Faculty

Mev Luna

Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art Practice

Email:

lunam1@newschool.edu

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