Sydney Mills is a filmmaker and artist working within the mediums of video, photography and sculpture.
Mills received her MFA in Photography & Media with a specialization in Integrated Media from California Institute of the Arts in 2018. She received a BA in Fine Art and a Minor in Cinema & Television from the University of Southern California in 2010.
With overtly visceral imagery, Mills dissects the boundaries between the self and the other, the organic and the synthetic, exposing an unsettling amalgamation of human flesh, stripped bare of the comforting veneers that often shroud our daily lives. She confronts her audience with the uncomfortable and the nightmarish, forcing a confrontation with the abject that serves as catharsis, allowing us to confront our anxieties surrounding our bodies and the commodification of our very being.
Mills has been featured in over 50 art shows, film festivals and screenings. She has shown films and artwork internationally in Austria, Mexico, Singapore, South Korea and Switzerland, as well as at various Los Angeles based art spaces, including The Box, Los Angeles Municipal Gallery, Keystone Gallery, and Monte Vista Projects. She lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.
Mills spends her spare time playing video games, watching anime and traveling. Her lifelong love of music videos, science fiction, and body horror has been her prime source of artistic inspiration, guiding her in crafting surreal visual narratives.