Wardell Milan (b. 1978; Knoxville, Tennessee)
Wardell Milan earned a BFA in photography and painting in 2001 at the University of Tennessee, in his home town of Knoxville. He then went on to earn an MFA at YALE University in 2004. Right out of school in 2005 Milan emerged and was included in institutional exhibitions such as Greater New York at P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center and Frequency at The Studio Museum in Harlem. Milan has continued to challenge conventions of medium and message in his deeply personal and prolific work that has been exhibited internationally.
His work is in numerous museum collections including The Studio Museum in Harlem, Denver Art Museum, Museum of Modern Art New York, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Hessel Museum bard College, and Art Institute of Chicago. Milan is represented by David Nolan Gallery in New York. In 2014 he was honored with a Foundation for Contemporary Art Grant. In 2003 he was a resident at Skowhegan. This will be Milan’s first monograph covering the breadth of his studio and exhibition practice over the course of the past decade and leading into the next.
Wardell Milan
Exotic Perfume (vivica), 2013
Collage, oil pastel on magazine page
11 x 16 in (27.94 x 40.64 cm)
Wardell Milan
Exotic Perfume (Hollywood), 2013
Oil paint chips on magazine page
11 x 16 in (27.94 x 40.64 cm)
Wardell Milan
Late Afternoon, between Late Summer and Early Fall, 2013
Oil, pastel, charcoal, colored pencil on paper
60 x 72 in (152.40 x 182.88 cm)
