Lewis Miller was born in Melbourne in 1959 and trained at the Victorian College of the Arts, where he also completed his post graduate studies. He exhibits regularly at Australian Galleries in Melbourne and Sydney and at Heiser Gallery in Brisbane.

Miller was awarded the Hugh Ramsey Portrait Prize in 1981, and having been shortlisted for the Archibald Prize sixteen times, won in 1998 with his portrait of fellow artist Allan Mitelman.

He was awarded the 2000 Sporting Portrait Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, with his painting of sporting identity Ron Barassi.

Other awards include the James Farrell Self Portrait Award at the Castlemaine City Art Gallery in 2007 and most recently in 2010 was awarded the Belle Arti - Chapman and Bailey Art Award.

In 2003, Deakin University's Stonnington Stables Museum of Art curated the exhibition, 'Lewis Miller: selected portraits 1983-2003'.

Commissioned portraits include Nobel Laureate Dr James Dewey Watson, co-discoverer of the double helix; Everest explorer Sir Edmund Hillary; Sidney Baillieu Myer AC; the Honorable Justice Kim Santow OAM and Robert French, Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia.

Miller has travelled and exhibited widely and as regular artist in residence at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York, in 2003 and 2005 Miller was commissioned to produce a large series of portraits of the scientists and technicians involved in the mapping of the human genome.

In 2003 Lewis Miller was appointed 'Official Australian Artist' to the conflict in Iraq by the Australian War Memorial. He spent three weeks in the Middle East where he recorded the services of the RAN, the RAAF, the Army and Special Forces (SAS).

Miller's work is represented in private and public collections in Australia and overseas, including the National Gallery of Australia, Art Gallery of New South Wales, National Gallery of Victoria, Asutralian War Memorial, High Court of Australia in Canberra, Monash University, Deakin University Art Collection, University of New South Wales, Auckland War Memorial, Karolyi Foundation in Venice, France Biblioteque Nationale de France and teh Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York.

Anwar Ibrahim,  Malaysia
ANZ Bank, Australia
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Auckland War Memorial Museum, New Zealand
Australian Ballet Foundation, VIC
Australian National Gallery, Canberra

BHP, Australia
Castlemaine Art Gallery, Castlemaine, VIC 
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Long Island, New York
David Syme, Australia
Deakin University, Melbourne
Dr and Mrs Mahatir , Malaysia
High Court of Australia, Canberra
John Mcbride Collection, Melbourne, Sydney
Karolyi Foundation Collection, Vence, France
Melbourne Grammer School, Melbourne
Monash University, Melbourne
MUKA Studio,  Auckland,  New Zealand
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Ormond College, Melbourne
Petronas Oil Company, Malaysia
Private Collections in Italy, United Kingdom and United States
Shell Australia
St Kilda Council, Melbourne
Sydney University, Sydney
Trinity College, Melbourne
University of New South Wales, Sydney
Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne

Other

Anwar Ibrahim – Former Deputy Prime Minister Malaysia
Brother Julian Mcdonald - Vice Chancelor, Australia Catholic University
Dame Peggy Van Praagh - Australian Ballet Foundation, Melbourne
David Parker - Ormond College Master’s Portrait, Melbourne
David Robinson - Vice Chancelor, Monash University, Melbourne
Dr and Mrs Mahatir - Prime Minister Malaysia
Dr Bruce Stillman – Director, Cold Spring Harbour Laboratory, New York
Dr James Dewey Watson -  President, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York
Dr John Yu - Chancellor, University of New South Wales, Sydney
Sydney Ballieu Myer
Geoff Wilson - Vice Chancellor, Deakin University, Melbourne
Gerald and Rae Oppenheim,  ‘Ego’ Pharmaceuticals
Hartwell Lander - Lander and Rogers
Jerry Ellis - chairman BHP
Jerry Ellis - Chancellor, Monash University, Melbourne
Jocelyn Lawlor - Dean of Nursing, Sydney University, Sydney
John McBride – John McBride Collection
John Mcfarlane - CEO ANZ Bank, Australia
Malcolm Turnbull and family
Michael Malthouse - coach Collingwood Football Club
Ric Charlton - Shell Australia
Robert French - Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia, Canberra
Robina, Isobel and Janet Kidd - triptych
Peter Walsh - Artist - Australian National Gallery, Melbourne
Self Portrait Triptych  - National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
James Eden Triptych  - National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Roy Ricker - Mallesons, Stephen and Jaques World Wide
Sir Edmund Hillary
Sydney Baillieu Myer