Portrait of the artist by Jonathan Katzenberg

 

STATEMENT

My surrealist paintings capture the mysterious places we visit between sleeping and waking. I invite the viewer into this liminal space by blending familiar elements of our objective world with ethereal textures and geometric patterns of the unseen world. The mandalas and the organic fluidity of wood grain suggest the subjects’ energy extending beyond their physical bodies and into the subtle realm of spirit. I approach my art as a practice of bringing resistance into resonance by honoring the beauty in dissipation and decay, and finding wisdom in nature’s forms.

BIO

Miles grew his roots in the artistic city of Santa Fe and is currently making art in the woods of Nevada City. His creative juices have been squeezed from the fruits of graffiti culture, a BFA at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, live painting at festivals, and traveling around the world creating street art in places including Paris, Switzerland, Art Basel Miami, Mexico, Canada, and India. His mural series at the Beatles Ashram in Rishikesh has been published in the Smithsonian Magazine and The New York Times blog. Another one of his murals in India was readapted to be featured as the artwork in the second season of the AMC show Better Call Saul. Miles’ work finds an even split between studio art and street art.

 
 

SELECTED RESUME

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

  • 2022 The Familiar Unknown. Ryan Joseph Gallery. Denver, CO

  • 2021 From Somewhere Else. Groundswell. Sacramento, CA

  • 2019 Immersed. The Chambers Project. Nevada City, CA

  • 2017 Dreamer. 1810 Gallery. Sacramento, CA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

  • 2024 Efflorescence, A Space In Between, Sacramento, CA

  • 2021 Endings and Continuations. Ryan Joseph Gallery. Denver, CO

  • 2021 Vida, Ila Gallery. Denver, CO

  • 2020 Crush Style. Platteforum Gallery. Denver, CO

  • 2020 Custom Minky Show. Foreign Form with Blamo. Denver, CO

  • 2020 Surreal Salon 12. Baton Rouge Gallery. Baton Rouge, LA

  • 2019 Matrilineal. The Culture House Collective. Nevada City, CA

  • 2019 Tribes. Vaayu Vision Collective Gallery. Goa, India

  • 2018 Dreamscapes. Birdsnest Gallery. Aspen, CO

  • 2017 Wide Open Walls Exhibition. Beatnik Studios. Sacramento, CA

  • 2016 Uninhibited Magazine Anniversary Show. The Collective Art. Miami, FL

  • 2013 9th Annual Cornish-Hutch Partnership Exhibition. Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Seattle, WA

  • 2013 Currents New Media Festival. El Museo Cultural. Santa Fe, NM

PUBLIC MURALS

  • 2023 “The Hive” for the Hive Tattoo Shop • Salt Lake City, UT

  • 2023 “Catalyst” for Eureka Street Art Festival • Eureka, CA

  • 2021 Full Parking Garage Mural at 1801 L Apartments • Sacramento, CA

  • 2021 “Air and Aether” for Mural Fest • Salt Lake City, UT

  • 2021 “Miles Apart” for Wide Open Walls Mural Festival • Sacramento, CA

  • 2020 “Coalesce” Mural for Juddy Roller • Melbourne, AUS

  • 2019 “Queen Fathima” collaboration with Jodie Herrera for Crush Walls Mural Festival • Denver, CO

  • 2019 “A New Dawn” for Everhart Hotel • Grass Valley, CA

  • 2018 “Brimming” for St. Art India • Goa, India

  • 2018 “A Drop Of Sky” for St. Art India • Mumbai, India

  • 2018 “Common Unity” for YMCA • Moncton, Canada

  • 2018 “Dreams of Turquoise” Mural for Basel House • Miami, FL

  • 2017 “It Was Only A Dream” for Wide Open Walls Mural Festival • Sacramento, CA

  • 2017 “Same Coin” for Ume Yoga • Oakland, CA

  • 2016 “ONE” for Underground Effect 2 • Paris, France

  • 2016 “Dreams Of Turquoise” For Uninhibited Art Magazine.• Miami, FL

  • 2016 A series of 10 murals at “The Beatles Ashram” • Rishikesh, India

NOTEWORTHY COMMISSIONS

  • 2023 “Through The Mists Of Time” AC/DC Mural 50th Anniversary Tour For Sony Records• Indio, CA

  • 2023 “For All To Enjoy” Mural for Teglias Park Community Center • Reno, NV

  • 2022 “Lotus Pond” for Langar Hall at Guru Nanak Dwara • Sikh Gurdwara • Pheonix, AZ

  • 2021 “Drop By Drop A River Is Formed” Ceiling Mural at Nevada Theater • Nevada City, CA

  • 2021 “Recommended For You” Mural for Facebook Data Center • Los Lunas, NM

  • 2020 “From Death Comes Life” Mural at Icon Collective College of Music • Burbank, CA 

  • 2018 “Revive” for Revival Float and Wellness Center • Grass Valley, CA

  • 2018 “Delta Wave” for Idaho College of Osteopathic Medicine • Meridian, ID

  • 2016 “Conch Handala & Yoni Handala” for Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine • Las Cruces, NM

  • 2016 “Headspace Album Cover” for the band Issues with Rise Records • New York City, NY

  • 2015 “Flippin Jimmy” for Season 2 of ‘Better Call Saul’ • AMC Network

PUBLICATIONS, ARTICLES, & INTERVIEWS