Julieta Gil

Julieta Gil (b. Mexico City, 1987) explores relationships between memory, materiality, and public space. Her recent work focuses on documenting sites where imposed narratives confront collective forms of storytelling and remembering. Through a wide range of media — such as video, installation, 3D simulation, performance, and sculpture — Gil transports physical space into the digital realm and vice versa. In this process, she develops methodologies to record her bodily interaction with both environments. Gil creates new archives and mediums of memory, using fiction as both a primary agent and a tool for social transformation.

Visual artist with a Master’s degree in Art and New Media from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA Media Arts) and a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture from the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City. Gil’s work has been exhibited in national and international institutions such as: Nevada Museum of Art (Reno, NV), Palm Spring Art Museum (Palm Springs, CA), SCAD Museum of Art (Savannah, GA), Storefront for Art and Architecture (New York, NY), Museo Tamayo (Mexico City), Laboratorio Arte Alameda (Mexico City), Centro de Cultura Digital (Mexico City), among other institutions. She has been a lecturer for UCLA’s Media Arts program and Art & Tech Visiting Professor within the Department of Art at the University of Oregon. Her work is part of the permanent collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and the Nevada Museum of Art. In 2020, Gil received the Lumen Prize for Art and Technology for her project “Nuestra Victoria”, envisioned as a response to government censorship around a prominent monument in Mexico City, which served as a site of protest and intervention by feminist groups.