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Hear from acclaimed artist Rodney McMillian, who discusses his multimedia art practice at this free talk.
We’re proud to join Ohio State’s Department of Art in welcoming McMillian, who works across sculpture, painting, video, and installation to explore the complex and fraught connections between history and contemporary culture. He addresses how these connections are expressed in American politics and American modernist art traditions. His works raise questions about poverty, class, race, and identity. Aspects of his work negotiate between the body of a political nature, like institutions or governments, and the politic of a bodily nature, or the ways that the human body is controlled, regulated, and represented by political systems. Stay after the talk for a Q&A with McMillian.
IMAGE CAPTIONRodney McMillian, courtesy of Petzel Gallery.
Rodney McMillian was born in 1969 in Columbia, South Carolina, and lives and works in Los Angeles. He received a BA from the University of Virginia, a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and an MFA from CalArts. McMillian was included in the 2008 and 2022 Whitney Biennials. He received the William H. Johnson Prize in 2007, the United States Artists Broad Fellowship in 2008, and the Suzanne Deal Booth Art Prize in 2016. McMillian exhibits widely nationally and internationally.
This event is copresented by Ohio State’s Department of Art Visiting Artist Program and sponsored by the Office of Academic Affairs.
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Mike and Paige Crane
Greater Columbus Arts Council
The Wexner Family
Ohio Arts Council, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts
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The Columbus Foundation
Every Page Foundation
Mellon Foundation
Axium Packaging
Nationwide Foundation
Michael and Anita Goldberg
Vorys Sater Seymour and Pease LLP
Joyce Shenk
Rebecca Perry and Ben Towle
Lachelle Thigpen
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Rodney McMillian
