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 systems, 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 show on WPRB centered on noise, migration & oral histories;  ⎤⎤⎤& Drab. Her process merges many worlds: basketball as instrument; sculptural mylar installations as listening environment & locus for dialogue & healing; radio waves as ecosystem for interconnection &+. Past collaborations include projects with Black Mountain College Museum; IONE @ Pauline Oliveros’s Deep Listening Park; performance of For Zitkála-Šá w/ Raven Chacon @Amant nyc; 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 & holds a Masters of Fine Arts from Bard College, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts [US]. viagracia@gmail.com • @viagracia