Represented by New York gallery Taxter & Spengemann since 2005, Wardell Milan has created several bodies of work that explore visual ideas of masculinity and femininity and their relationship to beauty, intelligence and athletic prowess. Included in P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center’s 2005 Greater New York exhibition, Black Alphabet, Zacheta National Gallery of Art in Poland and a 2007 Artist-in-Residence at The Studio Museum in Harlem, Milan has exhibited extensively in the United States and abroad and is in the collections of The Studio Museum in Harlem, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art. Milan was also included in The Studio Museum in Harlem’s exhibition celebrating the centennial of the birth of visual artist Romare Bearden this fall. His work will also be a part of a group show titled Don’t Get High On Your Own Supply at David Castillo Gallery in Miami through December 31, 2011.