Slumpie, 2024. Aluminum, automotive paint, 68 × 97 × 120 inches. Currently on view at MASS MoCA (North Adams, Massachusetts) through December 2027.

David Castillo presents Jillian Mayer: Placeholder Future, the artist and filmmaker’s fourth solo presentation with the gallery. Mayer has spent over a decade examining the possibilities and probabilities of the future, and our ongoing relationship with technology—the way we might physically integrate with it, its potential to liberate the self from utilitarian concerns. Her investigations have revealed that the future, though, never quite arrives; as technology outpaces itse

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:

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:

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 )

On view from May 4, 2025–August 19, 2026. Read more here.

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~

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.

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