About
Kali McMillan is a photographer, curator, art historian, and urban sociologist. Her artwork centers around the experiences of humans and the spaces they inhabit.
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Education
BA, Art and Art History from Colgate University
MLitt, History of Art and Art World Practice: Modern and Contemporary Art from Christie’s Education (University of Glasgow)
“‘How Ya Like Me Now?’: Redefining Black Identity through Contemporary Art”
MA, Photography and Urban Cultures from Goldsmith’s College
“Emily in Covington: The Visual Evidence of the Transformation of People and Place through the Situated Archive”
Residencies
Together, Separately. Cel del Nord, Barcelona. Online May 2021
Talks and Lectures
Guest Lecturer and Crit for BA Photography. UWL. 2021
Photoland Talks. Urban Photographers Association. Photography and Autobiography April 2021
Personal Horizons Symposium. Goldsmiths. March 2020
Visions of Space Symposium. Sorbonne, Paris. May 2019
Solo Exhibitions
"Ordinary Beauty of Africa" at the ALANA Cultural Center at Colgate University, Hamilton NY (20 pieces) Spring 2011
Group Exhibitions
“CUCR: 30 Years of Urban and Community Research”, Goldsmith’s College, London, 2024
“The Decisive Moment”, Notting Hill Arts Club, London, 2024
“Bodies of Knowledge,” SHOWstudio, London (online), 2022 (also exhibited at SOMETHING gallery in Abidjan, 2023)
“A Shifting Crowd”, Peckham Levels, London, 2019
“Hold Still, Keep Going”, Bolyki Fine Art Gallery, Toronto, 2014
Juried Exhibitions
“NEXT: Reimaging the future through art,” Ellarslie: Trenton City Museum, New Jersey (one film) Winter 2023
“...Of Color: The African American Experience”, Juror, Wendell Brooks, Ellarslie: Trenton City Museum, Trenton, New Jersey (three pieces) Summer 2015
Milk Gallery Underground: the industry’s most progressive and innovative emerging photographers, New York City, NY (one piece) Autumn 2011
“Memories of Russell (Aldo Murray)” Art in the Atrium Morristown, NJ (eight pieces) Winter 2011
The Brodsky Center Gallery at the Heldrich New Brunswick, NJ (6 pieces) Spring 2010
Avenue of the Arts, Juror: Michael Graves, West Windsor Arts Council, Princeton, NJ Fall 2009
Mercer County Community College Photography Exhibit (two pieces) Winter 2007 and Fall 2009
Alcatel-Lucent: Women’s History Month traveling exhibit, Photography, NJ, ID, TX, Canada (eight pieces) March 2009
“Out of Africa: African and African American Women Artists”, Raritan Valley College: (nine pieces) October 2007
Art from the Motherland. Three women exhibit, Arts Unbound, Orange, NJ April/May 2006
Lucent Technology: Black History Program February 2006
Drexel University’s High School Photography Contest Exhibition Winter 2006
“Salon de Hightstown”, Peddie School, Hightstown, NJ, Winter 2006
Various exhibitions, Gallery 125, Trenton, NJ (six pieces) Fall 2004-Spring 2009
Curator of Exhibitions
Africa Now!: Contemporary Art by African Women, Ellarslie Trenton City Museum, Trenton, NJ, 2017
Black History Month Exhibition, Munich Re America, New Jersey, 2017.
On Their Walls: Area African American Collectors and their African American Art, 2015
WW33, West Windsor Arts Council, New Jersey, 2011