BIOGRAPHY

Born: Knoxville, Tennessee, 1977
Resides: New York, New York
Education: Yale University School of Art (M.F.A., 2004);
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2003);
University of Tennessee, Knoxville (B.F.A., 2001)
Website: www.wardellmilan.com

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2008
Franklin Art Works, Minneapolis.
“Power! Testosterone! They Looked Ferocious with Heavy Sexual Overtones,” Taxter & Spengemann,
New York.

2005
Taxter & Spengemann, New York.

Selected Group Exhibitions

2007
“Wardell Milan & Kalup Linzy,” Context Gallery, Londonderry, Ireland.
“Blur,” Arndt & Partner Gallery, Berlin.
“Midnight’s Daydream, 2006–7: Artists in Residence,” Studio Museum in Harlem, New York.

2006
“Queens International 2006,” Queens Museum of Art, New York.
“Black Alphabet: conTEXTS of contemporary africanamerican art,” Zacheta National Gallery of Art,
Warsaw, Poland.
“Being There,” Ingalls & Associates, Miami.
“25 Bold Moves,” House of Campari, New York. Samson Projects booth at Arco 06, Madrid, Spain.
“Log Cabin,” Artists Space, New York.

2005
“Being There,” Cuchifritos, New York.
“Frequency,” Studio Museum in Harlem, New York.
“Le Désert de Retz,” Massimo Audiello, New York.
“Supersonic,” Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, California.
“La Beauté de l’Enfer,” Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels.
“Greater New York 2005,” P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Queens, New York. Catalogue.

2004
“Homemade World: Reconstructed Images in Photography,” Rush Arts Gallery, New York.
“Notorious Impropriety,” Samson Projects, Boston.
“Skillz,” Ingalls & Associates, Miami.

Selected Bibliography

2007
Maine, Stephen. “The Dark Side of the Brain,” New York Sun (August 23).
Richard, Frances. “Midnight’s Daydream: Titus Kaphar, Wardell Milan II, Demetrius Oliver,” Artforum (November).
Roberts, Frank Leon. “Nina, Meet Jesus: Three New Artists and the Black Diaspora,” Village Voice (September 12).
Schwendener, Martha. “Three Contemporaries, Each With a Different Way to View the Past,” The New York Times (August 11).

2006
Davis, Ben. “Debut: Discovering Emerging Artist,” ArtReview (March).

2005
Cotter, Holland. “Log Cabin,” The New York Times (January 28).
———. “Wardell Milan at Taxter & Spengemann,” The New York Times (December 16).