Brenda Miller

{{Short description|American post-minimalist visual artist}}

Brenda Miller (born 1941) is an American post-minimalist visual artist.{{Cite journal|last=Fowler|first=Cynthia|date=2015|title=Brenda Miller and Post-Minimalist Art|journal=Woman's Art Journal|volume=36|issue=2|pages=12–19|jstor=26430652|issn=0270-7993}} She has shown her work in the 1973 Whitney Biennial, as well as eight exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art.{{Cite web|url=https://whitney.org/artists/10390|title=Brenda Miller|website=whitney.org|language=en|access-date=2020-04-26}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.moma.org/artists/66081|title=Brenda Miller {{!}} MoMA|website=The Museum of Modern Art|language=en|access-date=2020-04-26}} Born in the Bronx, she studied at Parsons and University of New Mexico, and received and MFA from Tulane University in 1967, before moving back to New York City. Miller’s work was included in the 1971 exhibition Twenty Six Contemporary Women Artists held at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum {{cite web |title=Lucy Lippard - Twenty Six Contemporary Women Artists |url=https://www.printedmatter.org/catalog/57416/ |website=Printed Matter |access-date=13 April 2025 |language=en}} and the 2022 exhibition 52 Artists: A Feminist Milestone also at the Aldrich.{{cite web |title=52 Artists: A Feminist Milestone |url=https://thealdrich.org/exhibitions/52-artists-revisiting-a-feminist-milestone |website=The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum |access-date=13 April 2025 |language=en}}She received three National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships (1976, 1979, and 1987). Her work is in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum,{{Cite web|url=https://americanart.si.edu/artist/brenda-miller-3320|title=Brenda Miller {{!}} Smithsonian American Art Museum|website=americanart.si.edu|language=en-US|access-date=2020-04-26}} Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen,{{Cite web|url=https://www.boijmans.nl/en/collection/artists/12347/brenda-miller|title=Brenda Miller|website=Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen|language=en|access-date=2020-04-26}} and the Harvard Art Museums.{{Cite web|url=https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/253725|title=From the Harvard Art Museums' collections Strata|last=Harvard|website=www.harvardartmuseums.org|language=en|access-date=2020-04-26}}