Mev Luna is a research-based artist whose practice spans performance, film, new media, and text. Through an autoethnographic methodology, their work reappraises history to identify fictions governing contemporary life and considers issues of institutional access, incarceration, and how images of marginalized groups are circulated and controlled.
Recent exhibitions include the international solo “Warped Terrain” at laNao Galería, Mexico City. Luna’s time-based works have premiered at SFMOMA and Artists’ Television Access, San Francisco, The Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago, and Kino Moviemento in Berlin. They’ve given talks at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Northwestern University, Vanderbilt University, Bard College, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, among others.
Their practice has been supported by grants and fellowships from the Art Matters Foundation, New York Council on the Arts, Mellon Initiative for Inclusive Faculty Excellence at The New School, Queer|Art, and residencies including MASS MoCA, Triangle Arts Association DUMBO, Chicago Artists Coalition, SOMA Summer Program in Mexico City, and Shandaken: Storm King.
Confined Terrain, production still, forthcoming.
Far from the distance we see, film still, 2019. HD video, 3D animation, duration 08:11., cinematography: Mev Luna, Eloise Santa Maria, Robert Chase Heishman, sound mixing: Julian Flavin.
Fact Checking My Father, Lecture-performance, 2017. Presented at SFMOMA as part of the UC Berkeley / Stanford University Symposium–Not at Home: Migration, Pilgrimage and Displacement in Art, Design, and Visual Culture.
