BIO

​Teresa Mill works to address issues of social, ecological and historical injustices, through a sensibility imbued with a sense of poetic transcendence.

Mill’s reaction to these injustices and suffering partly stems from her own early disorienting and traumatic experiences when her mother died, leaving her orphaned as a twelve-year-old. Beginning to do art a few years later helped her to develop a resilience to cope with these difficult circumstances. Realizing the capacity of artmaking to help young people cope with stresses and traumatic situations, Mill has engaged in teaching art to children, youth, and homeless women.

In response to her strong convictions regarding equity and social justice, Mill has been engaged with diverse communities in Los Angeles and San Diego, creating graphic designs for the American Indian Movement in Los Angeles and American Indian Health Center in San Diego and assisting in refurbishing murals at the Centro Cultural de la Raza and painting murals in San Diego and Los Angeles.                                                                             

Being interested in figurative and socially conscious work, Mill was influenced by the work of the Mexican muralists, as well as Symbolists like Paul Gauguin, her mentor Eduardo Carrillo, and artists who explored a more personal realm such as Frida Kahlo. She has travelled in Mexico extensively, painting on site in Chiapas, Quintana Roo and Baja California, as well as showing paintings and conceiving and completing Installations at The CECUT and the Casas de la Cultura in Tijuana and Mexicali, Mexico. She has also shown and done Installations elsewhere in the U.S. and in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

She has recently been working on a series of works having to do with the migrant crises, including the recent cases of family separations of asylum seekers in the U.S.