Jill Magid
° 1973
Lives in New York (United States), lives in Amsterdam (Netherlands).
Jill Magid was born in 1973. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York and Amsterdam, The Netherlands. In 2001-2002 she was a resident at Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam. She studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Masters of Science in Visual Studies (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1998-2000) and at Cornell University, Bachelor of Fine Arts (Ithaca, New York, 1991-1995).
Her solo exhibitions include: A Reasonable Man In A Box, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2010); Objects To Be Handed Over or Destroyed, Yvon Lambert, New York (2009); The Thicker the Glass, Yvon Lambert, Paris, France (2009); Authority to Remove, Tate Modern, London (2009); Article 12, Stroom and The AVID (The Secret Service of the Netherlands), The Hague, Netherlands (2008); With Full Consent, Gagosian Gallery, New York (2007); Thin Blue Lines, Centre D'Arte Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain (2007).
Media
>'I Can Burn Your Face', neon, transformers, 2005 @Stroom, Den Haag, 2008
>intallation view with 'I Can Burn Your Face', neon, transformers, 2005 @Stroom, Den Haag, 2008
>Shot from 'the Capitol Steps' (A work in progress)
Works
>Jill Magid, One Cycle of Memory in the City of L, 2004.Book, ink, paper, 21 x 14.5 cm, 100 p, language: English, publisher: South Korea: Jill Magid/Icheon Women Artists' Biennale, Self-Publishing, ISBN: N/A.
>Jill Magid, Lincoln Ocean Victor Eddy, 2007.Book, ink, paper, Copy, with permission by the artist, of the book that is out of print, 54 p., language : English, colophon on the back side.
>Jill Magid, Lincoln Ocean Victor Eddy, 2007.Book, ink, paper, 21 x 14.6 cm, 64 p, language: English, publisher: Self-Published, ISBN: N/A.
>Jill Magid, Becoming Tarden, 2010.Book, ink, paper, 20.8 x 13.4 cm, 181 p, language: English, publisher: Minneapolis, Minnesota: Print Craft, ISBN: N/A.
>Jill Magid, Failed States, 2012.Book, ink, paper, 20.6 x 14.5 cm, 129 p, language: English, publisher: Hasselt/Los Angeles/Bucharest/Stockholm: Z33/Honor Fraser Gallery/Bucharest Biennial 5/Romanian Cultural Institute of Stockholm, ISBN: 9781935662044.
Exhibitions & Ensembles
> Exhibition: Book Lovers 4.0 (Pop-up Bookstore). 28 January 2014 - 02 February 2014.
> Exhibition: THE BOOK LOVERS - A Project about Artist Novels. 25 January 2013 - 09 March 2013.
> Exhibition: The Preparation of the Novel (Book Lovers 5.0). 18 July 2014 - 05 September 2014.
> Exhibition: WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE ARTWORK BECOMES A NOVEL?. 07 December 2012 - 21 April 2013.
> Ensemble: The Book Lovers.