Janet Cardiff &
George Bures Miller

BIOGRAPHY
1957Born in Brussels, Canada (Cardiff)
1960Born in Vegreville, Canada (Miller)
Live and work in Grindrod, Canada
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2025The Factory of Shadows, Mosteiro de Santa Clara-a-Nova in Coimbra, Portugal
Small Works, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo
Special Exhibit: Janet Cardiff – The Forty Part Motet (A reworking of “Spem in Alium” by Thomas Tallis 1573), Hara Museum ARC, Gunma, Japan; 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan; Nagasaki Prefecture Art Museum, Japan; Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa, Japan
2024Janet Cardiff: The Forty Part Motet, The Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York
FOREST (for a thousand years…), Glenstone, Potomac, Maryland
Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller: Ambient Jukebox, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, California
2023Inaugural Exhibition, Cardiff Miller Art Warehouse, Enderby, Canada
2022-2023Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, Lehmbruck Museum, Duisberg, Germany; Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland
2022Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller: The Murder of Crows, Matadero Madrid, Spain
2021Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller: After the summer of smoke and fire, Luhring Augustine, New York
Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller: The Poetry Machine, Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany
2020Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller: Experiment in F# Minor, Kelowna Art Gallery, Living Things Festival, Kelowna, Canada
Janet Cardiff: The Forty Part Motet, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
2019-2020Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller: Night Walk for Edinburgh, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
2019Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, Mexico
Janet Cardiff: The Forty Part Motet, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts
2018-2019Janet Cardiff & Geroge Bures Miller: The Instrument of Troubled Dreams, Oude Kerk, Amsterdam
2018Forest (for a thousand years…), Institute of the Arts and Sciences, Santa Cruz, California
Janet Cardiff – Forty Part Motet, Richmond Chapel, London
The Poetry Machine and Other Works, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
Two Works, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia
2017-2018Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan
2017Janet Cardiff: The Forty Part Motet, Switch House at Tate Modern, London
2016-2017Janet Cardiff: The Forty Part Motet, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
2016Janet Cardiff: The Forty Part Motet, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, Alabama
Janet Cardiff: The Forty Part Motet, Auckland Castle, Durham, United Kingdom
Janet Cardiff: The Forty Part Motet, TRAFO Center for Contemporary Art, Szczecin, Poland
Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller: The Marionette Maker, Luhring Augustine, New York
Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller: Opera for a Small Room, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Canada
2015–2016Janet Cardiff: The Forty Part Motet, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California; Fort Mason Center for Arts and Culture, San Francisco, California
2015Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller: The Infinity Machine, Byzantine Fresco Chapel, Menil Collection, Houston, TX
Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, Salmon Arm Arts Centre, Salmon Arm, Canada
Janet Cardiff: The Forty Part Motet, Luma Festival, Parc des Ateliers, Arles, France
2014–2015Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller: Les cent quarante—Six Marches, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris
Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller: Something Strange This Way, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark
Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller: The Marionette Maker, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
2014Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller: Lost in the Memory Palace, Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada
Janet Cardiff: The Forty Part Motet, 2014 Galway International Arts Festival, Aula Maxima, Galway, Ireland
Janet Cardiff: The Forty Part Motet, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
2013- 2016Janet Cardiff: Forty-Part Motet, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
2013Experiment in F# Minor, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo
Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller: Lost in the Memory Palace, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, California
Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller—The Murder of Crows, Vandalorum | Centrum för Konst och Design, Värnamo, Sweden
Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller: The Paradise Institute, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Ohio
Janet Cardiff: The Forty Part Motet, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Janet Cardiff: The Forty Part Motet, Metropolitan Museum of Art—The Cloisters, New York
Janet Cardiff: The Forty Part Motet, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada
2012Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller—The Murder of Crows, Nykytaiteen Museo Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland
Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller—The Murder of Crows, Park Avenue Armory, New York
Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller—Works from the Goetz Collection, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
Janet Cardiff: The Forty Part Motet, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, England
Janet Cardiff: The Forty Part Motet, MoMA PS1, New York
2011Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, Hudson (Show)Room, Artpace, San Antonio, Texas
Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, I can’t remember (world turning), Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Janet Cardiff: The Forty Part Motet, Aubette 1928, Strasbourg, France
Janet Cardiff: The Forty Part Motet, Fabrica, Brighton, England
Janet Cardiff: The Forty Part Motet, Great Hall, Winchester, England
Janet Cardiff: The Forty Part Motet, Historiska Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Janet Cardiff: The Forty Part Motet, Musea Brugge, Brugge, Belgium
Käthe Kollwitz Preis 2011: Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
Ship o’ Fools: An Installation and Ghostmachine: A Videowalk by Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin, Germany
2010Ghostmachine: A Videowalk by Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin, Germany
Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, Luhring Augustine, New York
Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller: Ship o’ Fools, Luminato Festival, Toronto, Canada
Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller: The Murder of Crows and Storm Room, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada (cat.)
2009Ghostmachine: A Videowalk by Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin, Germany
Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, Maison Hermès (Le Forum), Tokyo
Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller: Opera for a Small Room, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller: The Murder of Crows, Centro de Arte Contemporânea Inhotim, Brumadinho, Brazil
Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller: The Murder of Crows, Hamburger Bahnhof—Museum für Gegenwart—Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2008-2009Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller: The House of Books Has No Windows, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland; Modern Art Oxford, England
2008Janet Cardiff: The Forty Part Motet, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, Canada
Janet Cardiff: The Forty Part Motet, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington
2007Feedback, Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller: The Killing Machine and Other Stories 1995–2007, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Institut Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany; Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida
Janet Cardiff: The Forty Part Motet, Convento de Santo Domingo de Pollensa, Mallorca, Spain
Janet Cardiff: The Forty Part Motet, Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Calgary, Canada
2006Berlin Files, daadgalerie, Berlin, Germany
Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, Louisiana Museum for Moderne Kunst, Humlebæk, Denmark
Janet Cardiff: The Forty Part Motet, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth, Wales
Janet Cardiff: The Forty Part Motet, Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador, St. Johns, Canada
Janet Cardiff: The Forty Part Motet, Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Amstelveen, The Netherlands
Janet Cardiff: The Forty Part Motet, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Janet Cardiff: The Forty Part Motet, Wanås Foundation, Knislinge, Sweden
Jena Walk, JenaKultur, Jena, Germany
2005Feedback and Hill Climbing, Power House, Memphis, Tennessee
Ghostmachine: A Videowalk by Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin, Germany
Her Long Black Hair: An Audio Walk in Central Park, presented by Public Art Fund, New York (Cardiff)
Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, Yukon Arts Centre, Whitehorse, Canada
Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller: The Secret Hotel, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria; Johanniterkirche, Feldkirch, Germany
Janet Cardiff: Directions: Words Drawn in Water, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
Janet Cardiff: The Forty Part Motet, Figge Art Museum, Davenport, IA
Janet Cardiff: The Forty Part Motet, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada Pandemonium, Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2004Cardiff & Miller, Luhring Augustine, New York
Her Long Black Hair: An Audio Walk in Central Park, presented by Public Art Fund, New York (Cardiff)
Janet Cardiff, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia
Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, Centro de Arte Contemporânea Inhotim, Brumadinho, Brazil
Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, Botho-Graef-Kunstpreis der Stadt Jena, Jenaer Kunstverein, Germany
Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller: Recent Work, Millennium Gallery, Sheffield, England
Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller: Road Trip, Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin, Germany
Janet Cardiff: The Forty Part Motet, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Canada; Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
Laura: A Web Project (www.eyesoflaura.org), Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (Cardiff)
Space in Progress 2, Atelierhaus der Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien, Vienna, Austria (Cardiff)
Walking Thru: Space in Progress, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria (Cardiff)
2003The Berlin Files, Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany
Janet Cardiff, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Canada
Janet Cardiff: A Survey, Including Collaborations with George Bures Miller, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy
Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway
Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller: Recent Works, Whitechapel Gallery, London, England
Janet Cardiff: The Forty Part Motet, National Gallery of Canada at La Cité de l’Énergie, Shawinigan, Canada
Janet Cardiff: The Forty Part Motet, Porin Taidemuseo, Pori, Finland
Janet Cardiff: The Forty Part Motet, Saint Mary’s University Art Gallery, Halifax, Canada
Janet Cardiff: The Forty Part Motet and Muriel Lake Incident, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, England
The Paradise Institute and Other Works: Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff Centre, Banff, Canada
2002The Forty Part Motet and Ittingen Walk, Kunstmuseum Thurgau; Kartause Ittingen, Warth, Switzerland
Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, Hamburger Bahnhof—Museum für Gegenwart—Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller: The Paradise Institute, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada; Power Plant, Toronto, Canada; Harbourfront Centre, Toronto; Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg, Canada; Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada; Luhring Augustine, New York, NY; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Janet Cardiff: Whispering Room, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
2001–2002Janet Cardiff: A Survey of Works, Including Collaborations with George Bures Miller, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY; Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
2001Drogan’s Nightmare, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Janet Cardiff: The Forty Part Motet, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada; Salisbury Cathedral Cloisters, Salisbury, England; BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, England; MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY; NOW Festival, Nottingham, England; New Art Gallery, Walsall, England
Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller: The Paradise Institute, Canadian Pavilion, Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy (cat.)
The Muriel Lake Incident, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Canada
2000Janet Cardiff, Kunstraum München, Munich, Germany
A Large Slow River, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Canada (Cardiff)
1999Janet Cardiff: The Missing Voice (Case Study B): An Audio Walk, Artangel, London
La Tour Part I, Side Street Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Simple Experiments in Aerodynamics, Owens Art Gallery, Mount Allison University, Sackville, Canada; Mercer Union, Toronto, Canada (Miller)
1997The Dark Pool, Morris-Healy Gallery, New York, NY
The Empty Room, Raum Aktueller Kunst, Vienna, Austria
Playhouse, Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin, Germany (Cardiff)
1996George Bures Miller, Mercer Union, Toronto, Canada
Janet Cardiff: To Touch, Optica, Montreal, Canada
Rencontres de vidéo art plastiques, Centre d’Art Contemporain de Basse Normandie, Hérouville-Saint- Clair, France (Miller)
1995The Dark Pool, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff Centre, Canada
The Dark Pool, Western Front, Vancouver, Canada
George Bures Miller, A.K.A. Gallery, Saskatoon, Canada
George Bures Miller, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Canada
The Road, Eastern Edge Gallery, St. John’s, Canada (Cardiff)
1994George Bures Miller, Eastern Edge Gallery, St. John’s, Canada
George Bures Miller, Galerie Clark, Montreal, Canada
Janet Cardiff, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL (Cardiff)
Janet Cardiff: To Touch, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada; Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Canada
1993Janet Cardiff: To Touch, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Canada
Janet Cardiff, La Chambre Blanche, Quebec City, Canada
1992George Bures Miller, Neutral Ground, Regina, Canada
George Bures Miller, Plug In Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada
Janet Cardiff: An Inability to Make a Sound, Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax, Canada
Janet Cardiff: The Whispering Room, YYZ, Toronto, Canada; New Gallery, Calgary, Canada
1991George Bures Miller, Artcite Inc., Windsor, Canada
George Bures Miller, Stride Gallery, Calgary, Canada
1990Janet Cardiff, YYZ Artists’ Outlet, Toronto, Canada
Janet Cardiff: New Photo-Based Work, Evelyn Aimis Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1989Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, Latitude 53, Edmonton, Canada
1988Janet Cardiff: Tabl’eau, Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Canada
An Obscure Sense of Possible Sublimity, Kingston Artists’ Association Inc. (KAAI), Kingston, Canada; Neutral Ground, Regina, Canada; Ed Video Media Arts Centre, Guelph, Canada; StART Gallery, Kitchener, Canada
1987Another Fiction, Glendon Gallery, York University, Toronto, Canada
Janet Cardiff: Recent Work, Evelyn Aimis Fine Art, Toronto, Canada
Janet Cardiff: Recent Work, Humanities Fine Arts Gallery, University of Minnesota, Morris, Minnesota