LaJuné McMillian
Visual Arts Residency

LaJuné McMillian is a multidisciplinary artist and educator creating art that integrates performance, extended reality, and physical computing to question our contemporary forms of communication. They are passionate about discovering, learning, manifesting, and stewarding spaces for liberated Black Realities and the Black Imagination. McMillian has had the opportunity to show and speak about their work at National Sawdust, Tribeca Film Festival, Times Square, and the Guggenheim Museum. They were 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 and fellowships at the Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship, Eyebeam, Pioneer Works, NYU ITP, Onassis ONX, NEW INC, and Barnard College.

This residency is organized in partnership with OceanX.