# Sherry Millner

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**Sherry Millner** (born in Brooklyn, New York) is an American artist working primarily in [video](/source/Video_art). She has also worked in photography and [installation art](/source/Installation_art).

## Career

Millner has been producing films, videos, and [photomontages](/source/Photomontages) since the mid-1970s. In the 1980s she was part of the first generation of feminist [video artists](/source/Video_artists), along with [Vanalyne Green](/source/Vanalyne_Green) and [Cecelia Condit](/source/Cecelia_Condit).[1] Her work explores motherhood, the family, and its relationship to the militarized State, using a combination of satirical humor, analysis, and personal insight. She often collaborates on videos with her partner, the novelist and media critic Ernest Larsen.[2]

Millner's work has been included in numerous exhibitions at venues such as the [Whitney Museum of American Art](/source/Whitney_Museum_of_American_Art) (including two consecutive [Whitney Biennial](/source/Whitney_Biennial) exhibitions), [The Museum of Modern Art](/source/The_Museum_of_Modern_Art), and the [Institute of Contemporary Art](/source/Institute_of_Contemporary_Art,_Philadelphia). In 2011, her work was included with that of [Superflex](/source/Superflex), [Libia Castro, Ólafur Ólafsson](/source/Libia_Castro_and_%C3%93lafur_%C3%93lafsson) and others in an international exhibition curated by [Oliver Ressler](/source/Oliver_Ressler) and Gregory Sholette, *It's the Political Economy, Stupid: The Global Financial Crisis in Art and Theory*. The exhibition travelled to venues in New York, Chicago, Vienna, Greece, Finland, Serbia, and Croatia.[3] In 2013, her work was included with that of [Jeremy Deller](/source/Jeremy_Deller), [Mike Figgis](/source/Mike_Figgis) and others in *Economy*, an exhibition which travelled to the Stills Gallery in Edinburgh and the [Centre for Contemporary Arts](/source/Centre_for_Contemporary_Arts) in Glasgow.[4]

Her photomontages have been reproduced in many journals and anthologies; she was represented along with [Barbara Kruger](/source/Barbara_Kruger), [Susan Meiselas](/source/Susan_Meiselas), [Carrie Mae Weems](/source/Carrie_Mae_Weems), and others in Diane Neumaier's anthology, *Reframings: New American Feminist Photographies* (Temple University Press, 1995).[5] She has received grants and fellowships from the [New York Foundation for the Arts](/source/New_York_Foundation_for_the_Arts),[6] the [Jerome Foundation](/source/Jerome_Foundation),[7] the [NYSCA](/source/NYSCA), [Long Beach Museum of Art](/source/Long_Beach_Museum_of_Art), and the [Ucross Foundation](/source/Ucross_Foundation), among others.[8] Her work has been widely reviewed and referenced by critics and art historians in books, journals, and periodicals.[9][10][11][12][13][14]

Millner has taught media courses at College of Staten Island, [City University of New York](/source/City_University_of_New_York), the New York Arts Practicum, and elsewhere. In recent years she has focused on [curation](/source/Content_curation). In January 2016, she and Larsen released the first of a three-disc DVD set that forms a curated history of the films of political resistance: *Disruptive Film: Everyday Resistance to Power, Vol. 1*.[15] This was based on their work as curators of the "Border-Crossers and Trouble-Makers" program at the Oberhausen Film Festival in 2008.[16] They also programmed the 2013 [Robert Flaherty Film Seminar](/source/Robert_Flaherty_Film_Seminar).[17]

## Filmography

Millner's work is distributed by [Video Data Bank](/source/Video_Data_Bank).[2]

Year Film Length Type 1983 Womb with a View 00:40:00 Color 1985 Scenes From the Microwar 00:23:30 Color, Stereo with Ernest Larsen 1986 Out of the Mouths of Babes 00:24:00 Color 1992 The Art of Protective Coloration 00:16:00 Color, Stereo with Ernest Larsen 1996 Unruly Fan/Unruly Star 00:16:10 Color, Stereo 2000 41 Shots 00:14:00 Color, Mono with Ernest Larsen

## Selected exhibitions

- 1987: *CalArts: Skeptical Belief(s)*, [Renaissance Society](/source/Renaissance_Society), Chicago[18]
- 1987: [Biennial Exhibition](/source/Whitney_Biennial), [Whitney Museum of American Art](/source/Whitney_Museum_of_American_Art), New York[19]
- 1988: *Investigations 27: Fast Forward, New Video*, [Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia](/source/Institute_of_Contemporary_Art,_Philadelphia)[20]
- 1989: [Biennial Exhibition](/source/Whitney_Biennial), [Whitney Museum of American Art](/source/Whitney_Museum_of_American_Art), New York[21]
- 1989: *Sherry Millner Retrospective* at The Kitchen, New York[22]
- 1989: *Literacy on the Table: Cultural Fluency and the Act of Reading*, [Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center](/source/Hallwalls_Contemporary_Arts_Center), Buffalo[23]
- 1989: *Social Engagement: Women's Video in the 80's* (New American Filmmakers Series), [Whitney Museum of American Art](/source/Whitney_Museum_of_American_Art), New York
- 1990: *Image World*, [Whitney Museum of American Art](/source/Whitney_Museum_of_American_Art), New York
- 1990: *Video and Myth*, [The Museum of Modern Art](/source/The_Museum_of_Modern_Art), New York[24]
- 1990: *The Decade Show: Frameworks of Identity in the 1980s*, New York, [The New Museum](/source/The_New_Museum)[25]
- 1992: *Re-Mapping Cultures*, [Whitney Museum of American Art](/source/Whitney_Museum_of_American_Art), New York
- 1993: *Video Viewpoints*, [The Museum of Modern Art](/source/The_Museum_of_Modern_Art), New York[26]
- 1998: *New Documentary Film & Video*, [The Museum of Modern Art](/source/The_Museum_of_Modern_Art), New York
- 2011: *It’s the Political Economy, Stupid: The Global Financial Crisis in Art and Theory*, traveling exhibition[3]
- 2013: *Economy*, Edinburgh, Glasgow[4]

## Publications

- Millner, Sherry (1985). ["Interview with Christine Choy"](https://books.google.com/books?id=310bAQAAIAAJ). *Jump Cut: Hollywood, Politics, and Counter Cinema*. Steven, Peter (ed.). Praeger. pp. 158–170. ISBN 9780030019647.
- Millner, Sherry (2000). ["Wired for Violence"](https://books.google.com/books?id=yL7V1R3rfrUC&pg=PA61). *Digital Desires: Language, Identity and New Technologies*. Cutting Edge Women's Research Group (ed.). I.B. Tauris. pp. 61–77. ISBN 9781860645754.
- Millner, Sherry & Larsen, Ernest (2000). "Mapping the New New World". *[Art Journal](/source/Art_Journal_(College_Art_Association_journal))*. **59** (3): 54–58. College Art Association. [doi:10.1080/00043249.2000.10792012](https://doi.org/10.1080/00043249.2000.10792012). [JSTOR 778027](https://www.jstor.org/stable/778027). [S2CID 191580819](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:191580819)
- Millner, Sherry & Larsen, Ernest (2002). ["41 Shots"](http://publicculture.org/articles/view/14/2/41-shots). *[Public Culture](/source/Public_Culture)*. **14** (2): 305–310. Duke University Press. [doi:10.1215/08992363-14-2-305](https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-14-2-305). [S2CID 201767170](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:201767170)

## References

1. Aufderheide, Pat & Zimmerman, Debra (2004). "From A to Z: A Conversation on Women's Filmmaking". *[Signs](/source/Signs_(journal))*. **30** (1): 1455–1472. U of Chicago Press. [doi:10.1086/421889](https://doi.org/10.1086/421889). [JSTOR 10.1086/421889](https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086%2F421889). [S2CID 143494082](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:143494082)

1. ["Sherry Millner"](http://www.vdb.org/artists/sherry-millner). *Video Data Bank*

1. ["It's the Political Economy, Stupid"](http://www.gregorysholette.com/?page_id=1724). *GregorySholette.com.com*. 2013.

1. ["Economy"](http://www.e-flux.com/announcements/economy/). *e-flux*. 2013.

1. Neumaier, Diane (1995). [*Reframings: New American Feminist Photographies*](https://archive.org/details/reframingsnewame0000unse). Temple University Press. ISBN 9781566393324.

1. ["NYFA Directory of Artists' Fellows 1985-2013"](https://s3.amazonaws.com/NYFA_WebAssets/Pictures/6b2ad3f7-2970-4032-9d75-d886c72943cd.pdf). *New York Foundation for the Arts*. 2013.

1. ["New York EXPO Exposes Shorts"](http://www.documentary.org/feature/new-york-expo-exposes-shorts). *International Documentary Association*. January 1, 1998.

1. ["Department of Media Culture: Sherry Millner"](https://csivc.csi.cuny.edu/mediaculture/files/faculty/millner.html). *CSI/CUNY*

1. Bloom, Lisa E. (2013). [*Jewish Identities in American Feminist Art: Ghosts of Ethnicity*](https://books.google.com/books?id=4UK0AAAAQBAJ&pg=PA117). Routledge. pp. 12, 117–118. ISBN 9781134695669.

1. Cotter, Holland (March 1, 1987). ["Video Series Blends Art and Politics"](https://www.nytimes.com/1987/03/01/arts/video-series-blends-art-and-politics.html). *The New York Times*

1. Cotter, Holland (July 29, 1994). ["Art in Review"](https://www.nytimes.com/1994/07/29/arts/art-in-review-017701.html). *The New York Times*

1. Rosenberg, Howard (July 10, 1996). ["How to View TV in Three Easy Lessons"](https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-07-10-ca-22607-story.html). *Los Angeles Times*

1. Smith, Roberta (January 10, 1992). ["Art in Review"](https://www.nytimes.com/1992/01/10/arts/art-in-review-478992.html). *The New York Times*

1. Suderburg, Erika (2000). [*Space, Site, Intervention: Situating Installation Art*](https://books.google.com/books?id=l3CwSWamWVwC&pg=PA182). U of Minnesota Press. pp. 16, 179, 181–184. ISBN 9780816631599.

1. ["Disruptive Film: Everyday Resistance to Power Vol. 1"](http://www.facetsdvd.com/product-p/dv102386.htm). *Facets Label*. 2016.

1. ["Theme 2008"](http://www.kurzfilmtage.de/en/festival/looking-back/2008/theme/). *Oberhausen International Short Film Festival*

1. ["Flaherty NYC Fall 2013 Series Inspires Dialogue About Global Revolts"](https://web.archive.org/web/20160324035121/http://www.pbs.org/pov/blog/tag/sherry-millner/). *PBS*. September 30, 2013. Archived from [the original](https://www.pbs.org/pov/blog/tag/sherry-millner/) on March 24, 2016.

1. ["CalArts: Skeptical Belief(s)"](http://www.renaissancesociety.org/exhibitions/346/calarts-skeptical-beliefs/). *The Renaissance Society*. 1987.

1. Armstrong, Richard (1987). *1987 Biennial exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York*. Whitney Museum of American Art. [OCLC 15224263](https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/15224263)

1. ["Investigations 27: Fast Forward, New Video"](http://icaphila.org/exhibitions/1892/investigations-27-fast-forward-new-video). *ICA Philadelphia*. 1988.

1. Armstrong, Richard (1989). *1989 Biennial exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York*. Whitney Museum of American Art. [OCLC 24695859](https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/24695859)

1. Grundberg, Andy (November 17, 1989). ["Video Is Making Waves in the Art World"](https://www.nytimes.com/1989/11/17/arts/video-is-making-waves-in-the-art-world.html?pagewanted=all). *The New York Times*

1. ["Literacy on the Table: Cultural Literacy and the Act of Reading"](http://www.hallwalls.org/media-arts/1857.html). *Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center*. 1989.

1. ["Video and Myth"](https://www.moma.org/momaorg/shared/pdfs/docs/press_archives/6745/releases/MOMA_1989_0112_120.pdf?2010). *The Museum of Modern Art*. 1989.

1. ["The Decade Show: Frameworks of Identity in the 1980s"](http://archive.newmuseum.org/index.php/Detail/Occurrence/Show/occurrence_id/195). *The New Museum Digital Archive*. August 19, 1990.

1. ["Video Viewpoints Begins Fifteenth Season"](http://www.moma.org/momaorg/shared/pdfs/docs/press_archives/7073/releases/MOMA_1992_0081_60.pdf?2010). *The Museum of Modern Art*. 1992.

## Further reading

- Liss, Andrea (2009). [*Feminist Art and the Maternal*](https://books.google.com/books?id=wQ_EbappjiUC&pg=PA7). University of Minnesota Press. pp. 5–11. ISBN 9780816646227.
- Mitchell, Lisa Meryn (2001). [*Baby's First Picture: Ultrasound and the Politics of Fetal Subjects*](https://books.google.com/books?id=DXOTFVRJYv8C&pg=PA204). University of Toronto Press. pp. 203–204. ISBN 9780802083494.

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