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  • Mev Luna

    Assistant Professor of Interiors, Objects, and Technology

    Email
    lunam1@newschool.edu

    Office Location
    L - Sheila C. Johnson Design Center - 2 West 13th Street

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    Mev Luna

    Profile

    Mev Luna is an interdisciplinary artist working between live performance, video installation, new media, and text. Through a research-based practice and self-reflexive methodology, Luna's practice rethinks history to identify the fictions that govern contemporary life and speculative futures. Their works have been exhibited in group exhibitions at Oficina de Arte, México City; PRIZM Art Fair, Miami; Threewalls, Chicago; and the Oliver Arts Center, Oakland. Luna's time-based works have been presented at SFMOMA San Francisco; Artists' Television Access, San Francisco; MIX Queer Experimental Film Festival, New York; and Defibrillator Gallery, Chicago. Luna was a 2018 Art Matters Foundation Fellowship recipient, 2017 SOMA Summer participant in Mexico City and a research fellow at the Shapiro Center for Research and Collaboration, and a 2018-2019 BOLT resident at the Chicago Artist Coalition. They are currently a 2019-2021 AICAD Post-Graduate Teaching Fellow at The New School Parsons. 

    Degrees Held

    2017       MFA, Performance, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

    2011       BFA, High Distinction, Textiles & Media Arts, California College of the Arts

     

    Performances and Appearances

    Fact Checking My Father, Lecture-performance presented at the inaugural Berkeley/Stanford Symposium: Not-At-Home, Migration Pilgrimage, and Displacement in Art, Design, and Visual Culture, SFMoMA, San Francisco

    In-Motion: Performance and Unsettling Borders, Northwestern University, Evanston, presenter

    Research Interests

    race, racialized ethnicities, gender, queer theory, US/Mexico border, visual culture, surveillance, Prison Industrial Complex, screen-based mediation, technology, simulation software, new media

    Awards And Honors

    2018          Art Matters Foundation Grantee

    Current Courses

    Integrative Studio 2

    Integrative Studio 2 (Paris Spring 2021)

    Making + Meaning: Materials

    Making + Meaning: Materials (Paris Spring 2021)

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