CV
- 2012 Bachelors of Arts - Anthropology, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR
- 2019 Masters in Fine Arts - Film, Video, New Media, Animation ,The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
MFA in Film, Video, New Media, and Animation, The School of Art Institute of Chicago 2017-2019
2019-2025 Adjunct Professor in Art and Technology, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2020-2026 Adjunct Professor in New Media Art of the University of Illinois of Chicago
Selected Performances and Exhibitions
- 2026 Pain Vessels ii Art Show, Chicago, IL
2025 Ether: Performances of Ethereal at No Nation Art Space, Chicago, IL
2024 Break Out Artist of The Year, Chicago Artist Coalition, Chicago, IL
2023 We Remember Who We Are So We Can Find The Other, 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, Zhou B Art Center, Chicago, IL
2019 Club 2350: Building an Inclusive Sex-Positive Community, Reunion Gallery, Chicago IL
2019 Living for Love, Ohklahomo, Chicago, IL
2018 New Blood XII Performance Festival, Links Hall, Chicago, IL
2018 Within Receding Horizons, Sullivan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2018 Moving_Images_0:04, ACRE gallery, Chicago IL
2017 SuperNova Digital Animation Festival, Denver CO Access
2016 Miami New Media Festival, Miami, FL
Awards
2024 Break Artists 2024: Chicago’s Next Generation of Image Makers 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
Residency
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 Queer Futurities: The Cyborg Re-Engineered by Sheridyn Villarreal, Chicago, IL
2023 Ava Wanbli Builds A Self-Reflexive World of Trans Ecstatic Kink in “Sertraline Dolls” by Grant Phipps, Tone Madison, Madison, WI
2022 For Women Artists, Studio Visits Can Be Risky Business by Hall Rockefeller, Chicago, IL