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

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)

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)

2017

“Rodney McMillian: a great society,” Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (Link)

2016

"Chisholm’s reverb," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA

"Views of Main Street," Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY (Link)

"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)

2015

"Landscape Paintings," Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO; traveling to MoMA PS1, New York, NY (Link)

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

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)

"AB.7: Eclipse," Athens Biennial, Athens, Greece (Link)

"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)

"Hiding in Plain Sight," Pace Gallery, New York, NY (Link)

"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)

"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)

“Bounty,” Grice Bench, Los Angeles, CA

"Painting Now and Forever Part III," Greene Naftali Gallery and Matthew Marks, New York, NY (Link)

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)

“Midtown,” Lever House, New York, NY

“In the Abstract,” MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA (Link)

“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)

“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)

"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

2024

2024 Summer Series Speaker Program with Charles Gaines, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO (forthcoming)

2023

Rodney McMillian in Conversation with Jacob Mason-Macklin, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Harlem, NY

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

Bibliography

2024

e-flux staff. "Rodney McMillian: The Land—Not Without a Politic Marta Herford Museum of Art and Design," e-flux, March 14 (Link)

2023

Dambrot, Shana Nys. "Cultural Labor Day: Arts Calendar August 31 - September 6," LAWeekly, August 30

Knauss, Christina Lee. "Columbia-born national artist now represented in his home museum," Columbia Regional Business Report, August 24 (Link)

Nicholson, Zoe. "CMA acquires contemporary works by Columbia native Rodney McMillian, solo exhibit planned," Post And Courier Free Times, August 8 (Link)

O'Leary, Erin. "It’s Time | Vielmetter Los Angeles," Photography, March 1

Zuckerman-Hartung, Molly. "Worse Words," The Brooklyn Rail, March (Link)

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Nys Dambrot, Shana. "A Pair of Exhibitions Renovate Portraiture and Perfection at Vielmetter Los Angeles," LA Weekly, February 9 (Link)

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 (Link)

2022

Kelsey, Meret. "UB Art Galleries’ latest exhibition explores the absurdities of the human body," The Spectrum, November 17 (Link)

"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)

Clayton, Jace. "Whitney Biennial 2022," Artforum, June (Link)

Diehl, Travis. "‘The Bodywork of Hospitality’ Sees Communal Care as a Civic Obligation," Frieze Magazine, February 28 (Link)

Davis, Ben. "The Prospect 5 Triennial Reflects Contemporary Culture’s Hunger for Widespread Yet Specific Historical Reckoning," Artnet, January 19 (Link)

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 (Link)

"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 (Link)

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 (Link)

"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 (Link)

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 (Link)

"Prospect New Orleans Announces Artist List for Prospect.5," Artforum, March 2 (Link)

Angeletti, Gabriella. "Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend," The Art Newspaper, February 27 (Link)

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 (Link)

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2019

Russeth, Andrew. "For Dealer Friedrich Petzel, a Successful Gallery Is About Precision, Not Expansion," ArtNews, December 12 (Link)

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Pieterson, Mark. "This Hammer Museum Curator Uses Cinema to Educate and Empower," Surface, December 12 (Link)

Desmarais, Charles. "Rodney McMillian’s cyclorama of displacement at SFMOMA," SF Chronicle, April 29 (Link)

Gardner, Drake. "Professor’s new exhibition explores homelessness, inequality in America," Daily Bruin, April 30 (Link)

Shindel, Dan. "A New, Highly Eclectic Space for Arthouse Films in Los Angeles," Hyperallergic, April 19 (Link)

"The Twenty Five," Cultured, February/March

Lorin, Guillaume. "BEAUX ARTS – In this Land de Rodney McMillian au SFMOMA," CHOQ, March 28 (Link)

Ambramovich, Alex. "Termite Art and the Modern Museum," New Yorker, February 28 (Link)

Volpicelli, Anna. "Winter Arts Preview: 16 Bay Area Exhibitions, Performances + Festivals," 7x7, January 8 (Link)

2018

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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)

Wouk Almino, Elisa. "Helen Molesworth’s Last MOCA Exhibition Is an Act of Love," Hyperallergic, November 13 (Link)

Rus, Mayer. "Designer Nell Alano Reimagines Philanthropist Eileen Harris Norton's Santa Monica Home," Architectural Digest, November 11 (Link)

Smith, Roberta, "Painting: An (Incomplete) Survey of the State of the Art," New York Times (web), August 2 (Link)

Raji, Michelle, "Artist Rodney McMillian Wants Viewers to Grapple with Race — and Register to Vote," Texas Observer (web), July 6 (Link)

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)

Raji, Michelle, "Artist Rodney McMillian Wants Viewers to Grapple with Race — and Register to Vote," Texas Observer (web), July 6 (Link)

Jean, Melany, “'Rodney McMillian: Against a Civic Death’ at the Contemporary Austin,” The Austin Chronicle (web), March 16 (Link)

Bass, Shermakaye, “Exhibit at Contemporary explores the architecture and politics of race,” My Statesman (web), March 14 (Link)

Olsen, Ivy, "Antidotes for apathy: Rodney McMillian's Austin show is a 'call to action'," The Art Newspaper (web), February 20 (Link)

Petrossiants, Andreas, "'I hear it everywhere I go' at Franklin Street Works," Brooklyn Rail (web), February 7 (Link)

Greenberger, Alex, "San Antonio Museum of Art Acquires Works by Kevin Beasley, Rodney McMillian, Martine Syms," ArtNews (web), January 25 (Link)

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)

2017

Maldonado, Devon Van Houten, “ ‘Never Free to Rest’ at kurimanzutto, Mexico City,” art agenda (web), November 27 (Link)

Hunter, Becky Huff, “Waging an Artist’s War,” Sculpture, January / February (Cover and Feature) (Link)

Curtis, Frieda, “SLAM spotlight: Rodney McMillian’s ‘A Migration Tale’,” Student Life (web), February 20 (Link)

2016

Hine, Thomas, “Two shows at ICA: One head-scratcher, one sly use of space,” Philly.com (web), March 12 (Link)

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)

Kaplan, Isaac, “If You Don’t Understand Conceptual Art, It’s Not Your Fault,” Artsy (web), March 31 (Link)

Smith, William S., “Post-Consumer Report: A Conversation with Rodney McMillian,” Art in America (web), April 25 (Link)

Harren, Natilee “Knight’s heritage: Karl Haendel and the Legacy of Appropiration, Episode 2, 2012,” Art Journal Open (web), April 22 (Link)

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)

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)

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

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

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

Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, 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