Louise Millmann

 Splitting her time between New York City and Bradley Beach, New Jersey, Louise Millmann is a multidisciplinary artist working in digital photography, collage, and Gelli plate printing. Her art reflects on permanence and transience, particularly through the lens of her identity as a woman navigating shifting cultural narratives since the 1960s.

Her collage practice began in 1997 on Pawley’s Island, South Carolina, where she instinctively arranged magazine clippings on an antique desk. Since then, she has developed a narrative-driven style while “borrowing” studios across the world, transforming ephemera into layered social commentary.

Louise’s work grapples with surreal political realities, addressing issues such as bodily autonomy, education, and media influence. Through self-portraiture, collage, and digital manipulation, she explores nostalgia, resistance, and mythology.

Louise received a four-year photography scholarship to the School of Visual Arts in New York City, where she earned her BFA. For more than three decades, she has taught photography and experimental design at public schools and institutions including The New School, MoMA, the Guggenheim, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art.

Her self-portraits have been exhibited alongside Joseph Cornell at Zeiher-Smith Gallery and featured in the global project A Book About Death. Her work is now held in multiple permanent collections.

Inspired by light and form, Louise reflects on identity, gender, and transformation through her art.

To support herself through college, she performed as a Boy George impersonator at iconic venues including Studio 54, The Palladium, CBGB’s, and The Limelight—a theatrical history that parallels the layered self-exploration in her work.