Draft:Miles Greenberg

Greenberg was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, to film producer Phoebe Greenberg and Canadian television personality Michael Williams.{{Cite news |date=2024-05-30 |title=Miles Greenberg, who uses his body as his canvas, makes Canadian debut at the AGO |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/art-and-architecture/article-miles-greenberg-comes-home-reinvigorating-performance-art-with/ |access-date=2025-05-05 |work=The Globe and Mail |language=en-CA}} He was raised by his mother, who is of Jewish Ukrainian and Brazilian descent; his father is African-American.{{Cite web |last=nr |date=2024-04-22 |title=Miles Greenberg |url=https://nr.world/miles-greenberg/ |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=NR |language=en-US}} After completing secondary school in 2015, Greenberg briefly attended Dawson College but left after four weeks. He then engaged in experimental performance and drag in Montreal nightclubs. At age seventeen, he embarked on a four-year independent research project studying movement and architecture as they relate to Black bodies.{{Cite web |title=Miles Greenberg {{!}} CIRCA X DAZED CLASS OF 2021 |url=https://circa.art/class_2021_finalist/miles-greenberg/ |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=CIRCA}}

Greenberg's artistic practice centers on the human form, scrutinized through durational performances that test physical and emotional limits.{{Cite web |date=2025-01-16 |title=Miles Greenberg Brings Marble to Life in Desire Path |url=https://officemagazine.net/miles-greenberg-brings-marble-life-desire-path |access-date=2025-05-06 |website=Office Magazine |language=en}} His installations are activated with performances that invoke the body as sculptural material, aiming to make visible the poetics of the human form.{{Cite web |date=2025-01-21 |title=Miles Greenberg Is Claiming His Place Within Art History |url=https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-books-music/a63496449/miles-greenberg-artist-interview-2025/ |access-date=2025-05-06 |website=Harper's BAZAAR |language=en-US}} These performances are often captured in real-time to generate video works and sculptures.{{Cite web |title=Interview with Miles Greenberg |url=https://www.emergentmag.com/interviews/miles-greenberg |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=www.emergentmag.com}}

He has worked under the mentorship of Édouard Lock, Robert Wilson, and Marina Abramović{{Cite news |last=Power |first=Tom |date=June 18, 2024 |title=Miles Greenberg on working with flesh, Marina Abramović and his physical journey in art |url=https://www.cbc.ca/arts/q/miles-greenberg-on-working-with-flesh-marina-abramovi%C4%87-and-his-physical-journey-in-art-1.7237292 |url-status=live |access-date=May 6, 2025 |work=CBC News}} and has been an artist in residence at Fountainhead Arts, Miami (2023); La Manutention at Palais de Tokyo (2019), and The Watermill Center Residency, NY (2017 & 2018) among others.{{Cite web |title=Miles Greenberg |url=https://www.andersonranch.org/people/miles-greenberg/ |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=Anderson Ranch Arts Center |language=en}} Greenberg has exhibited and performed at global institutions such as the the Louvre (Paris, France), the New Museum (New York, USA), the Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto, Canada),{{Cite news |last=Guadagnino |first=Kate |date=2024-08-05 |title=A Performance Piece That Required a Fencing Coach and a Sex Doll Maker |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/05/t-magazine/miles-greenberg-respawn-art-gallery-of-ontario.html |access-date=2025-05-05 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite news |date=2024-05-30 |title=Miles Greenberg, who uses his body as his canvas, makes Canadian debut at the AGO |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/art-and-architecture/article-miles-greenberg-comes-home-reinvigorating-performance-art-with/ |access-date=2025-05-06 |work=The Globe and Mail |language=en-CA}} Salon 94 (New York, USA){{Cite web |title=Miles Greenberg: Desire Path {{!}} Bilingual |url=https://metalmagazine.eu/post/miles-greenberg-desire-path |access-date=2025-05-06 |website=Metal Magazine |language=es}}, and Galleria Continua (Les Moulins).{{Cite web |title=Art Gallery & Exhibitions in New York City |url=https://salon94.com/artists/miles-greenberg/ |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=salon94.com}} Greenberg's work has also been included in numerous international art surveys, including the Venice Biennale, Athens Biennial, BoCA Lisbon, and the Bangkok Art Biennale {{Cite web |title=Performance artist Miles Greenberg explores the creative capacity of the body |url=https://www.documentjournal.com/2021/10/performance-artist-miles-greenberg-explores-the-creative-capacity-of-the-body/ |access-date=2025-05-06 |website=www.documentjournal.com |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=Miles Greenberg: RESPAWN |url=https://ago.ca/events/miles-greenberg-respawn |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=Art Gallery of Ontario |language=en}}.

• Oysterknife (2020): A 24-hour durational performance in which Greenberg walked on a conveyor belt without breaks, exploring themes of endurance and the human body's limits.{{Cite web |title=Miles Greenberg: Oysterknife |url=https://www.deitch.com/new-york/exhibitions/miles-greenberg-oysterknife |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=www.deitch.com |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Article |first=Nadine Khalil ShareShare This |date=2024-07-26 |title=Performance Artist Miles Greenberg on Pushing His Body to Its Limit |url=https://news.artnet.com/art-world/miles-greenberg-2515112 |access-date=2025-05-06 |website=Artnet News |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=AnOther |date=2024-06-21 |title=The Death-Defying Performance Art of Miles Greenberg |url=https://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/15708/miles-greenberg-oysterknife-performance-artist-interview-marina-abramovic |access-date=2025-05-06 |website=AnOther |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2020-07-14 |title=Marina Abramović Institute Presents Miles Greenberg's 24-Hour Long Performance |url=https://hypebeast.com/2020/7/miles-greenberg-oysterknife-performance-piece-marina-abramovic-institute |access-date=2025-05-06 |website=Hypebeast}}{{Cite news |date=2021-03-05 |title=A 24-Hour Love Letter to Performance Art |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/05/t-magazine/miles-greenberg-art.html |access-date=2025-05-06 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}
• Late October (2020): Featured seven nude Black performers, including Greenberg, painted jet black with white contact lenses, slowly rotating for seven hours, examining themes of race and universality.{{Cite web |title=Performance Artist Miles Greenberg's Physical and Mental Explorations |url=https://nuvomagazine.com/magazine/spring-2022/performance-artist-miles-greenberg?srsltid=AfmBOorjyPdGNau8XImvO8DuOB-zywVZ34hfnoHFbja5GCL8RKIp-M3f |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=NUVO |language=en-US}}
• Fountain II (2023): A six-hour performance at Pace Gallery where Greenberg and his partner stood on a pedestal, pouring artificial blood on each other, symbolizing emotional release and personal transformation.{{Cite web |last=Pintro |first=Cassandra |date=2023-03-23 |title=At Pace, Miles Greenberg's Six-Hour 'Fountain II' Is a Bloody Spectacle |url=https://www.vogue.com/article/miles-greenberg-fountain-ii-pace-gallery |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=Vogue |language=en-US}}
• Étude Pour Sébastien (2023): Performed at the Louvre, Greenberg engaged in a durational piece where his skin was pierced by metal arrows, reflecting on pain and endurance.{{Cite web |last=Article |first=Nadine Khalil ShareShare This |date=2024-07-26 |title=Performance Artist Miles Greenberg on Pushing His Body to Its Limit |url=https://news.artnet.com/art-world/miles-greenberg-2515112 |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=Artnet News |language=en-US}}

Greenberg's work is known for its rigorous and ritualistic methodology, relying on slowness and the decay of form to heighten audience sensitivities.{{Cite web |last=Akerman |first=Iain |date=2025-03-28 |title=Artist Miles Greenberg Wants To “Bottle Lightning” With His First Performance in Dubai |url=https://www.admiddleeast.com/story/artist-miles-greenberg-wants-to-bottle-lightning-with-his-first-dubai-performance |access-date=2025-05-06 |website=AD Middle East |language=en-AE}} His performances often involve extreme physical feats, aiming to create a ritual space that invites both performer and audience to navigate emotions beyond language.{{Cite web |title=Miles Greenberg |url=https://mitterrand.com/en/artists/231-miles-greenberg/ |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=Mitterrand |language=en}}

While his work incorporates elements of his Black and queer identity, Greenberg emphasizes universal themes such as love, heartbreak, and poetry, resisting reductive interpretations centered solely on race.{{Cite web |title=Miles Greenberg {{!}} English |url=https://metalmagazine.eu/en/post/miles-greenberg |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=Metal Magazine |language=es}} Greenberg has also drawn on Greek mythology, referencing its widespread familiarity in Western art history to introduce new narratives around Black and queer identity.{{Cite web |title=From Medusa to the Minotaur: why artists keep mining Greek myths for inspiration |url=https://www.artbasel.com/stories/from-medusa-to-the-minotaur-why-artists-keep-mining-greek-myths-for-inspiration?lang=en |access-date=2025-05-06 |website=Art Basel |language=en}}

In 2023, Greenberg was featured on Forbes' 30 Under 30 list in the Arts & Style category.{{Cite web |title=Miles Greenberg |url=https://www.forbes.com/profile/miles-greenberg/ |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=Forbes |language=en}}

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