SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2013
Range, PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR

2012
to tease a hummingbird, solo show, James Kelly Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

2011
to tease a hummingbird, solo show, PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
The Literal Line: Minimalism Then and Now, Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Sun Valley, ID
20 in 2011, Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM

2009
Mondrian's Forest, PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
Master Drawings New York: Sol LeWitt – Agnes Martin – Wes Mills, Dickinson, New York, NY.

2007
Apex: Wes Mills, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Restless, Galerie Uschi Kolb, Karlsruhe, Germany
PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR.
Small is Beautiful, Gasser & Grunert, Inc. New York, NY
Jane Highstein, David Ireland, Toshi Miki, Wes Mills, Dwight Hackett projects, Santa Fe NM
Unspeakable: James Castle, Andrea Merrel, Wes Mills, J. Crist Gallery, Boise, ID
New aquisitions, Art Museum of Missoula

2006
Block Party, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles,CA
Line and Surface, works on Paper, Peter Blum, New York, NY
Strange, The Cartin Collection, G fox building, Hartford, CT

2005
Drawn2: Contemporary Drawings, Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
The Cartin Collection, Art Basel / Art + Design, Miami Florida
Drawings from Jan, Dwight Hackett Projects, Santa Fe, NW
Tom Friedman, untitled, Wes Mills, Drawings of Jain, Galerie Albrecht, Munich Germany,
Traces Tracy Williams, Ltd, New York, NY

2004
Contemporary works on paper, Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM
Wes Mills, Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
Works on Paper: A 5th Anniversary Exhibition, (group exhibition) James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
Paper, (group exhibition) Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA. July
Wes Mills: Drawings from the Second Nature, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA
Wes Mills: The Second Nature, James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM

2003
At the Edge of Science, Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Ketchum, ID

2002
Wes Mills: Bitterroot drawings, Joseph Helman Gallery, New York
Anne Appleby, Mala Breuer, Cary Smith, Wes Mills, Galerie Albrecht, Munich Germany
Drawings at the Ice House, The Ice House, Mayfield, KY
Survey, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA

2001
Anne Appleby / Wes Mills, Art Museum of Missoula
Wes Mills: Over the shore line, Galerie Albrecht, Munich Germany
Stuart Arends, Mala Breuer, Wes Mills,Tom Waldron Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
Summer (group exhibition), Joseph Helman Gallery, New York
Survey, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA
Minimal, G. Goldberg, E. Kelly, S. LeWitt, B. Marden, W. Mills, R.Tuttle. Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York, NY
Wes Mills: Drawings, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Gallery Artist, James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM

2000
Wes Mills: at Aurobora Press, San Francisco, CA
Microwave, 123 Watts Gallery, New York, NY
Anne Appleby / Wes Mills New Prints, Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
Wes Mills: Open- Ended, Galerie Albrecht, Munich Germany
Tamarind: Forty Years, University Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM
Mala Breuer, Kate Sheppard, Wes Mills, James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
Wes Mills: Memory line, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA
Paperworks: Group exhibition, Contemporary Arts Society of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Wes Mills: Missoula Drawings, Joseph Helman Gallery, New York, NY
Lasting Impressions: Contemporary prints from the Bruce Brown Collection, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME

1999
Minimal / Emotional: Glen Goldberg, Wes Mills, Xiaobai Su, Galerie Albrecht, Munich, Germany
Wes Mills: 8 Drawings, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
The drawing show, Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Group exhibition, H. Frankenthaler, D. Smith, D. Sultan, M. di Servio, W. Mills, M. Heizer,
Hill Gallery, Birmingham, MI
Wes Mills: Drawings, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Gallery artists, Joseph Helman Gallery, New York, NY
Blue on White: Wes Mills Drawings, James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
Wes Mills: New lithographs, Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, NM
Group drawing show, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
The Art of Drawing, G.Baselitz, James Lee Byars, B. Hunt, P. Kerkaby, A. Martin, W. Mills, S. Polka,
S. Rothenberg, E. Ruscha, D. Smith, C. Twombly, J. Westwater, T. Winters,
James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM

1998
Wes Mills / Julie Allen, Joseph Helman Gallery, New York, NY
Wes Mills: Drawings, Galerie Albrecht, Munich, Germany
Wes Mills: Drawings, Hill Gallery, Birmingham, MI
Wes Mills: Drawings, Joseph Helman Gallery, New York, NY
Works on paper: New acquisitions, Harwood Museum, Taos, NM
Drawing the Primary Sense: Wes Mills, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
Works on paper,Terry Allen, Mala Breuer, Lesley Dill, Wes Mills, Bruce Nauman, Richard Tuttle, Susan Wing, Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM

1997
Wes Mills: Drawings, Galerie Haus Schneider, Karlsruhe, Germany
The Ceramic Project, Howard Yezerski & Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
The Prints of Albuquerque, Richard Levy Gallery & Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, NM. Oct.10 - Nov. 22
General Consensus, D.Judd, E. King, S. LeWitt, A. Martin, W. Mills, F. Sandback, K. Smith,
Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
Art Foundry Editions, L. Benglis, W. Mills, R. Morris, B. Nauman, S. Rothenberg, D. Salle, K. Smith, R.Tuttle, Knoedler & Company, New York, NY
Quasi per gioco, B. Dimitrijevic, A. Di Fabio, B. Michajlov, W. Mills, A.Pagnes. Palazzo Mocenigo, Venezia, Italy June (Catalog)
Contemporary New Mexico Artists: Sketches & Schemas, Sheldon Art Center, University of Nebraska
Drawings, Galerie Albrecht, Munich, Germany

1996
Small Scale: Group Exhibition, Joseph Helman Gallery, New York, NY
Contemporary New Mexico Artists, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
Wes Mills: Drawings, Baumgartner Galleries Inc., Washington, DC
Invitational, J. Allen, D. Levinthal, P. Maione, W. Mills, M. Pellegrin, Joseph Helman Gallery, New York, NY
Drawing, Galerie Albrecht, Munich, Germany
In Pursuit of the Invisible: Selections from the Mickey and Janice Cartin Collection, The Richmond Art Center, The Loomis Chaffee School, Windsor, CT (Catalog)
Works on Paper, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO
Works on Paper: Group Show, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Gt. Barrington, MA
Wes Mills: New Drawings, Laura Carpenter Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
The International Library (with Helmut Lohr), Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN. June
The Rational World: The Drawing Show, Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Works on Paper, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY
Site Santa Fe Award Recipients Exhibition, Santa Fe, NM
Wes Mills: Santa Fe Drawings, Galerie Haus Schneider, Ettlingen, Germany

1995
Wes Mills: My Drawings, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO
Wes Mills: New Drawings, Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Black and White: Drawings, Laura Carpenter Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
Ethereal Materialism: Ava Gerber, Jim Hodges, Siobahn Liddell, Wes Mills, Jessica Stockholder, Richard Tuttle, (Susan Harris, curator) Apex Art, New York, NY
Wes Mills: Recent Work, Berman/Daferner Gallery, New York, NY
Wes Mills:Orchard Drawings, Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
New Drawings on Paper, Laura Carpenter Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM

1993
Win Knowlton, Wes Mills, Sarah Schwartz, Laura Carpenter Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM

1992
Wes Mills, Malcolm Morley, Arnulf Rainer, Ulysses Gallery, New York, NY.

1984
Eighth Annual Small Works Exhibition, Washington Square Gallery, New York, NY.

1982
Invitational Painting Exhibition, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX.
Wes Mills: Paintings and Constructions, Paris Gibson Square Gallery, Great Falls MT.
American Drawings, Portsmouth Community Arts Center, Portsmouth, VA.
Wes Mills: Paintings and Constructions, Cambellsville College, Cambellsville, KY.

1981
Fifth National Painting Exhibition, W.F. Mullaly Galleries, Birmingham, MI.
Appalachian National Drawing Exhibition, Boone, NC.
Appalachian Drawing Exhibition, Traveling Exhibition
Wes Mills: Paintings, Clara M. Eagle Gallery, Murray, KY. September
National Drawing Exhibition, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.
Wes Mills: Pregnant Space, Mason Art Gallery, Murray, KY.

1980
Kentucky Drawing Exhibition, Clara M. Eagle Gallery, Murray, KY.
Dana Heath & Wes Mills, University Art Center Art Gallery, Murray, KY.

1979
Point Dexter Student Show, Point Dexter Gallery, Helena, MT.

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2007
Libby, Brian, “Get in line for Mills,” The Oregonian, July 27
Douglass, Arcy, “The Material World: Wes Mills at APEX and PDX,” PORT, July 23
Motley, John, “APEX, Wes Mills,” The Portland Mercury, July 5 – July 11

2005
Quinn, Elizabeth, “Three Drawings”High Desert Journal . Fall 2005 Issue #2
King Sarah, “Santa Fe summer preview” Art in America Magazine. June/July 2005
Lhamo Rinchen, “Wes Mills, Tom Sather at Dwight Hackett Projects” THE Magazine, July 2005

2004
Reed, Arden, “ Wes Miills at Richard Levy”Art in America Magazine. September 2004
Armitage, Diane, “Wes Mills: Drawings from 1994 to 2004” THE Magazine, July 2004
Cartin, Mickey, “Wes Mills” (cataloge), May 2004
Previews,”Wes Mills,Bridges and the Living Line”, THE Magazine, May 2004
Chicon Rafael , Lloyd, Ann Wilson, “Wes Mills,” (hard cover book) Printed Matter, Inc. 2004

2003
Bailey, Susan, “New Age...” Wood River Journal, November 5, 2003
Pettinger, E.J, “And The Universe Said” Boise Weekly, December 17, 2003
Fallon, Roberta, “Pencil Perfect,” Philadelphia Weekly, April 2, 2003
Chambers, Christopher, “April Picks: Marjetica Potrc, Cecily Brown, Wes Mills...,” NY Arts Magazine, April 2003
Carlisle, Susanna, “Wes Mills: The Second Nature,” THE Magazine, April 2003
McQuaid, Cate, “Meticulous meditations on the Abstract,” Boston Globe, January 3, 2003

2002
Esplund, Lance, “Wes Mills drawings”, Art in America , November 2002
Naves, Mario, “Sweet Somethings of Silk and String” The New York Observer March 2002

2001
Corbett, William, All Prose “Wes Mills” 2001
Kwasny, Melissa, “Anne Appleby & Wes Mills” Catalog essay Winter 2001
McNamer, Megan, “What you see is... what you see” Missoula Independent 2001
Jones, Sherry, “Almost nothing” The Missoulian, November 2001
Esplund, Lance, Writers on Modern Art, Modern Painters , Fall 2001
Bienvenu, Josee “Microwave 3”, (catalog) September 2001
Pulka, W ,“Art Chicago”, Albuquerque Journal, June 3, 2001
Artner, Alan, “Art Chicago”, The Chicago Tribune, May 2001

2000
Esplund, Lance, “Divinations, The enigmatic drawings of Wes. Mills”, Modern Painters Magazine, Autumn 2000
Perl, Jed, “Theory for Gallerygoers, Wes Mills drawings”,The New Republic Magazine, (Review) March 2000
Rubinstein, Raphael, “Surveying the scene, The Whitney biennial” Art in America Magazine. July 2000
Liener, Michael, “Wes Mills New Monotype Drawings” (Catalog essay) November 2000
Bruce, Brown, “Lasting Impressions: Contemporary prints from the Bruce Brown Collection”, (Exhibition catalog)
Glueck, Grace, “ Wes Mills: Missoula drawings” The New York Times, (Review) February 18, 2000
Karlins, N.F, “Wes Mills: Missoula drawings” ArtNet Magazine (Review), March, 2000
Camper, Fred, “ Wes Mills: Missoula drawings”, (catalog) January
2000
Applaus, “Open Ended”, The Munich Paper (Review) May 2000
Bienvenu, Josee, “Microwave 2”, (catalog) September 2000
Levin, Kim, “Village Voice” (Recommended) September 2000

1999
Camper, Fred, “Drawing Us In”, The Chicago Reader, (Review) May 1999
Artner, Alan G, “Wes Mills at Rhona Hoffman”, The Chicago Tribune, (Review) July 1999
Camper, Fred, “Art 1999’s luminaries...”, The Chicago Reader, May 1999
King, Sarah, “Blue on White”, Wes Mills drawings at Jim Kelly Contemporary, Art in America, (Review) July 1999
Carlisle, Susanna, “Blue on White”, Wes Mills drawings” (Review) THE magazine, May 1999
Cross, Guy, “Interview with Wes Mills”, THE Magazine, March 1999
Brack, B., Wes Mills “Winter Drawings” NY Arts Magazine, January 1999
Mark Van De Walle, “Learning to see Slowly: the Drawings of Wes Mills” (Catalog Essay) September 1999

1998
Lloyd, Ann Wilson, “Walking on the Sea” (Catalog Essay) Spring 1998
Wilson, Malin. “Wes Mills’ Drawings: the Taos Years” (Catalog Essay) 1998
Goodman, Jonathan, “Wes Mills at Joseph Helman Gallery”, Art in America Magazine, June 1998
Sussler, Betsy, “Wes Mills”, BOMB Magazine, Summer 1998
Brennan, Michael, “Wes Mills”, (Review) ArtNet Magazine, March 1998
Corbett, Bill, “ Wes Mills drawings at Joseph Helman Gallery”, Arts Media Magazine, March 1998
Johnson, Ken, “ Wes Mills at Joseph Helman Gallery”, The New York Times, February 6, 1998
Walcott, Ellison, “ Wes Mills at Joseph Helman Gallery”, Review Magazine, February 1, 1998
McQaid, Cate, “Wes Mills at Barbara Krakow”, The Boston Globe, January 15, 1998

1997
Kiby, Ulrika, “Wes Mills / Raymond Pettibon at Galerie Haus Schneider”, Flash Art, October 1997
Corbett, Bill, (image) Wes Mills, Lingo Magazine #7, 1997
Adlmann, Jan, Contemporary Art in New Mexico, Wes Mills (p.130-133) 1997 (Hard cover Book)
Pulka,Wesley, “Artist extend textures far beyond surface”, Albuquerque Journal, June 1997
Armitage, Diane, “Drawings About Growth”, THE Magazine, July 1997

1996
Yau, John. “In Pursuit of the Invisible, Selections from the Collection of Janice and Mickey Cartin”,Hard Press, 1996

1995
Tobin, Richard, “Wes Mills and Corin Hewitt at Laura Carpenter Fine Art”, THE magazine,
Wes Mills Innerview”, Interview Magazine, August, 1995
Van de Walle, Mark, “Santa Fe”, Flash Art, Summer, 1995
Crump, James, “Alcove Show, Santa Fe Museum of Fine Arts,” New Art Examiner, March 1995
Adelman, Jan, “Report from Santa Fe,” Art in America, January, 1995
Harris, Susan, “Wes Mills at Berman/Daferner”, Art in America, January, 1995

1994
Ziolkowski, Thad, “Wes Mills”, Artforum Magazine, December 1994
Cross, Guy, “Universe of Wes Mills”, THE Magazine, September 1994
Armitage, Diane, “Exquisite Drawings Gain Power from Vulnerability”, Albuquerque Journal, March 24, 1994
Balsamo, Dean, “New Drawings: Wes Mills, Laura Carpenter Fine Art”, New Mexican
“Win Knowlton, Wes Mills, Sara Schwartz”,Pasatiempo, Santa Fe New Mexican, March 18, 1994

1993
Mark Van De Walle, “Win Knowlton, Wes Mills, Sara Schwartz”, New Art Examiner, May 1993
Van de Walle, Mark, “Win Knowlton, Wes Mills, Sara Schwartz”, THE Magazine, April 1993
Van de Walle, Mark, “Wes Mills”, Artforum Magazine, December 1993
Mentzinger, Bob, “Wes Mills Interview”, The Taos News, May 1993

1992
Ensor, Deborah, “Mill’s drawings: the essence of growing up”,Tempo, Dec. 1992

1981
Lawrence, Janice, “Artist dislikes being stereotyped”, Murray State News, Sept. 1981
Johnson, Barry,“Phyllis George Brown inspects Mills sculpture”, Murray State News, Oct. 1981

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Art Museum of Missoula, Montana
Harwood Museum of Art, University of New Mexico, Taos
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Museum of Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME