McMillian is currently on the fine arts faculty at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) as an associate professor of sculpture. He has been the subject of numerous solo and group exhibition worldwide, including three museum shows in 2017 and 2016: Rodney McMillian: a great society at the Art Institute of Chicago (2017); Views of Main Street (2016) at the Studio Museum in Harlem and St. Louis Art Museum; and The Black Show (2016) at the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania.