Biography
Ed Miliano was born in New York in 1954. He received a BFA in 1976 from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. Before becoming a full-time artist, Ed worked for over twenty-five years as a designer and illustrator in the USA and Ireland.
His work is most often about nature and landscape and, in particular, man-made landscapes like gardens. Ed sees gardens as transitional spaces that link where we live to the larger, natural landscape. They are bridges between domestic life and the natural world. He will often group paintings together to create a larger, collective image — one with more information. When viewed together, the separate paintings become an entirely new experience.
In 2011, Miliano embarked on an ambitious project to paint his garden from the studio window every day for an entire year. He called this epic work Diary. It was exhibited as part of the Futures 12 exhibition at the RHA in 2012. The work includes 366 separate paintings. The paintings are displayed on narrow wooden shelves.
Miliano has been in several RHA Annual Exhibitions. He has had two one-man exhibitions at the National Botanic Gardens in Glasnevin: Flower Paintings in 2004 and Paintings and Drawings from Dar es Salaam in 2011.
Solo Exhibitions
2022 Nothing Gold Can Stay, The Royal Hibernian Academy Galleries, Dublin
2019 Advent: Paintings, Sculpture and Collages, The Gallery at De Veres, Dublin
2018 No Ordinary Place / Paintings from Japan, The Ballinglen Gallery, Co. Mayo
2017 No Ordinary Place, Motoazabu Gallery, Azabu-Juban, Tokyo, Japan
2016 Woods Oliver Sears Galley, Molesworth Street, Dublin
2014 The Nature of Time, Oliver Sears Gallery, Molesworth Street, Dublin
2011 Drawings and Paintings from Dar es Salaam, National Botanic Gardens, Dublin
2010 Paintings, Collages and Drawings, Alliance Française, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
2004 Flower Paintings by Ed Miliano, National Botanic Gardens, Dublin
Group Exhibitions
2024 Mór 2024, Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin
2024 Boyle Arts Festival 2024, King’s House, Boyle, Co. Roscommon
2024 Kwaidan, Galerie Aube, Kyoto University of the Arts, Kyoto, Japan
2024 Kwaidan, Coastguard Station, Tramore, Co. Waterford
2024 Kwaidan, Ballinglen Museum, Ballycastle, Co. Mayo
2023 Winter Exhibition, SO Fine Art Editions, Dublin
2023 Winter Exhibition, Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin
2023 Decennium, 10th Anniversary Exhibition, SO Fine Art Editions, Dublin
2023 Back Country, SO Fine Art Editions, Dublin
2023 Summer Exhibition, Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin
2022 On The Grand Canal, Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin
2022 The Measure Of The Year, 2 Person Show with Cliona Doyle, Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin
2021 Sunkissed, Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin
2021 Kanreki, Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin
2021 Kanreki, The Model, Sligo, Co. Sligo
2020 Mokuhanga, Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin
2020 The Time of our Lives, Oliver Sear Gallery, Dublin
2020 20×20, ArtNet Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown, National Maritime Museum, Co. Dublin
2019 Parallax, Rear Window Gallery, Mason’s Yard, London
2019 VUE Art Fair, Royal Hibernian Academy, Ely Place, Dublin
2019 RUA 138th Annual Exhibition, Ulster Museum, Botanic Gardens, Belfast
2019 Sculpture In Context, Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin
2019 Cairde Visual, The Model, Sligo, Co. Sligo
2019 In Living Memory, Oliver Sears Gallery at Emo Court, Co. Laois
2019 189th RHA Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Ely Place, Dublin
2018 Group Show, Oliver Sears Gallery, Molesworth Street, Dublin
2018 VUE Art Fair, Royal Hibernian Academy, Ely Place, Dublin
2018 188th RHA Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Ely Place, Dublin
2017 187th RHA Annual Exhibition, Ely Place, Dublin
2017 A lonely impulse of delight, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo
2016 A lonely impulse of delight, London Art Fair, London
2016 A lonely impulse of delight, Embassy of Ireland, Beijing, China
2016 Airmail, ASSAB ONE Gallery, Milan, Italy
2016 Airmail, Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast
2016 London Art Fair, Business Design Centre, London
2015 In Residence, Oliver Sears Gallery at Six Fitzroy Square, London
2015 Futures Anthology, RHA (Royal Hibernian Academy) Gallery, Dublin
2015 A lonely impulse of delight, Hamilton Gallery, Sligo
2015 A lonely impulse of delight SO Fine Art Editions, Dublin
2015 In Residence, Oliver Sears Gallery at Six Fitzroy Square, London
2015 Airmail, Yanagasawa Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2014 VUE Art Fair, Royal Hibernian Academy, Ely Place, Dublin
2014 Sculpture in Context, National Botanic Gardens, Dublin
2014 Boyle Arts Festival, King’s House, Boyle, Co. Roscommon
2014 184th RHA Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Ely Place, Dublin
2013 Towers Watson Temporary Collection, Nassau Street, Dublin
2013 VUE Art Fair, Royal Hibernian Academy, Ely Place, Dublin
2013 Pressed, DLRCC Concourse Gallery, Marine Road, Dun Laoghaire
2013 Ireland Newfoundland Trail: A Journey Of Plants and People, Craft Council of Newfoundland and Labrador, St John’s, Newfoundland
Collections
Ballinglen Arts Foundation and Museum, Co.Mayo, Ireland
Bord na Gaeilge, Dublin, Ireland
Business to Arts, Dublin, Ireland
Embassy of Ireland, Tokyo, Japan
Joseph Walsh Studios, Kinsale, Co Cork, Ireland
National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin, Ireland
Opera Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
Office of Public Works, Dublin, Ireland
XL Group plc, Dublin Ireland
Awards, Fellowships and Memberships
2022 Graphic Studio Dublin, Dublin, Ireland (board member since 2024)
2017 Ballinglen Arts Foundation Fellowship, Ballycastle, Co Mayo, Ireland
2014 The DeVeres Prize, RHA Awards
2004 Best Illustration of the Year, Design Category, Illustrator’s Guild of Ireland
1999 White Raven Citation (for It’s A Jungle Out There, Wolfhound Press)
Reading Association of Ireland Award Shortlist (for It’s A Jungle Out There, Wolfhound Press)
IBBY Selection (for It’s A Jungle Out There, Wolfhound Press)
1998 Bisto Book of the Year Éilis Dillon Award (for It’s A Jungle Out There, Wolfhound Press)
Books, Catalogues and Selected Articles
2018 ‘The Aesthete: Joseph Walsh’ . . . 6 October
2016 ‘The Kimono Way’ by Gemma Tipton, The Irish Times, 20 Feb
https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/homes-and-property/interiors/the-kimono-way-irish-design-slove-affair-with-japan-1.2541243
2016 ‘Visual Art Roundup’ by Aidan Dunne, The Irish Times, 16 Feb https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/art-and-design/visual-art/visual-art-round-up-vivid-displays-ofpainterly-power-1.2532642
2014 ‘The Nature of Time Ed Miliano’, Oliver Sears Gallery
2012 ‘This Life’ Image Interiors, July/August issue
2012 ‘My Favourite Room: The Art of Gardening’ Sunday Independent
1997 It’s A Jungle Out There, Wolfhound Press
1987 ‘Special Feature: Works of 140 Young Designers of the World’, IDEA Magazine (Japan),Issue No 200 – 1987