Straddling traditional disciplinary boundaries, Cristin Millett’s investigations of medicine and its history are integral to her artistic process. Her toolkit of sculptural processes incorporates new advances in digital technology along with established methods of sculpture such as stone carving and bronze casting. The resulting objects and installations prompt a contemporary cultural critique of societal issues surrounding reproduction and gender identity.
Cristin was awarded a Fulbright to the University of Western Australia in 2020. For her Fulbright, she will be an artist in residence at SymbioticA, an artistic laboratory dedicated to research and hands-on engagement with the life sciences. At SymbioticA, she will study the science of ectogenesis, the augmentation or replacement of the fecund uterus by a machine. The outcome of her research will be the creation of a sculptural artwork titled Ex-Utero. Ex-Utero will prompt questions and conversations about the socio-cultural impact of ectogenesis, a science with far-reaching implications that will change the future of humanity.
Cristin’s artwork has been widely exhibited, including at the Villa Strozzi, Florence; the International Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago; the Exploratorium, San Francisco; and the Mütter Museum, Philadelphia. She is an Embedded Faculty Researcher in the Arts + Design Research Incubator and a Professor of Art in the School of Visual Arts at Penn State.
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Education
- BFA from Ken State University
- MFA from Arizona State University
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Courses Taught
- Graduate Sculpture
- Advanced Sculpture
- Installation Art
- Found + Fabricated
- Metal Casting and Moldmaking
- Beginning Sculpture
- Ideas as Objects
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Honors + Awards
2019–20
- Fulbright U.S. Scholar Grant, Research Scholar at the University of Western Australia, Perth
2018 & 20
- SymbioticA artist residency, Perth, Australia
2016–20
- Embedded Faculty Researcher, Arts + Design Research Incubator, Pennsylvania State University
2019
- Best of Show, (Eric Walton, juror) radius250, artspace, Richmond, VA
2018
- Faculty Research Grant, College of Arts and Architecture, Pennsylvania State University
2016
- Emerging Women Artists 2016 Publication Fellowship, Peripheral Vision Arts
- Artist Opportunity Grant, Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Juror’s Choice Award, (Kim Larson, juror) Sacred and Profane, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, California
2015–16
- Digital Stone Project artist residency, Garfagnana Innovazione, Gramolazzo, Italy
2014
- Individual Faculty Grant, Institute for the Arts & Humanities, Pennsylvania State University
2007
- Individual Creative Artists Fellowship, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
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Exhibitions + Productions
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020
- Coronal Plane, artspace, Richmond, Virginia
2019
- Ex-Utero, Olin Art Gallery, Washington & Jefferson College, Washington, Pennsylvania
2018
- Coronal Plane, Schmucker Art Gallery, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania (catalog)
2016
- Coronal Plane, Asymmetrick Arts, Rockland, Maine
2010
- Teatro Anatomico: Spectacle of the Anatomy Theater, Lord Hall Gallery, University of Maine, Orono, Maine
2009
- Identities, Anne Ruder Bever Gallery, Fitton Center for Creative Arts, Hamilton, Ohio
- Cristin Millett: Teatro Anatomico, Moreau Art Gallery, St. Mary’s College, Notre Dame, Indiana
2007
- Teatro Anatomico, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, Michigan
2006
- SOLOS 2006, Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, Virginia
2005
- Medicine and the Body, International Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago, Illinois
- Teatro Anatomico, Esther Klein Art Gallery, University City Science Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Bodies in Crisis, ATHICA: Athens Institute for Contemporary Art, Athens, Georgia
SELECTED INVITATIONAL EXHIBITIONS
2019
- Le Pietre Splendenti, Castiglione di Garfagnana, Italy (catalog), curator: OXO Gallery
2018
- Ferrous Wheel, Mahady Gallery, Marywood University, Scranton, Pennsylvania
2017
- Silence is Death, The Vanderelli Room, Columbus, Ohio
2016
- Hard Copy, Sala Ex Marmi, Pietrasanta, Italy (catalog)
- AAP New Member Group Exhibition, The Mine Factory, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2015
- Marble Codes, Giardino di Villa Strozzi, Florence, Italy (catalog)
- Distilled in the Desert, Grant Street Gallery, Phoenix, Arizona
- Resisting Entropy, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, Maine
2014
- Cast Iron Traveler, Sabile Jewish Synagogue Contemporary Art and Heritage Site, Sabile, Latvia
2011
- Dislocation, Bruce Gallery, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, Edinboro, Pennsylvania
2009
- Americana, The Front Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana
2007
- Double X, Step Gallery, Tempe, Arizona
- Body Anxious, Cressman Center Gallery, Louisville, Kentucky
- Pitch, Yaw, and Roll, d’Art Center, Norfolk, Virginia
2006
- FAT: A Fusion of Art and Technology, School of Art Gallery, California State University, Fresno, California
- Light/Sound/Action: Art and Technology, Edith Barrett Gallery, Utica College, Utica, New York
SELECTED JURIED INVITATIONS
2019
- Truth as a Contested Concept, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
- Fierce-Women in Iron, Prarie Center of the Arts, Peoria, Illinois
- enGENDERing Change, Cloyde Snook Gallery, Adams State University, Alamosa, Colorado
- Refreshing Feminism, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
- radius250, artspace, Richmond, Virginia, juror: Eric Walton
2018
- The Shape of Change, Cade Center Gallery, Arnold, Maryland
- 96th All Media Exhibition, Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan
- Defining Form, The Untitled Space, New York, New York
- 2018 Currents, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, New York (catalog
- That’s What She Said, AFA Gallery, Scranton, Pennsylvania (catalog)
2017
- She Inspires, The Untitled Space, New York, New York
- Visions 2017: Food for Thought, Sechrest Art Gallery, High Point University, High Point, North Carolina
2016
- Sacred and Profane, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, California (catalog)
- Three Rivers Arts Festival’s Juried Visual Art Exhibition, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Hole History, Asymmetrick Arts and Win Wilder Hal, Rockland, Maine (catalog)
- Figure Out, Tapp’s Arts Center, Columbia, South Carolina
2015
- Old Enough to Know Better, Crane Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (catalog)
- Gendered Perspectives: An Investigation of Contemporary Identities, Bradley University Galleries, Peoria, Illinois
- Sanctus, Curious Matter, Jersey City, New Jersey (catalog)
- Art + Science, Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, New York
2013
- The FL3TCH3R Exhibit: Social and Politically Engaged Art, Tipton Gallery, Johnson City, Tennessee
2011
- Rarely Seen: Hidden Collections of the Mütter Museum, The Mütter Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2008
- Naked, Sixth Street Gallery, Vancouver, Washington
2007
- A Sense of Place 2007, Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art, Augusta, Georgia
2006
- Art Politic, Metropolitan Center for the Visual Arts, Gaithersburg, Maryland
- Time’s Body of Evidence, Wright State University Art Galleries, Dayton, Ohio
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Publications + Presentations
PUBLICATIONS
- Millett, Cristin. “The Uncanny (Un)Reality of Krista Hoefle.” Uncanny Congruencies. Ed. Micaela A. Amato.
- University Park: Penn State Univ, 2013. 56-61. Print.
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
2019
- Ceroplastics: International Congress on Wax Modelling, Padua, Italy
2018
- Washington and Jefferson College, Washington, Pennsylvania
- Quite Frankly: It’s a Monster Conference, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
- The 8th International Conference on Contemporary Cast Iron Art, Scranton, Pennsylvania
- Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
2017
- Ceroplastics: International Congress on Wax Modelling, London, England
- 73rd Annual Southeastern College Art Conference, Columbus, Ohio
- Presidential Visiting Scholar, Clarion University, Clarion, Pennsylvania
2016
- Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, Kutztown, Pennsylvania
2014
- 7th International Conference on Contemporary Cast Iron Art, Pedvale Open Air Museum, Latvia
2010
- The State of Sculpture Conference, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
2009
- Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington
2008
- University of Maine, Orono, Maine
2007
- Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, Michigan
- University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky
2006
- Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, Virginia
- Metropolitan Center for the Visual Arts, Gaithersburg, Maryland
2005
- ATHICA: Athens Institute for Contemporary Art, Athens, Georgia
2004
- Tri-State Sculptors 26th Annual Conference, North Carolina School of the Arts, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
- Munson Williams Proctor Art Institute of Pratt University, Utica, New York
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Expertise
- Sciart
- Art and Science
- Bioart
- Medicine and Art
- Reproductive Health
- Human Reproduction
- Sculpture
- Foundry
- Metal Casting
- Installation Art
- Mixed Media Art
- Found Object Art
Collected Works
