Millie Wilson (born 1948 in Hot Springs, Arkansas) is an artist and teacher who lives and works in

Austin, Texas Austin is the capital city of the U.S. state of Texas, as well as the county seat, seat and largest city of Travis County, Texas, Travis County, with portions extending into Hays County, Texas, Hays and Williamson County, Texas, Williamson co ...

. Wilson was a member of the faculty in the Program in Art at The California Institute of the Arts from 1985 to 2014. Wilson's practice encompasses a variety of media and incorporates Modernist and Minimalist traditions alongside

postmodern Postmodernism is an intellectual stance or mode of discourseNuyen, A.T., 1992. The Role of Rhetorical Devices in Postmodernist Discourse. Philosophy & Rhetoric, pp.183–194. characterized by skepticism toward the " grand narratives" of moderni ...

strategies that use humor, parody and recontextualized objects and imagery to question stereotypes and conventional ideas involving sexuality and gender identity.Ksenia M. Soboleva
"The Need for More Complex Exhibitions on Lesbian Visual Culture"
''Hyperallergic'', March 21, 2019. Accessed April 27, 2020.David Pagel

''Los Angeles Times'', May 3, 2000. Accessed April 27, 2020.Carolina A. Miranda

''Los Angeles Times'', June 16, 2014. Accessed April 27, 2020. The Hammer Museum catalogue for the 2000 COLA show describes her Work as "characterized by shrewd appropriation and tweaking of high- and low- cultural icons to create lesbian subtexts."C.O.L.A. 2000. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Hammer Museum, 2000. Her 2013 solo exhibition at Maloney Fine Art presented vernacular, found photographs in small light boxes, whose multiple readings arise from formal qualities, and juxtaposed everyday gestures and situations.ArtDaily
"Exhibition of Ford Beckman's work opens at Maloney Fine Art"
''ArtDaily'', February 2012. Accessed April 27, 2020. She describes that work as “unfinished inventories of fragments, improvisational sites where the constructed and the readymade are used to question our making of the world through systems of language, knowledge, things and information”. Wilson graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1971 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts and later attended the

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, graduating with a Masters of Fine Arts in 1983. Select exhibition venues include the

Whitney Museum of American Art The Whitney Museum of American Art, known informally as "The Whitney", is an art museum in the Meatpacking District and West Village neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City. It was founded in 1930 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875–1942), ...

Matthew Marks Gallery Matthew Marks is an art gallery located in the New York City neighborhood of Chelsea and the Los Angeles neighborhood of West Hollywood. Founded in 1991 by Matthew Marks, it specializes in modern and contemporary painting, sculpture, photography, ...

, Maloney Fine Art, New Museum,

White Columns White Columns is New York City’s oldest alternative non-profit art space. White Columns is known as a showcase for up-and-coming artists, and is primarily devoted to emerging artists who are not affiliated with galleries. All work submitted is ...

Walker Art Center The Walker Art Center is a multidisciplinary contemporary art center in the Lowry Hill neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. The Walker is one of the most-visited modern and contemporary art museums in the United States and, t ...

Carnegie Museum of Art The Carnegie Museum of Art, is an art museum in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Originally known as the Department of Fine Arts, Carnegie Institute and was at what is now the Main Branch of the Carnegie Library of Pittsbur ...

SITE Santa Fe SITE Santa Fe (often referred to simply as SITE) is a nonprofit contemporary arts organization based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Since its founding in 1995, SITE Santa Fe has presented 11 biennials, more than 90 contemporary art exhibitions, and wor ...

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is a modern and contemporary art museum located in San Francisco, California. A nonprofit organization, SFMOMA holds an internationally recognized collection of modern and contemporary art, and was ...

Santa Monica Museum of Art The Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (ICA LA), formerly known as the Santa Monica Museum of Art (SMMoA), is a contemporary art museum in Los Angeles, CA. As an independent and non-collecting art museum (or kunsthalle), it exhibits the ...

, Orange County Museum of Art, the

UCLA Hammer Museum The Hammer Museum, which is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles, is an art museum and cultural center known for its artist-centric and progressive array of exhibitions and public programs. Founded in 1990 by the entrepreneur- ...

,Christopher Knight
"10 California Artists ‘Facing the Finish’"
''Los Angeles Times'', May 1, 1999. Accessed April 27, 2020. Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions and the Palm Springs Art Museum. Group exhibitions featuring Wilson have included Parallels and Intersections at the San Jose Museum of Art, C.O.L.A. 2000 at the

and Fact and Fiction at the

.Whiteness, A Wayward Construction. Laguna Beach, CA: Laguna Art Museum; Los Angeles: Fellows of Contemporary Art, 2003. Wilson has received numerous grants, including an NEA Visual Artists Fellowship, a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Fellowship, City of Los Angeles Artist Grant, California Arts Council Fellowship, Art Matters, Inc. Grant, and a LACE Artists Projects Grant. She has been published in a variety of contexts, and has taught and lectured throughout the U.S. and Europe.

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