Adia Millett, originally from Los Angeles, California, received her MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. In 2001, she moved to New York City for the prestigious Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, followed by the Studio Museum in Harlem residency program. Millett has been a standout in numerous group exhibitions, including the well-received “Greater New York” show at MoMA PS1 in Long Island City, New York, and “Freestyle” at the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York. She has been included in exhibitions at the Barbican Gallery in London; the Craft and Folk Museum in LA; the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Atlanta; the Santa Monica Museum of Art; and the Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans. Millett has taught as an artist in residence at Columbia College in Chicago, UC Santa Cruz, Cooper Union in NY, and California College of the Arts. Millett currently lives and works in Oakland. Learn More about Adia Millett here. 

Photos courtesy Francis Baker Photography and David Magnusson Photography