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 work explores identity, gender, permanence, and transformation, reflecting on her experience as a woman navigating shifting cultural narratives since the 1960s.

Louise began making collages in 1997 and has since developed a narrative-driven practice that transforms found imagery and ephemera into layered social commentary. Through self-portraiture, collage, and digital manipulation, she addresses bodily autonomy, education, media influence, nostalgia, resistance, and mythology.

A graduate of the School of Visual Arts, Louise has taught photography and experimental design for more than three decades at public schools and institutions including The New School, MoMA, the Guggenheim, and the Brooklyn Museum. Her work has been exhibited alongside Joseph Cornell, featured in the global project *A Book About Death*, and acquired for multiple permanent collections.

While attending college, she also performed as a Boy George impersonator at venues including Studio 54, CBGB’s, and The Limelight—a theatrical history that echoes the layered exploration of identity in her art.