Sequoia Miller
Chief Curator and Deputy Director Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto
Sequoia Miller is the Chief Curator and Deputy Director of the Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art in Toronto. He holds a PhD in the History of Art from Yale University; an MA in Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture from the Bard Graduate Center; and a BA in Cultural Studies and Art History from Brandeis University. Recent curatorial projects include Magdalene Odundo: A Dialogue with Objects(forthcoming), Shary Boyle: Outside the Palace of Me (2021 and touring), and Ai Weiwei: Unbroken (2019), all at the Gardiner. Prior exhibitions include The Ceramic Presence in Modern Art (2015) at the Yale University Art Gallery, with an accompanying award-winning catalogue. Additional publications include as contributing author to Ceramic Art (Princeton University Press, 2023); Simone Leigh (Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, 2023), and Form & Relation (Hood Museum, 2021). Sequoia has taught at the University of Toronto, Rhode Island School of Design, and Yale University. Prior to his academic and curatorial work, Sequoia was an award-winning ceramist who exhibited and led workshops broadly across the United States.
Ph. Jessie Smolinski
Sequoia Miller is the Chief Curator and Deputy Director of the Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art in Toronto. He holds a PhD in the History of Art from Yale University; an MA in Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture from the Bard Graduate Center; and a BA in Cultural Studies and Art History from Brandeis University. Recent curatorial projects include Magdalene Odundo: A Dialogue with Objects(forthcoming), Shary Boyle: Outside the Palace of Me (2021 and touring), and Ai Weiwei: Unbroken (2019), all at the Gardiner. Prior exhibitions include The Ceramic Presence in Modern Art (2015) at the Yale University Art Gallery, with an accompanying award-winning catalogue. Additional publications include as contributing author to Ceramic Art (Princeton University Press, 2023); Simone Leigh (Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, 2023), and Form & Relation (Hood Museum, 2021). Sequoia has taught at the University of Toronto, Rhode Island School of Design, and Yale University. Prior to his academic and curatorial work, Sequoia was an award-winning ceramist who exhibited and led workshops broadly across the United States.
Ph. Jessie Smolinski