Art and Work Résumé
Sheila Miles
Oracle, AZ Telephone: 505-603-3781 Email: sheilamiles4@hotmail.com Social Media links: Instagram: http://instagram.com/sheilamiles4Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sheila.miles.7
Education
- Masters Degree in Painting and Drawing, Purdue University,
West Lafayette, Indiana, Dean’s List - Hans Hoffman School of Art, Provincetown, Massachusetts, full scholarship
- John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis, Indiana, full scholarship
GALLERIES:
Radius Gallery, Missoula, MT
Hat Ranch Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Art Spirit Gallery, Coeur D’Alene, ID
Palette Contemporary, Albuquerque, NM
Awards and Achievements
- Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, New Mexico Arts in Public Arts Purchase Program, Purchased, 2018
- Albuquerque Senior Citizen Center, New Mexico Arts in Public Places Purchase Program, 2015
- Selected Artist, Large Scale Purchases, New Mexico Arts in Public Arts Purchase Program, $35,000–$125,000, 2016
- Paintings included in movies
- Big Sky (representing the lead’s art)
- Warren Jeffs
- Five Bucks a Day
- Rancho Linda Vista residency, Oracle, Arizona, 2007
- Selected Artist, West Coast Artist Pool, San Francisco Arts Commission Public Art Program, 2005
- Paintings selected to travel for several months to Australia and New Zealand Museums; US Department of Commerce and the World Trade Center, 2004
- Awarded Public Art Commission for Missoula in Motion, City of Missoula, Montana, 2004
- “100 Most Influential Montanans of the 20th Century,” Lee Enterprises, Montana, 1999
- Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Fellowship, $20,000, 1999
- Missoula (Montana) International Airport Commission competition, $7,500, 1999
- Individual Artist Fellowship, Painting, Montana Arts Council, $2,000, 1984
Public Collections
- Tucson Medical Center, Tucson, AZ
- Department of Geology and Minerals Resources, Socorro, New Mexico Art in Public Places purchase
- Senior Citizen Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico Art in Public Places purchase
- Federal Reserve Bank Minneapolis, Minnesota, three works
- Montana Museum of Art and Culture, University of Montana, 12 works
- Missoula International Airport, Missoula, Montana
- University of Joensuu, Rantasalmi, Finland
- Holter Museum, Helena, Montana, 8 works
- Missoula Museum of the Arts, Missoula, Montana, 30 works
- Law School, University of Montana, Missoula
- Deaconess Billings Clinic, Billings, Montana, 10 works
- Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, Montana, 10 works
- Saint Patrick’s Hospital, Missoula, Montana
- Custer County Art Center, Miles City, Montana
- Planned Parenthood, Billings, Montana, fifteen works
- Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, five works
- Hockaday Center for the Arts, Kalispell, Montana
- Provincetown (Massachusetts) Art Association and Museum, two works
- Paris Gibson Square, Great Falls, Montana, 5 works
- North Central High School, Indianapolis, Indiana
Exhibitions
Selected One-Person Shows (Over 100 exhibitions)
- Radius Gallery (with Carlson and House) (2024), Missoula, MT
- Kirk’s Grocery. Billings, MT (April 2024)
- 1 Art, Tucson, AZ (2023)
- Art Spirit Gallery, Coeur D’Alene, ID (June 2022, 2023)
- ‘Triangle L Ranch, Oracle Art Barn, Oracle, AZ ( December- January 2022)
- Art in the Spirit Gallery, Coeur D’Alene, Idaho (September 2021)
- kind of a small array, Magdalena, New Mexico, June-August 2021
- Oracle Residency Gallery, Oracle, Arizona 2019
- Holter Museum, Helena, Montana, 2019
- Paris Gibson Square, Great Falls, Montana, 2018–2019
- Dahl Art Museum, Rapid City, South Dakota, one-person show,
March-June 2018 - White Apple Gallery, Whitefish, Montana, 2017
- “Light and Shadow”, Missoula (Montana) Art Museum, February–June 2017
- School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, South Dakota, one-person show, 2015
- Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, Montana, brochure, 2003 and 1988
- Emerson Center for the Arts, Bozeman, Montana
- The Wonder Salon, Santa Fe, New Mexico
- 60 painting Retrospective, exhibited at:
- Montana Museum of Art and Culture, Missoula, Montana
- APEX Gallery, School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, South Dakota (catalog)
- Silver Bow Arts Chateau, Butte, Montana
- Museum of the Rockies, Bozeman, Montana (catalog)
- Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, Montana, catalog, 2000 and 1984
- Meloy Gallery, University of Montana, Missoula
- Cruz Cruz Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
- University of Montana, Missoula, (catalog)
- University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point, (37 works)
- Paris Gibson Square, Great Falls, Montana (brochure)
- Hockaday Center for the Arts, Kalispell, Montana
- Custer County Art Center, Miles City, Montana
Selected Two- and Three-Person Exhibitions
- Holt-Russell Gallery, Baker University, Baldwin, Kansas, March 2016 (three-person)
- Wheelhouse Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2015
- Sutton West Gallery, Missoula, Montana
- Beall Park Art Center, Bozeman, Montana
- Sutton West Gallery, Missoula, Montana
- Ucross Foundation, Ucross, Wyoming
- Artifacts Gallery, Bozeman, Montana
Selected Invitational Exhibitions
(participated in over 300 exhibitions)
- New Western Landscapes, Museum of the Southwest, Midland, TX (Nov-Feb 4, 2025) (three paintings link: https://www.museumsw.org/exhibitions
- Pii Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 5-artist show, 2015
- Collages, Collage Gallery, Bigfork, Montana, 2015
- art x mail: Ausstellung, Messe Dresden, Germany, 2014 and 2015
- For the Love of A Tree She Went Out on a Limb, Women in the Art of the Northern Plains, Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, Montana
- Inaugural Exhibition, Grand Opening of Missoula (Montana) Art Museum
- The Animal in Art, Montana Museum of Art and Culture, Missoula, Montana
- The Contemporary Horse in Art, Holter Museum, Helena, Montana
- “The Aesthetics of Water: Print Portfolio,” University of Joensuu during the Fourth International Conference on Environmental Aesthetics, Rantasalmi, Finland (twenty artists, edition of 23)
- “Montana, Myths and Reality”, The Center for the Rocky Mountain West, Sutton West Gallery, Missoula, Montana
- “Faculty Exhibition”, University of Montana, Missoula
- Sutton West Gallery, Missoula, Montana, four-person show
- “Miriam Sample Collection”, Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, Montana
- “Ten Montana Artists”, Holter Museum of Art, Helena, Montana, 5 works
- “Montana Artists”, Idaho Commission on the Arts, Boise, Idaho, 5 works
- “Narrative Painting”, Missoula Museum of the Arts, Missoula, Montana, 5 works
- “Montana Arts Council Fellowship Recipients”, traveled from 1994–1995 to the Montana cities of Anaconda, Kalispell, and Bozeman
- “Day of the Dead Shrines”, Owings-Dewey Galleries, Santa Fe, New Mexico
- “Yellowstone Art Museum Permanent Collection Exhibition,” Boulder (Colorado) Center for the Visual Arts
- “Screens,” Owings-Dewey Galleries, Santa Fe, New Mexico
- “Poets and Artists,” Beall Park Arts Center, Bozeman, Montana
- “Group Show”, Owings-Dewey Galleries, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1987–1989
- “Montana ’89: Our Place and Time,” Ryegate, Montana
- “One Hundred Years of Women’s Art,” Custer County Art Center, Miles City, Montana
- “In BLACK and WHITE,” Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, Washington
- “Montana Artists,” Blake Gallery, Seattle, Washington
- “Montana Artists,” Chamber of Commerce, Seattle, Washington
- “Works on Paper,” Owings-Dewey Galleries, Santa Fe, New Mexico
- “Faculty Exhibition,” Montana State University, Bozeman and Billings, Montana
- “Montana Current Ideas”, Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, Montana
- Tirca Karlis Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts, 1975 –1978
- Long Point Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts
- Four Winds Gallery, Ferrisburgh, Vermont
- “4 X 4,” Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, Massachusetts, 30 works
- Provincetown (Massachusetts) Art Association and Museum, 1974–1978
Selected Competitive Exhibitions
(participated in over 100 exhibitions)
- Arizona Aqueous XXXV Invitational, Tubac Center for the Arts, Tubac,, AZ
- “Electrum XIX,” Holter Museum of Art, Helena, Montana, Award: Best of Show
- Contemporary Juried Show, Gualala Arts Center, Gualala, California, Award: Best of Show
- “Resources: Plenty and Plundered,” The Brunswick, Missoula, Montana, Award
- “Montana Draw,” Hockaday Center for the Arts, Kalispell, Montana, traveled
- “Indiana Artist’s Exhibition,” Indianapolis Museum of Art, Curator: Patterson Simms
- “Northern Rockies Regional Exhibition,” Sheridan, Wyoming, Award, 1981
- “11th Annual National Print and Drawing Exhibition,” Minot State College, North Dakota, Awards
- “Indiana Artist’s Exhibition,” Indianapolis Museum of Art
- “American Art: Challenge of the Land,” Pillsbury Company Headquarters, St. Paul, Minnesota
- “Appalachian National Drawing Exhibition,” Boone, North Carolina
Also selected to travel for “ANDC On the Road,” under the auspices of the North Carolina Museum of Art - “Works on Paper,” Yellowstone Art Museum
Professional Affiliations
- Who’s Who in American Art (since 1992)
Press and Publications
- Santa Fe NewMexican, PASA , March 2021
- FeverDream Magazine, Issue 2, Featured Artist, Montana
- Artist Spotlight: Sheila Miles, Western Art and Architecture, Kolpas and Landi (2020) Albuquerque Journal, 5. Gallery, art featured and article by Tom Collins
- NEW MEXICAN Santa Fe PASA “Exhibitionism”, and the Summer feature (2015)
- Billings Gazette, Billings, Montana, numerous times ; articles and art, 1980–present
- Missoulian, Missoula, Montana, numerous times , articles and art, 1995–present
- “Keep Going,” Independent, Missoula, Montana, numerous times: articles and art, 1995–present
- Outpost, Billings, Montana
- Montana Arts Council publications
- Custer County Art Center, Miles City, Montana
- Deaconess Billings (Montana) Clinic
- St. Vincent’s Hospital, Billings, Montana
- Pithead Chapel cover art, three covers
- “Artist Profile: Sheila Miles,” Montana Living Magazine
- “Sheila Miles, Featured artist”, Caroltv, Santa Fe, New Mexico
- “Sheila Miles,” Cutbank Pioneer Press, Cutbank, Montana
- Artist in the Schools, Montana Arts Council
- Permanent collection, Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, Montana
- Permanent Collection, Missoula Art Museum, Missoula
- Waterworks Art Museum, Miles City, Montana
- Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, Massachusetts
- “The Business of Art,” Pen and Paige, Billings, Montana
- “Speak your Peace,” Missoulian, Missoula, MT
- Linda Durham, Salon artists
Cards
- “Inside Out,” Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, Montana1984 and 2001
- Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, Montana, 1988, 1995, 2003
- Pii Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2015
- Artifacts Gallery, 1986
- Holter Museum of Art, Helena, Montana, 2000
- Wheelhouse Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2105
- Collage Gallery, Bigfork, Montana, 2015
- “Wings of Man: the Heart of the Artist,” Holter Museum, Helena, Montana
- Brochures, cards, and poster Missoula in Motion, Missoula, Montana, public art commission, 2003
Brochures, Cards, Billboard, and Poster
- Missoula in Motion, Missoula, Montana, public art commission, 2003
Posters
- Big Brother Big Sisters Billings, Montana
- Deaconess Billings Clinic, Billings, Montana
- Blue Mountain Clinic, Missoula, Montana
- Apex Gallery, School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, South Dakota, 2015
Movies Featuring My Work
- BigSky, 2015 (representing the lead in the movie)
- Warren Jeffs, 2014
- Five Bucks a Day, 2007
Catalogs
- “In the Neighborhood,” Missoula (Montana) Art Museum, 2003
- Sheila Miles, Montana Museum of Art and Culture, Missoula, Montana, 60 painting retrospective
- “Inside Out”, Museum of the Rockies; Yellowstone Art Museum; Apex Gallery, School of Mines and Technology; and Silver Bow Arts Foundation, 2001–2002
- Yellowstone Art Museum, anniversary book, 2014
- Paris Gibson Square, Great Falls, Montana, 1986
- “100 Paintings by Women,” Western Heritage Center, Billings, Montana, 1985
- “What Artists Say,” 1989
- Miriam Sample Collection, Drumlummon Institute, Helena, Montana
- Sheila Miles, Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, Montana
Book Illustrations
- Whisk, Lyric, Logic, poetry by Shaun Gant, illustrations by Sheila Miles, 2004
- Linda Durham Wonder Project, 2015
Curatorial Publications (contributions)
- Edwin Dickinson, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, 1976
- Fernanda D’Agostino, Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, Montana
- Richard Diebenkorn, Yellowstone Art Museum (traveled)
- Edwin Dickinson: A Critical History of his Paintings, by John Lawrence Ward, 2003
- The Copper Kings, Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, Montana
Teaching
- Guest artist, International School, Florence, Italy, August-September 2017 (5 weeks), fully sponsored
- Chair, Visual Arts Desert Academy, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2006–2017
- Flagship After School Program , Missoula (Montana) Art Museum, 1998–2005
- Teacher, Sussex School, Missoula, Montana, 1998–1999
- Artist in the Schools, Montana Arts Council, 1983–2005
- Adjunct Professor, University of Montana, Missoula, 1995–1998)
- Adjunct Professor, Gallery Director, Montana State University, Bozeman, 1985–1986
- Adjunct Professor and Gallery Director, Montana State University, Billings, 1980–1983 and 1984–1985
- Artist in Residence, Montana Arts Council, Miles City, Montana, 1983–1984
Museum Work
- Director of Exhibitions, University of Montana, Missoula, 1997–1999
- Senior Curator, Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, Montana, 1986–1990
- Director and Curator, Haynes Art Gallery, Montana State University
- Director and Curator, Provincetown (Massachusetts) Art Association and Museum, 1975–1978