Biography:
Sheila Miles has exhibited in over 300 exhibitions and 150 of her works is included in such public collections as the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis,
State of New Mexico Art in Public Places Program, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Yellowstone Art Museum, Missoula Museum of the Arts, and the Missoula International Airport.
Educated at Purdue University she earned Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in Art in Painting and Drawing. In the summer of 1974 she received a full scholarship to the Hans Hofmann School of Art to study with Victor Candell and Leo Manso. From 1975 until leaving Provincetown (1978), she was Director of the Provincetown Art Association and Museum while exhibiting in the East End Gallery.
Following almost two years in NYC she lived in Montana for 26 years.
Beginning in 1988 she was represented by Owings-Dewey (Santa Fe) and later by Linda Hodges (Seattle) and Reed-Stremmel Galleries (Reno) and for over 35 years has exhibited widely throughout the country and internationally.
In 1999 she received the Gottlieb Foundation grant ($20,000). Her paintings have been used in sets in three movies.
