Name: Jillian Mayer
Place of Birth: USA
Year of Birth: 1984
Areas of Work: Video, Performance, Web, Installation
Website: www.jillianmayer.net, www.mayerleyva.com, www.borschtcorp.com

Jillian Mayer is a Cuban-American artist living in Miami.

In 2010, her video Scenic Jogging was one of the 25 selections for the Guggenheim’s Youtube Play: A Biennial of Creative Video and was exhibited at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy; Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain; and Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany.  

Recent solo projects include Family Matters at David Castillo Gallery, Miami (2011), Love Trips at World Class Boxing, Miami (2011), and Erasey Page at the Bass Museum of Art (2012). Mayer is currently at work on an artist book to be released by [name] Publications and on a solo show at Locust Projects (Miami) in 2013, for which the gallery received a Harpo Foundation grant.

Her video works have been premiered at galleries and museums internationally and film festivals such as SXSW and Sundance. She was recently featured in Art Papers and in ArtNews discussing identity, Internet and her artistic practices and influences. 

Mayer is a recent recipient of the prestigious South Florida Cultural Consortium's Visual/Media Artists Fellowship 2011, Cintas Foundation Fellowship 2012, and will be attending Elsewhere Residency in North Carolina with support from the NEA. This year, Filmmaker Magazine named her one of the “25 New Faces of Independent Film.”

Mayer is the front woman for #PostModem, a performance collaborative that makes meta-pop music based in art/web theory. Their original songs will be used in a feature length musical film that Mayer is writing, directing and producing in collaboration with Lucas Leyva. The satirical film takes place in the future and tackles digital identity and net neutrality. The film extends to software apps, poetry, installations and Internet experiences.

Digital representations of her work can be found at JillianMayer.net
Mayer is represented by David Castillo Gallery.

Sommerakademie 2013, Opening/Nominators' Day
23. August 2013, Zentrum Paul Klee.
Video by David Röthlisberger

Interview with Jillian Mayer
Sommerakademie 2013
Radio Rabe, Bern