VSF proudly announces Heart of a Citizen, Jill Magid's first solo exhibition at the gallery. The exhibition will open on Thursday, May 22nd from 6-8PM during which time Esther Kim Varet will inaugurate The Platform.
A Town Hall event featuring Esther Kim Varet on The Platform will be held on June 14th at 7PM.
Jill Magid is an artist, writer and filmmaker living in New York City. Her work deals with the emotional, philosophical, and contractual aspects of relationships between people and the institutions set up to protect them, including intelligence agencies, police, corporations, artist estates, the law, and, most recently, politics. Working within such systems, Magid makes use of vulnerabilities and loopholes to interact with - and shape the behavior of - people who work inside them.
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Jill Magid (b. 1973 Bridgeport, CT) works in a variety of media including text, installation, film, sculpture, performance and drawing. Magid has had solo exhibitions at Centre Pompidou (Paris), M Leuven (Belgium); Modern Art Museum (Fort Worth); The Renaissance Society (Chicago); Tate Modern (London), the Whitney Museum (New York), Berkeley Museum of Art, Tate Liverpool, Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (Mexico City), and the Security and Intelligence Agency of the Netherlands. She is the author of four novellas and the director of the award-winning feature-length documentary The Proposal (2018). Her work is included the collections of the Centre Pompidou, CNAP, The Guggenheim Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, Fundacion Jumex, the Walker Art Center, and the United States Mint, among others. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, VIA Art Fund Grant and Vera List Center for Art and Politics, and is the recipient of the 2017 Calder Prize.