Rodney McMillian | VIELMETTER LOS ANGELES

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: 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, Texas
: "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, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, curated by Kara Walker
: "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
: International Artist-in-Residence New Works 08.1 Artpace, San Antonio, TX; curated by Franklin Sirmans
: Mannerfantasien II, Centre for Opinions in Music and Art, Berlin, Germany; curated by Ellen Blumstein
: 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, Mnchengladbach, 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 IIDie 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)
: Mousse Magazine Staff. "“It’s Time” at Vielmetter, Los Angeles," Mousse Magazine, February 18 (Link)
: 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)
: Aldridge, Taylor Renee. "Critics’ Picks: Rodney McMillian at The Underground Museum," Artforum, February (Link)
: Kane, Ashleigh. "Art shows to leave the house for this month," Dazed, February 8 (Link)
: "Top shows to see during Frieze Los Angeles," Art Newspaper, February 6 (Link)
2019: Russeth, Andrew. "For Dealer Friedrich Petzel, a Successful Gallery Is About Precision, Not Expansion," ArtNews, December 12 (Link)
: English, D., Barat, C., and Lowery, G. D. (2019). Among Others, Blackness at MoMA. Pg 306-307. Museum of Modern Art.
: Pieterson, Mark. "This Hammer Museum Curator Uses Cinema to Educate and Empower," Surface, December 12 (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," 7×7, January 8 (Link)
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)
: 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