Born in Warren, Ohio, in 1949; lives and works in Montreal.

David Miller’s practice is characterized by an extremely rigorous documentary approach to architecture, favouring the highlighting of built heritage and its role in collective memory. The artist’s earlier examinations of architectural forms—in the series Urban Entropy (1994– 1997) and Parking Lots and Construction Sites (1980–1981)—played up the connections between architecture and the environment and underscored the relationships of citizens to urban space. Made with remarkable care and precision, his pictures of the city’s downtown core employ a multiplication of viewpoints to expose architectural styles that co-exist in a kind of chaos. These representations also reveal locations that speak to issues at stake in anthropic constructions—for example buildings and spaces devastated by large-scale
real estate developments. Miller here interrogates past, present and future uses of space by humans.

David Miller has shown his work in both solo and group exhibitions in Canada and the United States. His most recent show took place at Eleanor London Library, Montreal (2004). He has also shared dual exhibitions with Clara Gutsche at the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa (1995) and at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal (1992). In the fall of 2007, Galerie Occurrence will show his recent work along with that of Gutsche. David Miller’s works are housed in several public collections in North America. He teaches photography at Champlain College in Saint-Lambert, Quebec.