BIOGRAPHY

Gardner Cole Miller is a multi-media artist who, as a point of departure, draws upon his experiences growing up a queer little faun in between worlds: an American military base with blue balls after the anti-climax of the Cold War strategically situated on a postcolonial Bahamian out-island in the wake of the British Empire.  Works crafted in fibers, ceramics, and mixed-media installation seek to explore the creolized translations of cultures and peoples interacting across time and place by interrogating material history, the fluid instability of meaning, and the enduring aftermath of historical circumstance. In 2012 Gardner Cole received his BFA, and in 2014 received his MFA from Florida International University. Currently residing in Sumter, South Carolina, Gardner Cole has exhibited widely across the Southern United States, as well as in San Francisco in 2016. In 2017 he was awarded the Installation Category Prize at ArtFields in Lake City, SC.  His work resides in the permanent collection of the Frost Art Museum in Miami, and among numerous private collections.