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Bernie Miller was born in Toronto, Ontario. He graduated from the Ontario College of Art in 1974, a recipient of the Ontario College of Art Medal. He has exhibited his work in Canada, USA, France, Italy, Sweden, Austria, Poland, and Germany and has been commissioned to do major public artworks in Toronto, Vancouver, and Edmonton. He was a director at YYZ Artist’s Outlet in Toronto for sixteen years and served on the curatorial committee of the Toronto Sculpture Garden for five years. Bernie participated in residency programs at the Cité des Arts in Paris, France, as well as at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Banff, Alberta. He was a peer advisor for the Technology Rhetoric and Utopia Residency, also at the Banff Centre. Bernie has taught at the University of Guelph, and lectured at the University of Alberta, Lethbridge; York University, Toronto; and the College of Art and Design, also in Toronto; at the Emily Carr College of Art and Design, Vancouver; Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary; University of Regina, Saskatchewan; University of Manitoba, Winnipeg; and at La Caixa, Barcelona, Spain. He has contributed articles to a number of publications including Money Value Art: State Funding, Free Markets, Big Pictures. He also co-edited, with Melony Ward, a collection of essays, Crime and Ornament: The Arts and Popular Culture in the Shadow of Adolf Loos. He has contributed texts to a number of catalogues and has reviewed exhibitions for noted art publications. Bernie Miller now lives and works in Winnipeg. He is represented in Toronto by Paul Petro Contemporary Art.