Lorna Mills

Excerpt from Ways of Something, episode 3 — a dense collage of animated web imagery.
Minute 24, Episode 3 of Ways of Something, a networked remake of John Berger’s Ways of Seeing, curated and compiled by Lorna Mills, 2016 (Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art)

Canadian artist, Lorna Mills has actively exhibited her work in both solo and group exhibitions since the early 1990's. Her practice has included obsessive Ilfochrome printing, obsessive painting, obsessive super 8 film & video, and obsessive on-line animated GIFs incorporated into restrained off-line installation work. Past exhibitions include “Dreamlands” at the Whitney Museum, NY, “Yellowwhirlaway” at the Museum of the Moving Image, NY, “The Great Code” at Transfer Gallery, NY and, currently, “Sea Change” at the Pérez Art Museum Miami.

She curated “Ways of Something”, a remake of the 1972 John Berger documentary “Ways of Seeing” episodes one through four, featuring over 115 networked artists and WellNow.wtf, a sprawling netart project co-curated with Faith Holland and Wade Wallerstein.

Her Gif collages have recently been included in PHAIDON's “Vitamin C+ Collage in Contemporary Art”, “Digital Art” (2023 edition) by Christiane Paul and Taschen’s “On NFTs” edited by Robert Alice.

Installations and multi channel works

Danse du chimère

2024

(Collection of the Royal Bank of Canada)

Installation view from the RBC head office in Toronto
Danse du chimère, 3840 x 720 px

Living in Loops

2024

curated by Robert Seidel for tangente digital art, Jena, DE

Frank’s Stylist is Me

2023

Love Sugar

2019

Universal Iris

2021

Return of Mom

2021

Legendary Weave

2025

Ungentrified

2014 – present, 6 channel projection installation w/ multi channel CRTs

Front left projection from installation
Front right projection from installation
Top left panoramic GIF from installation
Bottom left panoramic GIF from installation
Top right panoramic GIF from installation
Top right panoramic GIF from installation

Volare, Oh Oh

Commission for First Look at the Museum of the Moving Image, NYC

(Collection of EQBank)

Ethereal Imperial

2017, Six channel monitor installation

Commissioned for Giphy's 5th anniversary exhibition

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Petting Zoo: Epic Biblical

2020

Installed on LED wall at NYU Tandon School of Engineering

Petting Zoo: Noble Orphans

2020

Also curated by Erandy Vergara for ISEA 2020 "Why Sentience"

(In the collection of the Thoma Foundation)

Petting Zoo: Condo Prison

2021

commissioned by GOGBOT Festival in Enschede, The Netherlands September 9 to 12, 2021.

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Ghost Jets

flying across the north facade of the Everson Museum in Syracuse, NY. Presented by Light Work Urban Video Project.

Cerebralconcrete

2019

part of Supersynthese. 2019 curated by Vincent Auvray and touring through Normandy, FR.

At play in the Fields of the Lord

2015

Party Believer
Where Music Is
Histokay
Love Itch