Jill Magid
Artist and writer Jill Magid’s work is deeply ingrained in her lived experience, exploring and blurring the boundaries between art and life. Through her performance-based practice, Magid has initiated intimate relations with organizations and structures of authority. She explores the emotional, philosophical and legal tensions between the individual and protective institutions, such as intelligence agencies or the police. To work within large organizations, Magid makes use of institutional quirks that allow her to make contact with people on the inside. Her work tends to be characterized by the dynamics of seduction, the resulting narratives often taking the form of love stories. It is typical of Magid’s practice that she follows the rules of engagement with an institution to the letter – sometimes to the point of absurdity. With solo exhibitions at institutions including Tate Modern, London; Whitney Museum, New York; Berkeley Museum of Art, California; Tate Liverpool; the Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam; Gagosian Gallery, New York; and the Security and Intelligence Agency of the Netherlands, Magid has received awards from the Netherland-American Foundation Fellowship Fulbright Grant, and the 2017 Calder Prize. Magid is the author of four novellas. Her work is included the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Fundacion Jumex, and the Walker Art Center, among others.
