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Pergola Spoila & Slumpies at Artis-Naples
Currently, I have my largest (and heaviest) sculpture ever, Pergola Spoila , on view at The Baker Museum / Artis-Naples. Click here to see more info . The Baker Museum also has two silver SLUMPIES on display:


Loop Art Critique Hosts Jillian Mayer
I was the guest artist for the ICA Loop Art Critique from January - February during their 20th cohort. Here are some resources we exchanged during the program:


Recent Featured Publications
In the past couple of years i've been in a couple books: Codes as Creative Medium (MIT Press) Dark Matters On the Surveillance of Blackness (Duke University Press) Paradox: The Body in the Age of AI (Carnegie Mellon) Gateways to Art Textbook (Thames & Hudson) Link in Bio: Life After Social Media ( Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig )


SLUMPIES at the Sarasota Art Museum
On view from May 4, 2025–August 19, 2026. Read more here.


Mayer Objects Website Launch
I launched a design/editions website called Mayer Objects . Sign up here to get on the mailing list for my design updates. Here is the instagram if you want to follow along~


City-State Wins Best Artist-Run Space!
Two years ago, I founded CITY-STATE , a special creative zone. It’s a gallery, garden, and mixed-work space with 13 artist studios. Here is the site and instagram . We won Best Artist-Run Space in 2025 by the Miami New Times! If you have any ideas, want to visit, or have potential collabs, please contact me. CITY-STATE is a labor of love I take on with Rose Marie Cromwell. We work hard to make it a unique place in Miami.


Visiting Faculty at UNR
I was a professor in the graduate art program for two semesters at UNR in 2023, teaching CONCEPT TO OBJECT : Strategies for Implementation.


Panel Discussion Florida Contemporary 2025-26
Mally Khorasantchi , artist Boy Kong , artist Jillian Mayer , artist Reginald O’Neal , artist Join the artists featured in Florida Contemporary 2025-26 for a lively panel discussion celebrating the state’s vibrant art scene on January 29th, 2026. This annual exhibition showcases a select group of notable visual artists practicing in Florida, highlighting the diverse approaches to personal, local and global themes. The 13th edition of the exhibition features Mally Khorasantc


Artist Talk at Sarasota Art Museum
Overview A thought-provoking talk with multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker, Jillian Mayer. Join Jillian Mayer for an engaging artist talk about her functional sculpture series, Slumpies. Learn more about the creative process behind this interactive body of work, where viewer participation becomes a witty commentary on society's ever-increasing relationship with technological devices. Hear first-hand from the artist about her creative approach to art and utility, as well a


Visiting Lecture at RISD Glass
This Wednesday at 1:10 pm, we are excited to welcome Jillian Mayer for our Visiting Lecture Series! Through videos, sculptures, online experiences, photography, performances, and installations, Mayer explores how technology affects our lives, bodies, and identities by processing how our physical world and bodies are impacted and reshaped by our participation in a digital landscape. Mayer investigates the points of tension between our online and physical worlds and makes work


Aspen Design Conference Talk
We’re thrilled to welcome Jillian Mayer as a speaker! The Miami-born Cuban-American artist and filmmaker is internationally recognized for work that examines how technology shapes our identities, anxieties, and future fantasies. Her projects span film, sculpture, performance, and digital experiences, with exhibitions at MoMA, Pérez Art Museum, Kunsthall Aarhus, and Sundance. Welcome, Jillian, to the Aspen Design Conference!


Artist Talk Reflecting the Gaze: Jillian Mayer and Abigail Reyes at the Norton
Join us for an evening presentation and conversation with artists Jillian Mayer and Abigail Reyes, moderated by Arden Sherman, Glenn W. & Cornelia T. Bailey Senior Curator of Contemporary Art. An opening event for the summer exhibition, Reflecting the Gaze: Jillian Mayer and Abigail Reyes, which features two video works by the contemporary female artists that challenge how women "should" or are "meant to" behave and be seen. Through editing telenovelas and the story of Venus


Symposium - Paradox: Frames and Biases in Art and AI / Miller ICA at Carnegie Mellon University
Symposium Paradox: Frames and Biases in Art and AI Jan. 28, 2019 5:30–8:30pm RSVP on Facebook Organized by Eunsu Kang and Elizabeth Chodos Panel members: Manuela Veloso , Alexandra Chouldechova , Sey Min , Jillian Mayer , and Kerry Doran . This panel discussion explores the ways bias is inherently built into the structure and function of Machine Learning. In order to make predictions or identify patterns, AI requires that a person set specific instructions that have


Guggenheim Museum’s Summer of Know: Jillian Mayer and Carrie Goldberg (2017)
As part of the Guggenheim Museum’s Summer of Know series, artist and filmmaker Jillian Mayer and Carrie Goldberg, victims’ rights lawyer, discussed the phenomenon of online sexual harassment in a conversation moderated by Nancy Spector , Artistic Director and Jennifer and David Stockman Chief Curator, on June 20, 2017.
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