Summary
Jillian Mayer is a Miami-based artist and filmmaker.
Through videos, sculptures, online experiences, photography, performances, and installations, Mayer explores how technology affects our lives, bodies, and identities by processing how our physical world and bodies are impacted and reshaped by our participation in a digital landscape. Mayer investigates the points of tension between our online and physical worlds and makes work that attempts to inhabit the increasingly porous boundary between the two. Mayer's artwork has a consistent thread of modeling how to subvert capital-driven modes of technological innovation.
Her works and performances have premiered at galleries and museums internationally such as MoMA, BAM, Bass Museum, MoMa PS1, the Contemporary Museum of Montreal and film festivals such as Sundance, SXSW, Rotterdam, and New York Film Festival. They have been featured in the New York Times, Art Papers, ArtNews, Art in America, and ArtForum discussing identity, Internet and her artistic practices. Mayer is a recipient of the Creative Capital Fellowship, Cintas Cuban Foundation Fellowship, and was named one of the “25 New Faces of Independent Film” by Filmmaker Magazine. She is also a fellow of the Sundance New Frontiers Lab Program and the Zentrum Paul Klee Fellowship (Switzerland). Mayer has recently started making design work and editions which can be found at and museum stores in the US.
Areas of emphasis
- Conceptual Multi Media
Publications
Books and catalogs
- Code as Creative Medium, (MIT Press)
- Dark Matters On the Surveillance of Blackness (Duke University Press)
- Paradox: The Body in the Age of AI (Carnegie Mellon)
- The Masquerade: A Panorama (Thames & Hudson)
- Gateways to Art Textbook (Thames & Hudson)
- Link in Bio: Life After Social Media (Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig)
- Time Share (solo show catalog- Bemis Center For Contemporary Art)
- Jillian Mayer; SALT 9 (solo show catalog- Utah Museum of Fine Arts)
Education
- Florida International University Miami, FL
- BFA Multi-Media Art/ Installation, Minor Art History
- Sundance New Media Lab