Jill Magid is an artist, writer, and filmmaker. Solo exhibitions include: Museum Univesitario de Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City; San Francisco Art Institute; Tate Modern, London; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Berkeley Museum of Art, California; Tate Liverpool; and the Security and Intelligence Agency of the Netherlands. She has participated in Manifesta, Performa, and Biennials in Liverpool, Bucharest, Singapore, Incheon, Gothenburg, and Oslo. Magid is the recipient of the 2017 Calder Prize. Her first feature film, The Proposal (83 min. 2018) premiered at the Tribecca Film Festival and was recently released in theatres across the USA with distribution by Oscilloscope Labs.

This lecture is part of the 2019-2020 Visual Studies Lecture Series, funded in part by the Sachs Program for Arts Innovation. For more programs, visit: https://www.sas.upenn.edu/visual-studies/events