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Biography
Jillian Mayer (born December 21, 1986) She admits she was born in Fort Lauderdale, her parents divorced when she was 1 year old. Mayer calls upon drawing, photography, video, installation, and performance to enact scenarios of apathy, dysfunction, and disillusionment and a filmmaker.

Mayer's video works and performances have been displayed at galleries and museums internationally and film festivals such as SXSW and Sundance. She was recently featured in Art Papers and in ArtNews discussing identity, Internet and her artistic practices and influences.

Education
Jillian Mayer Graduated with a BFA in Florida International University, Miami, FL in 2007.

Artwork
Her most recent art work from Jillian Mayer: Relax and Plug In: Sculpture for the Screen-Obsessed

Solo projects include Family Matters at David Castillo Gallery, Miami (2011), Love Trips at World Class Boxing, Miami (2011), Erasey Page at the Bass Museum of Art (2012) and Precipice/PostModem at Locust Projects (Miami) for which the gallery received a Harpo Foundation grant.

Mayer has also worked with anti-surveillance "CV dazzle" makeup. In MakeUp Tutorial "HOW TO HIDE FROM CAMERAS," she guides YouTubers with a makeup tutorial that teaches viewers how to hide from cameras and facial recognizing algorithms. “We all know that cameras are watching our every step,” warns Mayer. The implementation of this makeup tutorial in your everyday life will be key to existing track-free.

She is largely known for her viral video, "I Am Your Grandma," which CBS blogger William Goodman described it as "oddly hypnotizing."

In 2010, her video Scenic Jogging was one of the 25 selections for the Guggenheim’s YouTube Play: A Biennial of Creative Video and was exhibited at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy; Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain; and Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany.

Mayer is represented by David Castillo Gallery.

Mayer had worked on a project titled "400 Nudes", La Biennale de Montréal, Montreal, Canada. October 22, 2014 - April 1, 2015.

Film
Mayer is the front woman for #PostModem, a performance collaborative that makes meta-pop music based in art/web theory. Their original songs will be used in a feature-length musical film that Mayer is writing, directing and producing in collaboration with Lucas Leyva. The satirical film takes place in the future and tackles digital identity and net neutrality. The film extends to software apps, poetry, installations and Internet experiences.

Life and Freaky Times of Uncle Luke, commissioned by the Borscht Film Festival, is a collaboration between Miami artist Jillian Mayer (video featured in the Guggenheim video bienniale), Rakonur Films (Cocaine Cowboys, The U, Square Grouper) and Luther Campbell (2 Live Crew). The film is a modern Miami adaptation of the 1962 French short film "La Jetee." Told entirely through a series of installations created by Mayer, the film recounts Luke's rise to fame as he changes the face of hip-hop and fights for first amendment rights- and later as he ushers Miami into a golden era of peace and prosperity as Mayor. Everything changes when a nuclear meltdown at Turkey Point turns Miami into a radioactive wasteland filled with mutants, and Luke is the only survivor left unscathed.

In 2017, Jillian performed the voice of a robot named Susan for the science-fiction film Everything Beautiful is Far Away.

Recognition
Mayer is a recipient of the prestigious South Florida Cultural Consortium's Visual/Media Artists Fellowship 2011, Cintas Foundation Fellowship 2012, and was named one of the “25 New Faces of Independent Film” by Filmmaker Magazine. This year she has been awarded the Elsewhere Museum/National Endowment of Arts Southern Constellation Fellowship, Zentrum Paul Klee Fellowship (Bern, Switzerland) and the Sundance Institute's New Frontier Story Lab Fellowship.

Awards
2015   Creative Capital Award

2013   Sundance Institute New Frontier Story Lab Fellowship

2013   Sommerakademie Zentrum Paul Klee Fellowship, Berne, Switzerland

2013   National Endowment of the Arts, Southern Constellations/ Elsewhere Museum Fellowship

2012   Cintas Foundation Fellowship

2012   Legal Art/ Pulse Art Fair Commission

2012   Filmmaker Magazine- New Face of Independent Film

2012   Village Voice Media, Mastermind Genius Grant 2012.

2012   World Class Boxing Art Collection Commission

2011   Young At Arts Children’s Museum Commission

2011   South Florida Consortium Fellowship Grant

2010   Play-Creative Video Biennial Winner- YouTube & Guggenheim Museum

2009   Miami Light Project- Here & Now Festival Experimental Theatre Commission

2007   Betty Laird Perry Museum Purchase Award, Frost Museum Miami, Florida