Photo credit: Davit Giorgadze
Navot Miller (b. 1991; Shadmot Mehola, Israel) positions himself as an observer, using his practice as a record of life's fleeting moments of passion, heartache, and banality. Miller’s work hinges on a freewheeling sense of intimism, attuned to glimpses of companionship and solitude in quietly arresting, disarming compositions. In his paintings, the artist transforms casual cell phone snapshots into vivid scenes of community, centering an international constellation of queer life that spans his home bases of New York City, Berlin, and beyond. Miller’s work is grounded in his experiences as a gay, Jewish immigrant living across Germany and America, finding pleasure and solace within the scaffolding of contemporary life.
The figures in Miller’s paintings are his muses, positioned as protagonists of scenes that take third-person cues from Edward Hopper and Alex Katz. The artist’s visual language shifts between grounded realism and a flatness of form rendered with saturated pinks, yellows, blues, and greens. Informed by his initial training in architecture, an attention to setting is evident in Miller’s work, which sets figures amid deep picture planes, framed by detailed arches and windows rendered with idealized perspective. A big-picture gaze emerges across mediums, and to date, Miller’s practice encompasses painting, video, and public murals. Through it all, he celebrates scenes from life with a brazenly colorful palette, an exclamation of joy, intimacy, and undeniable presence.
Navot Miller has exhibited widely in the United States and abroad, including solo exhibitions at DITTRICH & SCHLECHTRIEM, Berlin, Germany; Café C/O Berlin, Germany; 1969 Gallery, New York, NY; the Jewish Museum of Australia, St. Kilda, Australia; Grove Collective, London, UK; and Wannsee Contemporary, Berlin, Germany. He has presented work in group exhibitions at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France; Werkstattgalerie, Berlin, Germany; BEERS, London, UK; Unit 1 Gallery, London, UK; and Art Zagreb, Croatia, among others. In 2025, two works by Miller were acquired by the Jewish Museum Berlin, Germany. Miller was awarded residencies at Fountainhead, Miami, FL, and the International Studio & Curatorial Program, Brooklyn, NY, in 2025, and the Radical Residency at Unit 1 Gallery in London, UK, in 2024. Murals by the artist have been displayed at Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany; C/O Berlin, Germany; and Mekif Ort School Sajur, Israel. The artist received his Diploma from Weissensee Art School in Berlin, Germany. He currently lives and works in New York, NY.