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Arthur Miller
nace en Nueva York (USA). Estudió dibujo, pintura y escultura en el Art departament of Colby College, Waterville Maine (USA), y en “The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture” and “The Aspen School of Art” (USA). En Skowhegan trabajó con Jack Tworkov, Alex Katz y Henry Varnum Poor, quienes formaron su interés en combinar figuración con abstracción expresionista en el contexto de los paisajes.

Estudió en Paris como Fullbright Fellow en Pintura, y tuvo su primera exposición individual en la Galerie du Tournesol, Paris 1965. Estudió Historia del Arte en Harvard University (USA) alcanzando su doctorado en Bellas Artes en 1969. En los siguientes 25 años, siguió la carrera de Historia del Arte, Antropología y Arqueología en Yale University, en el University Museum de la Universidad de Pennsylvania, y en la University of Maryland, College Park (USA), donde fue nominado Catedrático en Historia del Arte y Arqueología de Latino América, en 1982.

Sus publicaciones como arqueólogo e historiador incluyen seis libros sobre las tradiciones de pintura mural y escultura en México y Guatemala. En 1973 publicó una importante monografía sobre la pintura mural de Teotihuacan México, (hoy en día es un clásico para el estudio de la arqueología de Teotihuacan). Sus libros incluyen estudios de los murales de Quintana Roo y otros sobre el Valle de Oaxaca, México. Fue premiado por la “Centennial Prize of the Society of Americanists”, Paris, (Francia) y obtuvo una beca Guggenheim ambas en 1973. Volvió a la pintura en Oaxaca, donde hizo su retorno en la Galeria Soruco en 1998, a partir de ahí volvío a exponer en Galería Soruco en el 2000, en Punta Umbría (Huelva, España), y en Puerto Vallarta (Jalisco, México), además de varias exposiciones colectivas en Sevilla, Huelva, Barcelona (España) y en México D.F., Puerto Vallarta (México), Monterrey, y Puebla (México). En la primavera de 2005, hizo un exhibicion individual en el Museo de las Culturas de Oaxaca del Centro Cultural Santo Domingo y en el otoño del mismo año hizo otro individual en la Galeria Rufino Tamayo de la Casa de la Cultura Oaxaqueña. Actualmente esta representado en Sevilla por Pepe Barragan en la galeria "La Caja China" y en Oaxaca, Valle de Bravo, y en Mexico, D.F., por Noel Cayetano Indigo Galeria .

En diciembre de 2005 es invitado a realizar una travesia de dos meses como pintor a bordo de la Nao Victoria (una replica de la embarcacion que realizo la primera vuelta al mundo: 1519-1522) .  De esta experiencia nace su exposicion individual en Espana durante el verano de 2007: "Arthur Miller. Pintor a bordo de la Nao Victoria."

Arthur Miller was born in New York City. He studied drawing, painting, and sculpture in the Art Department of Colby College, Waterville, Maine (U.S.A.), and at The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and The Aspen School of Art (U.S.A.). At Skowhegan he worked with Jack Tworkov, Alex Katz, and Henry Varnum Poor, which formed his interest in combining figuration with abstract expressionism in the context of landscapes.

He studied in Paris as a Fulbright Fellow in Painting and had his first individual exhibition in Galerie du Tournesol , Paris in 1965. He studied art history at Harvard University, earning his doctorate in Fine Arts in 1969. For the next twenty-five years, he pursued a career in Art History, Anthropology, and Archaeology at Yale University, the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Maryland, College Park (U.S.A.), where he was appointed Professor of Latin American Art History and Archaeology in 1982.

His archaeological publications include six books on the pre-Hispanic mural and sculptural traditions in Mexico and Guatemala. In 1973, he published a major monograph on the mural painting of Teotihuacan, Mexico, still regarded a basic resource for the art history and archaeology of Teotihuacan. His books include a study of murals in Quintana Roo and another in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico, published by Cambridge University Press. He was awarded the Centennial Prize of the Society of Americanists, Paris, France and a Guggenheim Fellowhip, both in 1973. His return to painting full time took place in Oaxaca, Mexico where he had an individual exhibition in the Galería Soruco in 1998. He had another individual in the Galería Soruco in 2000. Since then, he has had two individual exhibitions in Punta Umbria, Huelva, Spain, and one in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico; he has participated in collective exhibitions and auctions in Seville, Huelva, and Barcelona, Spain and in Oaxaca, Monterrey, Puerto Vallarta, Puebla, and Mexico City, Mexico, the most recent being in Mexico, D.F.: “El Poder de la Conciencia. Pintura Oaxaqueña Contemporánea” in 2004. In the Spring of 2005, he had an individual exhibition in the Museum of the Santo Domingo Cultural Center , Oaxaca, and in the Fall of the same year he had another individual show in the Rufino Tamayo Gallery of the Oaxacan Cultural Center. His work is currently represented in Seville, Spain by Pepe Barragan La Caja China ; and in Oaxaca, Mexico City, Valle de Bravo, Mexico by Noel Cayetano Indigo Gallery .

In December 2005, he was invited for two months to participate in a round the world passage as painter on bord the Nao Victoria (a replica of the first ship to circumnavigate the globe: 1519-1522).  A major individual exhibit in Spain during the summer of 2007 resulted from the experience.