Dean Millien

Born in 1972, Dean Millien grew up in Flatbush, Brooklyn, and has been creating sculptures out of aluminum foil since the age of 3. Dean, named after Dean Martin, and also known as the “Tin Man,” incorporates his admiration for toys, cartoons, pop culture, and the animal kingdom into each sculpture. He meticulously creates foil pigs, lambs, aliens, thrones, and his favorite, worms, with incredible likeness and precision.

Dean was an artist-in-residence at Summertime Gallery, where he had a solo exhibition, One in a Millien. Dean is included in the MoMA PS1’s Greater New York survey show and was part of the exhibition ABUNDANCE: Too Much, Too Little, Just Right at the American Visionary Museum in Baltimore. Dean taught art at AHRC and was a member of the Con Artist collective and LAND Studio & Gallery.