Biography

Dan Mills (b. 1956, Waterloo, New York) lives and works in Maine. He was an influential artist-curator for many years, and recently returned to focusing primarily on his studio practice. Solo exhibitions have been held at Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston (2021); Herron School of Art + Design, Indianapolis (2020); Museum of Art, University of New Hampshire (2020); Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland (2019); Chicago Cultural Center (2012); Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago (2012, 2007); Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts Museum, China (2009-10); Sherry Frumkin Gallery, Santa Monica (2009); and Northern Illinois University Art Museum, Chicago (2002).

Works by Mills have been curated into major group exhibitions including: Counter Cartographies: Living the Land, Anchorage Museum, Alaska (2021-22); Unsustainable: Planet in Crisis, Ewing Gallery of Art + Architecture, University of Tennessee (2020); Crooked Data: (Mis) Information in Contemporary Art, University of Richmond Museums (2017); Ideologue, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City (2016); Dissident Futures, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco (2013-14); Lines in the Earth: Maps, Power, and the Imagination, Sun Valley Center for the Arts (2007); Long March: Yan'an Project Retrospective, Long March Space, Factory 798, Beijing (2007); What War?, White Box, New York (2006); and Misleading Trails, which opened in Beijing then traveled to eight US institutions (2004-06).

Works by Mills are in collections including: the British Library, London; Library of Congress, Washington, DC; John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Chicago; Mead Art Museum, Mt. Holyoke College, Amherst, Massachusetts; Osher Map Library, University of Southern Maine; University of California Los Angeles, and academic institutions throughout the U.S. Mills is a frequent visiting artist, critic, curator, and speaker.