Artist Bio

Ms. Mills was born in Ohio into the well-known Mills Brothers Circus family, where both performing and visual arts were admired and encouraged. She holds a BFA in performing arts and a Masters in choreography. As a self-taught painter, Mills has developed a style distinctly her own. She currently resides in Santa Fe, NM.

Artist's Statement

My work stems from my need and desire to simplify and reduce each moment to its absolute essential by removing details from life that tend to obscure what is truly being experienced. I also aim to bear witness to, and often elevate in beauty, what is frequently considered unwanted or held in despair. I work with oil on various surfaces such as canvas, linen, birch panel, paper, and sometimes cardboard, as I am drawn to different surfaces and the way in which the paint soaks in or lays on them. I often use many layers of oil paint, believing that color carries emotional content and memory (along with beauty), even if it's buried within layers of color upon color...

Gigi Mills

Curriculum Vitae

Solo Exhibitions (selected)

2023 "Bodies of Water", GF Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM

2022 “10 Weeks of Summer” (October) GF Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM

2021 “Gigi Mills Solo” (October) Gallery Orange, New Orleans, LA

2021 “Magpie” (July) GF Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM

2020 “The Small Space” (October) GF Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM

2019 “Prima Materia” (September) GF Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM

“Gigi Mills Solo” (May) Gallery Orange, New Orleans, LA

2018 “Bird” (September) GF Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM

“Following the River” (March) Gallery Orange, New Orleans, LA

2017 “The Solace of Imperfection” (July) GF Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM

2016 “The Surrender” (July) GF Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM

“Things That Were Never Mine” (April) Gallery Orange, New Orleans, LA

2015 “Land and Seascapes” (September) GF Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM

2014 “Exhibitionism: Paintings” (August) GF Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM

2013 “Gigi Mills Solo” (November) Gallery Orange, New Orleans, LA

“The Deep South and Other Stories” (March) Gallery Orange, New Orleans, LA

2012 “Complexity of Simplicity” (November) Selby Fleetwood Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

“Less is More” (March) Gallery Orange, New Orleans, LA

2011 Galerie Concha de Nazelle,Toulouse, France

2010 Selby Fleetwood Gallery, Santa Fe,NM

2009 Zhangjiajie, Peoples Republic of China

2008 Tichava-Mills Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM

2006 Aftermodern, San Francisco, CA

2005 Giacobbe-Fritz Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM

2004 Giacobbe-Fritz Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM

Group Exhibitions (selected)

2023 Context Art Miami, Emmanuelle G.
2023 New York Art on Paper, Emmanuelle G.

2022 Santa Fe Playhouse workshop

Artwork selected (Fishing/ Shrimp Fly) by director Catherine Hardwicke

2021 New York Art on Paper, Emmanuelle G. Contemporary

Bryant St. Gallery, Palo Alto, CA

2020 New York Art on Paper, Emmanuelle G. Contemporary

2019 New York art On Paper, Emmanuelle G. Art

2018 Scope Miami, Emannuelle G. Art

New York Art on Paper, Emmanuelle G. Art

2017 Gallery Orange, New Orleans, LA

2013 Gallery Orange, two man show

2011 Selby Fleetwood Gallery, two person show

Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA

2010 Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA

2009 Tichava-Mills Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM

2007 The Florence Biennial, Florence, Italy

The Biltmore, Art and Cuisine, Phoenix, AZ

Maya, Abiquiu, New Mexico

Publications

2023 Tidings of Magpies, Art and Culture, E-Pub

2022 Art and Antiques, Featurette

2020 The Santa Fean, August/September

2017 The Santa Fean, June/July

2016 American Art Collector, Article/Feature, July

2016 Monocle, May

2016 The Santa Fean, June/July

2015 Heeduk Ra, poetry (Korea) 17paintings, Spring

2014 THE MAGAZINE, Review, October

2013 Gigi Mills, 108 Pg. Published By T. Gielbert, January

2012 Art New Orleans, article & photo, Winter

2011 American Art Collector, article, photos, August

2011 Arts-Up, review, www.arts-up.com, June

Interview w/Arts-Up www.arts-up.com, June

2010 American Art Collector, article, photos, November

2008 Su Casa Magazine, photo, Spring

2007 Catalogue of the Biennale Internazonale, Florence, Italy, November

2007 Pasatiempo (cover and article), Santa Fe, June

2006 San Francisco Examiner (review and article), San Francisco, CA (June)

2005 Focus Magazine, (article) Santa Fe, NM, January

2002 Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Quarterly, Fall

Museum and Corporate Collections

21C Louisville Collection: https://'nyurl.com/24n59vz8

Media/Radio

2021 Interview with Mark Oppenheimer

2020 Less than Half, “Women of the Southwest” www.lessthanhalf.org

2017 Interview with Art Fusion, Santa Fe, NM, October

2017 Interview with Arts Alive Santa Fe, NM, July

2009 Interview with China Radio International, May

Education

BFA in Theater College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM

MA in Choreography University of New Mexico, ABQ., NM

Gigi Mills

Sea and Rock/Sunning, 2023