Mev Luna
Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art Practice and Theory
Email
lunam1@newschool.edu
Office Location
Faculty Hotseat
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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, a 2018-2019 BOLT resident at the Chicago Artist Coalition, and a 2019-2021 AICAD Post-Graduate Teaching Fellow at The New School Parsons. They are currently a 2020-2021 Queer | Art Film Fellow.
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 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
2018 Art Matters Foundation Grantee