Cheryl Miller

Cheryl Miller 
Backyard Party...Aunties and A Bud (from the series If We Stand Tall...Recollections of Spirits Part), 1990
Paper Size: 11x16 inches
Edition of 12
Inkjet print produced by Light Work and signed by the artist.

My practice exists to document quotidian Black life. I create images of African Americans viewed through a variety of everyday positive, relatable, uplifting, and ordinary experiences. Utilizing natural light on film, I strive to capture the visual simplicity of my subjects by emphasizing highlights and shadows, texture, and placement.

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Cheryl Miller is a self-taught photographer and former City and Regional Planner. Her practice exists to create images of African Americans viewed through a kaleidoscope of everyday experiences, focusing on the rich visual development of communities, neighborhoods and the people that make them thrive.

Miller’s work has been exhibited in local, national and international art institutions, and is in the permanent collections of Brooklyn Museum, Schomburg Center for Black Culture and Research, and the Museum of the City of NY.

A native New Yorker currently living in Boston, Miller was an Adjunct at The Tisch Department of Photography at NYU. She taught photography in the NYC Department of Education, CUNY/York College. Miller has sat on the Board of Directors of the Queens Council on the Arts, The Cultural Collaborative of Jamaica and The Queens Chamber of Commerce.

She was also ShowUp’s (Boston) 2023 AIR, 2023 Mass Cultural Recovery Grant recipient and the 2023 La Luz Workshop Scholarship - Publish Your Photography Book. Miller is a 2024 Light Work AIR recipient. In 2025 she was invited to lecture and engage in several artist’s talks including Leica Gallery Boston, Boston University and SUNY Oswego.

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