Millie Wilson

Millie Wilson (born 1948 in Hot Springs, Arkansas) is an artist and teacher who lives and works in Austin, Texas. Wilson was a member of the faculty in the Program in Art at The California Institute of the Arts from 1985 to 2014.

Wilson graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1971 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts and later attended the University of Houston, graduating with a Masters of Fine Arts in 1983. Wilson's works incorporate a variety of media and are "characterized by (a) shrewd appropriation and tweaking of high- and low- cultural icons to create lesbian subtexts."

Wilson’s artwork is characterized by incorporating Modernist and Minimalist traditions, while disrupting the purity of these genres with issues of sexuality and gender identity. She describes her works 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”.

Select exhibition venues include the Whitney Museum of American Art, Matthew Marks Gallery, Maloney Fine Art,New Museum, White Columns, Walker Art Center, Carnegie Museum of Art, SITE Santa Fe, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Orange County Museum of Art, the UCLA Hammer Museum, 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 UCLA Hammer Museum and Fact and Fiction at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

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.