Congratulations to Michael C. McMillen on being awarded a 2015 Guggenheim Fellowship! Using found objects and materials amassed over time, McMillen creates multi-sensory installations, assemblages, sculptures, paintings and films that transport the viewer into a made-up world, steeped in nostalgia and completely imagined by the artist. 

With a career spanning over 40 years, he has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. A retrospective of his work was presented at the Oakland Museum of California in 2011. In 2014, McMillen created a site-specific installation titled “The Entropic Taxi; Final Destination” at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, France. His work is currently on view at the Wadsworth Antheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, CT as part of MATRIX, an ongoing curatorial program now in its 40th year at the museum.