Megan and Murray McMillan are multidisciplinary artists who have collaborated since 2002. Working across installation, video, performance, sculpture and photography, they construct temporary architectural environments activated by choreographed and unchoreographed performers. Sets, bodies, objects and moving images function as interdependent elements within works that examine how intimate and collective experience is shaped by systems of observation, memory, technology and belief.
Their work has been presented internationally at the 10th International Istanbul Biennial, the 2nd Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, the SIART Biennale at the National Museum of Art in La Paz, Bolivia, Casa Masaccio Center for Contemporary Art in Italy, Kunsthallen Brandts in Denmark, Nuit Blanche Toronto, Qbox Gallery in Athens and Titanik Gallery in Finland. Their moving-image work has also appeared in exhibitions and festivals throughout Europe and the United States.
In the United States, their work has been exhibited at MASS MoCA, the deCordova Biennial, Eyebeam Art + Technology Center, Ortega y Gasset Projects in New York and Brown University, where their commissioned solo exhibition When We Didn’t Touch the Ground was presented at the Cohen Gallery in the Granoff Creative Arts Center. Their installation In What Distant Sky was included in Explode Every Day: An Inquiry into the Phenomena of Wonder at MASS MoCA. Their two-decade collaboration was the subject of the mid-career survey Some Things We Can Do Together, presented at the New Bedford Art Museum and the Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art.
Recent exhibitions include This Collapsed and Expanding Breath at the Jamestown Arts Center. Their work will be included in Thin Places: Thresholds of Transmission at Emerson Contemporary in Boston in fall 2026. Their work is held in the collections of the State Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki and the deCordova Museum and Sculpture Park.
Megan McMillan is Chair of the Studio Art Department and Professor of the Practice at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University. Murray McMillan is Professor of Art at Roger Williams University. They live and work in Rhode Island.
Contact: meganandmurray@gmail.com