Graduate Lecture Series: Rodney McMillian

February 8, 2012
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Lecture Forum
Graduate Fine Arts Building (IFT)
3001 S. Flower Street
Los Angeles, CA 90007

Rodney McMillian's artistic practice embodies a wide range of media and techniques. An overarching concern in his work is the relationship between process, language or representation, and idea. He was a United States Artists Broad Fellow in 2008 and the received the William H. Johnson Prize in 2007. McMillian had recent solo exhibitions at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects and the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Boston. His work has been included in numerous group exhibitions worldwide, including the Whitney Biennial (2008), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The California Biennial 2008, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach; Philosophy of Time Travel, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; Ordinary Culture: Heikes/Helms/McMillian, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Painting in Tongues, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the traveling exhibition Uncertain States of America, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Art, Oslo; USA Today, Royal Academy of Art, London; Thing: New Sculpture from Los Angeles, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Frequency, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, and the 2010 Artist lecture/Performance in collaboration with Tracie D. Morris and Chicava HoneyChild, “A Proposition by Rodney McMillian: 13 Unrelated Ideas,” at the New Museum, New York, NY. McMillian holds a BA in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia and an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts in 2002. He serves as Assistant Professor, Sculpture, in the UCLA Department of Art.