Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.
Education
2005 MFA in Studio Art, Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, VT
2000 UCLA Dept. of Architecture and Urban Design
2000 BA in Studio Art, University of California, Santa Barbara
1996 University of California, Irvine
Teaching/Lectures
2015-Current Department Chair of Visual Arts, Harvard-Westlake School
2011 Visiting Artist Lecturer/Instructor, CSU Bakersfield
Artist Lecturer, CSU Dominguez Hills
Artist Lecturer, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH
Artist Lecturer, Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, FL
2010 Artist Panel, LA Sculpture: Panel with Ed Schad, Jeff Poe, Kathryn Andrews, Gustavo Godoy, and
Piero Golia, Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles
Solo Exhibitions
2019 “The Prototype,” Mt. San Jacinto College Art Gallery
“The Prototype,” Bakersfield Museum of Art, Bakersfield
2015 “Moves After Dark: Restructure,” BodyTraffic/Victor Quijada, The Music Center, Los Angeles
2014 “Restructure,” Dance Camera West, The Music Center, Los Angeles
“Abandoned Relics,” Art on the Outside, City of West Hollywood
2013 “Fast-Formal Object: Big Blue,” The Ranch Projects, Morongo Valley
2012 “Vacant Mounds and Markers,” Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles
2011 “Empty Altar/Empty Throne,” MOCA Jacksonville, FL
“Fast-Formal Object: Big Blue,” Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles
“Empty Altar,” Todd Madigan Gallery, CSU Bakersfield, CA
“Fast-Formal Object: Flayed White,” LA Mart, Los Angeles
2010 “Fast-Formal Object: Flayed White,” Wexner Center for the Arts
“Fast-Formal Object: Big Blue,” Prism Gallery, Los Angeles
“Fast-Formal Object: Act Two,” Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles
“Fast-Formal Object: Big White,” Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles
2007 “What’s the Big Idea?” The Happy Lion, Los Angeles
Group Exhibitions
2022 “Faculty Feature,” Feldman-Horn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2020 “Artists Series, Vol. 1.” Foam Corp Gallery, Venice, CA
2018 “Recent Acquisitions,” Palm Springs Museum of Art, Palm Springs, CA.
2017 “Pacific Standard Time LA/LA - Pablo Rasgado: This Too Shall Pass,” Steve Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“All The Small Things,” Steve Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“In Order of Appearance,” Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2016 “Hello my name is...Los Angeles,” Royale Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2012 “NeoNatural,” Steve Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“Tag, you’re it!” Royal/T, Culver City, CA
“Don’t the Sun look Angry at Me: pictures and objects from Los Angeles now,” Royale Projects
“Urban Legends,” LA Mart, Los Angeles
2011 “Sur: Biennial,” Outpost For Contemporary Art, Cerritos College, Rio Hondo College, Los Angeles
“Playtime,” See Line Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“Plenitude,” Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX
2010 “It Ain’t Fair,” OHWOW, Miami, FL
“Baker’s Dozen,” Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA (catalogue)
“You Can Heal Your Life!” Circus Gallery, Los Angeles
2008 “L.A. Confidentiel,” Le Parc Saint Léger - Centre d’art contemporain, Pougues-les-Eaux, France
2007 “One Foot High And Rising,” The Balmoral, Venice, CA
“The Happy Lion at MACO,” (site specific project) Mexico Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City
2006 “Sculpture,” Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
“One of these things is not like the Other,” Angela Hanley Gallery, Los Angeles
“Carmada,” MAK Center Center for Art & Architecture, Schindler House, Los Angeles, CA
“Five Sculptors,” Workspace @ 91 Meserole St., Brooklyn, NY
“Young Americans,” Chinatown Project Space, Los Angeles
“Drawing and Sculpture,” The Happy Lion, Los Angeles
“TBA,” Angela Hanley Gallery, Los Angeles
“A Single Channel Video Show,” The Glendale College Art Gallery,Glendale,CA
“Small Works,” 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA
“Uncontained,” Wood Art Gallery, Vermont College, Montpelier, VT
2004 “General Store: The Four Color Pen Show,” Locust Projects, Miami, FL
“General Store: The Four Color Pen Show,” General Store Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2002 “Public Space: Artist/Architect Collaboration,” UCLA
1999 “En LA Casa,” home takeover installation, West Hollywood, CA
1998 “Gustavo Godoy: Paint/Wood,” Fine Arts Gallery, UCSB
“Honors Last Show,” UCSB
1997 “Inside Out,” public installation, University of California, Irvine
“Centered Around the Center,” Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, CA
Exhibitions Curated
2007 “Fleeing the Scene,” 5 Los Angeles artists: Robert Levine, Pentti Monkkonen, Monique
van Genderen, Tyler Vlahovich, and Brian Wills, The Happy Lion, Los Angeles, CA
Bibliography
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Penner, Degan. "Step Inside Chris McMillan's West Hollywood Home," C Magazine, May 2017.
2012 Cerritos College Art Gallery, James MacDevitt. “Gustavo Godoy,” The 1st Los Angeles SUR:biennial-
Adaptation : Assimilation : Acculturation, exhibition catalog, May 2012.
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2007 ArtSlant, “Forget it Jake, it's Chinatown: My Day at Happy Lion and Black Dragon Society,” 2007.
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Collections
MOCA Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL
Palm Springs Museum of Art, Palm Springs, CA
Tom Ford and Richard Buckley, Beverly Hills, CA
Steven Biller, Palm Springs, CA
Honor Fraser and Stavros Merjos, Ojai, CA
Robert Galstian, Los Angeles, CA
La Coleccion Jumex, Mexico City
John McIlwee and Bill Damaschke, Los Angeles, CA
Chris McMillan, Los Angeles, CA
Phillip Niarchos, Paris, France
Sarah Watson, Los Angeles, CA