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Mev Luna

Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art Practice and Theory

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lunam1@newschool.edu

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Mev Luna

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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

 

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