Jillian Mayer lives and works.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2014 Salt Series, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake, Utah. (forthcoming)
2013 Precipice/PostModem, Locust Projects, Miami, FL
2012 Erasey Page. Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL
2011 Love Trips. World Class Boxing, Miami, FL
Family Matters. David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL
BIENNIALS
2010 Youtube Play Creative Video Biennial. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy; Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain; Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany
INDUSTRIAL 59: First Ural Biennial of Contemporary Art. National Center for Contemporary Art, Ekaterinburg, Russia
MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS
2012 This and That: Unconventional Selections from the Permanent Collection, Frost Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, FL
2012 Aesthetics & Values, Frost Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, FL
2011 Fighting, Kissing, Dancing. The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Intimate Civic and Everyday Explorers. Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL.
Amid Street Noise. Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, FL
2009 Take Out Show. Brevard Art Museum, FL
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011 Sum of the Parts. David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL
Cintas Finalists Exhibition. Freedom Tower, Miami-Dade College, Miami, FL
South Florida Cultural Consortium Exhibition. Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, FL
VOXELVISION 1.0. Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2010 Fighting, Kissing, Dancing. de la Cruz Collection Contemporary Art Space, Miami, FL
DCG Open. David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL
Beuys Birthday. t.a.t.e. modern münchen, Munich, Germany
Open Art Festival. Salzburg, Austria
2009 New Works. 20/20 Gallery, Miami, FL
Confections. OHWOW, Miami, FL
Cutter 2. SFcameraworks, San Francisco, CA
Digital Analog 2. Miami Beach Public Library, Miami Beach, FL
2008 Cutter. 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Camposition. The Field, Jose Marti Building, Miami, FL
Femi-Nazi. La Cueva Projects/Black Mangrove Collective, Miami, FL
2007 FIU BFA ART Show. Frost Museum, Miami, FL
Visual Aids. Savacou Gallery, New York. NY
No Need to Touch. Art Center South Florida, Miami Beach, FL
PERFORMANCES
2010 Mrs. Ms. Experimental musical commissioned for the Here and Now Festival, Adrienne Arsht Center, Miami, FL
2009 Jennifer the Leopard. (Collaboration with J-LEP) New Original Works Festival, REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA
SCREENINGS
2012 Rockland Shorts: An International Short Film Series. Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME
2011 Optic Nerve XIII. Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL
Optic Nerve XIII . De la Cruz Collection Contemporary Art Space, Miami, FL
2010 Optic Nerve XXI. Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL
FILM FESTIVALS
2013
Sundance Film Festival
South By Southwest Film Festival
2012
Sundance Film Festival
South By Southwest Film Festival
Mecal Film Festival, Barcelona, Spain
AFI Film Fest
CFC Candian Film Centre Film Festival
Boston Underground Film Festival (Winner, Best Short Film)
CinemaTeket Oslo
Los Angeles Film Festival
BamFest Cinema (Brooklyn Academy of Music)
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida
The Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum, Miami, Florida
Dennis & Debra Scholl, Miami, Florida
Francie Bishop Good and David Horvitz, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
AWARDS AND HONORS
2013
Sommerakademie im Zentrum Paul Klee Fellowship, Bern, Switzerland (forthcoming)
Elsewhere Museum/NEA Southern Constellation Fellowship, North Carolina (forthcoming)
2012
Cintas Foundation Fellowship
Harpo Foundation Grantee
Mastermind Genius Grant. Village Voice Media
2011
Finalist. Cintas Foundation Fellowship
2010
Play-Creative Video Biennial Winner. Guggenheim Museum & YouTube
Visual/Media Art Fellowship. South Florida Cultural Consortium
2009
Here & Now Experimental Theatre Commission. Miami Light Project, Miami, FL
2007
Betty Laird Perry Museum Purchase Award. The Patricia & Philip Frost Museum, Miami, FL
COMMISSIONS
Here Mobile, DWNTWN Art Days, Miami, FL (2012)
Applause Box, Young At Art Children’s Museum, Ft. Lauderdale, FL (2012)
Short Film Commission. Borscht Film Festival, Miami, FL (2011)
RESIDENCIES
Cannonball/LegalArt, Miami, FL (2012-2013)
PUBLIC TALKS
Art and the Internet, Pitzer University, Los Angeles, CA (2012)
Artist Lecture, MOCA North Miami Junior Docents, North Miami, FL (2011)
PUBLICATIONS
Jillian Mayer. [NAME] Publications (2012—Forthcoming)
McSweeny’s Wholphin- #17: DVD Magazine of Rare and Unseen Short Films (2012—Forthcoming)
Draw It With Your Eyes Closed: The Art of the Assignment. Paper Monument Press. p. 17, 2012
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Mori, Ahmed. "Profile: Jillian Mayer," The Miami Rail, Spring 2013.
Dawson, Nick. "25 Faces of Independent Film 2012" (director), Filmmaker Magazine, August, 2012.
Austin, Tom, "The Big Picture: Three shows in South Florida Aim to Cast a Wide Net", Miami
Brillson, Leila, "10 Rising Miami Artists To Start Collecting Now", Refinery 29, April 11, 2012.
Valys, Phillip, "Jillian Mayer wants you to delete the Internet", Sun Sentinel, April 4, 2012.
"A Neck Would Be Good", Modern Painters Daily, Artinfo.com, February 28, 2012.
Hoban, Phoebe, "The Cindy Sherman Effect", ARTNews, February 2012.
Kennedy, Gerrick D., "Uncle Luke headed to Sundance with 'freaky' short," Los Angeles Times, December 19, 2011.
Duran, Jose D., "Jillian Mayer's Life and Freaky Times of Uncle Luke Selected to Screen at Sundance," Miami New Times, December 7, 2011.
Fernandez, Jose D., "Sundance Film Festival Announces 2012 Short Films Program," The Hollywood Reporter, December 6, 2011.
Cline, Jake and Joanie Cox, "Best Bets for Nov. 30-Dec. 6: Neon Indian, Wale, Jillian Mayer," Sun Sentinel, November 30, 2011.
McCorquodale, Amanda, "Jillian Mayer: Artist Chews Off Her Own Arms For Art Basel," The Huffington Post, November 30, 2011.
Hollingsworth, Annie, "Child of Technology: Jillian Mayer's Multimedia Identity Games," Art Papers, September/October 2011.
Tschida, Anne, "In 'Sum:' recreating the created image," Knight Arts, June 3, 2011.
Tschida, Anne, "Jillian Mayer's family reunion," Miami Herald, May 5, 2011.
Mason, Shana Beth, "Editor's Pick Jillian Mayer" Family Matters," Flavorpill, April 2011.
McCorquodale, Amanda, "Jillian Mayer Freaks Out Her Unborn Grandchildren in "Family Matters," Miami New Times, April 9, 2011.
Dougher, Colleen, "Getting to know Jillian Mayer: the acrobatic, filmmaking artist can't stop, won't stop," South Florida Sun-Sentinal, April 4, 2011.
Melnick, Jordan, "Jillian Mayer on 'Family Matters'," BeachedMIAMI, April 5, 2011.
McCorquodale, Amanda, "100 Creatives: Jillian Mayer," Miami New Times, January 13, 2011.
"Having a Moment: Short and Sweet," W Magazine, January 2011
Tracy, Liz, "Pre-Basel Anxiety: Jillian Mayer," The Heat Lightning, November 27, 2010.
McCorquodale, Amanda, "Jillian Mayer: Fast Artist," Miami New Times, November 25, 2010.
Stephenson, Hunter, "How Jillian Mayer Made YouTube Art," Interview Magazine, October 2010.
“HuffPost Art’s Ten Highlights for Guggenheim Museum’s Youtube Play Biennial,” The Huffington Post, September 23, 2010.
Hollingsworth, Annie, “Optic Nerve XII at MOCA,” Artlurker, August 2010.
Fornoff, Alexa, "Play on Dimensionality: Jillian Mayer Under a Rock, In the Sky, and on a Hillside," ReadyMade, March 04, 2010.
EDUCATION
BFA, Fiber/ Installation, Florida International University, Miami, FL (2007)
Camposition Experimental Theatre Workshop. Miami, FL (2008)
Workshop Series-Academy of Art, San Francisco (2009)
Jillian Mayer is represented by David Castillo Gallery.