Wyatt Mills
WYATT MILLS
Born in New York
Lives in Los Angeles, CA
BFA School of Visual Arts 2013
Wyatt Mills is an LA-based artist whose lusciously hued paintings splice form and still life with abstraction, instinct and energy. Depicting disjointed forms with patient and sumptuous care, Mills conjures scenes of delirious bacchanals punctuated by lucid moments of formal stillness. Body parts entwine with immaterial shapes, slithering from the security of knowledge to a celebration of intuition. Like fever-dreams that seep into waking life, Mills’ paintings are vibrant oscillations between the outwardly observed and the deeply visceral.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2018 – Pareidolia, James Wright Gallery, Downtown Los Angeles, CA
2016 – Normal – Project Gallery – Downtown Los Angeles, CA
2014 – Phantasmagoria – Bergamot Station, Culver City, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2019 – Sweet Primal Things, James Wright Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2019 – Bienniale Auction, Long Beach Museum of Art, CA
2018 – Scope Art Fair, Mugello Gallery, Miami, FL
2018 – Ambiguities, Mirus Gallery, Denver, CO
2018 – Scope Art Fair, Mugello Gallery, New York, NY
2018 – LA Art Show @LA Convention Center, Mugello Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2017 – Context Art Fair, Mugello Gallery, Miami, FL
2017 – Ten, Chainlink Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2017 – Anamorphic Portraiture, Mirus Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2017 – 50 Contemporary Artists, Enter Art Foundation, Berlin, Germany
2016 – Dallas Art Fair, Coagula, Texas
2016 – Annual Group Show, Superchief Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2016 – Group Show, Kommunale Galerie, Berlin, Germany
2016 – About Face, Rebecca Molayem Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2016 – Bombay Beach Bienniale, Salton Sea, CA
2015 – Artesatanicos – Superchief Gallery LA – Los Angeles, CA
2014 – 21, Prohibition Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2013 – Miami Project, Visual Arts Gallery, MIA, FL
2013 – Execute With Extreme Prejudice, A Rare Form of Popup, Brooklyn, NY
2013 – Sampler, Visual Arts Gallery, Manhattan, NY
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
2020 – Penske Projects Newsletter, Issue 27, Artist Interview/Feature
2019 – Disrupted Realism, by John A. Seed, Schiffer Publishing
2018 – Artnet, LA Artist Wyatt Mills On Why All Art History Inspires His Paintings – and Why He Sometimes Destroys Them
2016 – Flaunt Magazine, Q&A With Artist Wyatt Mills, Featured Artist
2016 – Be-Street, Featured Artist
2016 – Artsy, Featured Artist
2016 – Hi Fructose, Featured Artist
2015 – Business Insider, Art’s High Tech Buyers, Featured Artist
2015 – LA Weekly, Artopia, Featured Artist
2015 – LA Weekly, Container Yard, Featured Artist
2014 – The Warholian, Fascinating “Phantasmagoria” Abstract Works, Featured Artist
2014 – Los Angeles Examiner, Society and Art, Featured Artist
2014 – 12ozProphet, Show Recap Exclusive, Featured Artist
2014 – YAY!LA, Wyatt Mills-Static Shock, Featured Artist
2014 – Cartwheel Art, Studio Visit and Artist, Featured Artist
2013 – Empty Kingdom, Featured artist
2013 – iArtistas Magazine #7
2013 – Platinum Cheese, Featured show/interview, Rick Galigher
2012 – Nonsense Society, Wyatt Mills (American Expressive Painter) – Artist Who Confronts The Ordinary Through His Own Twisted Reality, November 21st, Tessa Abraham
OTHER:
2016 – Residency at Berlin Art Institute, Germany
2013 – Chair’s Choice Award, SVA
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Make It Make Sense | group exhibition
Amelia Lockwood, Brent Estabrook, Polly Shindler, Terry Hoff, Wyatt Mills, Jahlil Nzinga, Matt Ross, Kate Bieschke, Nevena Binney, Thomas Muller, Celest Voce, Travis Whiteneck 27 Aug - 26 Sep 2020JWG presents Make It Make Sense, a virtual exhibition examining the works of 13 artists through the lens of their individual clashes with 2020. An interview with each artist about...Read more -
Houseplants
Wyatt Mills 22 May - 26 Jun 2020Like houseplants, we are tugging our stems towards the vast air, light, and network of life outside our walls. The life of indoor flora is perpetually governed by spatial limits....Read more -
Sweet Primal Things
Group Exhibition 15 Nov - 21 Dec 2019SWEET PRIMAL THINGS is a cross-disciplinary exhibition comprising twelve contemporary California-based artists’ relationships with their quotidian surroundings, explored through the use of modern tools that become the media of the...Read more -
MIAMI BEACH
Art Fair 5 - 9 Dec 2018Read more -
‘Pareidolia’
Wyatt Mills 15 Sep - 26 Oct 2018I want to paint beyond what one thinks portrait traditionally should look like. I want to portray an honest snapshot of a perception in the present. --Wyatt Mills This will...Read more
