The Society for Contemporary Art Presents Jill Mulleady 11.17.25

Jill Mulleady (b. 1980, Montevideo, Uruguay) lives and works between Los Angeles and Paris. She works primarily in painting, and she often intervenes in the spaces where she exhibits, staging the paintings with readymades, sculptures, and architectural installations, exploring themes of memory, transformation, and the power of history. In her work, references to historical painting are put into communication with images taken from both popular culture and personal life, creating an anachronic feeling of merged and frictional temporalities. Her practice shifts between close observations of everyday reality and highly elaborated imaginary worlds. These paintings can be seen as allegories for the contemporary experience of the image as an interface: not just a picture but a means of mobilizing attention, bodies, and affects within an increasingly virtualized social space.

She has had solo exhibitions at Sant'Andrea de Scaphis, Rome (2024); LUMA Arles, France (2024); Gladstone Gallery, New York (2022); Le Consortium, Dijon (2021); Gladstone Gallery, Brussels (2020); Swiss Institute, New York (2019); Galerie Neu, Berlin (2018); Schloss, Oslo (2018); Kunsthalle Bern (2017); and Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples (2015). In 2024, Jill Mulleady and Henry Taylor had a two-person show, "You Me" at Schinkel Pavillon in Berlin. She has also been involved in two biennales: "Made in L.A. 2020: a version at the Hammer Museum" in 2021 and "May You Live in Interesting Times" at the 58th Venice Biennale in 2019.