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Mev Luna is a research-based artist whose practice spans performance, installation, video, new media, and text. Their work considers issues of incarceration, institutional access, and how images are circulated and controlled. Their recent exhibitions include Empathy Fatigue at Andrew Rafacz Gallery, and a solo presentation at EXPO Chicago 2019. Luna’s time-based works have premiered at SFMOMA, Artists' Television Access, San Francisco, and Defibrillator Gallery, Chicago. They were a 2020-2021 Queer | Art Film Fellow; 2019-21 AICAD Post Graduate Teaching Fellow; 2018 Art Matters Foundation Fellowship recipient, 2018-2019 BOLT resident at the Chicago Artist Coalition; 2017 SOMA Summer participant in Mexico City and a 2015–2016 Research Fellow at the Shapiro Center for Research and Collaboration.

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

Materializing Citations: Autotheory and Artistic Practice, 13th Annual Society for Artistic Research, Bauhaus-Universität, Weimar, Germany, 2022.

In-Motion: Performance and Unsettling Borders, presenter, Northwestern University, Evanston, 2018.

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, 2017.

Research Interests

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

Awards And Honors

2020          Queer | Art Film Fellow

2018          Art Matters Foundation Grantee