The Artist
With an affinity for occult stories, an obsession with horror movies and a love of doom and death metal music, and (of course) Krampus, Ken Miller has spent three decades experimenting with tenebrism and chiaroscuro. While devoid of color, his illustrations are not bereft of feeling as they express a conflict between the real and the abstract. Monochromatic tones are softly blended over textural foundation created with a coarse application of medium. Ken Miller has a BFA from the University of the Arts, and resides in the mosquito-infested swamps of Tinicum, just southwest of Philadelphia.
Pictured: Ken (right) w/ Krampus (Model unknown), Baltimore Comic Con, 2022
Ken Miller
Education
University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
BFA, Illustration
Solo Exhibition
Ad Mortem Luminis: Dark Art by Ken Miller, Grindcore House, Philadelphia, PA, February-April, 2020
Group Exhibitions
First Art Show, Grindcore House West, Philadelphia, PA, April-June, 2023
Empty Night Skies: Benefit for Bat Conservation International, Grindcore House, Philadelphia, PA, April-June, 2012
Visions of Terror: A Collection of Horror & Sci-Fi Art, Philadelphia, PA, October, 2004
William H Ely Illustration Thesis Exhibition, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, April-May, 2001
Album Art/Design
Architects of a Broken Design, The Name Stone (Single), 2020
Architects of a Broken Design, Total Collapse, 2020
Dare I Say, This Is Where The Hero Falls On His Blade, 2005
Dysphoria, Dysphoria EP, 2014
Eaten Alive, Demo EP, 2016
Eaten Alive, Masterpiece of Ignorance, 2017
Grave Blankets, 10-12-41, 2020
Havens, On The Verge Of Collapse, 2019
Johnny Neutrino and The Order of the Crawling Hand, The Phantom EP, 2020
Johnny Neutrino and the Secret Weapon, Doom Bots (Single), 2014
Johnny Neutrino and the Secret Weapon, Seven Steps to Supervillainy, 2014
Last Day Dying, Lover's Arms, 2006
Last Day Dying, Nite EP, 2004
Last Day Dying, The Romance EP, 2009
Seismic, Seismic EP, 2020
Seismic, The Time Machine (Single), 2023
The Rumblers, Resistor Radio, 2011
Wilderhost, Psykhe, 2014
Publications
Arte Arcana Death, by Heavy Music Artwork, 2021
Deadhorse, Book One: Dead Birds, by Eric Grissom & Phil Sloan, 2013
Monochromes 2020, by Heavy Music Artwork, 2020