Born New York, New York
EDUCATION
1989 Russian Language Immersion, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont
1990 Russian Art History, Language and Culture, Moscow State Pedagogical University,Moscow, USSR
1992 BA Russian Cultural Studies, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
1993 Parsons School of Design, New York, New York
1995, 1999 Haystack Mountain Schoolof Crafts, Deer Isle, Maine
1994, 1995 Penland School of Crafts, Penland, North Carolina
1997 Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, Montana
2008 Interdisciplinary Art, Goddard College
2013 MA Decorative Arts and Design History, Bard Graduate Center, New York, New York
2018 PhD History of Art, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
PRIMARY WORK EXPERIENCE
1995-2010 Studio potter
1997 Technical Assistant for Michael Simon, Chris Staley, Linda Christenson, and NickJoerling
2018- Chief Curator, Gardiner Museum, Toronto, Canada
BIOGRAPHY
Sequoia Miller produced a range of stoneware functional forms that were either thrown and radically altered or slab built. He used minimal color, typically black and dark green often with unglazed areas providing contrast. Most pieces were fired in a gas kiln with some pieces fired in a wood kiln. Miller approached his work with a high level of curiosity and academic prowess. About his work as a potter he has said, “I’m attracted to the idea of practice--attentive repetition toward something small as a way to understand something universal.” When considering why customers buy a pot he says, “they buy the exploration, of which the pot is an artifact.” Miller left the pottery studio to pursue an academic route that led him to earn a PhD from Yale University in 2018. In 2018 he became the Chief Curator at the Gardiner Museum, Toronto,Canada