"[Magid’s work] is incisive in its poetic questioning of the ethics of human behavior and the hidden political structures of society."—Chrissie Iles, The Whitney Museum of American Art

Jill Magid is an artist, writer, and filmmaker based in New York. Across sculpture, installation, performance, text, and moving image, Magid interrogates structures of power on an intimate level, often forming long-term relationships with governmental and corporate systems – among them police departments, intelligence agencies, surveillance networks, and restricted archives – following their rules of engagement to the letter. Her work explores the emotional, philosophical, and legal tensions that exist between institutions and individual agency, often taking the form of a love story between artist and bureaucracy.

Jill Magid was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, in 1973. She received a BFA from Cornell University and an MS in Visual Studies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has received numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship (2021), Via Art Fund Grant (2021), Creative Time Artist Commission (2020), Calder Prize (2017), and a Netherland-American Foundation Fulbright Grant (2001-2002).

The artist has staged solo exhibitions at major museums across the globe, including Tate Modern, London (2009); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2010); Kunsthalle Sankt Gallen, Switzerland (2016); Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City (2017); Dia Bridgehampton, New York (2020); The Renaissance Society, Chicago (2021); Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (2022); Centre Pompidou, Paris (2022), and M Leuven, Belgium (2023), among others. She has participated in major group exhibitions worldwide, including the Liverpool, Lyon, Bucharest, Singapore, Incheon, Gothenburg, and Performa Biennials, as well as Manifesta.