Pulse
2019
Wardell Milan
New York, New York
Artworks shown are selected from works submitted by the artist in their grant or residency application. All works are copyright of the artist or artist’s estate.
About Wardell Milan
Wardell Milan is an artist based in New York. Throughout his practice, he has maintained a thoughtful inquiry into the nature of beauty and the unconscious, touching on themes such as body modification and the interpretation of gender. Milan received a BFA in photography and painting from the University of Tennessee (2001). He was an artist-in-residence at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine (2003) before earning an MFA from Yale University (2004). His work is in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, the Denver Art Museum, the Brooklyn Museum in New York, the Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College in New York, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Morgan Library and Museum in New York, the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, the UBS Art Collection, the Fondation d'Art Contemporain Daniel and Florence Guerlain, Paris, the Hall Art Foundation, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, and the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto.
Program Participation
Painters & Sculptors Grant, 2019
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Within my examination of the ideas of twinship, desire, mourning and identity, idiosyncratic obsessions and love interact ambivalently, but also in a way that registers the complexities of the individual and the absurdity of life's banal situations and social doctrines.”
