The Department of Art Visiting Artist Program is proud to welcome Rodney McMillian, who works across sculpture, painting, video, and installation to explore the complex and fraught connections between history and contemporary culture. He addresses how these connections are expressed in American politics and American modernist art traditions. His works raise questions about poverty, class, race, and identity. Aspects of his work negotiate between the body of a political nature, like institutions or governments, and the politic of a bodily nature, or the ways that the human body is controlled, regulated, and represented by political systems. Stay after the talk for a Q&A with McMillian. McMillian (b. 1969 Columbia, S.C.) has shown work at SFMoMA, ICA Philadelphia, The Whitney Biennial (2008, 2022) and more. He holds a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a MFA from the California Institute of the Arts.