Plantwater Collection, Part 1: Museum (collection)
Plantwater Collection, Part 1: Museum (collection)
Watering cans, eight steel shelves designed by artist
Eight shelves: 43.5 x 30 x 9 inches each
Miles Huston (b. 1981; Cambridge, Massachusetts) is an artist, designer, and curator who lives and works in Jersey City, New Jersey. He holds an MFA from Yale University and a BFA from The School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University/Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
In 2024, Huston presented his first institutional solo exhibition, Overshoot, at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut. The exhibition is curated by Eduardo Andres Alfonso as part of the museum’s Aldrich Projects, a single-artist series that features a singular work or a focused body of work by an artist.
Huston has presented solo exhibitions Gordon Robichaux, New York (2024, 2022); Dunes, Portland, Maine (2022); Planet Earth LLC, Woodbridge, Connecticut (2021); Reyes Projects, Detroit (2020); Adler Beatty, New York (2018); Princess, New York (2017); Room East, New York (2015); Cave, Detroit (2017); The Still House Group, Brooklyn (2013); and two-person exhibitions at Gordon Robichaux, New York (with Jenni Crain, 2019), and Cave, Detroit (with Otis Houston Jr., 2016).
Selected group exhibitions have been presented at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) in Vermont; Europa, New York; Art in General, New York; Gordon Robichaux, New York; Harkawik, New York; Jeffrey Stark, New York; Kerry Schuss Gallery, New York; Room East, New York; Pumice Raft, Toronto; Winona, Brussels; Fall River Museum of Contemporary Art, Massachusetts; Parker Gallery, Los Angeles; Night Gallery, Los Angeles; F Magazine, Houston; and Baba Yaga, Hudson, New York.
His work has been published in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Artforum, ARTnews, Flash Art, and BOMB.
Huston’s curatorial projects include Toward Civic Art, Polina Berlin Gallery, New York; This Must Be the Place, 55 Walker, New York; Black Cherokee, Room East, New York; Walk Artisanal, Los Angeles; and Clorox/Envy, Brooklyn, New York. He co-founded the artist-run space KNOWMOREGAMES in Brooklyn, New York, and is a member of Citygroup, an architectural collective based in the Lower East Side in New York City, and the Gyorgy Kepes Panel Committee in Wellesley, Massachusetts.
Plantwater Collection, Part 1: Museum (collection)
Eight shelves: 43.5 x 30 x 9 inches each
Plantwater Collection, Part 2: Community Garden (property)
68 x 60 x 30 inches
Plantwater Collection, Part 3: Community Garden (asset)
44 x 64 x 20 inches
31 x 28.25 x 1.75 inches
34.75 x 27.25 x 1.75 inches
26.25 x 19.5 x 1.75 inches