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LaJuné McMillian

LaJuné McMillian is a new media artist, and Creative Technologist creating art that integrates performance, extended reality, and physical computing to question our current forms of communication. McMillian has shown and spoke about their work at Pioneer Works, National Sawdust, Leaders in Software and Art, Creative Tech Week, and Art && Code’s Weird Reality. The artist was previously the Director of Skating at Figure Skating in Harlem, where they integrated STEAM and Figure Skating to teach girls of color about movement and technology. They have continued their research on Blackness, Movement, and Technology during residencies at Eyebeam, Pioneer Works, Barbarian Group, and Barnard College.

Exhibitions

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LaJuné McMillianTo See for Oneself

October 29 – January 9, 2027

New York City
Opening reception: Thursday, October 29, 6–8PM

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Encoded: Art With No Boundaries

December 4 – February 22, 2025

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LaJuné McMillian and Marguerite Hemmings, Antidote, 2020

LaJuné McMillian & Marguerite HemmingsAntidote

August 6 – October 22, 2022

New York City

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LaJuné McMillian
<em>Embodied Metadata</em>
Installation view
bitforms gallery, New York
June 23 - July 30, 2022

LaJuné McMillianEmbodied Metadata

June 23 – July 30, 2022

New York City

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Auriea Harvey, The Mystery (v3)

NADA New York 2022

May 5 – May 8, 2022

NADA, New York City

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News & Press

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October 2, 2026

LaJuné McMillian at Floyd Bennett Field – Public Arts FestivalTomorrow evening, see work by LaJuné McMillian at the Floyd Bennett Field. Public Arts Festival in Brooklyn.
Jamaica Bay-Rockaway Parks Conservancy: “Then as night falls, projection mapping will enliven the Hangars with color, motion, sound, and storytelling.”

Admission is free and open to the public.

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May 21, 2025e-flux

Digital Witness – Review by Brian Droitcour“Digital Witness: Revolutions in Design, Photography, and Film” is an exhibition about the digital as a medium, and it is every bit as ambitious, rewarding, and frustrating as you might expect.

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January 15, 2025Guggenheim Museum

2025 YCC Artist Collaboration with LaJuné McMillianFor this year’s Young Collectors Council (YCC) Party, the artist will take over the iconic Guggenheim rotunda, making it an arena for a collective experience of “motion witnessing.” Syncing different technologies, McMillian will transform the environment into a fractalized universe liberated from limitations of space, time, and other constructs.

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February 2, 2024Jacob’s Pillow: YouTube

Inside the Pillow Lab: LaJuné McMillianFor this project, LaJuné McMillian is developing “Spirit and Child”, a series of prayers between Child and Spirit, presented as a live motion capture performance and installation. via YouTube

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September 22, 2023DiMoDA

DiMoDA 4.0: Dis/Location Performances: Spirit and Child by LaJuné McMillianSpirit and Child is a series of prayers, poetic exchanges between the characters of Child and Spirit that are presented as a live motion capture performance and installation. A healing ceremony unfurls as Child extends gratitude to Spirit for holding them through times of struggle and abandonment.

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August 15, 2023Jacob’s Pillow

Pillow Lab: LaJuné McMillianLaJuné McMillian earned a residency at Jacob’s Pillow, which takes place November 8 – 19, 2023. Their work will be on view November 18, 2023 in Brooklyn.