Jill Magid

Adjunct Professor

Jill Magid works across sculpture, video, photography, text, and performance, forming intimate, often bureaucratic relationships with systems of power — police, intelligence agencies, corporations, government archives — to reveal the vulnerability held within them. Her work has been exhibited in solo presentations at such venues as Tate Modern, London (2009); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2010); Kunsthalle St. Gallen, Switzerland (2016); Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC), Mexico City (2017); Dia Bridgehampton, New York (2020); The Renaissance Society, Chicago (2021); Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (2022); Centre Pompidou, Paris (2022); and M Leuven, Belgium (2023), as well as in numerous group exhibitions around the world. Upcoming solo presentations include Calder Gardens, Philadelphia, and Shaker Museum, Chatham, New York; a monograph on her work is forthcoming this fall. Her work is held in the collections of the Centre Pompidou, the Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Walker Art Center, Fundación Jumex, and MUAC, among others. Magid holds a B.F.A. from Cornell University (1995) and an M.S. in visual studies from MIT (2000), and was a resident artist at the Rijksakademie, Amsterdam (2000–02).
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jill Magid, Installation view of Notice of a Citizen, Olney Gleason, NY. 2026

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