Meet Jillian Mayer ’07, an artist of her generation


Fine arts alumna Jillian Mayer ’07 took the Big Apple by storm last month when her “Scenic Jogging” short was featured as a Top 25 selection for the first-ever YouTube Play: A Creative Video Biennial at the Guggenheim museum.

Photo: Lucas Leyva for "Interview" magazine.

The rising performance artist’s 79-second video was chosen by a panel of judges from a pool of more than 20,000 international submissions that arrived over the summer.

“Getting picked to be in the Top 25 out of all these submissions by YouTube, Google, Laurie Anderson, Animal Collective, Darren Aronofsky, Ryan McGinley, Marilyn Minter, Takashi Murakami and Guggenheim chief curator Nancy Spector can make one feel extremely special and excited to be alive,” the Panther said. “Video art is a pretty new medium and I am looking forward to seeing how it will be pushed.”

Mayer’s video sees her “sprinting down a desolate Miami street at night, racing to keep up with naturalistic imagery projected onto passing buildings.”

Interview magazine recently chatted with the Panther about her participation in the biennial and Miami’s art scene.

Up next for Mayer is a collective show at the David Castillo Gallery in December during Art Basel Miami Beach, followed by a solo show at the gallery in April.

“I have also been working on some short films and I have a fundraiser up on Kickstarter for a project I’m trying to finish, “Mrs. Ms.” It’s about a girl suffering from the pressures to be in a couple,” she said. “It’s a weird, contemporary musical where I marry my dog and gay men from the Internet. It’s kitsch, fun and desperate. You know, for the whole family or something.”

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