2023
Zuckerman-Hartung, Molly. "Worse Words," The Brooklyn Rail, March
Mousse Magazine Staff. ""It’s Time" at Vielmetter, Los Angeles," Mousse Magazine, February 18
Nys Dambrot, Shana. "A Pair of Exhibitions Renovate Portraiture and Perfection at Vielmetter Los Angeles," LA Weekly, February 9
Clayton, Dominique. "The Best Black Art Shows in Los Angeles Right Now," Cultured, January 30
Platt, Stacy J. "The Dirty South Comes to Denver," Hyperallergic, January 12
2022
Kelsey, Meret. "UB Art Galleries’ latest exhibition explores the absurdities of the human body," The Spectrum, November 17
"Church for Sale Works from the Haubrok Collection and the Nationalgalerie Collection," Exhibition Catalogue, Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Art Institute of Chicago. "Rodney McMillian: The Great Society," The Art Insitute of Chicago, August 9
Clayton, Jace. "Whitney Biennial 2022," Artforum, June
Diehl, Travis. "‘The Bodywork of Hospitality’ Sees Communal Care as a Civic Obligation," Frieze Magazine, February 28
Davis, Ben. "The Prospect 5 Triennial Reflects Contemporary Culture’s Hunger for Widespread Yet Specific Historical Reckoning," Artnet, January 19
2021
Williams, Michael Paul. "‘The history of the African American South is really the history of this country’: "The Dirty South" at VMFA opens Saturday," Richmond Times-Dispatch, May 20
"The Act of Surviving is Enough" UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture, January
2020
Wagner, Josh. "Rodney McMillian: ‘Body Politic’ The Enduring Necessity of Memory," Art Now LA, December
Piejko, Jennifer. "The Crushing Weight of the Comfortable: Rodney McMillian," Mousse Magazine, November 13
Murray, Yxta Maya. "Art Seen: Rodney McMillian, Body Politic," Brooklyn Rail, November
Miranda, Carolina. "Newsletter," Los Angeles Times, October 31
Haddad, Natalie. "Rodney McMillian Deftly Treads the Line Between Politics and Aesthetics," Hyperallergic, October 30
Preston-Zappas, Lindsay. "Black lives, immigration and politics are focal points of new LA art exhibits," KCRW, October 27
Pogrebin, Robin. "Black Gallerists Press Forward Despite a Market That Holds Them Back," New York Times, June 25
Goodman, Jonathan. "Rodney McMillian at Petzel," White Hot Magazine, July 2020
Schwendener, Martha. "2 Art Gallery Shows to Explore From Home," The New York Times, May 6
Story, John and Philipp Farra. "Hanging With Clarence by Rodney McMillian," Riting, April 15
Fateman, Johanna. "Goings on About Town: Rodney McMillian," The New Yorker, April
Laster, Paul. "Upcycling: 5 Artists Inventively Using Reclaimed Materials," Art & Object, April 6
"Petzel Gallery opens a solo exhibition of recent paintings by artist Rodney McMillian," ArtDaily, March 8
Durón, Maximiliano. "2020 Prospect New Orleans Triennial to Consider America’s ‘Unprecedented’ Political Moment," ArtNews, March 2
Valentine, Victoria L. "Artist List for Prospect New Orleans Triennial Includes Mark Bradford, Willie Birch, Simone Leigh, Dawoud Bey, Glenn Ligon, Karon Davis, Naudline Pierre, and Kevin Beasley," CultureType, March 2
"Prospect New Orleans Announces Artist List for Prospect.5," Artforum, March 2
Angeletti, Gabriella. "Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend," The Art Newspaper, February 27
Cascone, Sarah. "In LA for Frieze Week? Here Is Our Guide to 22 Mind-Expanding Museum Shows to See If You Want to Venture Beyond the Fairs," artnet, February 11
Aldridge, Taylor Renee. "Critics' Picks: Rodney McMillian at The Underground Museum," Artforum, February
Kane, Ashleigh. "Art shows to leave the house for this month," Dazed, February 8
"Top shows to see during Frieze Los Angeles," Art Newspaper, February 6
2019
Russeth, Andrew. "For Dealer Friedrich Petzel, a Successful Gallery Is About Precision, Not Expansion," ArtNews, December 12
English, D., Barat, C., and Lowery, G. D. (2019). Among Others, Blackness at MoMA. Pg 306-307. Museum of Modern Art.
Pieterson, Mark. "This Hammer Museum Curator Uses Cinema to Educate and Empower," Surface, December 12
Desmarais, Charles. "Rodney McMillian’s cyclorama of displacement at SFMOMA," SF Chronicle, April 29
Gardner, Drake. "Professor’s new exhibition explores homelessness, inequality in America," Daily Bruin, April 30
Shindel, Dan. "A New, Highly Eclectic Space for Arthouse Films in Los Angeles," Hyperallergic, April 19
"The Twenty Five," Cultured, February/March
Lorin, Guillaume. "BEAUX ARTS – In this Land de Rodney McMillian au SFMOMA," CHOQ, March 28
Ambramovich, Alex. "Termite Art and the Modern Museum," New Yorker, February 28
Volpicelli, Anna. "Winter Arts Preview: 16 Bay Area Exhibitions, Performances + Festivals," 7x7, January 8
2018
Balzar, C., Puvogel, R., and; Zybok, O. (2021). Beyond the Box, Dohmen Collection. Pg 118-121. Dr. Cantz'sche Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG.
Knight, Christopher. "Review: Helen Molesworth's final show at MOCA is the anti-celebrity show we need right now," Los Angelest Times, October 19
Wouk Almino, Elisa. "Helen Molesworth’s Last MOCA Exhibition Is an Act of Love," Hyperallergic, November 13
Rus, Mayer. "Designer Nell Alano Reimagines Philanthropist Eileen Harris Norton's Santa Monica Home," Architectural Digest, November 11
Smith, Roberta, "Painting: An (Incomplete) Survey of the State of the Art," New York Times (web), August 2
Raji, Michelle, "Artist Rodney McMillian Wants Viewers to Grapple with Race — and Register to Vote," Texas Observer (web), July 6
Eckart, Stephanie, "How Nearly 50 Artists' Attempted to Do the Impossible: Illustrate Michael Jackson's Enormous Influence and Legacy," W Magazine (web), July 8
Raji, Michelle, "Artist Rodney McMillian Wants Viewers to Grapple with Race — and Register to Vote," Texas Observer (web), July 6
Jean, Melany, "'Rodney McMillian: Against a Civic Death’ at the Contemporary Austin," The Austin Chronicle (web), March 16
Bass, Shermakaye, "Exhibit at Contemporary explores the architecture and politics of race," My Statesman (web), March 14
Olsen, Ivy, "Antidotes for apathy: Rodney McMillian's Austin show is a 'call to action'," The Art Newspaper (web), February 20
Petrossiants, Andreas, "'I hear it everywhere I go' at Franklin Street Works," Brooklyn Rail (web), February 7
Greenberger, Alex, "San Antonio Museum of Art Acquires Works by Kevin Beasley, Rodney McMillian, Martine Syms," ArtNews (web), January 25
Miranda, Carolina A., "L.A. artist Rodney McMillian peels back the façade on the ultimate symbol of power: the White House," Los Angeles Times, January 10
2017
Maldonado, Devon Van Houten, " ‘Never Free to Rest’ at kurimanzutto, Mexico City," art agenda (web), November 27
Hunter, Becky Huff, "Waging an Artist’s War," Sculpture, January / February (Cover and Feature)
Curtis, Frieda, "SLAM spotlight: Rodney McMillian’s ‘A Migration Tale’," Student Life (web), February 20
2016
Hine, Thomas, "Two shows at ICA: One head-scratcher, one sly use of space," Philly.com (web), March 12
Moon, Kavior, "Previews: Rodney McMillian," Artforum, January
Plokarz, Tina, "Rodney McMillian’s sinister The Black Show at the ICA," artblog (web), March 9
Kennedy, Randy, "Turning Discarded Items into Art About Race in America," The New York Times, March 23
Kaplan, Isaac, "If You Don’t Understand Conceptual Art, It’s Not Your Fault," Artsy (web), March 31
Smith, William S., "Post-Consumer Report: A Conversation with Rodney McMillian," Art in America (web), April 25
Harren, Natilee "Knight’s heritage: Karl Haendel and the Legacy of Appropiration, Episode 2, 2012," Art Journal Open (web), April 22
Quinton, Jared, "Rodney McMillian’s Sobering, Irreverent Take on Race in America," art21 magazine (web), May 2
Pobric, Pac, "Rodney McMillian and the Poetry of the Past," The Art Newspaper (web), May 4
Standley, Michelle, "Rodney McMillian: Views of Main Street," The Brooklyn Rail (web), June 3
Blair, Courtney Willis, "4Questions: Rodney McMillian," Forbes (web), June 23
Gopnik, Blake, "THE DAILY PIC: The Studio Musuem in Harlem shows his domestic minimalism," ArtNet News (web), June 27
Sutton, Kate, "Through the Portal," Cultured, June
Wagner, Sandra, "Sweat Equity: A Conversation with Ruben Ochoa," Sculpture Magazine, September
Harris, Jane Ursula, "Rodney McMillian," Art in America (web), September 17
Mizota, Sharon, "Review: How white tables set with black vases serve as a reminder of the struggler for civil rights," Los Angeles Times, September 19
van Ryzin, Jeanne Claire, "Rodney McMillian wins inaugural $100,000 Suzanne Deal Booth art prize," Austin American-Statesman (web), October 30
Crow, Kelly, "Rodney McMillian Wins Inaugural Suzanne Deal Booth Art Prize," The Wall Street Journal (web), October 31
Cascone, Sarah, "Rodney McMillian Wins First $100,000 Suzanne Deal Booth Prize," artnet news (web), November 3
Lynch, Scott, "New Art & Notorious MSG at PS1 Spring Open House," Gothamist (web), April 4
Moffitt, Evan, "Rodney McMillian," frieze (web), June 23
2015
Zuckerman, Heidi. "Rodney McMillian: Landscape Paintings," Aspen Art Museum, Aspen Art Press, Aspen, Colorado, Distributed by Artbook, D.A.P., New York, NY
Travers, Andrew, Aspen Times Weekly: Current Events, The Aspen Times, March 26
Benedetti, Christine, Landscape Paintings and Second Chances Make AAM Debut, Aspen Daily News, March 27
Travers, Andrew, Rodney McMillian puts landscapes to bed in Aspen Art Museum show, The Aspen Times, May 22
Weatherford, Mary, The Artists Artists: Mary Weatherford, Artforum, December
2014
Bader, Graham, Review: Outside the Lines at Contemporary Art Museum Houston, Artforum, April
Lax, Thomas, Rodney McMillian, catalogue for When the Stars Begin to Fall, Studio Museum Harlem, Spring
2013
Petry, Michael, "Nature Morte: Contemporary Artists Reinvigorate the Still Life," London: Thames & Hudson, October
Ise, Claudine, "There is nothing cozy about MCA's 'Homebodies'," The Chicago Tribune, July 17
Soto, Paul, Rodney McMillian, Flash Art, May
Cotter, Holland, Mood Indigo: A Playlist for the Mind. Blues for Smoke at the Whitney Museum, New York Times, February 7
Friedwald, Will, "The Jazz Scene: Even Uptown Gets the Blues," The Wall Street Journal, February 7
Kiyoizumi, A.J., Artist Rodney McMillian Discusses Process: Los Angeles Artist Melds the Political and Artistic with Keen Performances, The Daily Californian, April 9
Mizota, Sharon, Rodney McMillian on the puppets of politics, Los Angeles Times, January 24
2012
Wilson, Michael, Rodney McMillian at Maccarone, Art Forum, December
Schultz, Charles Marshall, New York: Rodney McMillian at Maccarone, Art in America, December
Schwarting, Jen, Rodney McMillian Prospect Ave, The Brooklyn Rail, November
Knight, Christopher, Blues Reverberates at MOCA, The Los Angeles Times, October 29
Johnson, Reed, MOCA's 'Blues for Smoke' riffs on a wider aesthetic, The Los Angeles Times, October 27
Wood, Mikael, "MOCA Examines Blues Music", Los Angeles Confidential, October
Boucher, Brian, Maccarone to Expand in West Village, Art in America, March 13
"The Bearden Project", exhibition catalogue; The Studio Museum in Harlem, NY
Simpson, Bennett, Blues for Smoke, exhibition catalogue; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
2011
Simpson, Bennett, And Your Mind Will Follow, Artforum, October
Muchnic, Suzanne, 50 years of support- and changing tastes- at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Los Angeles Times, May 15
2010
Miles, Chris, Rodney McMillian at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, LA Weekly, February 11
Ollman, Leah, Around the Galleries, Los Angeles Times, February 5
Civin, Marcus, Succulent in Culver City, Artslant, January 26
2009
Rodney McMillian features new commission by the artist in his first solo museum exhibition, artdaily.org, August 1
Sholis, Brian, Rodney McMillian: The Kitchen, Artforum, January
Hobbs, Robert, Franklin Sirmans and Michele Wallace, 30 Americans, exhibition catalogue; Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL
2008
Chang, Richard, Visual art/ Top 5 events, Orange County Register, December 26
Stacy, Greg, OCMAs 2008 California Biennial Is the Gift That Keeps On (and On and On) Giving, OC Weekly, November 6
Buitron, Michael, 2008 California Biennial at the OCMA and Beyond, Leap Into the Void, October 25
Copeland, Huey, The Blackness of Blackness, ArtForum, October
Markle, Leslie, Disorderly Conduct, artUS, Summer
OConnell, Brian, Ghostly Media: What Would an Invoking Media Look Like?, Art & Research, Summer
Dambrot, Shana, Report: New York City, The Ghost of Jason Rhoades, Art Ltd, July
Menzies, Michelle, Black Is, Black Aint, Flash Art, July
Goldner, Liz, Opening Review: Disorderly Conduct, Artillery, May/June
Vikram, Anuradha, The LA Annual, Artillery, May/June
Grabner, Michelle, Black Is, Black Aint, Time Out Chicago, May 22
Salsbury, Britany, Critics Picks: Black Is, Black Aint, ArtForum, May
Volk, Gregory, Spring In Dystopia, Art In America, May
Schjeldahl, Peter, Lessness: The Whitney Biennial, New Yorker, March 17
Cohn, Marilyn, The Big Apple: Whitney Biennial, For Your Art, March 13
Schuker, Lauren A.E., The Fine Art of Less, The Wall Street Journal, March 7
Holland Cotter, Arts Economic Indicator, The New York Time, March 7
Cohen, David, Whitney Biennial Has Adopted A Boho Vibe, The New York Sun, March 5
Mizota, Sharon, World in Upheaval, Los Angeles Times, February 10
Inselmann, Andrea, stop.look.listen: an exhibition of video works, exhibition catalogue; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Thompson, Nato, A Guide to Democracy in America, exhibition catalogue; Creative Time, New York, NY
2007
Vogel, Carol, Whitney Biennial Stretches to Armory, New York Times, November 16
Artists Announced for 2008 Whitney Biennial, Artforum.com, November 16 Continuing and Recommended, Art Scene, September
Myers, Holly, Social issues leave imprint in Touched, Los Angeles Times, August 22
Finkel, Jori, A Reluctant Fraternity, Thinking Post-Black, New York Times, June 10
Brancusi Report: Last Days in LA, artslant.com, March
Firstenberg, Lauri, Rodney McMillian: Los Angeles, Art Papers, January/February
Ellis, Patricia, Catching up with Charles (Saatchi), FlashArt, January/Februrary
2nd Moscow Biennale, FlashArt Online News, January/February
Kim, Christine Y, Philosophy of Time Travel, exhibition catalogue; The Studio Museum in Harlem, NY
Molok, Nikolai, and Rodney McMillian, Footnotes on Geopolitics, Market, and Amnesia: 2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, exhibition catalogue; ArtChronika and Moscow Biennale Art Foundation, Moscow, Russia
Sholis, Brian, Rodney McMillian, exhibition catalogue from An Atlas of Events; Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, London, UK
2006
Fair Report: Art Basel Miami Beach & Satellite Fairs, artinfo, December 15
Smith, Roberta, More Than You Can See: Storm of Art Engulfs Miami, New York Times, December 9
Searle, Adrian, Rebels without a cause, The Guardian, December 9
The AI Eye (Miami): Editors Picks of Art for Sale, artinfo, December 8
Nys Dambrot, Shana, Rodney McMillian: Odes, ArtReview, December
Lawson, Thomas, Best of 2006, Artforum, December
Morgan, Jessica, Best of 2006, Artforum, December
Nys Dambrot, Shana, Rodney McMillian: Odes, Lifescapes Magazine, November
Knight, Christopher, Falling short of a Great Society, Los Angeles Times, October 6
Krasny, Marcin, Czarno na białym (Black on White), Obieg Magazine, Poland, October 6
Brooks, Amra, Must See Art: Rodney McMillian, LA Weekly, October 5
Bedford, Christopher, Rodney McMillian, Artforum.com, October 5
CG, Rodney McMillian: Odes, Artkrush, October 4
Muchnic, Suzanne, The Art Explosion, Los Angeles Times, October 1
Kenning, Dean, Uncertain States of America, Art Monthly, October
Kent, Sarah, States of the Art, Time Out, September 20
Berardini, Andrew, Scene & Herd: On the Road, artforum.com, September 15
Glover, Michael, An Orgy of Appropriation, The Independent, September 13
Abbe, Mary, Ordinary becomes extraordinary, Star Tribune Minneapolis, August 17
Smith, Roberta, Endgame Art? Its Borrow, Sample and Multiply in an Exhibition at Bard College, NYTimes, July 7
Art in LA: Then & Now, Artkrush, May 31
Hip New Buyers Boost Sales at Armory Show, Artnews, March 28
Landi, Ann, Multiple Personalities, ARTnews, April
Harvey, Doug, Glossolalia for Dummies, LA Weekly, February 22
Knight, Christopher, "Painting Can Speak In Many Tongues", The Los Angeles Times, February 3
Campagnola, Sofia, Focus Los Angeles, Flash Art, January/February
Kastner, Jeffrey, Frequency, Artforum, January
Frequency, Color Image: The Studio Museum in Harlem Magazine, Collectors Issue, Fall/winter
Brewińska, Maria, Black Alphabet: conTEXTS of Contemporary African American Art, exhibition catalogue; Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
Chong, Doryun, Ordinary Culture, exhibition catalogue; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Darling, Michael, and Wolfram, Heubach, Friedrich, Painting in Tongues, exhibition catalogue, pg. 66-77; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Horowitz, Noah and Sholis, Brian, The Uncertain States of America Reader, Serpentine Gallery, London
2005
Chang, Aimee, Rodney McMillian, Exhibition Catalogue, Frequency, The Studio Museum in Harlem, p.58-59
Cotter, Holland, Happenstance, New York Times, December 30
Boston, Nicolas, Give Them the Chair, The New York Observer, December 5
Smith, Roberta, Where Issues of Black Identity Meet the Concerns of Every Artist, New York Times, November 18
Zox, Rogue Wave at LA Louver Gallery, art/design, July 11
Pagel, David, Summer sampler has a dark side, Los Angeles Times, July 8
Lasarow, Bill, Rogue Wave, Art Scene, July
Forgacs, Eva, Thing, artUS, July
Firstenberg, Lauri, Thing, Frieze, June
Frank, Peter,The Dish: Art, Angeleno, May
Almela, Ramon, Sculpture in Los Angeles. Truth, Reality, and Objects,
[email protected], May 15
Mack, Joshua, Sculpture from Los Angeles, Modern Painters, April
Mack, Joshua, Thing: New Sculpture from Los Angeles, Modern Painters, April
Chang, Richard, Maybe the Next Big Thing, The Orange County Register, March 6
Arriola, Magali, Thing, March
Ned Holte, Michael, "West Coast Thing", Artforum.com, February 10
Knight, Christopher, "The next big 'Thing' in L.A.", Los Angeles Times, February 9
Cotter, Holland, "Rodney McMillian at Triple Candie", New York Times, January 21
Tumlir, Jan, "THING: New Sculpture from Los Angeles", Artforum, January
Golden, Thelma, "A Beautiful Thing", exhibition catalogue; The Studio Museum Harlem, NY
Birnbaum, Daniel, Kvaran, Gunnar, Obrist, Ulrich, Uncertain States of America: American Art in the Third Millennium, exhibition catalogue; Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway
Chang, Aimee, "Thing: New Sculpture from Los Angeles - Rodney McMillian", exhibition catalogue; Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
2004
Myers, Holly, "Disposable Society", Los Angeles Times, October 13
Friedrich, Christine, "White Noise at RedCat", downtownartnews, October 13
Kim, Clara, "White Noise", Exhibition Brochure, RedCat, September
Myers, Julian, "Edgar Arceneaux - Rodney McMillian at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects", Frieze, May
Davis, Phillip, "What we saw at ArtBasel Miami Beach", Dwell Magazine, April
Worthington, Peter, " Eye of the beholder - you gotta see what some people call 'art'", Toronto Sunday Sun, March 14
Knight, Christopher, "A chronicle of race, rage, ritual", Los Angeles Times, February 17
Harvey, Doug, "Color Theory - Fade to black", LA Weekly, February 13
Barry, Dave, "Call me clueless, but I'm working toward my artistic license", Miami Herald; re-published in: International Herald Tribune Paris; Detroit Free Press; and Houston Chronicle, January 17
Adamski, Stephan, Kunstforum, January
2003
Kunde, Harald, "aufgeschraubt und abgestaubt", Ludwig Forum fuer Internationale
Kunst, Aachen, exhibition text Scarborough, James, artcritical.com, June 17