Chloe Kelly Miller

Acrylics, graffiti, inks, oil pastel 

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Born in 1995 in Rouen, Chloé Kelly Miller lives and works in Paris. Her artistic practice began in 2018, in parallel with her studies in psychology and is moving towards psychoanalysis. Her work is part of often automatic mechanisms that promote the release and exploration of the unconscious.

Photographs, acrylics, graffiti, inks, oil pastels or drawings make up the different facets of the artist's work. The portrait occupies a dominating place, and pursues by a spontaneous and eruptive work the revelation shared through the image, or the latent feelings with the experience of oneself and otherness.

From icons of pop culture, to that of incomplete or bruised personal stories, the artist takes up questions of identity and representation by reassessing through a work of interaction with the subject, the very mode of appearance of her being.

In many cases, the space of the canvas is considered as a surface for the staging of the body and the placement of color which participate in a sublimation of affects. The diversity of mediums favors the expression of a spontaneous, impulsive gesture intended to question the gesture to the detriment of what governs the human: language.

Attentive to the personal trajectories of artists such as Dali, Basquiat, Ernest Pignon-Ernest, Keith Haring, Patti Smith or Mapplethorpe, Chloé Kelly Miller revisits an artistic pantheon whose techniques she suspends and whose heritage she constantly re-examines .

Neo-expressionism is one of the most enriching artistic currents for the artist. Archaism upsets and questions what is most primary, most profound. It is in the wake of these artists that Chloé Kelly Miller in turn tries to capture the elusive, an obscure and nebulous reality, a clean and personal truth.

A Clinical Psychologist graduate in 2019, Chloé Kelly Miller is continuing her studies in Research with the objective of preparing a thesis until June 2020. At the same time, the artist continues to invest all of her work by integrating new galleries internationally, by participating in personal and collective exhibitions, but also by collaborating on various projects with designers, restorers, sculptors and textile designers.

From Bangkok to Paris, via Casablanca, Toulouse, Rouen or even Perros-Guirec, Chloé Kelly Miller's work extends and questions beyond borders and language.