Reuben Lorch-Miller is a multi-disciplinary artist and educator with an MFA in New Genres from San Francisco State University. For the past five years, he has been an active teaching artist with the Guggenheim Museum’s Learning Through Art program, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Eckford Street Studio and Usdan Summer Camp for the Arts and taught in the New York City Public Schools though Studio in a School. He has also taught as a visiting artist and lecturer at Illinois State University, Rhode Island School of Design, Stanford University, San Francisco Art Institute and Pratt Institute. As a teacher, he works to be a responsive guide, creating space for trying new things and loosening the obstacles to creativity. He emphasizes cultivating curiosity, finding joy in the unexpected and constructive reflection. His goal is to help his students develop acuity over mechanical mastery. Art making can be an experiential practice that can lead to deeper a understanding of the world around us, our selves, others. Lorch-Miller has participated in multiple artist residencies and exhibited widely both nationally and internationally. He approaches his own art work from a perspective of experimentation, understanding that meaning can be often found within the process of doing.
Education
2001 MFA in New Practices, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
1993 BA, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA
Teaching Artist/Educator Experience
2018-Present Collaborating Teaching Artist/Future Arts Initiative, Center for Arts Education, New York, NY
Mentoring and advising NYC public school art teachers to develop Contemporary Art curriculum.
2017-Present Teaching Artist, Eckford Street Studio, Brooklyn, NY
Teaching after-school art classes and arts summer camp for K-4th grade. Teaching adult evening art classes.
2018 Lead Teacher (sculpture), Usdan Summer Camp for the Arts, Wheatley Heights, NY
Taught a 10 week sculpture course for 3rd-9th Grade.
2017 Visiting Artist/Instructor, Illinois State University, Normal, IL
Taught a month long seminar for Graduate and Undergraduate students on Artist Run Spaces, provided studio
visits and a public lecture
2017 Lead Teacher (sculpture), Usdan Summer Camp for the Arts, Wheatley Heights, NY
Taught a three-week sculpture course focused on puppets for 3rd-4th grade aged students.
2016-2014 Teaching Artist, Studio in a School, New York, NY
Experience working with grades 3-7, English Language Learners, students with special needs, Unit Planning,
Family Workshops, Teacher PDs, and Exhibition Design and Installation in the New York City Public Schools.
2016 Visiting Faculty, Sculpture, Conceptual Oregon Performance School, Portland, OR
2014 Teaching Artist/Museum Educator, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
2013-2014 Assistant Teaching Artist, Guggenheim Museum’s Learning Through Art program, PS9, Brooklyn, NY
Worked directly assisting Teaching Artists and School Teachers in providing Art curriculum and instruction in
the New York City Public Schools.
2013 Instructor, The Artist in Film, Greenpoint Free School, Brooklyn, NY
2001 Graduate TA for Collections, Evidence and the Narrative, Honors Photography, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
1998 Art Teacher, Youth Industries, San Francisco, CA
Taught at-risk teens once a week for one semester.
1996 Visiting Teaching Artist, Reeves Middle School, Olympia, WA
Taught students one day per week for one semester.
1993 Orientation Instructor in the black and white darkroom at The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA
Visiting Artist and Lectures
2019 Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts, Old Lyme, CT (upcoming)
2017 Illinois State University, Normal, IL
2016 Olympia Timberland Library, Olympia, WA
2015 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
2014 Dowling College, Oakdale, NY
2013 New York University, New York, NY
2012 Dowling College, Oakdale, NY
2011 Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
2010 Pratt Institute, New York, NY
Portland State University, Portland, OR
San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
2008 The City College of New York, New York, NY
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
2007 Rhodes College, Memphis TN
The City College of New York, New York, NY
2001-2004
San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
California College of Art, Oakland, CA
Saint Mary’s College, Moraga, CA
Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA
Other Relevant Employment History
2012-2014 Chief Exhibition Preparitor, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, NY
2005-2012 Freelance Art Handler, Guggenheim Museum, Rubin Museum and Grey Art Gallery, all New York, NY
1999-2005 Art Handler/Museum Carpenter, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Solo Exhibitions
2019 Samsara, Et Al., San Francisco, CA (upcoming)
2016 We May Be Ghosts, Land and Sea, Oakland, CA
Outdoor Sculpture, The Jazz Shack, Los Angeles, CA
2015 Odd Time, Dose Projects Space, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Living is The Best Thing, Dose Projects Space, Brooklyn, NY
Aramchek Agartha Again, (collaboration with Fritz Welch), Good Press Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland.
2010 In Cryptic Rays, Rocksbox, Portland, OR
2009 Ancient Remains, Bauernmarkt 9, Vienna, Austria
Anamnesis of the Interstellar Father, AVA Gallery, New York, NY
2008 Memory Eternal, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2007 Move In Special, Medicine Factory, Memphis, TN
Just the Other Side of Nowhere, Schroeder-Romero Gallery, New York, NY
2006 The Power of Darkness and Light, Queen’s Nails Annex, San Francisco, CA
2005 (Helicopters), Schroeder-Romero Gallery, New York, NY
New Demands, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
New Demands, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004 Forget It, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002 This Time It's Personal, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Rana Memoria, San Francisco Art Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Weird World (in collaboration with Frank Haines), Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
Avian, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
2001 Introductions 01, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1998 Self Preservation Devices, Milky World Gallery, Seattle, WA
1997 Repetition, Variation, and Other Forms of Life, Arrowspace Gallery, Olympia, WA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2016 What’s New?, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
2015 Perfomative Process, Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY
Scenery is Dim, SIM, Reykjavik, Iceland
2014 Sisrahtac, Torrance Shipman Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
An Inventory of Lucifer’s Grotto, Jackie Klempay Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
The Shandaken Project: Retrospective Exhibition, New York, NY
The International Invitational Triennial of Contemporary Wind Chimes, Rocksbox, Portland, OR
2013 Fishing in the Dark, Violet’s Café, Brooklyn, NY
As A Shadow Smiles, Jackie Klempay Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Customs, RATS, Berlin, Germany
The Medium's Session, Zeitgeist Fine Art, Nashville, TN
Object Oriented, Royal NoneSuch Gallery, Oakland, CA
2012 Across the Board, Cress Gallery, University of Tennesee at Chattanooga, Chattanooga, TN
2011 Perfectly Damaged, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY
2010 Mouthful of Poison, Mouthful of Poison, New York, NY
BLACK LAB, The Lab, San Francisco, CA
Eternal Return, Nutureart, Brooklyn, NY
2009 Clamoring to Become Visible, Brooklyn Arts Council Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2008 Video Kitchen, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
Residencies and awards
2017 Visiting Artist Residency, Center for Visual Arts, Illinois State University, Normal, IL
2016 Artist in Residence, Land and Sea, Oakland, CA
2015 Artist in Residence, SÍM Residency, Reykjavik, Iceland
2014 Artist in Residence, The Shandaken Project, Phoenicia, NY
2013 Learning Through Art, Guggenheim Musuem/New York City Public Schools, PS9, Brooklyn, NY
2010 Artist in Residence, Rocksbox, Portland, OR
2009 Artist in Residence, Bauernmark 9, Vienna, Austria
2007 Artist in Residence, Medicine Factory, Memphis TN
2001 Goldie Award, San Francisco Bay Guardian
MFA Headlands Residency, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
2000 Leo Stillwell Award from San Francisco State University Art Department
Collections
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
Lenikus Collection, Vienna, Austria
21c Museum, Lexington KY