Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller

Cardiff and Miller have had recent solo shows at Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo (2025); The Monastery of Santa Clara-a-Nova, Coimbra, Portugal (2025); Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco (2024); The Tinguely Museum, Basel (2023); Luhring Augustine, New York (2021); The Lehmbruck Museum, Germany (2021); The Museum of Contemporary Art, Monterrey, Mexico (2019); The Oude Kerk, Amsterdam (2018); The Tate Modern, London (2017); The 21st Century Museum, Kanazawa, Japan (2017)

Selected group exhibitions include; MOMENTUM 13, Moss, Norway (2025); The Helsinki Biennial (2023); “Surrounds: 11 Installations” at the Museum of Modern Art, NY (2020); “Inaugural Exhibition” at the Fondation Louis Vuitton, (2014); The 19th Biennale of Sydney (2014); and Documenta 13, Kassel (2012).

Permanently installed pieces include, “Storm Room” at ARoS, Denmark; “The 40 Part Motet” at INHOTIM, Brazil; “Forest” at Glenstone, Maryland, USA; and “The 40 Part Motet” at The National Gallery of Canada. Several walks are also permanently available around the world.

In 2001, Cardiff and Miller represented Canada at the 49th Venice Biennale, showing “The Paradise Institute”, for which they received the Venice Biennale International Prize as well as the Benesse Prize from the Benesse Foundation. In 2011 they were honoured to receive the Käthe Kollwitz Prize from the Akademie der Künste in Berlin and in 2020 they were awarded the Wilhelm Lehmbruck Prize for sculpture.

They currently live and work in the Shuswap area of British Columbia.

Here are some nice things the jury for the Wilhelm Lehmbruck prize said about them…

“Their works are borne by the power and magic of the voices, the music, and the noises that transport us to imaginary worlds in which we have to reassure ourselves of our own perception again and again. All of our senses are challenged, but most of all our hearing. Cardiff and Miller open up new perspectives for the sculpture of the 21st century. The immaterial nature of sound is physically palpable and thus acquires an impressive presence. Sound becomes a plastic material.”

https://lehmbruckmuseum.de/museum-english/history/wilhelm-lehmbruck-prize/