Nancy Bea Miller's oil paintings, drawings and prints have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums throughout the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic United States including the Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, PA, the Woodmere Art Museum in Philadelphia, PA, The State Museum of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg, PA, The Cape May County Arts League in Cape May, NJ, and the Washington Gallery of Photography in Bethesda, MD.She is represented by the Artists' House Gallery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, by The Elm Tree Gallery in Franklin, Tennessee, by Sherry French Gallery in New York City, New York, and by Susan Maasch Fine Art in Portland, Maine.
Ms. Miller received a Leeway Foundation Art & Change grant for her "Genre of Inclusion" project in December of 2005. This project was also the front page article of the February 2005 issue of The Advocate, the magazine of the Autism Society of America. In 2003 she was awarded an Independence Foundation Fellowship in the Arts, and was also the recipient of the 2003 Valerie Lamb Smith artist residency. Her work was featured in Kalliope (fall 2002), a nationally distributed art and literature magazine. In 2001 she was honored by the Francis Speight Award for Excellence in the Visual Arts given by the Wissahickon Center for the Arts, and was profiled in her college alumni magazine, Penn Arts and Sciences (summer 2001) in an issue devoted to celebrating 125 years of women at Penn.
Nancy Bea Miller was born in New York City, New York and later grew up in Fairfield, Connecticut. Her parents met at The Art Student's League in New York City. Her father and her two brothers are artists. She received her B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia where she majored in English. She briefly attended Tyler School of Art in Elkins Park, PA, and then completed a four-year certificate from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, PA. At Pafa she studied under Louis B. Sloan, Will Barnet, Sidney Goodman, Peter Paone, Edith Neff, Deborah Deichler, and Al Gury.