# Rodney McMillian URL: https://vielmetter.com/artists/rodney-mcmillian/ Represented by Vielmetter Los Angeles Rodney McMillian addresses intersections of power, race, class, and culture in paintings, sculptures, installations, and video. Reflecting the conviction that history is always present, McMillian explores the impacts of historical events on policy, the effects of politics on the body, and the experience of class and race in contemporary U.S. society. He uses political texts and found, often domestic, materials such as house paint, cast-off furniture, and thrifted bedsheets, among others, to create works that address political urgencies. He has recently focused on landscape paintings where the bedding becomes a conceptual placeholder for absent bodies. As such, McMillian reviews the history of landscape painting and suggests a direct relationship between the landscape and the body—a relationship ripe with historical and political connections. Rodney McMillian was born in 1969 in Columbia, South Carolina, and lives and works in Los Angeles, California. He received an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts in 2002. McMillian’s exhibition, A *Son of the Soil,*at the Columbia Museum of Art in South Carolina, was on view through June 2026, curated by Michael Neumeister. In 2025, McMillian’s work was the subject of a solo exhibition, *neighbors,* at the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle. In 2024, McMillian had a survey exhibition *The Land: Not Without a Politic,* at the Marta Herford, in Herford, Germany. McMillian was included in the 2022 Whitney Biennial, *Quiet as It’s Kept*, curated by David Breslin and Adrienne Edwards; the 2021 *Prospect.5 New Orleans: Yesterday You Said Tomorrow*, curated by Naima Keith and Diana Nawi; and he was included in the 2008 Whitney Biennale, which was curated by Henriette Huldisch and Shamim Momin. Other notable solo exhibitions include the 2020 solo exhibition, *Historically Hostile,* at the Blaffer Museum in Houston, Texas, and the 2019 solo exhibitions at the Underground Museum in Los Angeles, *Brown: videos at the Black Show,*and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, *New Work: Rodney McMillian*. In 2026 McMillian was named a MacArthur Fellow and recipient of the ‘Genius’ Grant. McMillian was awarded the Contemporary Austin’s first Suzanne Deal Booth Art Prize in 2016, and the resulting solo exhibition *Against a Civic Death* at the Austin Contemporary was on view in 2018. In 2016, his works were featured in solo exhibitions at the ICA Philadelphia, the Studio Museum in Harlem, and MoMA PS.1. Each of these exhibitions highlighted a particular set of material and conceptual concerns in McMillian’s multivalent practice. The MoMA PS.1 exhibition, *Landscape Paintings*originated at the Aspen Art Museum, Colorado in 2015 and was curated by Heidi Zuckerman. McMillian’s work was also featured in the 2015 Sharjah Biennial, curated by Eungie Joo. Group exhibitions include The National Portrait Gallery, London, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA; the CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco, CA; the Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway; The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; The Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; the Contemporary Art Museum Houston; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art among many others. McMillian’s work is included in the collections of the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Modern Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; Staedtisches Museum Abteiberg, Moenchengladbach, Germany; and The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York. Rodney McMillian is represented by Vielmetter Los Angeles and Petzel, New York and Capitain Petzel, Berlin. ## Exhibitions - [Rodney McMillian inHard Art](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/rodney-mcmillian-hard-art-momaps1.md): November 5, 2026 — January 1, 2027 · MoMA PS1 · Artists: Rodney McMillian - [Ongoingness](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/ongoingness.md): July 25 — September 5, 2026 · Gallery III · Artists: Edgar Arceneaux, Andrea Bowers, Alec Egan, Nicole Eisenman, Liz Glynn, Karl Haendel, Samuel Levi Jones, Mario Joyce, Mary Kelly, Nate Lewis, Hugo McCloud, Rodney McMillian, Dave Muller, Wangechi Mutu, The Estate of Pope.L, Robert Pruitt, Deborah Roberts, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Ariane Vielmetter - [Edgar ArceneauxRodney McMillianPaul Mpagi Sepuya in Space is the Place: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/edgar-arceneauxrodney-mcmillianpaul-mpagi-sepuya-in-space-is-the-place-selections-from-the-hammer-contemporary-collection.md): April 5 — September 6, 2026 · The Hammer Museum · Artists: Edgar Arceneaux, Rodney McMillian, Paul Mpagi Sepuya - [Andrea Bowers Karl Haendel Hugo McCloud Rodney McMillianWangechi Mutu inInto the Time Horizon](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/into-the-time-horizon.md): March 28 — September 26, 2026 · The Nevada Museum of Art · Artists: Andrea Bowers, Karl Haendel, Hugo McCloud, Rodney McMillian, Wangechi Mutu - [Rodney McMillianA Son of the Soil](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/rodney-mcmillian-columbia-museum.md): March 21 — June 28, 2026 · The Columbia Museum of Art · Artists: Rodney McMillian - [Rodney McMillian: Some lives in the sunshine](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/rodney-mcmillian-2026.md): January 10 — February 28, 2026 · Gallery I · Artists: Rodney McMillian - [Rodney McMillianneighbors](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/rodney-mcmillian-neighbors.md): October 4, 2025 — May 24, 2026 · Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA · Artists: Rodney McMillian - [Rodney McMillian inDark Forest Theory](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/rodney-mcmillian-dft.md): September 24 — December 7, 2025 · Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT · Artists: Rodney McMillian - [November Viewing RoomNicole Eisenman, Edgar Arceneaux, April Bey, Kim Dingle, Karl Haendel, Rodney McMillian](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/november-viewing-room-2024.md): November 9 — December 14, 2024 · Greenhouse · Artists: Nicole Eisenman, Edgar Arceneaux, April Bey, Kim Dingle, Karl Haendel, Rodney McMillian - [Hugo McCloudRodney McMillian inThe Poetics of Dimensions](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/hugo-mccloudrodney-mcmillian-inthe-poetics-of-dimensions.md): October 25, 2024 — February 23, 2025 · Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco (ICA SF) · Artists: Hugo McCloud, Rodney McMillian - [Rodney McMillianThe Land: Not Without a Politic](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/rodney-mcmillian-the-land-not-without-a-politic.md): March 16 — June 16, 2024 · Marta Herford Museum · Artists: Rodney McMillian - [Rodney McMillian: Landscape in Red](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/rodney-mcmillian-landscape-in-red.md): September 2 — October 21, 2023 · Gallery I · Artists: Rodney McMillian - [Edgar Arceneaux Rodney McMillian inThe Collection](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/edgar-arceneaux-less-than-br-greater-than-rodney-mcmillian-less-than-br-greater-than-less-than-i-greater-than-the-collection-less-than-i-greater-than.md): April 23 — October 29, 2023 · haubrok foundation / FAHRBEREITSCHAFT · Artists: Rodney McMillian, Edgar Arceneaux - [It’s Time: Kwame Brathwaite, Kwesi Botchway, Genevieve Gaignard, Rodney McMillian, Wangechi Mutu, Paul Mpagi Sepuya](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/group-exhibition-sepuya-gaignard-mcmillain-mutu.md): January 14 — February 25, 2023 · Gallery III · Artists: Kwesi Botchway, Genevieve Gaignard, Rodney McMillian, Wangechi Mutu, Paul Mpagi Sepuya - [Plants Now!](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/plants-now.md): July 16 — August 26, 2022 · Gallery II & Greenhouse · Artists: Edgar Arceneaux, Math Bass, Whitney Bedford, Sadie Benning, Ellen Berkenblit, Andrea Bowers, Kim Dingle, Genevieve Gaignard, Nash Glynn, Raffi Kalenderian, Hugo McCloud, Rodney McMillian, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Nicola Tyson, Tâm Văn Trần, Ariane Vielmetter, Shanna Waddell, Esther Pearl Watson, Mark Todd, Patrick Wilson, Bari Ziperstein - [Rodney McMillianDave McKenzie inWhitney Biennial 2022: Quiet as It’s Kept](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/whitney-biennial-2022-quiet-as-it-s-kept.md): April 6 — September 5, 2022 · Whitney Museum of American Art · Artists: Rodney McMillian, Dave McKenzie - [Church for Sale | with Edgar Arceneaux, Rodney McMillian and Ruben Ochoa](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/church-for-sale.md): November 28, 2021 — June 19, 2022 · Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin · Artists: Rodney McMillian, Edgar Arceneaux, Ruben Ochoa - [Rodney McMillian Deborah Roberts inThe Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/the-dirty-south-contemporary-art-material-culture-and-the-sonic-impulse-or-with-rodney-mcmillian-and-deborah-roberts.md): November 5, 2021 — February 6, 2022 · Contemporary Arts Museum Houston · Artists: Rodney McMillian, Deborah Roberts - [Laura Aguilar Dave McKenzieRodney McMillianWangechi MutuProspect.5 New Orleans: Yesterday you said tomorrow](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/prospect-5-or-with-laura-aguilar-rodney-mcmillian-wangechi-mutu-dave-mckenzie.md): October 23, 2021 — January 23, 2022 · The Hancock Whitney Welcome Center, New Orleans, LA · Artists: Laura Aguilar, Rodney McMillian, Wangechi Mutu, Dave McKenzie - [20 Years Anniversary Exhibition Part 2](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/20-years-anniversary-exhibition-part-2.md): June 26 — August 7, 2021 · Gallery I & II · Artists: Nick Aguayo, Edgar Arceneaux, Sadie Benning, Ellen Berkenblit, Andrea Bowers, Kim Dingle, Sean Duffy, Nicole Eisenman, Louise Fishman, Charles Gaines, Karl Haendel, Samuel Levi Jones, My Barbarian, Rodney McMillian, Mary Reid Kelley & Patrick Kelley, Elizabeth Neel, Yunhee Min, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Hugo McCloud, Dave McKenzie, Nicola Tyson - [Our House: Selections from MOCA’s Collection | with Rodney McMillian](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/our-house-selections-from-moca-s-collection.md): June 3, 2021 — January 31, 2022 · The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles · Artists: Rodney McMillian - [Rodney McMillian Deborah Roberts inThe Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/the-dirty-south-contemporary-art-material-culture-and-the-sonic-impulse.md): May 22 — September 6, 2021 · Virginia Museum of Fine Arts · Artists: Rodney McMillian, Deborah Roberts - [Rodney McMillian: Body Politic](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/rodney-mcmillian.md): September 26 — December 5, 2020 · Gallery I · Artists: Rodney McMillian - [20 Years Anniversary Exhibition Part 1](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/20-year-anniversary-exhibition.md): July 18 — August 29, 2020 · Gallery I · Artists: Edgar Arceneaux, Math Bass, Whitney Bedford, Andrea Bowers, Kim Dingle, Sean Duffy, Nicole Eisenman, Genevieve Gaignard, Liz Glynn, Karl Haendel, Raffi Kalenderian, Ruben Ochoa, Stanya Kahn, Hayv Kahraman, Mary Kelly, Shana Lutker, Dave McKenzie, Rodney McMillian, Wangechi Mutu, Esther Pearl Watson, The Estate of Pope.L, Deborah Roberts, The Estate of Steve Roden, Stefanie Schneider, Amy Sillman, Arlene Shechet, John Sonsini, Monique van Genderen, Tâm Văn Trần, Patrick Wilson - [Rodney McMillian: Brown: videos from The Black Show](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/brown-videos-from-the-black-show.md): October 5, 2019 — February 16, 2020 · Underground Museum · Artists: Rodney McMillian - [Sculpture](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/sculpture.md): June 1 — August 3, 2019 · Gallery III · Artists: Edgar Arceneaux, Nicole Eisenman, Liz Glynn, Mary Kelly, Hugo McCloud, Rodney McMillian, Wangechi Mutu, Ruben Ochoa - [Sadie BenningNicole EisenmanPope.LPaul Mpagi SepuyaRodney McMillian inThe Foundation of the Museum: MOCA’s Collection](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/the-foundation-of-the-museum-mocas-collection.md): May 19, 2019 — January 27, 2020 · Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles · Artists: Sadie Benning, Nicole Eisenman, The Estate of Pope.L, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Rodney McMillian - [Inaugural Exhibition](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/inaugural-exhibition.md): February 16 — March 23, 2019 · Artists: Nicola Tyson, Nicole Eisenman, Rodney McMillian, Sean Duffy, The Estate of Pope.L, Karl Haendel, Andrea Bowers, Edgar Arceneaux, Stanya Kahn, Sadie Benning, Mary Kelly, Wangechi Mutu, Charles Gaines - [New Work: Rodney McMillian](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/new-work-rodney-mcmillian.md): February 9 — June 9, 2019 · San Francisco Museum of Modern Art · Artists: Rodney McMillian - [Rodney McMillian: Against a Civic Death](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2018-02-rodney-mcmillian-against-a-civic-death.md): February 1 — August 26, 2018 · The Contemporary Austin · Artists: Rodney McMillian - [Rodney McMillian: Chisholm’s reverb](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2016-09-rodney-mcmillian-chisholm-s-reverb.md): September 10 — October 22, 2016 · Artists: Rodney McMillian - [Rodney McMillian: Views of Main Street](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2016-03-rodney-mcmillian-views-of-main-street.md): March 24 — June 26, 2016 · Studio Museum Harlem, New York, NY · Artists: Rodney McMillian - [Rodney McMillian: The Black Show](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2016-02-rodney-mcmillian-the-black-show.md): February 18 — August 15, 2016 · ICA Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA · Artists: Rodney McMillian - [Rodney McMillian: Room to Live: Recent Acquisitions and Works from the Collection](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2013-10-rodney-mcmillian-room-to-live-recent-acquisitions-and-works-from-the-collection.md): October 5, 2013 — January 13, 2014 · Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) LA, Los Angeles, CA · Artists: Rodney McMillian - [Rodney McMillian: Homebodies](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2013-06-rodney-mcmillian-homebodies.md): June 29 — October 13, 2013 · Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago, Chicago, IL · Artists: Rodney McMillian - [Rodney McMillian: Against a ‘Civic Death’: an overture](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2013-01-rodney-mcmillian-against-a-civic-death-an-overture.md): January 12 — February 23, 2013 · Artists: Rodney McMillian - [Rodney McMillian: Blues for Smoke](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2012-10-rodney-mcmillian-blues-for-smoke.md): October 21, 2012 — December 29, 2013 · Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) LA, Los Angeles, CA; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH · Artists: Rodney McMillian - [Rodney McMillian: Agitated Histories](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2011-10-rodney-mcmillian-agitated-histories.md): October 22, 2011 — January 15, 2012 · SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM · Artists: Rodney McMillian - [Rodney McMillian: Round 33, 2507 Holman](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2010-10-rodney-mcmillian-round-33-2507-holman.md): October 9, 2010 — February 27, 2011 · Project Row Houses, Houston, TX · Artists: Rodney McMillian - [Summer Group Show](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2010-08-edgar-arceneaux-whitney-bedford-andrea-bowers-summer-group-show.md): August 7 — 30, 2010 · Artists: Edgar Arceneaux, Whitney Bedford, Andrea Bowers, Jane Callister, Sean Duffy, Nicole Eisenman, Charles Gaines, Karl Haendel, Jutta Koether, Alice Könitz, Shana Lutker, Rodney McMillian, Martin McMurray, Wangechi Mutu, Elizabeth Neel, Ruben Ochoa, Amy Sillman, Joel Tauber, Tâm Văn Trần - [Rodney McMillian: Succulent](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2010-01-rodney-mcmillian-succulent.md): January 23 — March 6, 2010 · Artists: Rodney McMillian - [Rodney McMillian: Momentum 14: Rodney McMillian](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2009-07-rodney-mcmillian-momentum-14-rodney-mcmillian.md): July 29 — November 1, 2009 · Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)/ Boston, Boston, MA · Artists: Rodney McMillian - [Rodney McMillian](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2008-10-rodney-mcmillian-rodney-mcmillian.md): October 30 — December 20, 2008 · The Kitchen, New York, NY · Artists: Rodney McMillian - [Rodney McMillian: 2008 California Biennial](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2008-10-rodney-mcmillian-2008-california-biennial.md): October 26, 2008 — March 15, 2009 · Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA · Artists: Rodney McMillian - [Rodney McMillian](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2008-03-rodney-mcmillian-rodney-mcmillian.md): March 13 — May 11, 2008 · ArtPace, San Antonio, TX · Artists: Rodney McMillian - [Whitney Biennial 2008](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2008-03-rodney-mcmillian-whitney-biennial-2008.md): March 6 — June 1, 2008 · Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY · Artists: Rodney McMillian - [Rodney McMillian / Jutta Koether](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2007-09-jutta-koether-rodney-mcmillian-rodney-mcmillian-jutta-koether.md): September 7 — October 20, 2007 · Berlin · Artists: Jutta Koether, Rodney McMillian - [Rodney McMillian: Odes](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2006-09-rodney-mcmillian-odes.md): September 9 — October 14, 2006 · Artists: Rodney McMillian - [Edgar Arceneaux & Rodney McMillian: The Michael Jackson Project](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2004-01-edgar-arceneaux-rodney-mcmillian-the-michael-jackson-project.md): January 10 — February 14, 2004 · Artists: Edgar Arceneaux, Rodney McMillian - [Rodney McMillian: Untitled (ellipses) II](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2003-05-rodney-mcmillian-untitled-ellipses-ii.md): May 31 — June 28, 2003 · Artists: Rodney McMillian ## Biography 1969 Born in Columbia, South Carolina Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA 2002 MFA, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA 2000 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL Post-Baccalaureate Certificate, Presidential Scholar 1998 BFA Program, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL 1991 BA Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA **Selected Solo Exhibitions** 2026 "In Other Realms," Capitain Petzel, Berlin, Germany "A Son of the Soil," Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC "Some lives in the sunshine," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 2025 "neighbors," Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA 2024 "The Land: Not Without a Politic," Marta Herford Museum for Art, Architecture and Design, Herford, Germany 2023 "Landscape in Red," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 2022-2023 "Regarding Violence," Petzel Gallery, New York, NY ([Link](https://www.petzel.com/exhibitions/rodney-mcmillian2)) 2020 “Body Politic,” Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA “Historically Hostile,” Blaffer Museum of Art, Houston, TX "Recirculating Goods," Petzel Gallery, New York, NY 2019 “Rodney McMillian: Videos from The Black Show,” Underground Museum, Los Angeles, CA "New Work: Rodney McMillian," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA 2018 "Against a Civic Death," The Contemporary Austin, Austin, TX ([Link](https://www.thecontemporaryaustin.org/exhibitions/rodney-mcmillian/)) 2017 “Rodney McMillian: a great society,” Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL ([Link](http://www.artic.edu/exhibition/rodney-mcmillian-great-society)) 2016 "Chisholm’s reverb," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA "Views of Main Street," Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY ([Link](http://www.studiomuseum.org/exhibition/rodney-mcmillian-views-main-street)) "New Media Series: Rodney McMillian," St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO “The Black Show,” Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA ([Link](http://icaphila.org/exhibitions/7720/rodney-mcmillian-the-black-show)) 2015 "Landscape Paintings," Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO; traveling to MoMA PS1, New York, NY ([Link](http://momaps1.org/exhibitions/view/406)) 2013 "Against a Civic Death: an overture", Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA 2012 "Prospect Ave.", Maccarone Gallery, New York, NY 2010 "Succulent," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA; Inaugural Exhibition 2009 "Sentimental Disappointment, Momentum 14: Rodney McMillian," Project series, The Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Boston, MA "rodney mcmillian," haubrok foundation, Berlin, Germany 2008 "International Artist-in-Residence New Works 08.1," Artpace, San Antonio, TX; curated by Franklin Sirmans The Kitchen, New York, NY; curated by Rashida Bumbray 2007 "Jutta Koether / Rodney McMillian," Susanne Vielmetter Berlin Projects, Berlin, Germany Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, NAK, Aachen, Germany Adamski Galerie, Aachen, Germany 2006 "Odes," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA ArtNova solo presentation, Art Basel Miami Beach, with Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects 2005 "Untitled (ellipses) III," Triple Candie, New York, NY "Rodney McMillian: Untitled," Galleria Estro, Padua, Italy 2004 "on comfort," Gallery Adamski, Aachen, Germany 2003 "Untitled (ellipses) II," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA 2002 "Untitled," Finesilver Gallery, San Antonio, TX "Untitled (...on love)," Gallery A-402, Valencia, CA **Selected Group Exhibitions** 2026 "Hard Art," MoMA PS1, New York, NY "Ongoingness," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA "California Light and Space (The 21st Century Version),” David Zwirner, Los Angeles, CA "Space is the Place: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection," Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA "Into the Time Horizon," Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV "Material Witness," Rubell Museum DC, Washington DC 2025 "Master Class: Inside the Last American Museum School with SAIC Painting Alumni," Secrist Beach, Chicago, IL 2024 "RETROaction," Curated by Kate Fowle in collaboration with Homi K Bhabha, Charles Gaines, and Ellen Tani, Hauser and Wirth, Los Angeles, CA 2023-2024 "de montañas submarinas el fuego hace islas," KADIST, San Francisco, CA "The 14th Shanghai Biennale: Cosmos Cinema," Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China 2023 "Affective Resistance," University of Irvine, Irvine, CA "Customs Cars Cultures," UncleBrother, Hancock, NY "The Collection," Haubrok Foundation, Fahrbereitschaft, Berlin, Germany "Together in Time: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection," Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA "Re-Materialized: The Stuff that Matters," kaufmann repetto, New York, NY "Old Wounds, Dark Dreams," Art Galleries at Black Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX "13 Women: Variation II," Curated by Heidi Zuckerman, Orange County Museum of Art, Santa Ana, CA "It's Time," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 2022 "Black Sounds Project," Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO "Plants Now!" Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA "2022 Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts," American Academy of Art and Letters, New York City, NY "Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet as It’s Kept," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY "Dustress Tolerance," Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY "The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse," Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA "Nocturnal," Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA 2021-2022 "Prospect.5: Yesterday we said tomorrow," The Hancock Whitney Welcome Center, New Orleans, LA "The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse," Contemporary Art Museum Houston, Houston, TX 2021 "Time-Slip," Petzel Gallery, New York, NY “I don’t know you like that: The Bodywork of Hospitality,” Bemis Center, Omaha, NE "Church for Sale," The Haubrok Collection and the National Gallery Collection, Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany "Yesterday we said tomorrow," Prospect.5, New Orleans, LA ([Link](https://www.prospectneworleans.org/)) "AB.7: Eclipse," Athens Biennial, Athens, Greece ([Link](https://athensbiennale.org/en/)) "Altered States," Rebecca Camacho Presents, San Francisco, CA “Pushing the Margins: A Survey of LA Artists," curated by Charles Gaines, Galleri Opdahl, Stavanger, Norway ([Link](https://www.galleriopdahl.no/exhibition/pushing-the-margins-a-survey-of-la-artists)) "Hiding in Plain Sight," Pace Gallery, New York, NY ([Link](https://www.pacegallery.com/exhibitions/hiding-in-plain-sight/)) "Our House: Selections from MoCA’s Collection," Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA), Los Angeles, CA "20 Years Anniversary," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA "Not I: Throwing Voices (1500 BCE - 2020CE)," curated José Luís Blondet, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA 2020 “Post Performance Video, prospective 1: Los Angeles,” Carré d’art, Nîmes, France “States of Mind: Art and American Democracy,” Moody Center for the Arts, RICE University, Houston, TX "Mojo Rising," CalState LA Ronald Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA "20 Years Anniversary," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 2019 "New Order: Art and Technology in the Twenty-First Century," Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY "Parts of Speech," MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL ([Link](http://publicfiction.org)) "Dirty Protest: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection," Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA "Inaugural Exhibition," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 2018 "West by Midwest," MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL "Say It Loud," 22 London, Asheville, NC ''One Day at a Time: Manny Farber and Termite Art," Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA), Los Angeles, CA "Welcome to the Dollhouse," Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA), Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA ([Link](https://www.moca.org/exhibition/welcome-to-the-dollhouse)) “Bounty,” Grice Bench, Los Angeles, CA "Painting Now and Forever Part III," Greene Naftali Gallery and Matthew Marks, New York, NY ([Link](http://www.greenenaftaligallery.com/exhibitions/painting-now-and-forever-part-ii)) 2018-2020 “Michael Jackson: On the Wall,” National Portrait Gallery, London, UK; travelled to: Grand Palais, Paris, France; Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany; Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Finland 2017 “Never Free to Rest,” kurimanzutto, Mexico City, Mexico “Pivotal: Highlights from the Collection,” Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA “Looking at the Overlooked,” curated by Sally Frater, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS “Living Apart Together: Recent Acquisitions from the Hammer Contemporary Collection,” Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA ([Link](https://hammer.ucla.edu/exhibitions/2017/living-apart-together-recent-acquisitions/)) “Midtown,” Lever House, New York, NY “In the Abstract,” MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA ([Link](http://massmoca.org/event/in-the-abstract/)) “Black Light,” CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco, CA; travelling to Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL “Regarding the Figure,” Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY 2016 “Making & Unmaking,” curated by Duro Olowu, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK “Los Angeles – A Fiction,” Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway, travelling to Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, France ([Link](http://afmuseet.no/en/utstillinger/2016/los-angeles--a-fiction)) “After Pop Life,” curated by Glen Helfand, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA “Frozen World of the Familiar Stranger,” KADIST, San Francisco, CA “L.A. Exuberance: New Gifts by Artists,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA 2015 "Sharjah Biennial 12: The past, the present, the possible, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates "Misappropriations: Recent Acquisitions," curated by Dan Cameron, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA "Reproduction, Reproduction," California Museum of Photography, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA 2014 "When the Stars Begin to Fall," The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY; traveling to the NSU Museum of Art, Ft. Lauderdale, FL; and the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)/ Boston, Boston, MA "Ruffneck Constructivists," curated by Kara Walker, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA "Outside the Lines: Black in the Abstract, Part 2," Contemporary Art Museum Houston, Houston, TX 2013 "Room to Live: Recent Acquisitions and Works from the Collection," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, Organized by Bennett Simpson "bald eagle," haubrok foundation, Berlin, Germany ([Link](http://www.contemporaryartdaily.com/2013/11/bald-eagle-at-sammlung-haubrok-2/)) "Homebodies," MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL "Selections from the Grunwald Center and the Hammer Contemporary Collection", UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA "Selections from the Permanent Collection," organized by Bennett Simpson, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles "no desaster: sammlung haubrok bei falckenberg," Phoenix-Hallen, Harburg, Germany "The Black Mirror," Diane Rosenstein Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA 2012 "Blues for Smoke," The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH "my.LA," haubrok foundation, Berlin, Germany 2011 "VideoStudio," The Studio Museum, Harlem, NY "The Bearden Project," The Studio Museum, Harlem, NY "Human Nature," Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA "Seven Los Angeles Artists," Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA "shapes," haubrok foundation, Berlin, Germany "Agitated Histories," Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD; SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM 2010 "Summer Group Show," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA Edgar Arceneaux, Andrea Bowers, Olga Koumoundouros, Rodney McMillian, Charles Gaines, Nery Gabriel Lemus, Project Row Houses, Houston, TX "The Artists Museum: Los Angeles Artists 1980-2010," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA "About Us (Summer Group Show)," Johann Koenig, Berlin, Germany "New Art for a New Century: Contemporary Acquisitions 00-10," Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA 2009 "The Moving Image: Scan to Screen, Pixel to Projection II," Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA "MONITAUR", Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO "Out of School," City of Brea Art Gallery, Brea, CA 2008 "30 Americans," Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL. Traveling to: North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA; Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI; Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN "it's about sculpture," haubrok foundation, Berlin, Germany "California Biennial 2008," Orange County Museum of Art, CA; curated by Lauri Firstenberg "Index: Conceptualism in California from the Permanent Collection," The Geffen Contemporary at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, CA "Whitney Biennial 2008," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY "BLACK IS, BLACK AINT," The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, MI; H&R Block Artspace at the Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO; Temple Gallery At the Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA "Mannerfantasien II," Centre for Opinions in Music and Art, Berlin, Germany; curated by Ellen Blumenstein "Disorderly Conduct: Recent Art in Tumultuous Times," Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA; curated by Karen Moss 2007 "An Atlas of Events," Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal; curated by Antnio Pinto Ribeiro, Debra Singer, and Esra Sarigedik "Touched: Artists and Social Engagement," Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA "Philosophy of Time Travel," Studio Museum in Harlem, NY; collaboration with Edgar Arceneaux, Vincent Johnson, Matthew Sloly, Olga Koumoundouros "Hammer Contemporary Collection," UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA "stop.look.listen: an exhibition of video works," Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI; Orlando Museum, Orlando, FL; curated by Andrea Inselmann "Rodney McMillian and Olga Koumoundouros: On A Porch," LAXART, Los Angeles, CA "USA: American Video Art at the Beginning of the 3rd Millennium," 2nd Moscow Biennale, Moscow, Russia; curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Daniel Birnbaum, and Gunnar Kvaran "Silicone Valley, PS1," Long Island City, NY; curated by Nick Stillman 2006 "USA Today," The Royal Academy of Art, London, UK "Black Alphabet: conTEXTS of Contemporary African American Art," Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland; curated by Maria Brewińska "Ordinary Culture: Heikes/Helms/McMillian," Medtronic Gallery at Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; curated by Doryun Chong "Painting in Tongues," Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, CA; curated by Michael Darling "Everybody Dance Now," EFA Gallery, New York, NY; curated by Kathleen Goncharov "ARCO," Project Booth selected by Christopher Miles; presented by Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Madrid, Spain 2005-2008 "Uncertain States of America," Astrup Fearnley Museum of Art, Oslo, Norway; Bard Museum Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY; Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland; Herning Kunstmuseum, Copenhagen, Denmark; Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland; Le Muse de Srignan, Srignan, France; Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic; curated by Daniel Birnbaum, Hans Ulrich Obrist, and Gunnar Kvaran 2005 "Happenstance," Harris Lieberman Gallery, New York, NY; curated by Lauri Firstenberg "Menschensgladbach - Neue Ankufe und Leihgaben", Stdtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany "Rouge Wave," LA Louver, Venice, CA "Thing - New Sculpture from Los Angeles," UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA "Frequency," Studio Museum in Harlem, Harlem, NY 2004 "White Noise," REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA; curated by Clara Kim "Central Station," the collection of Harald Falckenberg, La Maison Rouge / Foundation Antoine de Galbert, Paris "Currents: African American Video Art Today," Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN "Seeds and Roots: Selections from the Permanent Collection," The Studio Museum Harlem, Harlem, NY "New Balance Frontier," No Name Exhibitions @ The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN; curated by Aimee Chang "First Person," a Video Art Exhibition on DVD (with Carla Herrera-Prats and Anne-Julie Raccoursier), Sala de Arte Publico Siqueiros, Mexico City, Mexico; curated by Pilar Villela "Powering Up/Powering Down," a Technica Radica Conference, University of California, San Diego, CA "New," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA; collaboration with Edgar Arceneaux; inaugural exhibition "Now is a good time," Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY; curated by Dean Valentine "FADE - African American Artists in Los Angeles - A Survey Exhibition," Luckman Gallery and University Fine Arts Gallery, Cal State Los Angeles, CA; curated by Malik Gaines 2003 "Gibt's mich wirklich - Vier Raeume aus der Sammlung Schuermann," K21, Duesseldorf, Germany "aufgeschraubt & abgestaubt," Il Die Sammlung im Prozess der Neuprasentation, Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany "Veni Vidi Video," The Studio Museum Harlem, Harlem, NY; curated by Christine Kim "Urban Aesthetics," California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA; curated by Sandra Rowe 2002 "A Show That Will Show That A Show Is Not Only A Show," The Project, Los Angeles, CA; curated by Jens Hoffman "Messy Fingers," Track 16, Santa Monica, CA; curated by Charles Gaines and Martin Kersels "#9," 5301 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA; with Olga Koumoundouros **Guest Lectures** 2025 In Conversation: Rodney McMillian + Anthony Elms, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA ([Link](https://henryart.org/programs/in-conversation-rodney-mcmillian-anthony-elms)) 2024 2024 Summer Series Speaker Program with Charles Gaines, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO 2023 Rodney McMillian in Conversation with Jacob Mason-Macklin, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Harlem, NY 2022 "Artists on Cezanne: Julia Fish and Rodney McMillian," The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL 2020 "States of Mind: Art and American Democracy," Mood Center for the Arts, Houston, TX 2019 Rodney McMillian on home and history, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA 2010 Artist lecture, Performance in collaboration with Tracie D. Morris and Chicava HoneyChild, and Discussion, A Proposition by Rodney McMillian: 13 Unrelated Ideas, The New Museum, New York, NY 2009 Rodney McMillian and Caroline Bergvall, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA **Bibliography** 2026 Tidmarsh, Kevin and Julia Paskin. 'It was very surreal': LA artist named a MacArthur 'genius'," LAist, October 9 ([Link](https://laist.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/la-artist-named-a-macarthur-genius-fellow-rodney-mcmillian-ucla)) Mack, Kristin. "Four Black Scholars With Academic Ties Named MacArthur Fellows," The Journal of Blacks for Higher Education, October 5 ([Link](https://jbhe.com/2026/10/four-black-scholars-with-academic-ties-named-macarthur-fellows/)) UC Newsroom. "5 new UC ‘geniuses’ recognized for creativity that could change the world," University of California, October 1 ([Link](https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/5-new-uc-geniuses-recognized-creativity-could-change-world)) Sean Arenas and UCLA Newsroom. 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"UB Art Galleries’ latest exhibition explores the absurdities of the human body," The Spectrum, November 17 ([Link](https://www.ubspectrum.com/article/2022/11/ub-art-galleries-latest-exhibition-explores-the-absurdities-of-the-human-body#)) "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 ([Link](https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/10026/rodney-mcmillian-the-great-society)) Clayton, Jace. "Whitney Biennial 2022," Artforum, June ([Link](https://www.artforum.com/print/reviews/202206/jace-clayton-on-the-whitney-biennial-2022-88620)) Diehl, Travis. "‘The Bodywork of Hospitality’ Sees Communal Care as a Civic Obligation," Frieze Magazine, February 28 ([Link](https://www.frieze.com/article/bodywork-hospitality-bemis-center-contemporary-arts-2022-review)) Davis, Ben. 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"A New, Highly Eclectic Space for Arthouse Films in Los Angeles," Hyperallergic, April 19 ([Link](https://hyperallergic.com/495355/now-instant-image-hall-los-angeles/)) "The Twenty Five," Cultured, February/March Lorin, Guillaume. "BEAUX ARTS – In this Land de Rodney McMillian au SFMOMA," CHOQ, March 28 ([Link](https://choqfm.ca/chronique/beaux-arts-new-work-de-rodney-mcmillian-sfmoma/)) Ambramovich, Alex. "Termite Art and the Modern Museum," New Yorker, February 28 ([Link](https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/termite-art-and-the-modern-museum)) Volpicelli, Anna. "Winter Arts Preview: 16 Bay Area Exhibitions, Performances + Festivals," 7x7, January 8 ([Link](https://www.7x7.com/winter-arts-preview-bay-area-2624995533.html?rebelltitem=1#rebelltitem1)) 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 ([Link](http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-manny-farber-termite-moca-20181019-story.html)) Wouk Almino, Elisa. "Helen Molesworth’s Last MOCA Exhibition Is an Act of Love," Hyperallergic, November 13 ([Link](https://hyperallergic.com/471079/one-day-at-a-time-manny-farber-and-termite-art-helen-molesworth-moca-la/)) Rus, Mayer. "Designer Nell Alano Reimagines Philanthropist Eileen Harris Norton's Santa Monica Home," Architectural Digest, November 11 ([Link](https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/designer-nell-alano-reimagines-philanthropist-eileen-harris-nortons-santa-monica-home)) Smith, Roberta, "Painting: An (Incomplete) Survey of the State of the Art," New York Times (web), August 2 ([Link](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/02/arts/design/painting-now-and-forever-review-chelsea.html)) Raji, Michelle, "Artist Rodney McMillian Wants Viewers to Grapple with Race — and Register to Vote," Texas Observer (web), July 6 ([Link](https://www.texasobserver.org/artist-rodney-mcmillian-wants-viewers-to-grapple-with-race-and-register-to-vote/)) Eckart, Stephanie, "How Nearly 50 Artists' Attempted to Do the Impossible: Illustrate Michael Jackson's Enormous Influence and Legacy," W Magazine (web), July 8 ([Link](https://www.wmagazine.com/gallery/michael-jackson-on-the-wall-exhibition-artwork)) Raji, Michelle, "Artist Rodney McMillian Wants Viewers to Grapple with Race — and Register to Vote," Texas Observer (web), July 6 ([Link](https://www.texasobserver.org/artist-rodney-mcmillian-wants-viewers-to-grapple-with-race-and-register-to-vote/)) Jean, Melany, “'Rodney McMillian: Against a Civic Death’ at the Contemporary Austin,” The Austin Chronicle (web), March 16 ([Link](https://www.austinchronicle.com/arts/2018-03-16/rodney-mcmillian-against-a-civic-death-at-the-contemporary-austin/)) Bass, Shermakaye, “Exhibit at Contemporary explores the architecture and politics of race,” My Statesman (web), March 14 ([Link](https://www.mystatesman.com/entertainment/arts--theater/exhibit-contemporary-explores-the-architecture-and-politics-race/XQks7afwgaEH8dCATZ3lIN/)) Olsen, Ivy, "Antidotes for apathy: Rodney McMillian's Austin show is a 'call to action'," The Art Newspaper (web), February 20 ([Link](https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/antidote-for-apathy-rodney-mcmillian-s-austin-show-is-a-call-to-action)) Petrossiants, Andreas, "'I hear it everywhere I go' at Franklin Street Works," Brooklyn Rail (web), February 7 ([Link](https://brooklynrail.org/2018/02/artseen/Inside-and-Outside-Cady-Noland-and-the-Violence-of-the-Everyday)) Greenberger, Alex, "San Antonio Museum of Art Acquires Works by Kevin Beasley, Rodney McMillian, Martine Syms," ArtNews (web), January 25 ([Link](http://www.artnews.com/2018/01/25/san-antonio-museum-art-acquires-works-kevin-beasley-rodney-mcmillian-martine-syms/)) 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 ([Link](http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/miranda/la-et-cam-rodney-mcmillian-austin-20180110-story.html)) 2017 Maldonado, Devon Van Houten, “ ‘Never Free to Rest’ at kurimanzutto, Mexico City,” art agenda (web), November 27 ([Link](http://www.art-agenda.com/reviews/%E2%80%9Cnever-free-to-rest%E2%80%9D/)) Hunter, Becky Huff, “Waging an Artist’s War,” Sculpture, January / February (Cover and Feature) ([Link](http://www.sculpture.org/documents/scmag17/janfeb_17/janfeb17_features1.shtml)) Curtis, Frieda, “SLAM spotlight: Rodney McMillian’s ‘A Migration Tale’,” Student Life (web), February 20 ([Link](http://www.studlife.com/media/pdf/2016-2017/17-02-20.pdf)) 2016 Hine, Thomas, “Two shows at ICA: One head-scratcher, one sly use of space,” Philly.com (web), March 12 ([Link](http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/arts/20160313_Two_shows_at_ICA__One_head-scratcher__one_sly_use_of_space.html)) 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 ([Link](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/24/arts/design/transforming-discarded-items-into-art-addressing-race-in-america.html?_r=0)) Kaplan, Isaac, “If You Don’t Understand Conceptual Art, It’s Not Your Fault,” Artsy (web), March 31 ([Link](https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-if-you-don-t-understand-conceptual-art-it-s-not-your-fault)) Smith, William S., “Post-Consumer Report: A Conversation with Rodney McMillian,” Art in America (web), April 25 ([Link](http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-features/interviews/post-consumer-report-a-conversation-with-rodney-mcmillian/)) Harren, Natilee “Knight’s heritage: Karl Haendel and the Legacy of Appropiration, Episode 2, 2012,” Art Journal Open (web), April 22 ([Link](http://artjournal.collegeart.org/?p=7115)) 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 ([Link](http://www.culturedmag.com/rodney-mcmillian/)) 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 ([Link](http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cm-art-review-rodney-mcmillian-at-susanne-vielmetter-20130121,0,4419240.story)) 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, critic@rte, 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 **Awards, Grants and Fellowships** 2026 MacArthur Fellow and 'Genius' Grant Recipient 2016 Suzanne Deal Booth Art Prize, Contemporary Austin, TX 2008 United States Artists Broad Fellow 2008 Art Matters, Spring 2008 Grantee 2007 William H. Johnson Prize, winner 2005 William H. Johnson Prize, finalist 2000 Edward L. Ryerson Fellowship Recipient, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL **Public Collections** Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC Compound, Long Beach, CA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA Marta Herford, Herford, Germany Minneapolis Museum of Art, Minneapolis, MN Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA Rennie Museum, Vancouver, BC, Canada San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS