E D U C A T I O N
2007 M.F.A. with Honors, Photography - Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Providence, RI
1998 B.A. with Honors, Studio Art and Hispanic Studies - Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
E X H I B I T I O N R E C O R D
Solo*/Two-person shows
2022 Mount Analogue, Workspace, Lincoln, NE*
2021 Mount Analogue, Filter Space, Chicago, IL*
2020 Mountains + Valleys, Red Door Gallery, Bradley University, Peoria, IL*
2018 Air/Plains, SFO Museum, San Francisco, CA*
Mount Analogue, Holding House, Detroit, MI*
Mountains + Valleys, McHenry County College, Crystal Lake, IL*
2016 No Man's Land (with Theresa Ganz), Chazan Gallery, Providence, RI
Millee Tibbs, Appalachian Center for Craft, Tennessee Tech University, Smithville, TN*
Frontier Horizon, 621 Gallery, Tallahassee, FL*
2015 Expansion, Estrella Mountain College, Avondale, AZ*
Mountains + Valleys, Wiseman Gallery, Rogue Community College,, Grants Pass, OR*
Mountains + Valleys, Park National Bank Art Gallery, UC Clermont, Cincinnati, OH*
2014 From the Mountains, Robert F DeCaprio Art Gallery, Moraine Valley Community College, IL*
Altered Landscapes (with Ernest Zarate), Viewpoint Photographic Art Center, Sacramento, CA
Ausencia, La Paternal Espacio Proyecto, Buenos Aires, Argentina*
Extending in Both Directions (with Victoria Burge), Grizzly Grizzly, Philadelphia, PA
2013 Strapped (with Lauren Kalman), ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL
2011 This is a picture of me, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR*
2010 Still and Present (with Andrew Doak), Elaine L. Jacob Gallery, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
This is a picture of me, Photography Gallery at Riley Hall, Notre Dame Univ., Notre Dame, IN*
Millee Tibbs, Humble Arts Foundation, NY (online)*
2009 What’s Left Behind (with Adam Lampton), Stonehill College, Easton, MA
IMAGE/ IMAGED/ IMAGINE (with Lauren Kalman), Fort Point Art Center Gallery, Boston, MA
This is a picture of me, University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, Lowell, MA*
2000 El Vestidor (The Dressing Room), Centro Cultural de España, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic*
Selected Group Shows
2022 Conscious Response: Photographers Changing the Way We See, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
I Hear America Singing, Columbus Musem of Art, Columbus, OH
2021 I Hear America Singing, Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts, Amman, Jordan
2020 In-Camera, Form and Concept Gallery, Santa Fe, NM [indefinitely post-poned due to COVID19]
2019 Living Mountains, Lianzhou Foto Festival, Lianzhou, China
Five Years of Photography, Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA
MOPLA, Arena1 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Intersections: Here/There, InLiquid Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
The Fragment As, Bert Green Fine Art, Chicago & Sierra College, CA
2018 The Woods, The Yard, Brooklyn, NY
From Ansel Adams to Infinity, Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA
Betwixt, Jamestown Art Center, Jamestown, RI
Fields of Vision, Deedee Shattuck Gallery, Westport, MA
Written into Rock, Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor, MI
2017 Landmark, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
Deception, Filter Space, Chicago, IL
To the End of the Earth, Detroit Artist Market, Detroit, MI
On Freedom, Aperture, New York, NY
On Beauty, Group Show #53, Humble Arts Foundation, New York, NY (online)
Yellow Bridge, Le Kabinet D'Estampes, Brussels, Belgium
In Pieces, Elain L Jacob Gallery, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
2016 Photography and America's National Parks, George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY
Landmark, Yosemite Museum, Yosemite National Park, CA
Atypical Topographies, Cloyde Snook Gallery, Adams State University, Alamosa, CO
The Bright Invisible, Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, Shanxi province, China
Exchange Rate: The Bushwick International Exposition with Wasserman Projects and Butter Projects, ArtHelix, Bushwick, NY, 2016
Size Matters, Medium Festival of Photography, Low Gallery, San Diego, CA, 2016
SPE Combined Caucus Exhibition, National SPE Conference, Las Vegas, NV and Living Arts, Tulsa, OK
Deal With It!, Maake Magazine and the Woskob Family Gallery, The Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA
Transitional Landscape, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
Lens 2016, Perspective Gallery, Evanston, IL
The West, Drive-By Projects, Watertown, MA
Processed Landscape, HERE Arts Center, NYC, NY
2015 Impossible Geometries, Field Projects, NYC, NY
Inland Experience, McGrath Gallery at Bellarmine University, Louisville, KY
Atmosphere, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI
Field Study, Filter Photo Festival, David Weinberg Photography, Chicago, IL
Biennial 28, Southbend Museum of Art, IN
Re-Visioning the West, University Art Gallery, New Mexico State University, NM
Material World, Indianapolis Art Center, Indianapolis, IN
Wild at Heart: Our Affair with Nature, Artspace, Raleigh, NC
Deviance Teaches, Charm Will Make You Sick, Sweatshop Gallery, Omaha, NE
Allegorical Place, Ann Arbor Center, Ann Arbor, MI
2014 Uprise for Norwood, Norwood, NYC, NY
New Cats in Art Photography, Humble Arts Foundation, NYC, NY (online)
After Ansel Adams, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
20th Juried Exhibition, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA
MIA (Moving Art Image), The Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA (Screening)
2013 Range, Butter Projects, Royal Oak, MI
Roadside Attraction, Drive-By Gallery, Watertown, MA
Character Study, DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Licoln, MA
Blooms/Bugs/Beasts, Scarab Club, Detroit, MI
2012 I'm not Like Everybody Else, Teapot Gallery, Cologne, Germany
The Whiteness of the Whale, Pool Art Fair, Miami, FL
America in View: Landscape Photography 1865 to Now, RISD Museum, Providence, RI
Small Works, Flash Forward Festival, Magenta Foundation, Boston, MA
George Gregory / Lauren Kalman / Millee Tibbs, ROY G BIV Gallery, Columbus, OH
Momentum: 2012 Women's Caucus for Art, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
Time Flies, Drive-By Gallery, Watertown, MA
Wassaic Summer Festival, Wassaic, NY
12 x 12, 515 Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
2011 Four Photographers, Mary Ryan Gallery, NY
The Darkside of Home, Cushing Martin Gallery at Stonehill College, Easton, MA
Finding a Way, Chazan Gallery, Wheeler School, Providence, RI
RISD Faculty Biennial, RISD Museum, Providence, RI
2010 Who am I?, Drive-By Gallery, Watertown, MA
EXPOSURE: The 15th Annual PRC Juried Exhibition, Photographic Resource Center at Boston University, Boston, MA
2009 Digital to Physical, Anderson Ranch Art Center, Snowmass Village, CO
The Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY
Just Look at Yourself! Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME
2008 Self and Others, David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University. Providence, RI
Pawtucket Foundation Prize Exhibition, Pawtucket, RI (Grand Prize Recipient)
Spring Collection: A View from Two Providence Artists, Gallery 104, Providence, RI
Positive Negative 23, Slocumb Galleries, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN
2007 Biennial 2007, New Hampshire Institute of Art. Concord, NH
Crossroads, Rhonda Schaller Studio, New York, NY
Phantom Limb, 55 Mercer Gallery, New York, NY
Annual Rhode Island School of Design Graduate Student Exhibition, Rhode Island Civic Center, Providence, RI
Yes (to Everything), Winkleman/Plus Ultra Gallery, New York, NY
Imago: The Drama of Self-Portraiture in Recent Photography, Paul Robeson Gallery, Newark, NJ
Fidelity Investments 9th Annual Juried Exhibition, Providence Art Club, Providence, R
2006 30 Under 30, Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RI
Body: Focus, The Sol Koffler Gallery, RISD, Providence, RI
2005 The Fall, The Sol Koffler Gallery, RISD, Providence, RI
Photography Department Triennial, The Woods-Gerry Gallery, RISD, Providence, RI
Ten Alumnae/I, The James W. Palmer Gallery, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
2003 National Biennial of Visual Arts, Museum of Modern Art, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
R E S I D E N C I E S
2022 SAGA Artist in Residence, NORDPhotography, Inderøy, Norway
PLAYA, Summerlake, OR
2019 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA), VA / CSG Fellow
2018 Marpha Foundation, Mustang Province, Nepal
2017 MacDowell Colony, NH / Evelyn Steffanson Neff Fellow
2015 Brush Creek Artist Residency, WY
Surel's Place, ID
Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, NM
2014 La Paternal Espacio Proyecto, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, VA
2013 Art Farm, NE
Stonehouse Residency, CA
2012 Jentel Artist Residency, WY
2011 MacDowell Colony, NH
Wassaic Project, NY
2010 Santa Fe Art Institute, NM
A W A R D S/ F E L L O W S H I P S
2020 Arts and Humanities Research Support Grant, Wayne State University
2016 Research Enhancement Program Grant, Wayne State University
2015 University Research Grant, Wayne State University
Faculty Creative Research Grant, Wayne State University
2014 Puffin Foundation West Grant, Columbus, OH
Research Enhancement Program Grant, Wayne State University
ISE Cultural Foundation Grant
2012 Faculty Creative Research Grant, Wayne State University
2008 Pawtucket Foundation Prize
2007 Award of Excellence, Rhode Island School of Design
Toby Devon Lewis Fellowship Nominee, Rhode Island School of Design
Curator’s Choice Award, Fidelity Investments 9th Annual Juried Exhibition – Works on Paper
2006-2007 Dorothy Evans Fellowship, Vassar College
2005-2007 Rhode Island School of Design Graduate Fellowship
1998 Weitzal-Barber Art Travel Prize. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York.
C O L L E C T I O N S
Detroit Institute of Arts
Chrysler Museum
George Eastman Museum
Portland Art Museum
RISD Museum
Fidelity Investments Permanent Collection
Museum of Contemporary Photography (Midwest Project 2013-2016)
P U B L I C A T I O NS
AINT-BAD Magazine, No. 14, 2019
Schmidt, Kyra. "Breaking the Mold: Millee Tibbs on Photographic Mediation and Digital Truth," AINT-BAD, May 31, 2019
George, Daniel. “Photographers on Photographers: Daniel George on Millee Tibbs,” Lenscratch, August 18, 2018
DeGalan, Clara. "80 Millee Tibbs," Essay'd 3: 30 Detroit Artists., Wayne State Press, 2018
Feinstein, Jon & Olu, Amani, ed. Humble Cats, Yoffy Press, 2017
Allen, Jamie. Picturing America's National Parks, Aperture, 2016
Pictures of Me, Blue Sky Books, 2016
90 Seconds, PaperSafe Magazine, Issue 6, March, 2016
Maake Magazine, Issue 2, December, 2015
The Dialogist: A Quarterly of Poetry and Art, Vol. II, Issue IV, June 2015
The Peter Urban Legacy Exhibition, The Griffin Museum of Photography, 2014
The Hand Magazine, Issue #5, July 2014
F-Stop Magazine, Online Publication, Issue #65, July 2014
Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism, online portfolio, February 2014
Alter Ego, Kiernan Gallery, 2013
2010/2011, Blue Sky Gallery: Oregon Center for Photography, 2012
PMS 485 C, Issue 1: Women in Photography, 2012
The Collector's Guide to New Art Photography, Vol.2, Humble Art Foundation, 2011
PRC Juried Publication, Photographic Resource Center at Boston University, 2009
Imago: The Drama of Self-Portraiture in Recent Photography, Paul Robeson Gallery, Newark, 2007
R E V I E W S
Ross, Megan. "Exhibition: From Ansel Adams to Infinity at the Chrysler Museum," Lenscratch, Nov. 7, 2018
DeGalan, Clara. "To the End of the Earth @ Detroit Artist Market," Detroit Art Review, Sept. 24, 2017
Snoekx, Kurt, "Le Kabinet crosses the Atlantic: Yellow Bridge," Bruzz, June 2-8, 2017
Volmer, Susanne, "No Man's Land at Chazan: Ganz and Tibbs Make It Their Own," ArtScope, November/December 2016
Zak Hansen, “UAG displays a new vision of the West,” Las Cruces Bulletin, May 15, 2015
S. Derrickson Moore, “Re-visioning the West’ artists offer new perspectives on the West,” Las Cruces Sun News, May 21, 2015
Chip Schwartz, "The Scenes Aren't All They Seem at Grizzly Grizzly," Knightarts.org, March 6, 2014
Emily Macaux, "Surveying the Terrain at the RISD Museum's 'American View: Landscape Photography 1865 to Now," Dailyserving.com, An International Publication for Contemporary Art, November 8, 2012
Mark Feeney, "America in View at RISD discovers country's landscapes," Boston Globe, September 29, 2012
Gilsdorf, Bean, "This is a Picture of Me", 2.20/From a Distance, artpractical.com, June 2011
John Motley, "Millee Tibbs: 'This is a picture of me' at Blue Sky Gallery -- photos give view into fractured identity", Oregonlive.com, Special to the Oregonian, June 29, 2011
Delarte, Alonso , “Photographers ponder questions of identity in new exhibit,” The Examiner, Detroit, October 31, 2010
Feeney, Mark, “PRC’s juried exhibit defies definition,” Boston Globe, May 9, 2010
McQuaid, Cate, “Constructing Feminity”, Boston Globe, September 2, 2009
Van Siclen, Bill, “The Camera Never Lies... or Does it?” Providence Journal, June 26, 2008.
Cook, Greg, “Great pretenders: Photographic self-examination at the Bell Gallery,” The Providence Phoenix, June 10, 2008
Cook, Greg. “Next. Now,” Providence Phoenix, 2007.
Rodriguez, Bill. “Fresh Views”, Providence Phoenix, 2006.
Norris, Doug. “Young Artists Reveal Edgy Dimension”, South County Independent, 2006.
Veneziale, Marcella. “Ten Alumnae/i” Exhibits Works”, The Miscellany News, 2005.
G A L L E R Y A F F I L I A T I O N S:
Uprise Art, NYC
F L A T F I L E S / A R C H I V E S:
Pierogi 2000, Brooklyn
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum
NURTURE Art
T E A C H I N G E X P E R I E N C E:
2017-now Associate Professor & Area Coordinator, Photography, Wayne State University, Duffy Dept. of Art & Art History
2011-2017 Assistant Professor, Photography, Wayne State University, Duffy Dept. of Art & Art History
2007-2011 Adjunct Faculty, Rhode Island School of Design, Photography Department
2010 Adjunct Faculty, University of Rhode Island, Art & Art History Department
2008-2009 Adjunct Faculty, Brown University, Visual Arts Department
2008 Adjunct Faculty, Northeastern University, Art + Design Department
2007-2008 Adjunct Faculty, Community College of Rhode Island, Art Department
2007 M.F.A. with Honors, Photography - Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Providence, RI
1998 B.A. with Honors, Studio Art and Hispanic Studies - Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
E X H I B I T I O N R E C O R D
Solo*/Two-person shows
2022 Mount Analogue, Workspace, Lincoln, NE*
2021 Mount Analogue, Filter Space, Chicago, IL*
2020 Mountains + Valleys, Red Door Gallery, Bradley University, Peoria, IL*
2018 Air/Plains, SFO Museum, San Francisco, CA*
Mount Analogue, Holding House, Detroit, MI*
Mountains + Valleys, McHenry County College, Crystal Lake, IL*
2016 No Man's Land (with Theresa Ganz), Chazan Gallery, Providence, RI
Millee Tibbs, Appalachian Center for Craft, Tennessee Tech University, Smithville, TN*
Frontier Horizon, 621 Gallery, Tallahassee, FL*
2015 Expansion, Estrella Mountain College, Avondale, AZ*
Mountains + Valleys, Wiseman Gallery, Rogue Community College,, Grants Pass, OR*
Mountains + Valleys, Park National Bank Art Gallery, UC Clermont, Cincinnati, OH*
2014 From the Mountains, Robert F DeCaprio Art Gallery, Moraine Valley Community College, IL*
Altered Landscapes (with Ernest Zarate), Viewpoint Photographic Art Center, Sacramento, CA
Ausencia, La Paternal Espacio Proyecto, Buenos Aires, Argentina*
Extending in Both Directions (with Victoria Burge), Grizzly Grizzly, Philadelphia, PA
2013 Strapped (with Lauren Kalman), ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL
2011 This is a picture of me, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR*
2010 Still and Present (with Andrew Doak), Elaine L. Jacob Gallery, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
This is a picture of me, Photography Gallery at Riley Hall, Notre Dame Univ., Notre Dame, IN*
Millee Tibbs, Humble Arts Foundation, NY (online)*
2009 What’s Left Behind (with Adam Lampton), Stonehill College, Easton, MA
IMAGE/ IMAGED/ IMAGINE (with Lauren Kalman), Fort Point Art Center Gallery, Boston, MA
This is a picture of me, University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, Lowell, MA*
2000 El Vestidor (The Dressing Room), Centro Cultural de España, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic*
Selected Group Shows
2022 Conscious Response: Photographers Changing the Way We See, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
I Hear America Singing, Columbus Musem of Art, Columbus, OH
2021 I Hear America Singing, Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts, Amman, Jordan
2020 In-Camera, Form and Concept Gallery, Santa Fe, NM [indefinitely post-poned due to COVID19]
2019 Living Mountains, Lianzhou Foto Festival, Lianzhou, China
Five Years of Photography, Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA
MOPLA, Arena1 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Intersections: Here/There, InLiquid Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
The Fragment As, Bert Green Fine Art, Chicago & Sierra College, CA
2018 The Woods, The Yard, Brooklyn, NY
From Ansel Adams to Infinity, Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA
Betwixt, Jamestown Art Center, Jamestown, RI
Fields of Vision, Deedee Shattuck Gallery, Westport, MA
Written into Rock, Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor, MI
2017 Landmark, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
Deception, Filter Space, Chicago, IL
To the End of the Earth, Detroit Artist Market, Detroit, MI
On Freedom, Aperture, New York, NY
On Beauty, Group Show #53, Humble Arts Foundation, New York, NY (online)
Yellow Bridge, Le Kabinet D'Estampes, Brussels, Belgium
In Pieces, Elain L Jacob Gallery, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
2016 Photography and America's National Parks, George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY
Landmark, Yosemite Museum, Yosemite National Park, CA
Atypical Topographies, Cloyde Snook Gallery, Adams State University, Alamosa, CO
The Bright Invisible, Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, Shanxi province, China
Exchange Rate: The Bushwick International Exposition with Wasserman Projects and Butter Projects, ArtHelix, Bushwick, NY, 2016
Size Matters, Medium Festival of Photography, Low Gallery, San Diego, CA, 2016
SPE Combined Caucus Exhibition, National SPE Conference, Las Vegas, NV and Living Arts, Tulsa, OK
Deal With It!, Maake Magazine and the Woskob Family Gallery, The Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA
Transitional Landscape, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
Lens 2016, Perspective Gallery, Evanston, IL
The West, Drive-By Projects, Watertown, MA
Processed Landscape, HERE Arts Center, NYC, NY
2015 Impossible Geometries, Field Projects, NYC, NY
Inland Experience, McGrath Gallery at Bellarmine University, Louisville, KY
Atmosphere, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI
Field Study, Filter Photo Festival, David Weinberg Photography, Chicago, IL
Biennial 28, Southbend Museum of Art, IN
Re-Visioning the West, University Art Gallery, New Mexico State University, NM
Material World, Indianapolis Art Center, Indianapolis, IN
Wild at Heart: Our Affair with Nature, Artspace, Raleigh, NC
Deviance Teaches, Charm Will Make You Sick, Sweatshop Gallery, Omaha, NE
Allegorical Place, Ann Arbor Center, Ann Arbor, MI
2014 Uprise for Norwood, Norwood, NYC, NY
New Cats in Art Photography, Humble Arts Foundation, NYC, NY (online)
After Ansel Adams, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
20th Juried Exhibition, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA
MIA (Moving Art Image), The Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA (Screening)
2013 Range, Butter Projects, Royal Oak, MI
Roadside Attraction, Drive-By Gallery, Watertown, MA
Character Study, DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Licoln, MA
Blooms/Bugs/Beasts, Scarab Club, Detroit, MI
2012 I'm not Like Everybody Else, Teapot Gallery, Cologne, Germany
The Whiteness of the Whale, Pool Art Fair, Miami, FL
America in View: Landscape Photography 1865 to Now, RISD Museum, Providence, RI
Small Works, Flash Forward Festival, Magenta Foundation, Boston, MA
George Gregory / Lauren Kalman / Millee Tibbs, ROY G BIV Gallery, Columbus, OH
Momentum: 2012 Women's Caucus for Art, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
Time Flies, Drive-By Gallery, Watertown, MA
Wassaic Summer Festival, Wassaic, NY
12 x 12, 515 Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
2011 Four Photographers, Mary Ryan Gallery, NY
The Darkside of Home, Cushing Martin Gallery at Stonehill College, Easton, MA
Finding a Way, Chazan Gallery, Wheeler School, Providence, RI
RISD Faculty Biennial, RISD Museum, Providence, RI
2010 Who am I?, Drive-By Gallery, Watertown, MA
EXPOSURE: The 15th Annual PRC Juried Exhibition, Photographic Resource Center at Boston University, Boston, MA
2009 Digital to Physical, Anderson Ranch Art Center, Snowmass Village, CO
The Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY
Just Look at Yourself! Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME
2008 Self and Others, David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University. Providence, RI
Pawtucket Foundation Prize Exhibition, Pawtucket, RI (Grand Prize Recipient)
Spring Collection: A View from Two Providence Artists, Gallery 104, Providence, RI
Positive Negative 23, Slocumb Galleries, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN
2007 Biennial 2007, New Hampshire Institute of Art. Concord, NH
Crossroads, Rhonda Schaller Studio, New York, NY
Phantom Limb, 55 Mercer Gallery, New York, NY
Annual Rhode Island School of Design Graduate Student Exhibition, Rhode Island Civic Center, Providence, RI
Yes (to Everything), Winkleman/Plus Ultra Gallery, New York, NY
Imago: The Drama of Self-Portraiture in Recent Photography, Paul Robeson Gallery, Newark, NJ
Fidelity Investments 9th Annual Juried Exhibition, Providence Art Club, Providence, R
2006 30 Under 30, Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RI
Body: Focus, The Sol Koffler Gallery, RISD, Providence, RI
2005 The Fall, The Sol Koffler Gallery, RISD, Providence, RI
Photography Department Triennial, The Woods-Gerry Gallery, RISD, Providence, RI
Ten Alumnae/I, The James W. Palmer Gallery, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
2003 National Biennial of Visual Arts, Museum of Modern Art, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
R E S I D E N C I E S
2022 SAGA Artist in Residence, NORDPhotography, Inderøy, Norway
PLAYA, Summerlake, OR
2019 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA), VA / CSG Fellow
2018 Marpha Foundation, Mustang Province, Nepal
2017 MacDowell Colony, NH / Evelyn Steffanson Neff Fellow
2015 Brush Creek Artist Residency, WY
Surel's Place, ID
Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, NM
2014 La Paternal Espacio Proyecto, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, VA
2013 Art Farm, NE
Stonehouse Residency, CA
2012 Jentel Artist Residency, WY
2011 MacDowell Colony, NH
Wassaic Project, NY
2010 Santa Fe Art Institute, NM
A W A R D S/ F E L L O W S H I P S
2020 Arts and Humanities Research Support Grant, Wayne State University
2016 Research Enhancement Program Grant, Wayne State University
2015 University Research Grant, Wayne State University
Faculty Creative Research Grant, Wayne State University
2014 Puffin Foundation West Grant, Columbus, OH
Research Enhancement Program Grant, Wayne State University
ISE Cultural Foundation Grant
2012 Faculty Creative Research Grant, Wayne State University
2008 Pawtucket Foundation Prize
2007 Award of Excellence, Rhode Island School of Design
Toby Devon Lewis Fellowship Nominee, Rhode Island School of Design
Curator’s Choice Award, Fidelity Investments 9th Annual Juried Exhibition – Works on Paper
2006-2007 Dorothy Evans Fellowship, Vassar College
2005-2007 Rhode Island School of Design Graduate Fellowship
1998 Weitzal-Barber Art Travel Prize. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York.
C O L L E C T I O N S
Detroit Institute of Arts
Chrysler Museum
George Eastman Museum
Portland Art Museum
RISD Museum
Fidelity Investments Permanent Collection
Museum of Contemporary Photography (Midwest Project 2013-2016)
P U B L I C A T I O NS
AINT-BAD Magazine, No. 14, 2019
Schmidt, Kyra. "Breaking the Mold: Millee Tibbs on Photographic Mediation and Digital Truth," AINT-BAD, May 31, 2019
George, Daniel. “Photographers on Photographers: Daniel George on Millee Tibbs,” Lenscratch, August 18, 2018
DeGalan, Clara. "80 Millee Tibbs," Essay'd 3: 30 Detroit Artists., Wayne State Press, 2018
Feinstein, Jon & Olu, Amani, ed. Humble Cats, Yoffy Press, 2017
Allen, Jamie. Picturing America's National Parks, Aperture, 2016
Pictures of Me, Blue Sky Books, 2016
90 Seconds, PaperSafe Magazine, Issue 6, March, 2016
Maake Magazine, Issue 2, December, 2015
The Dialogist: A Quarterly of Poetry and Art, Vol. II, Issue IV, June 2015
The Peter Urban Legacy Exhibition, The Griffin Museum of Photography, 2014
The Hand Magazine, Issue #5, July 2014
F-Stop Magazine, Online Publication, Issue #65, July 2014
Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism, online portfolio, February 2014
Alter Ego, Kiernan Gallery, 2013
2010/2011, Blue Sky Gallery: Oregon Center for Photography, 2012
PMS 485 C, Issue 1: Women in Photography, 2012
The Collector's Guide to New Art Photography, Vol.2, Humble Art Foundation, 2011
PRC Juried Publication, Photographic Resource Center at Boston University, 2009
Imago: The Drama of Self-Portraiture in Recent Photography, Paul Robeson Gallery, Newark, 2007
R E V I E W S
Ross, Megan. "Exhibition: From Ansel Adams to Infinity at the Chrysler Museum," Lenscratch, Nov. 7, 2018
DeGalan, Clara. "To the End of the Earth @ Detroit Artist Market," Detroit Art Review, Sept. 24, 2017
Snoekx, Kurt, "Le Kabinet crosses the Atlantic: Yellow Bridge," Bruzz, June 2-8, 2017
Volmer, Susanne, "No Man's Land at Chazan: Ganz and Tibbs Make It Their Own," ArtScope, November/December 2016
Zak Hansen, “UAG displays a new vision of the West,” Las Cruces Bulletin, May 15, 2015
S. Derrickson Moore, “Re-visioning the West’ artists offer new perspectives on the West,” Las Cruces Sun News, May 21, 2015
Chip Schwartz, "The Scenes Aren't All They Seem at Grizzly Grizzly," Knightarts.org, March 6, 2014
Emily Macaux, "Surveying the Terrain at the RISD Museum's 'American View: Landscape Photography 1865 to Now," Dailyserving.com, An International Publication for Contemporary Art, November 8, 2012
Mark Feeney, "America in View at RISD discovers country's landscapes," Boston Globe, September 29, 2012
Gilsdorf, Bean, "This is a Picture of Me", 2.20/From a Distance, artpractical.com, June 2011
John Motley, "Millee Tibbs: 'This is a picture of me' at Blue Sky Gallery -- photos give view into fractured identity", Oregonlive.com, Special to the Oregonian, June 29, 2011
Delarte, Alonso , “Photographers ponder questions of identity in new exhibit,” The Examiner, Detroit, October 31, 2010
Feeney, Mark, “PRC’s juried exhibit defies definition,” Boston Globe, May 9, 2010
McQuaid, Cate, “Constructing Feminity”, Boston Globe, September 2, 2009
Van Siclen, Bill, “The Camera Never Lies... or Does it?” Providence Journal, June 26, 2008.
Cook, Greg, “Great pretenders: Photographic self-examination at the Bell Gallery,” The Providence Phoenix, June 10, 2008
Cook, Greg. “Next. Now,” Providence Phoenix, 2007.
Rodriguez, Bill. “Fresh Views”, Providence Phoenix, 2006.
Norris, Doug. “Young Artists Reveal Edgy Dimension”, South County Independent, 2006.
Veneziale, Marcella. “Ten Alumnae/i” Exhibits Works”, The Miscellany News, 2005.
G A L L E R Y A F F I L I A T I O N S:
Uprise Art, NYC
F L A T F I L E S / A R C H I V E S:
Pierogi 2000, Brooklyn
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum
NURTURE Art
T E A C H I N G E X P E R I E N C E:
2017-now Associate Professor & Area Coordinator, Photography, Wayne State University, Duffy Dept. of Art & Art History
2011-2017 Assistant Professor, Photography, Wayne State University, Duffy Dept. of Art & Art History
2007-2011 Adjunct Faculty, Rhode Island School of Design, Photography Department
2010 Adjunct Faculty, University of Rhode Island, Art & Art History Department
2008-2009 Adjunct Faculty, Brown University, Visual Arts Department
2008 Adjunct Faculty, Northeastern University, Art + Design Department
2007-2008 Adjunct Faculty, Community College of Rhode Island, Art Department
