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 in Chicago, New York, and Europe 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 Wolf Notes 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, Bloodlust!, and Entr’acte.
Selected Exhibition
History:
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Nov 2011 |
Surface Tension (Robert Wright Gallery, College of
Lake County, Grayslake, IL) |
Group show |
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Nov 2011 |
Laughter and tears (Pritzker Pavillion, Millennium Park, Chicago, IL) |
Sound installation w/Olivia Block and
Lou Mallozzi |
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Oct 2011 |
Three plus three (Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago,
IL) |
Haptic performance in conjunction with the exhibit Less is More |
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Mar 2011 |
Efface/expunge/erase/delete (Schlössli,
Basel, Switzerland) |
Solo show |
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Spring 2011 |
ConText (Regenstein Library, University of
Chicago, Chicago, IL) |
Solo show |
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Dec 2010 |
Exhibition in a package (Public Surface, Stockholm, Sweden) |
Group show |
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Sep 2010 |
Requiem (Lincoln Park Conservatory, Chicago,
IL) |
Sound installation w/Annie Feldmeier Adams, Steven Hess, Brendan Burke |
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Nov 2009 |
Triptych (Museum of Contemporary Art, 12 X 12
Gallery, Chicago, IL) |
Sound/video installation w/Haptic and Lisa Slodki |
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Nov 2009 |
Fields have Ears (The Cube, Bristol, UK) |
Video |
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May 2008 |
Looptopia (Chicago, IL) |
Group show |
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Oct 2007 |
Studio 207 (Chicago, IL) |
Group show |
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Oct 2007 |
Five Senses (Northbrook Public Library,
Northbrook, IL) |
Group show |
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Sep 2007 |
Echographs (Elastic Arts, Chicago, IL) |
Solo show |
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Aug 2007 |
Chicago City Arts Gallery (Chicago, IL) |
Group show |
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Jun 2007 |
Annie Laurie (cytO
Gallery, Chicago, IL) |
Sound installation |
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Nov 2006 |
Last Word (cytO
Gallery, Chicago, IL) |
Solo show |
|
Nov 2006 |
Art of the Book (Myopic Books, Chicago,
IL)
|
Group show |
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Oct 2006 |
John Galt Gallery (Chicago, IL) |
Group show |
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Sep 2006 |
Around the Coyote (Chicago, IL) |
Group show |
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Jun 2006 |
Salon Show (OAO Galleria, Chicago, IL) |
Group show |
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Mar 2006 |
Spectacle Lunatique (Redmoon
Theater Co., |
Group show |
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Feb 2006 |
Spareroom (Chicago,
IL)
|
Video installation |
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Feb 2006 |
Snow Show 2006 (Torino, Italy) |
Editor/writer |
|
Dec 2005 |
From Nothing (Redmoon
Theater Co., |
Group show |
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Nov 2005 |
Art of the Book (Myopic Books, Chicago, IL) |
Group show |
|
Sep 2005 |
Poem as Image (The Studio, Armonk, NY) |
Group show |
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Aug 2005 |
Filter (Chicago, IL) |
Solo show |
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Jun 2005 |
Myopic Books (Chicago, IL) |
Solo show |
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Apr 2005 |
Sikora Gallery (Chicago, IL) |
Group show |
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Feb 2005 |
Around the Coyote Curators Choice
Exhibition (Chicago, IL) |
Group show |
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Nov 2004 |
Upper Gallery (Chicago, IL) |
Group show |
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Jun 2004 |
Sikora Gallery (Chicago, IL) |
Group show |
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Feb 2004 |
Snow Show (Rovaniemi,
Finland) |
Editor/writer |
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Sep 2003 |
Around the Coyote (Chicago, IL) |
Group show |
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Apr 2003 |
Open-end Gallery (Chicago, IL) |
Group show |
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Aug 2001 |
Around the Coyote Curators Choice
Exhibition (Chicago, IL) |
Group show |