Ava Mirage Wanbli
Education
2019
MFA in Film, Video, New Media, and Animation
The School of Art Institute of Chicago
2013
BA in Cultural Anthropology
The University of Arkansas
Teaching Positions
2021-2024
Adjunct Assistant Professor
the University of Illinois of Chicago
Courses:
Expanded Cinema
Introduction to New Media
Graduate Seminar: Media Arts in Gender and Sex
Introduction To Creative Coding
New Media Wearables
2019-2024
Adjunct Lecturer
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Courses:
Virtual Reality
Selected Performances and Exhibitions
2023
---We Remember Who We Are So We Can Find The Other, Performance with Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Depaul Art Museum and Wrightwood Gallery 659, Chicago, IL
---Life Cycles, Depaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL
---RESET, Berlin Nightclub , Chicago, IL
---Connected Matter, VRSL. New York City, Brooklyn
---No Nation Art Space, Chicago, IL
---Sertraline Dolls, Madison Museum of Contemporary Arts, Madison, WI
---Queer Futurities, Hokin Gallery, Chicago, IL
---Soft Bodies in the Shimmering Mirage, Roots and Culture Contemporary Art Gallery, Chicago, IL
2022
---Midsommar Nights Dream, ClickClackClub, Chicago, IL
---Subverse, Berlin NightClub, Chicago, IL
---AutoGenesis, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
2021
---Sertraline Dolls Residency, Space P11 Gallery, Chicago, IL
---Sertraline Dolls, Rainbow Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2020
---HotWheelz Performance Festival, LVL3 Gallery, Chicago, IL
---Performance//Proxy2, The Neon Heater, Findley, Ohio
---Switching Codes of Pleasure: Sex Work in Academia and Art, HCL, MANA Contemporary, Chicago
2019
---Fixity Equals Death, Space P11 Gallery, Chicago, IL
---We Series, Comfort Station, Chicago , IL
---The Approach, ACRE Gallery, Chicago, IL
---IMPACT Performance Festival MFA Thesis, Zhou B Art Center, Chicago, IL
---Club 2350: Building an Inclusive Sex-Positive Community, Reunion Gallery, Chicago IL Living for Love, Ohklahomo, Chicago, IL
---No Nation Art Space, Chicago, IL
2018
---New Blood XII Performance Festival, Links Hall, Chicago, IL
---Within Receding Horizons, Sullivan Gallery, Chicago, IL Moving_Images_0:04, ACRE gallery, Chicago IL
2017
---SuperNova Digital Animation Festival, Denver CO Access
---Code Film Festival, Bangalore, India
---Temporal Gestalt at Lee Gallery, Clemson University, South Carolina
2016
---Miami New Media Festival, Miami, FL
---Bideodromo Film Festival at Bilbao Art Production Center, Spain
---Streetlight at Roman Susan Gallery, Chicago, IL
---Exchanges -International Exhibition of Video Art and Video Performance by La Tostadora, Ecuador and Colombia
---Athens Digital Arts Festival: Pop Apocalyptic – After Dark, Athens, Greece
---DeleteTV, London, UK
---Artfields Art Festival, Lake City, SC
Awards
2024 Break Out Artist of The Year by New City Magazine
2021 Make a Wave Artist by 3Arts
2018 ACRE Artist Residency
2018 OxBow Winter Merit Scholarship
2017 Dean Scholarship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2016 Artfields Art Festival Merit Award
2016 University of Arkansas Blanche Elliot Award
Residencies
2022 New Art City Artist Residence
2021 Interior LandScape Residency at Space P11 Gallery
2020 LVL3 Gallery and HotWheelz Performance Festival
2019 MANA Contemporary New Media Artist Residency
2018 Acre Artist Residency
Panels
2024
On The Life Cycle of The Artist Panel Discussion, Depaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL
2020
Sex Work In The Academy And The Art World, The Public School, Los Angeles
Switching Codes of Pleasure: Sex Work in Academia and Art, High Concept Labs at MANA
Contemporary, Chicago, IL