breach, forming hollow steel bodies that weigh heavily in the viewer's space and body. These works parallel how ruling classes instrumentalize excess, from data centers that burn fossil-fueled grids and drain drought-stricken water reserves to cobalt belts in the Congo and lithium flats in the Atacama that poison land and conscript labor, accumulating beyond their capacity into oblivion.
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EDUCATION
- 2025 BFA Fine Art | Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California
- 2016 AAS Electrical Engineering | Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, California
SELECT SOLO EXHIBITIONS
- 2025 THOTH | Art Center College of Design | Pasadena, California
- 2024 EXIT MANIFOLD | Art Center College of Design | Pasadena, California
- Subspace Fugitives | Art Center College of Design | Pasadena, California
- 2023 Sleep: The Chalice of Ecstasy | Art Center College of Design | Pasadena, California
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
- 2025 My Cup Runneth Over | Tyler Park Presents | Los Angeles, California