Joseph Clayton Mills is an artist, writer, and musician who lives and works in Chicago. His text-based paintings, assemblages, and installations have been exhibited at galleries and alternative spaces in Chicago and New York, and his work has appeared in numerous publications, including The New Yorker. His fiction and criticism have been published both in the United States and abroad, most recently in the magazine Joyland and the architectural journal Log, and he is the author of the short-story collection Zyxt. In addition, he has written and edited texts for The Snow Show, an international collaborative exhibition of art and architecture held in Finland in 2004, and The Snow Show 2006, held in conjunction with the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino, Italy. He is also an active participant in the improvised and experimental music community in Chicago, where he has performed and collaborated with such notable musicians as Adam Sonderberg and Steven Hess (as a member of the band Haptic), Sylvain Chaveau, Tony Buck, Mark Solotroff, Fred Lonberg-Holm, and Olivia Block, among many others. His recordings have appeared on numerous labels, including FSS, Entr'acte, and Bloodlust!.

Selected Exhibition History:  

Nov 2009	Triptych (Museum of Contemporary Art, 12 X 12 Gallery, Chicago, IL)	Sound/video Installation w/Haptic and Lisa Slodki
Nov 2009	Fileds have Ears (The Cube, Bristol, UK)	Video
May 2008	Looptopia (Chicago, IL)	Group show
Oct 2007	Studio 207 (Chicago, IL)	Group Show
Oct 2007	Five Senses (Northbrook Public Library, Northbrook, IL)	Group Show
Sep 2007	Echographs (Elastic Arts, Chicago, IL)	Solo Show
Aug 2007	Chicago City Arts Gallery  (Chicago, IL)	Group Show
Jun 2007	Annie Laurie (cytO Gallery, Chicago, IL)	Sound Installation
Nov 2006	Last Word (cytO Gallery,  Chicago, IL)	Solo Show
Nov 2006	Art of the Book (Myopic Books, Chicago, IL)	Group Show
Oct 2006	John Galt Gallery (Chicago, IL)	Group Show
Sep 2006	Around the Coyote (Chicago, IL)	Group Show
Jun 2006	Salon Show (OAO Galleria,  Chicago, IL)	Group Show
Mar 2006	Spectacle Lunatique (Redmoon Theater Co., Chicago, IL)	Group Show
Feb 2006	Spareroom (Chicago, IL)	Video Installation
Feb 2006	Snow Show 2006 (Torino, Italy)	Editor/Writer
Dec 2005	From Nothing (Redmoon Theater Co., Chicago, IL)	Group Show
Nov 2005	Art of the Book (Myopic Books, Chicago, IL)	Group Show
Sep 2005	Poem as Image (The Studio, Armonk, NY)	Group Show
Aug 2005	Filter (Chicago, IL)	Solo show
Jun 2005	Myopic Books (Chicago, IL)	Solo show
Apr 2005	Sikora Gallery (Chicago, IL)	Group Show
Feb 2005	Around the Coyote Curators Choice Exhibition (Chicago, IL)	Group Show
Nov 2004	Upper Gallery (Chicago, IL)	Group Show
Jun 2004	Sikora Gallery (Chicago, IL)	Group Show
Feb 2004	Snow Show (Rovaniemi, Finland)	Editor/Writer
Sep 2003	Around the Coyote (Chicago, IL)	Group Show
Apr 2003	Open-end Gallery (Chicago, IL)	Group Show
Aug 2001	Around the Coyote Curators Choice Exhibition (Chicago, IL)	Group Show