John Millei

Born 1958, Los Angeles, California

Bio

John Millei (born 1958, Los Angeles) is a California-based painter. In the late 1970s he worked as an assistant to Richard Diebenkorn. Millei taught painting at Claremont Graduate University and served as Professor of Fine Art at ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena.

Selected Solo Exhibitions (since 2010)

  • 2024San Diego / Bread & Salt (ONE / Best Practice, in collaboration with Quint Gallery), The Reader / One Night in San Diego
  • 2020Los Angeles, Lowell Ryan Projects, This & That
  • 2020Milan, Carl Kostyál, John Millei (10.09.2020 – 13.11.2020)
  • 2018Miami, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Interrogations (Oct 25 – Nov 24, 2018)
  • 2018Paris, galeriepcp, Something Almost Imperceptible (16.03.2018 – 18.05.2018)
  • 2017Mill Valley, George Lawson Gallery, From the same hill
  • 2014Mill Valley, George Lawson Gallery, Selected Paintings
  • 2013La Jolla, Quint Gallery, Anthropomorphic Abstraction
  • 2012Los Angeles, ACE Gallery, Woman in a Chair

Note: This is a curated selection focused on verifiable solo presentations and key institutional highlights since 2010.

Selected Group Exhibitions (since 2010)

  • 2025Berlin, G-ALLERY, Curated For Summer
  • 2021Los Angeles, Nino Mier Gallery, Rewilding
  • 2021Los Angeles, Circus Gallery, Figuration
  • 2021Berlin, G-ALLERY, Disrupted Realism
  • 2020Beverly Hills / Los Angeles, UTA Artist Space, Every Day Is Sunday (online)
  • 2016Los Angeles, Michael Lett Gallery, Human Condition
  • 2014Moscow, Gallery A3, Ellipse
  • 2012La Jolla, Quint Gallery, Summer Salon Series

Selected Museum Exhibitions

  • 2019Carnegie Art Museum (Oxnard), Recent and Seldom Seen (June 2019)
  • 2011Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Anish Kapoor: Turning the World Inside Out / Selected Abstraction, 1940s–90s

Selected Catalogues / Bibliography

  • —The Ends of Paintings: The Edges of Abstractions, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica
  • —Four Abstract Painters, Claremont Colleges, California
  • —The Spirit of Our Time, Contemporary Art Council, Santa Barbara
  • —Physical Abstraction, ACE Gallery, Los Angeles
  • —After Abstraction, ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena, California
  • —Small Works National, Zanel Gallery, Rochester, New York

Selected Collections

  • —Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, California, USA
  • —Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
  • —Dib Bangkok Museum, Bangkok, Thailand
  • —Frederick R. Weisman Museum, Los Angeles, USA
  • —Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, USA
  • —Colección Jumex, Mexico
  • —Legion of Honor / Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (Achenbach Foundation), San Francisco, USA
  • —Nasher Collection / Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, USA