Millie Wilson

2025 Stepping Stone Grantee

Millie Wilson is an artist and teacher who lives and works in Austin, Texas. Wilson's practice encompasses a variety of media and incorporates modernist and minimalist traditions alongside postmodern strategies that use humor, parody, and recontextualized objects and imagery to question stereotypes and conventional ideas about sexuality, femininity, race, and class. An influential pedagogue, Wilson taught generations of artists as a faculty member in the Program of Art at the California Institute of the Arts (1985–2014). A retrospective of her work, Millie Wilson: The Museum of Lesbian Dreams, was organized by David Evans Frantz in 2024 for the Krannert Art Museum at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her work is represented in the collections of the Hammer Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, UC Irvine Langson Orange County Museum of Art, Henry Art Gallery, and The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery.