About
Kali McMillan is a photographer, curator, archivist, art historian, and urban sociologist. Her artwork centers around the experiences of humans and the spaces they inhabit. 
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Education
2019 MA, Photography and Urban Cultures from Goldsmith’s College
“Emily in Covington: The Visual Evidence of the Transformation of People and Place through the Situated Archive”
2013 MLitt, History of Art and Art World Practice: Modern and Contemporary Art from University of Glasgow (at Christie’s Education in London)
“‘How Ya Like Me Now?’: Redefining Black Identity through Contemporary Art”
2010 BA, Art and Art History from Colgate University
Residencies
2021 Together, Separately. Cel del Nord, Barcelona. Online.
Awards
2011 Autumn 2011 Emerging Photographer. Milk Gallery Underground, New York City.
Talks and Lectures
2021 Guest Lecturer and Crit for BA Photography. UWL, London.
2021 Photoland Talks. Urban Photographers Association. Photography and Autobiography. Online.
2020 Personal Horizons Symposium. Goldsmiths College, London.
2019 Visions of Space Symposium. Sorbonne, Paris.
Solo Exhibitions
2011 "Ordinary Beauty of Africa" ALANA Cultural Center at Colgate University, Hamilton NY (20 pieces)
Group Exhibitions
2024 “CUCR: 30 Years of Urban and Community Research”, Goldsmith’s College, London.
2024 “The Decisive Moment”, Notting Hill Arts Club, London.
2022 “Bodies of Knowledge,” SHOWstudio, London (online).
2023 “Bodies of Knowledge,” SOMETHING gallery, Abidjan
2019 “A Shifting Crowd”, Peckham Levels, London.
2014 “Hold Still, Keep Going”, Bolyki Fine Art Gallery, Toronto.
Juried Exhibitions
2023 “NEXT: Reimaging the future through art,” Ellarslie: Trenton City Museum, New Jersey (one film).
2015 “...Of Color: The African American Experience”, Juror, Wendell Brooks, Ellarslie: Trenton City Museum, Trenton, New Jersey (three pieces).
2011 Milk Gallery Underground: the industry’s most progressive and innovative emerging photographers, New York City, NY (one piece).
2011 “Memories of Russell (Aldo Murray)” Art in the Atrium Morristown, NJ (eight pieces).
2010 The Brodsky Center Gallery at the Heldrich New Brunswick, NJ (6 pieces).
2009 Avenue of the Arts, Juror: Michael Graves, West Windsor Arts Council, Princeton, NJ.
2007 and 2009 Photography Exhibit, Mercer County Community College, NJ (two pieces).
2009 Alcatel-Lucent: Women’s History Month traveling exhibit, Photography, NJ, ID, TX, Canada (eight pieces).
2007 “Out of Africa: African and African American Women Artists”, Raritan Valley College: (nine pieces).
2006 Art from the Motherland. Three women exhibit, Arts Unbound, Orange, NJ.
2006 Lucent Technology: Black History Program, Alcatel-Lucent, NJ.
2006 Drexel University’s High School Photography Contest Exhibition, Philadelphia.
2006 “Salon de Hightstown”, Peddie School, Hightstown, NJ.
2004-2009 Various exhibitions, Gallery 125, Trenton, NJ (six pieces).
Curator of Exhibitions
2017 Africa Now!: Contemporary Art by African Women, Ellarslie Trenton City Museum, NJ.
Black History Month Exhibition, Munich Re America, New Jersey, 2017.
2011 WW33, West Windsor Arts Council, New Jersey.