Grace Villamil is an interdisciplinary artist based in NJ & NY. Through sound, performance, video & material her works concern the personal history and physicality of embodied sound and its phenomena. Creating regenerative processes as ecosystem for translation, dialogue, and electronics, along with themes related to noise, play, ancestral excavation, and temporality constitute the core of her practice.
Current projects include: mumulak; Interaural Space, a community installation turned radio broadcast on WPRB centered on noise, migration & oral histories; ⎤⎤⎤with Chantal Michelle (Superpang) & Drab. Past collaborations include projects with Black Mountain College Museum; IONE/MoM & Pauline Oliveros Foundation; performance of Raven Chacon’s For Zitkála-Šá & American Ledger #3; live-visual manipulation for Tyondai Braxton; &+. Her live-video manipulations as accompaniment to electronic & live instruments were performed at Southbank, London; Elbphilharmonie Kleiner Saal, Hamburg; The Broad/Redcat, Los Angeles; Issue Project Room, NYC & in Boston w/ ACT, a MIT Media Lab. Grace is a 2024 Rema Hort Mann Community Arts Grant recipient, a 2025 Wide Rainbow Fellow & holds a Masters of Fine Arts from Bard College, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts [US]. viagracia@gmail.com • @viagracia