GRANT GILL
Education ///
MFA Studio Art, University of Cincinnati, College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning, 2019
BFA Photography, Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, 2013
One and Two Person Exhibitions ///
2024
Crimson Special Attack!! Kirenger Dies at Sunset (upcoming), Some Fools Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2023
Glowing Images 2013-2023, The Alice Wilds, Milwaukee, WI
2020
Formation of Iridescent Structures, The Alice Wilds, Milwaukee, WI
2018
Some Gay Icons, 840 Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
All Points North, Maybe, The Waiting Room, Cincinnati, OH
2017
Extra-spectral, Project 1612, Peoria, IL
Flexible Magic, The Neon Heater, Findlay, OH
2016
Levitation in Three Points, 10th Street Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
A Couple of Wavy Lines, Chamber, Milwaukee, WI
2015
New Works: Grant Gill and Kyle Seis, Perspectives Gallery, MIAD, Milwaukee, WI
Group Exhibitions ///
2024
Of Our Time, Fredrick Layton Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
PhotoMidwest 13th Biennial Exhibition, Art Lit Lab, Madison, WI
MARNmentorship Exhibition, Milwaukee Area Resource Network, Milwaukee, WI
2023
Mount Mary Faculty Biennial, Marian Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
Here & Now: Work from MIAD Faculty, Brooke Stevens Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
From This Point Forward, MIAD Gallery at the Ave, Milwaukee, WI
2022
Under the Sun and the Moon, Humble Arts Foundation
2021
A New Day, The Alice Wilds, Milwaukee, WI
Sex Show, Usable Space, Milwaukee, WI
Cabin Fever, Usable Space, Milwaukee, WI
2020
Artists for Action, The Alice Wilds, Milwaukee WI
2019
Never Gonna Give You Up, Var Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
School of Art Graduating MFA Student Showcase, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
2018
Mood Lighting, Like in Your Parents’ Basement in the Mid 90s, The Neon Heater, Findlay, OH
Flock and Fold, SÍM Gallery, Reykjavík, Iceland
2017
One Line Over the Other, Wave Pool, Cincinnati, OH
Prologue, The Alice Wilds, Milwaukee WI
Relevant to the Facts, Fredrick Layton Gallery, MIAD, Milwaukee, WI
2016
Wisconsin Photography, Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI
The Same But Different, Gallery 224, Port Washington, WI
A Great Sum (In Parts), Osnova Gallery, Moscow
Context 2016, Filter Space, Chicago, IL
Vacancies & Vortexes, Skylab Gallery, Columbus, OH
2015
00000 GHOOST $HOW VI, After School Special, Milwaukee, WI
The Future is Now: Group Show, Section A Studio, Brooklyn, NY
2014
00000 GHOOST $HOW V, BORDERLINE and Attic on Walworth, Milwaukee, WI
MIAD Alumni Exhibition, Art Mills, Grafton, WI
Everyday Mysteries, Northwestern Mutual Art Gallery, Cardinal Stritch, Milwaukee, WI
2013
Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts, Emerging Artist Gallery, Brookfield, WI
Juried Senior Exhibition, Fredrick Layton Gallery, MIAD, Milwaukee, WI
Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design Senior Exhibition, Milwaukee, WI
The Magic of Light, PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT
Altered State?, Pocono Art Council, Stroudsburg, PA
Residencies and Programs///
2024
MARNmentorship Program, mentor, Milwaukee Area Resource Network
2018
The Association of Icelandic Visual Artists (SÍM), REK, Iceland
Teaching ///
2019 – present
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design
2020 – 2023
Adjunct Instructor, Mount Mary University
2023
Adjunct Instructor, Bradley University
2019 – 2021
Adjunct Lecturer, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, PECK, School of Art
Adjunct Instructor, Carroll University
2018 – 2019
Graduate Instructor of Record, University of Cincinnati, DAAP, School of Art
Select Lectures, Presentations, and Workshops ///
2024
How to photograph artwork in your studio, gener8tor Art x Sherman Phoenix, Milwaukee, WI
2023
Gallery Talk: Glowing Images, The Alice Wilds, Milwaukee, WI
2020
Artist Talk: Flash Talks, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
2018
Artist Lecture: DISCOURSE, Lillstreet Art Center, Chicago, IL
Artist Talk: The Association of Icelandic Visual Artists (SÍM), REK, Iceland
2016
Artist Lecture: Focus Photography Lecture Series, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Awards ///
2025
Ruth Arts + MIAD Grant
2024
Fellow, gener8tor Art x Sherman Phoenix
2023
Finalist, Critical Mass, Photo Lucida
2021
Finalist, Nō Studios Artist Grant
Finalist, gener8tor Art Fellowship
2019
Emerging Artist Finalist, The Greater Milwaukee Foundation's Mary L. Nohl Fund Fellowship
2015
Mary L. Nohl Suitcase Export Fund
Emerging Artist Finalist, The Greater Milwaukee Foundation's Mary L. Nohl Fund Fellowship
Collections ///
University Club Tower Collection (temporary)
Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Special Collections Library
Print ///
2023
Water~Stone Review, V.26
2021
Sex Show, exhibition publication
2020
HAGS, Collaboration with Kyle Seis, Self-Published
From the New World, The Royal Theatre of La Monnaie, Brussels, Concert Program
2018
Cinematic Light in a World of Blue: Projection and Reflection, Surface, CVSN biennial
2016
collect.give, print benefit for Planned Parenthood Legal Fund
Goodbye Weekend #1, Further West Press, zine
2015
Oranbeg Press, Oranbeg NET 16, Ectoplasm - Curated by Ulrike Biets
Float Photo Magazine, Issue 4, Diminutive
Half-Year (vol. 2), Streit House Space, zine
Online ///
Lenscratch
i like this art
Musée, Triggered
Der Grief Chain
GUP magazine
YET magazine
a new nothing, in conversation with Kyle Seis
Phases Magazine
Streit House Space
Booooooom
The Swap, Collaboration with Kyle Seis
New Directions, Detroit Center for Contemporary Photography
The Future is Now
The Swap, Collaboration with Georgia Lloyd
The Swap, Collaboration with Emily Porter
fly over art
Lenscratch
Press ///
2024
Meet the Local Artists Making Waves, Milwaukee Magazine
Seven Milwaukee artists accepted to gener8tor Art x Sherman Phoenix 2024 Fall Cohort, Urban Milwaukee
2023
Glowing Images at The Alice Wilds, Shane McAdams, Shepherd Express
2017
The Fullest, interview with David Aragon
Pitch Project fair celebrates the art of the book, OnMilwaukee, Bobby Tanzilo
2015
Homesick For Nowhere, Performing For No One, Temporary Art Review, Jenna Knapp
Fav Photos Found In 2015: 75 Photos By 75 Photographers, booooooom, Jeff Hamada
2014
Mystery of the Mundane, Urban Milwaukee, Kat Murrell
Programming ///
2023-present
Blanket Editions, Milwaukee
The Perspectives Gallery MIAD, co-programmer, Milwaukee
Zachary Swearingen: A Retrospective
Zhao Qian: Runny Bunny Bunny Runny
Alayna N. Pernell: Our Mothers’ Gardens
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Erinn Springer: Dormant Season
Joey Borovicka: THHE 7HNOUNE ZOINZZ
Donavon Smallwood: Languor
Useable Space Gallery co-programmer, Milwaukee
Ben Orozco: Sombras
Nomka Enkhee: Listen, there is a horse in my backyard.
Body Builders: Caterina DeRousse and Carter Voras
Every Rock Turns, Each Stick Breaks: Abrahm Guthrie and Daniel Hojnacki
2020
In the Spirit of Queer History, a conversation with FXG Church, The Alice Wilds
2019
SPE Midwest Regional Conference, Review Coordinator, Milwaukee
2017
The Pitch Project Programming Coordinator
The Pitch Project Artist Book Fair, Co-Organizer
Open Studios, a Day of Performances
2013 – 2019
Lenscratch, Creative Director
Content-Aware
The States Project
Written Works ///
Cinematic Light in a World of Blue: Projection and Reflection, Surface: CVSN Anthology, CVSN biennial
Passing Glances, A Person is a Noun Introduction, Dean Jensen Gallery
Interview with David Hilliard, Sum of Our Affections, Lenscratch
Interview with Caroline Tompkins, Rider, Lenscratch
Interview with Mark Dorf, The States Project, Lenscratch