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 2019-2020 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
Research Interests:
race, racialized ethnicities, gender, queer theory, US/Mexico border, visual culture, surveillance, Prison Industrial Complex, mediation, technology, new media
Awards And Honors:
2018 Art Matters Foundation Grantee