Exhibition Statement

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In my work, I create art objects teeming with personal history. By combining pieces of visual memory and imagination, I embody memory and the human form in my work to arouse visceral sensations felt within the body. My intuitive and imaginative art making process helps me digest my human experience. Materiality, volume, and texture inform my work by replicating the passion, the excitement, the warmth, and the fear attached to the remnants of memory. It contains what I find light and heavy, beautiful and ugly and explores places between foreign and belonging.

 

About the Artist

 

Milan Warner is a Maryland-based multimedia artist whose primary practice centers on sculpture. Drawing deeply from her formative years, Warner’s work explores memory, materiality, and the interplay between personal and cultural identity. Her installations often engage the viewer through an intuitive relationship with space, form, and tactile experience. Her debut solo exhibition, Where growths sleep but cannot dream debuted at MoCA Arlington. 

 

Warner received her B.A. in Studio Art from the University of Maryland in 2021. That same year, she completed her first public sculpture as an artist-in-residence at Franconia Sculpture Park in Shafer, Minnesota. In 2022, she held a short-term residency at the Arlington Arts Center (now the Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington), where she is currently a long-term resident, continuing to develop an expansive and materially rigorous body of work. 

 

Warner served as the 2025 Program Coordinator for the Sparkplug Artists’ Collective—DCAC’s long-running incubator for contemporary visual artists. Warner also completed curatorial projects which includes Here & Where? (Jeffrey Berg and Sally Veach), Within a Dazzle (Qrcky), Pushing the Envelope (Kirk Knoll), Turning Back a Page (Julia Porcari), and Closer beyond; further within featuring The DC Arts Center’s 2025 Sparkplug Artists Collective.