Exhibitions

VESTIGES OF INDUSTRY: MARITIME STUDIES
LILAC Preservation Project (floating!) Gallery, NYC
5/25/2019 – 7/28/19 Solo Show
Jean Miele’s Vestiges of Industry series celebrates the worn and ravaged beauty of pre-computer age machines and technology. This particular selection, subtitled Maritime Studies, features images of several touchstones of New York’s vanishing seafaring heritage: USCGC Lilac, Fireboat JJ Harvey, Brooklyn Navy Yard, Lightship Frying Pan, Todd Shipyard, & Tugboat Pegasus. It’s hard to imagine a more appropriate venue to display these images than aboard the retired Coast Guard cutter Lilac, docked at Hudson River Park’s Pier 25 in New York City.

THE EARTH RESTS ON WATER
Interchurch Center Gallery, NYC
11/20/2018 – 1/7/2019 Two-Person Show
Curated by Frank Degregorie, this substantial exhibition of water-inspired work emphasizes the synergy between Jean Miele’s photographs and photomontages and Frances Wells’ Hudson River oil paintings.

LISTENING FOR THE LIGHT: Krappy Kamera 20th Anniversary 
Soho Photo Gallery, New York City
3/6/2018 – 3/31/2018 Solo Show
As the invited guest exhibitor for the 20th annual, world-famous international “Krappy Kamera” Show, this solo exhibition features 22 photographs (all shot with a krappy $21 lens!) Also in the gallery are: 2018 international competition winners; a group show by past winners of Krappy Kamera competitions (several of whom I’m proud to call my students); and a special exhibit by Soho Photo Gallery artists.

EXQUISITE CORPSE 
Megunticook Club, Rockport, Maine
June 22, 2016, 6:30–8:30pm Group Show
I collaborated with photographer Peter Ralston for one piece featured in this Maine Media Workshops special exhibition, and sculptor Al Crichton for two others. This fundraiser, featuring Maine Media instructors and special friends of the workshops, was inspired by the illogical dreamscapes of the French Surrealists. In the early 1920s Exquisite Corpse was a popular parlor game among artists looking to disrupt their isolated creative practice and gain fresh insight through another artist’s eyes. Then and now, it was a game of creative collaboration, resulting in unusual, surprising, and unpredictably kinetic art. View selected works here.

IMAGING NOW: COLLECTED VISIONS
Hyde Gallery, Memphis, TN
3/27/2015 – 9/14/2015 Group Show
“Everyday Gods, Goddesses, and Guardians.”
The exhibition is comprised of individual bodies of work by each of the seven photographers known as “The Type-A Collective”: Meghann Riepenhoff, Claire Gilliam, Haley Morris-Cafiero, Saul Robbins, Jean ‘Gino’ Miele, Whit Forrester, and Galina Kurlat. Curated by Dani Cattan.

PROJECT LETTING GO 
Macy Gallery, Teachers College, Columbia University, NYC
1/19-2/9, 2016 Group Show, Curated by Jesse Jagtiani

WHAT COULD BE
Catherine Couturier Gallery – Houston, Texas
Two complete bodies of work: The Vintage Series, Scientific Inquiries + Iceland: black-and-white landscapes.
3/23/2013 – 4/20/2013 Solo Show

BROOKLYN’S WATERFRONTS: PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE
Kingsborough Community College Art Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
9/4/2012 – 9/14/2012 Group Show
Curated by Kingsborough’s Brian Hack & Libby Garland, in conjunction with Robin Michals.
Artists include: Susan Bowen, Will Elkins, Nathan Kensinger, Robin Michals, Jean Miele.
Opening Reception 9/6/2012, in conjunction with a scientific roundtable discussion:
Brooklyn Under Water: How Do We Prepare?

DREAMS
The Center for Fine Art Photography – Fort Collins, Colorado
Curated by Aline Smithson, editor of the Lenscratch blog.
Selected: The black-and-white landscape “A Thin Place.”
12/2/2011 – 1/7/2012 Group Show

SPEAK FOR THE TREES
Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion
Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, California
7/8/2011 – 8/12/2011 Group Show
With: Mark Ryden, Yoko Ono, Robert Norton, George Katzenberger, Katherin Gray, Axel Erlandson (Tree Circus), Amy Caterina, Sam Maloof, Ed Ruscha, Jim Cokas, Dirk Hagner, Kim Abeles, Ellen Jantzen, Mark Dion (Documentation of Neukom Vivarium), Laurie Hassold, Mark Chamberlain, Jerry Burchfield, Deborah Davidson, Ning Yeh, Lynn King, Winifred Wood, James Lorigan, Corey Stein, Eugenie Goldschmeding, Eric Stoner, Tom Dowling, Cara Barer, Christopher Burkett, James Surls, Jean Francois Podevin, Larry Scher, Jean Towgood, Pat Warner, et al.

CREATED AND FOUND MAPS – EXPLORATION OF SELF AND WORLD
The Houston Center for Photography – Houston, Texas
According to HCP’s curators, “The Vintage Series: Scientific Inquiries” was inspirational in the inception of this exhibition, and six original pieces from the series are featured.
09/10/2010 – 11/9/2010 Group Show

THE VINTAGE SERIES: SCIENTIFIC INQUIRIES
Sol Mednick Gallery – The University Of The Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Fourteen hand-embossed photomontages that explore the history of science, mysticism, theology, cartography, cosmology and photography – and ask: “Who are we, and what is our place in the Universe?”
1/8/2010 – 2/5/2010 Solo Show

VESTIGES OF INDUSTRY
Fotografiens Hus Gallery – Oslo, Norway
Twenty-five sepia-toned black-and-white prints of abandoned mines, mills, machines, and factories photographed by Jean Miele & Pål Otnes.
05/5/2009 – 06/3/2009 Two-Man Show

SEEING IS BELIEVING
Fotografiens Hus Gallery – Oslo, Norway
Fotografiens Hus, the headquarters of the Norges Fotografforbund (Norwegian Photo Association) is pleased to present a major exhibition of Jean Miele’s landscape photography. The exhibition includes twenty-six black-and-white prints depicting spectacularly perfect places. (Right-click or option-click to download Press Release.)
05/4/2007 – 05/29/2007

DIVERGENT LANDSCAPES
Photo London – at the Royal Academy of Arts’ Burlington Gardens
Twenty original black-and-white landscape prints, exhibited by the London Gallery, Art Movement.
04/17/2006 – 04/26/2006 Group Show

Selections from: CLASSICAL LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY & THE DIGITAL DARKROOM
Fotografiakademiet Gallery, Vågå, Norway
Twelve black-and-white landscape photographs.
10/15/2003 – 11/15/2003 Solo Show

CLASSICAL LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY & THE DIGITAL DARKROOM
Fernbank Museum, Atlanta, Georgia
This exhibition of 28 large-scale digitally-enhanced black-and-white landscape photographs by Jean Miele was originally scheduled for three months, but was extended by popular demand. Seen by over 100,000 people during its yearlong run, the show was immensely popular with museum staff, board of directors, and visitors. Read a review from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
07/31/2001- 10/01/2002 Solo Show

PORTALS
Soho Photo Gallery, New York City
Large-scale black-and-white landscape photographs.
12/04/2001 – 01/05/2002 Solo Show

TUSCANY
Soho Photo Gallery, New York City
Large-scale black-and-white landscape photographs.
12/05/2000 – 01/06/2001 Solo Show

Photage Presents PORTALS
Uma Gallery, 30 West 57th Street, New York City
Photographs by Jill Enfield, Alen MacWeeney, Jean Miele, Sylvia Plachy, Theo Westenberger, et al.
01/24/2001 – 01/26/2001 Group Show

WATER, ROCKS, AND OTHER SIGNS OF MYSTICAL LIFE
Soho Photo Gallery, New York City
Large-scale black-and-white landscape photographs.
06/06/2000 – 07/08/2000 Solo Show

TREES: LANDSCAPES OF THE MIND
Soho Photo Gallery, New York City
Monochrome landscape photographs on fine-art watercolor paper.
12/01/1998 – 01/04/1999 Solo Show