SUSANNE VIELMETTER LOS ANGELES PROJECTS
RODNEY MCMILLIAN
1969 Born in Columbia, South Carolina
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
2002
MFA, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California
2000
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Post-Baccalaureate Certificate, Presidential Scholar
Edward L. Ryerson Fellowship Recipient
1998
BFA Program, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
1991
BA Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
2010
“Succulent”, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, Inaugural exhibition of new gallery space
2009
“Sentimental Disappointment”, Momentum 14: Rodney McMillian, the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, Boston, MA
Haubrokshows, 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, ArtBasel 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
2010
“New Art for a New Century: Contemporary Acquisitions, 2000-2010”, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
“Summer Group Show”, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA
“Blues”, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
“The Artist’s Museum: Los Angeles Artists 1980-2010”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
2009
“The Moving Image: Scan to Screen, Pixel to Projection II”, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
"MONITAUR", Aspen Art Museum, Colorado
“Out of School”, City of Brea Art Gallery, Brea, CA
"30 Americans”, The Rubell Collection., Miami, FL
2008
"It’s all about Sculpture”, Haubrok Foundation, Berlin, Germany
"California Biennial 2008”, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, 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”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
"BLACK IS, BLACK AIN’T”, The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
"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, CA, curated by Karen Moss
2007
"OHIO”, Gahlberg Gallery, McAninch Arts Center at College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL
"An Atlas of Events”, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal, curated by António Pinto Ribeiro, Debra Singer, and Esra Sarigedik (cataloge)
"Touched: Artists and Social Engagement”, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena (digital catalogue)
"Philosophy of Time Travel” Studio Museum in Harlem, NY, collaboration with Edgar Arceneaux, Vincent Johnson, Matthew Sloly, Olga Koumandouros
"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, with Patty Chang, Paul Pfeiffer, Jennifer Steinkamp, curated by Andrea Inselmann, traveling to: Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University, Milwaukee, Orlando Museum, FL
"Rodney McMillian and Olga Koumoundouros: On A Porch”, LAXART, Los Angeles
"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”, PSI, New York, curated by Nick Stillman
2006
"USA Today”, The Royal Academy of Art, London, UK, traveling to:
"Black Alphabet: conTEXTS of Contemporary African American Art”, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland, curated by Maria Brewinska
"Ordinary Culture: Heikes/Helms/McMillian”, Medtronic Gallery at Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MI, curated by Doryun Chong
"Painting in Tongues”, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, with Kai Althoff, Gillian Carnegie, Lucy McKenzie, Mark Grotjahn, Ivan Morley, Anselm Reyle, curated by Michael Darling
"Everybody Dance Now”, EFA Gallery, New York, 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,
curated by Daniel Birnbaum, Hans Ulrich Obrist, and Gunnar Kvaran, traveling to: 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 Musée de Sérignan, Sérignan, France
Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic
2005
"Frequency” The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
"Happenstance”, Harris Lieberman Gallery, New York, curated by Lauri Firstenberg
"Menschensgladbach - Neue Ankäufe und Leihgaben", Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany
"Fast Forward: A Passion for the New”, curated by Scenic
"Rouge Wave”, LA Louver, Venice, CA
"Thing - New Sculpture from Los Angeles", UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
"Frequency", Studio Museum in Harlem, Harlem, NY
2004
"White Noise", REDCAT Gallery, Los Angeles, 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, Tennessee
"Seeds and Roots: Selections from the Permanent Collection", The Studio Museum Harlem, Harlem, NY
"New Balance Frontier", No Name Exhibitions @ The Soap Factory, 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
"New", Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, collaboration with Edgar Arceneaux, Inaugural exhibition Culver City space
"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, curated by Malik Gaines
2003
"Gibt's mich wirklich - Vier Raeume aus der Sammlung Schuermann", K21, Duesseldorf, Germany (catalog)
ArtBasel Miami Beach, with Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects
"aufgeschraubt & abgestaubt II—Die Sammlung im Prozess der Neuprasentation”, Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany
"Veni Vidi Video", The Studio Museum Harlem, Harlem, NY, curated by Christine Kim
The Armory Show New York, with Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects
"Urban Aesthetics", California African American Museum, curated by Sandra Rowe, Los Angeles
2002
"A Show That Will Show That A Show Is Not Only A Show", The Project, Los Angeles, Curated by Jens Hoffman
"Messy Fingers", Track 16, curated by Charles Gaines and Martin Kersels, Santa Monica
"#9", 5301 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, with Olga Koumoundourous
2010
Miles, Chris, “Rodney McMillian at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects”, LA Weekly, February 11
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
2008
"stop.look.listen: an exhibition of video works”, Exhibition catalogue, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, essay by Andrea Inselmann
Grabner, Michelle, "Black Is, Black Ain’t”, Time Out Chicago, May 22-28, Issue 169
Copeland, Huey, "The Blackness of Blackness”, ArtForum, October
Markle, Leslie, "Disorderly Conduct”, artUS, Summer
Dambrot, Shana, "Report: New York City, The Ghost of Jason Rhoades”, Art Ltd, July
Menzies, Michelle, "Black Is, Black Ain’t”, Flash Art, July
Salsbury, Britany, "Critic’s Picks: Black Is, Black Ain’t”, ArtForum, May
Goldner, Liz, "Opening Review: Disorderly Conduct”, Artillery, May/June
Vikram, Anuradha, "The LA Annual”, Artillery, May/June
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, "Art’s 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
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
Sholis, Brian, "Rodney McMillian”, An Atlas of Events (catalogue), Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon
Finkel, Jori, "A Reluctant Fraternity, Thinking Post-Black”, New York Times, June 10
Molok, Nikolai (editor), Footnotes on Geopolitics, Market, and Amnesia: 2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (catalogue), ArtChronika and Moscow Biennale Art Foundation
Kim, Christine Y. Philosophy of Time Travel (catalogue), The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
"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/Feburary
"2nd Moscow Biennale”, FlashArt Online News, January/February
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
Brewińska, Maria, "Black Alphabet: conTEXTS of Contemporary African American Art”, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland (exhibition catalogue and essay)
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
Horowitz, Noah and Sholis, Brian, "The Uncertain States of America Reader”, Serpentine Gallery, London
Abbe, Mary, "‘Ordinary’ becomes extraordinary”, Star Tribune Minneapolis, August 17
Chong, Doryun, "Ordinary Culture”, Walker Art Center (exhibition catalogue and essay)
Smith, Roberta, "Endgame Art? It’s Borrow, Sample and Multiply in an Exhibition at Bard College”, NYTimes, July 7
"Art in LA: Then & Now”, Artkrush, May 31, issue #33
"Hip New Buyers Boost Sales at Armory Show”, Artnews, March 28
Landi, Ann, "Multiple Personalities”, ARTnews, April 2006
Harvey, Doug, "Glossolalia for Dummies”, LA Weekly, February 22
Knight, Christopher, "Painting Can Speak In Many Tongues", The Los Angeles Times, Feb. 3, pp. 1, 22-23
Darling, Michael, and Wolfram, Heubach, Friedrich, "Painting in Tongues”, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, (exhibition catalog), pg. 66-77
"Frequency”, Color Image, The Studio Museum in Harlem Magazine, Collector’s Issue, Fall/winter 2005-06
Campagnola, Sofia, "Focus Los Angeles”, Flash Art, January/February Issue,Vol.XXXVIII,
No.246, pg. 72
Kastner, Jeffrey, "Frequency”, Artforum, January issue, XLIV, No.5, pg. 217
2005
Chang, Aimee, "Rodney McMillian”, Frequency, The Studio Museum in Harlem (catalogue), NY, pgs 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
Birnbaum, Daniel, Kvaran, Gunnar, Obrist, Ulrich, "Uncertain States of America: American Art in the Third Millenium”, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art (exhibition catalog)
Forgacs, Eva, "Thing”, artUS, July-September 2005
Firstenberg, Lauri, "Thing”, Frieze, June/July/August Issue, No.92, pg.163
Lasarow, Bill, "Rogue Wave”, Art Scene, July/August, Volume 24, No. 11, pg. 20
Zox, "Rogue Wave at LA Louver Gallery”, art/design, July 11-25, pg.
Mack, Joshua, "Thing:
Pagel, David, "Summer sampler has a dark side”, Los Angeles Times, July 8, pg. E26
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 Issue, pg.104-105
Chang, Aimee, "Thing: New Sculpture from Los Angeles - Rodney McMillian", Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center (catalogue), pg. 62-63
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
Golden, Thelma (co-writer), "A Beautiful Thing", Studio Museum Harlem Arts, (catalog), Winter issue
Cotter, Holland, "Rodney McMillian at Triple Candie", New York Times, January 21
Tumlir, Jan, "THING: New Sculpture from Los Angeles", Artforum, January Issue, pg. 77
2004
Myers, Holly, "Disposable Society", Los Angeles Times, October 13, 2004
Friedrich, Christine, "White Noise at RedCat", downtownartnews, October 13
Kim, Clara, "White Noise", RedCat exhibition brochure, 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 / May issue, pg. 80
Worthington, Peter, " Eye of the beholder - you gotta see what some people call 'art'", Toronto Sunday Sun, pg.4 commentary, March 14
Harvey, Doug, "Color Theory - Fade to black", LA Weekly, pg. 55, February 13 - 19
Knight, Christopher, "A chronicle of race, rage, ritual", Los Angeles Times, February 17
Adamski, Stephan, Kunstforum, January 2004, pg. 153 - 155
Barry, Dave, "Call me clueless, but I'm working toward my artistic license", Miami Herald, January 17, also published in : International Herald Tribune - Paris, Detroit Free Press, Houston Chronicle and others
2003
Kunde, Harald, "aufgeschraubt und abgestaubt", Ludwig Forum fuer Internationale Kunst, Aachen,exhibition text
Scarborough, James, artcritical.com, June 17
2005
The UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
The Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach
Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany
The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
2008
United States Artists Broad Fellow 2008
Art Matters, Spring 2008 Grantee
2007
William H. Johnson Prize, winner
2005
William H. Johnson Prize, finalist
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
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