SPIKE MILLIKEN IS A SAN FRANCISCO BASED ARTIST.

Spike Milliken was born in Pleasant Hill, California, in 1972 and lives in San Francisco. He attended the Palmer School for Girls and Boys, dropped out of high school at 15, lived, died, and then earned his BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and his MFA from California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. He has worked as a product designer for Sony, as an artist-in-residence and  exhibition designer at Zeum Children’s Creativity Museum in San Francisco, and as a resident artist at Creative Growth Art Center in Oakland. 

At the age of six, Spike Milliken committed himself to drawing monsters every day.  For forty-two years he has done so, wandering the dangerous intersection of Beauty, Banality, and Terror. Arguably the most prolific artist in San Francisco, he believes that the most important quality of his work is quantity. Milliken’s drawings, photographs, and assemblage revel in forms and constraints. They riff ekphrastically on the collected works of Francis Bacon, Zdzisław Beksiński, René Magritte,  Zdenēk Liška, George Kuchar, and Fakir Musafar.  If you’re here, thank you for watching.

Spike Milliken