Ava Mirage Wanbli
https://avawanbli.com/ Chicago, IL avawanbli@gmail.com
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Education
MFA in Film, Video, New Media, and Animation, The School of Art Institute of Chicago 2017-2019
Teaching
Lecturer in Art and Technology, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL 2019-2024
Adjunct Professor in New Media, Art and Art History of the University of Illinois of Chicago 2020-2025
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Selected Performances and Exhibitions
2025 Ether: Performances of Ethereal at No Nation Art Space, Chicago, IL
2024 Break Out Artist of The Year Group Exhibition, Chicago Artist Coalition, Chicago, IL
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
2023 Life Cycles, Depaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL
2023 RESET, Berlin Nightclub , Chicago, IL
2023 Connected Matter, VRSL. New York City, Brooklyn
2023 No Nation Art Space, Chicago, IL
2023 Sertraline Dolls Solo Exhibition, Madison Museum of Contemporary Arts, Madison, WI
2023 Queer Futurities, Hokin Gallery, Chicago, IL
2023 Soft Bodies in the Shimmering Mirage, Roots and Culture Contemporary Art Gallery, Chicago, IL
2022 Subverse, Berlin NightClub, Chicago, IL
2022 AutoGenesis, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
2021 Sertraline Dolls Residency, Space P11 Gallery, Chicago, IL
2021 Sertraline Dolls, Rainbow Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2020 HotWheelz Performance Festival, LVL3 Gallery, Chicago, IL
2020 Performance//Proxy2, The Neon Heater, Findley, Ohio
2020 Switching Codes of Pleasure: Sex Work in Academia and Art, HCL, MANA Contemporary, Chicago
2019 Fixity Equals Death, Space P11 Gallery, Chicago, IL
2019 We Series, Comfort Station, Chicago , IL
2019 The Approach, ACRE Gallery, Chicago, IL
2019 IMPACT Performance Festival MFA Thesis, Zhou B Art Center, Chicago, IL
2024 Break Out Artist of The Year by New City Magazine
2021 Make a Wave Artist by 3Arts
2018 ACRE Artist Residency Scholarship
2018 OxBow Winter Merit Scholarship
2017 Dean Scholarship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2022 New Art City Artist Residency
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
2024 Break Out Artist of The Year Group Exhibition, Chicago Artist Coalition, Chicago, IL
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
2023 Life Cycles, Depaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL
2023 RESET, Berlin Nightclub , Chicago, IL
2023 Connected Matter, VRSL. New York City, Brooklyn
2023 No Nation Art Space, Chicago, IL
2023 Sertraline Dolls Solo Exhibition, Madison Museum of Contemporary Arts, Madison, WI
2023 Queer Futurities, Hokin Gallery, Chicago, IL
2023 Soft Bodies in the Shimmering Mirage, Roots and Culture Contemporary Art Gallery, Chicago, IL
2022 Subverse, Berlin NightClub, Chicago, IL
2022 AutoGenesis, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
2021 Sertraline Dolls Residency, Space P11 Gallery, Chicago, IL
2021 Sertraline Dolls, Rainbow Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2020 HotWheelz Performance Festival, LVL3 Gallery, Chicago, IL
2020 Performance//Proxy2, The Neon Heater, Findley, Ohio
2020 Switching Codes of Pleasure: Sex Work in Academia and Art, HCL, MANA Contemporary, Chicago
2019 Fixity Equals Death, Space P11 Gallery, Chicago, IL
2019 We Series, Comfort Station, Chicago , IL
2019 The Approach, ACRE Gallery, Chicago, IL
2019 IMPACT Performance Festival MFA Thesis, Zhou B Art Center, Chicago, IL
Awards
2024 Break Out Artist of The Year by New City Magazine
2021 Make a Wave Artist by 3Arts
2018 ACRE Artist Residency Scholarship
2018 OxBow Winter Merit Scholarship
2017 Dean Scholarship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Residencies
2022 New Art City Artist Residency
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
Press
2024 Ava Wanbli: Break Out Artist of The Year by Nicky Ni, New City Magazine, Chicago, IL
2024 An Angel With Her Wings by Riley Yaxley, Sixty Inches From Center, Chicago, IL
2023 Ava Wanbli Builds A Self-Reflexive World of Trans Ecstatic Kink in “Sertraline Dolls” by Grant Phipps, Tone Madison, Madison, Wisconsin
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