Etching and spit-bite with gold leaf and collage
Paper: Hahnemühle Copperplate
Wardell Milan (b. 1977, Knoxville, TN) received his BFA from The University of Tennessee, Knoxville (2001) and his MFA from Yale University (2004) both in Photography. His work was the subject of the solo exhibition, Wardell Milan: Recent Work, at the Benton Museum of Art, Pomona College (2022-23). His first major solo museum show, America. God Bless You If It’s Good To You, was presented at the Bronx Museum of the Arts in 2021. Milan’s work is included in the public collections of The Art Institute of Chicago, IL; The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; Daniel and Florence Guerlain Contemporary Art Foundation, Paris; Denver Art Museum, CO; Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY; and The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.
