BIOGRAPHY
For many years I have enjoyed photographing the research collections of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. Over the past few years my work at the museum has taken a new and exciting direction: I have begun using an X-Ray machine in the department of Physical Anthropology as my camera. In making these images I am making what amounts to an X-Ray photogram. I place the material directly on the loaded packet of X-Ray film and then make the exposure. I use the X-Ray machine to photograph the internal structures of plant and insect material in order to capture images that reveal the beauty of natural forms usually invisible to the eye. In a wonderful marriage of science and art, an unseen microcosm emerges from within the complexity of botanical forms. What is predictable, common and familiar is transformed into a world of newly discovered pleasures.
BORN 1945
EDUCATION
Cleveland Institute of Art, BFA, 1990
Case-Western Reserve University, MA, 1969
Smith College, BA (Art History), 1967
SELECTED
2007
Flowers; KMR Arts, Washington Depot, Connecticut
Optic Explorations / Nesting; Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY
2005
Between Science and Art: X-Ray Photographs of Judith K. McMillan, Bates College, Lewiston, ME
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2004
New Work, X-Ray Photographs of Judith McMillan, Cleveland Botanical Cleveland, OH
Judith McMillan, Gallery V, Columbus, OH
Photovision, Thrive: An Art Space, Cleveland, Ohio
Between Science and Art: X-Ray Photographs of Judith K. McMillan,
University of Richmond Museum, Richmond, VA
Wright Museum of Art, Beloit College, Beloit, IL
United States Botanic Garden, Washington DC
2003
Optic Exploration: Photographs, Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA
Between Science and Art: X-Ray Photographs of Judith K. McMillan,
United States Botanic Garden, Washington DC
Between Science and Art: X-Ray Photographs of Judith K. McMillan,
The Peggy Notebaert Nature Center, Lincoln Park, IL
2002
Judith McMillan: Photographs, Hubert Gallery of Fine Art, New York, NY
Between Science and Art, Hopkins Gallery, Cleveland, OH
1999
Working in Series, The Bonfoey Gallery, Cleveland, OH
Optic Explorations, Cleveland Museum of Natural History
Unnoticed Landscapes and Other Work, Lightkeepers Gallery, Lakewood, OH
Collected Works, Wingspread Gallery, Northeast Harbor, ME
Unnoticed Landscapes, Garden Center of Greater Cleveland
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008
"In the Gardeon", Massillon Museum, Massillon, Ohio
2006
"Flowers", Galerie Negulesco. Munich, Germany
"20/30 Vision: An Anniversary Celebration"; Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY
"Fine Photographs"; AMW, Birmingham, AL
2004
"57 on 57th"; Bonni Benrubi Gallery, NYC, NY
"In Light"; MB Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
2003
Louis Boston, Boston, MA
Sailor's Valentine Gallery, Nantucket, MA
Object lessons, Everson Museum of Art
Botanica, Tulla Booth Gallery, NY
Photography Past & Present, Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA
2002
Paris Photo VI, Caroussel de Louvre, The Louvre, Paris, France
Alternative Images, The Light Factory, Charlotte, NC
Black and White; South Wing Gallery, Cleveland, OH
2001
Summer Salon IX: New Pictures, Bonni Benrubi Gallery, NYC
Summer Salon IX, Bonni Benrubi Gallery, NYC
2000
Inner Visions, Cypress College Photography Gallery
1998
Drawn Together, The Cleveland Museum of Art
Settings By Eight, Kent State University
1996
73rd Annual Spring Show, Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA
Images From the Heart, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
1995
72nd Annual Spring Art Show, Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA
Gallery Artists, Wingspread Gallery, NE Harbor, ME
1994
Photo Opportunity, Cleveland Center of Contemporary Art
Twenty Fourth Annual Spring Show, Willoughby Fines Arts Association, Willoughby, OH
Landscape of the Mind, Great Northern Corporate Center, OH
Six State Photography, FAVA Gallery, Oberlin, OH
Who's Zoo?, Mansfield Art Center, OH
1993
The May Show, Cleveland Museum of Art
Envisioned in a Pastoral Setting, Burlington, VT
1992
69th Annual Spring Show, Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA
1991
26th Annual Photography Show, Jewish Community Center, Cleveland, OH
Six State Photography, FAVA Gallery, Oberlin, OH
1990
Fine Arts Juried Exhibition, Willoughby Fine Arts Association
Fantasy of the Eye, Great Northern Corporate Center, OH
McMillan-Matia Show, The Garden Center of Cleveland, OH
1989
McMillan-Shiverick Show, Intown Club, Cleveland, OH
Photography x 3, Turtle Gallery, Deer Isle, ME
10 Cleveland Women, Cleveland Photographic Workshop, OH
1988
The May Show, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
COLLECTIONS
Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH
Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Cleveland, OH
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH
Cleveland Public Library, Cleveland, OH
University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH
Kaiser Permanente Medical Center
Hahn, Loeser and Parks, Cleveland, OH
Greenleaf Capital Management, Cleveland, OH
Sawyer Research, Cleveland, OH
Wastequip, Inc., Cleveland, OH
Everson Museum, NY
Progressive Collection, Cleveland, OH
Ferro Corporation, Cleveland, OH
Biomec, Inc, Cleveland, OH
Pfizer Corporation, New York, NY
Private Collections
AWARDS
2000 Individual Artist's Grant, Ohio Arts Council
Chilcoate Foundation Award, Cleveland Institute of Art
1996 Golden Light Award, Maine Photographic Workshop, Rockport, ME
1992 Best of Show, Photo Opportunity, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, OH
1990 Juror's Award, 69th Annual Spring Show, Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA
1988 Ralph Marshall Award for Excellence in Photography, Cleveland Institute of Art
PUBLICATIONS
"Judith McMillan"; Exhibition Review by Poebe Hoban ARTnews February 2008
Picture Perfect by Stephanie Hoppen, Aurum Press, 2004
The Gardner's Life, Laurence Sheehan, Clarkson Potter, New York 2004
Flora: A Contemporary Collection of Floral Photography, Graphis Photos, 2001
Hunting Valley, A History, by Diana Tittle and Mark Gottlieb, 1999
Golden Light Award Winner's Catalog, Maine Photographic Workshops, 1998
Settings by 8, New Work by Northern Ohio Women Photographers, Kent State Press
Images from the Heart, Emmerson Press, Cleveland, OH, 1995
Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Annual Report, 1990-1991