Kristen Mills

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Kristen Mills is an interdisciplinary visual artist who splits her time between the Hudson Valley and Brooklyn, New York. Her work engages a variety of strategies—video, installation, comedic performances, and teaching—in an ongoing investigation into what makes something believable. As part of her studio research, she has been an artist-in-residence at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Vermont Studio Center, Sculpture Space, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, MacDowell, and the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program. Mills gained her first museum show at the Delaware Contemporary in 2017, with her collaborative project, Sister Spaceship. She has also held solo exhibitions at PRACTICE Gallery in Philadelphia, Ortega y Gasset Projects in Brooklyn, and Turley Gallery in Hudson.

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A Poet Asks an Interdisciplinary Visual Artist: Kristen Mills

Kristen MillsSarah Audsley  | 
Issue 75.1 Fall 2025

My work can fall into the surreal, like a dream logic, but I feel that my work is most effective, or the strongest, when logic is applied to illogical situations.