Grace Villamil is an interdisciplinary artist based in NJ & NY. Through sound, performance, video, movement, & 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; & ⎤⎤⎤, an experimental noise duo. 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
Grand Opening Black Mountain College Museum
Sculptural installation collab w/Tyondai Braxton .
Conference/Talk Sept 30, 2019 3pm @ Reuters Center, UNC Asheville, NC.
Sept 29, 2018 - Jan 10. 2019 BMC 120 College St. Asheville, NC
3.09.18 ALL ABOUT FRANK Opening Reception 6-9PM Curated by
Arielle de Saint Phalle + Taylor Roy
SchoolHouse Projects
32 Prince St, New York, NY 10012
Artists include:
Tessa Hughes-Freeland, Tom Jarmusch, Jim Jarmusch, Ambre Kelly, Malcolm Kenter,Rachel Marino, Frank Mouris, Caroline Mouris, Iggy Pop, Larry Rivers,Walter Robinson, Taylor Roy, Jonny Sabbagh + Nick Ball, Luc Sante, Curtis Talwst Santiago, David Shapiro, Ken Tisa, Betty Tompkins, Gracia Villamil +Tyondai Braxton, White Hills, Winshluss, Robin Winters, Rob Wynne, the collection of Frank Andrews.
"DrunkTankPink" Opens 05/18/17 Reception Sun 5/21/17 4-7pm. 37 Orchard St. NYC
Opening 5/06/17 7-10pm 300 Flatbush Ave. Ext. Brooklyn NY. My largest rock formation yet!
Sunday April 19th 2015 - little mylar rock formations @ 365 S. Mission Los Angeles (OogaBooga #2) Celebrating the new book release of friends in Manila, Philippines. Tatlo: Office of Culture and Design
Check out the new rock formation I built for Coming Soon. Lay in it and goooo ! COMING SOON 37 Orchard, LES by my favorite lovies Fabiana & Helena !
Read about my installation on curators "Midi-Midinette" (Wernicke's tune) 2014 (click image)
New site specific installation Midi Midinette (Wernicke's tune) on view @ SpringBreak Art Show March 6th-March 9th 2014. 233 Mott St. NYC.
More info here: http://www.springbreakartshow.com/
Manila Review Feb 2014 A portion from my LAAND drawings are included on Pg. 9
Come out to the group show supporting aid for Typhoon Haiyan!
Typhoon Yolanda Philippines Nov 2013
Myself as Start Here and Tyondai Braxton put together a benefit concert for the survivors of Typhoon Yolanda in the Philippines. START HERE is Clara Balaguer (Manila/Office of Culture and Design), Kristian Henson (NYC/Manila), and myself. We create events to raise funds, form dialogue and build awareness for the long-term problematics for disaster response in the Philippines concentrating most recently on the earthquake in Bohol, Cebu (October 2013), and SuperTyphoon Haiyan (Yolanda).
New series with Prefuse73 & Yellow Year Records, album artwork+videos for his first series "Speak Soon" featuring collabs with Teebs, Kendrick Lamar, Nosaj thing & etc. My Fruition project of women is the artwork for the 12 albums to come out over the course of the year. Woman on the cover, embodiment of earth on the back. Beautiful vinyl, limited pressing. Watch the teaser below directed+filmed by us.
Fruition is an ongoing documentation capturing young women as physical body and mind are developing. These women are photographed between the years of 20-40 before their first offspring . A period of emotional growth rarely documented, paired with earth.
Pasalubong my photobook of the Philippines is an intimate journey through the lens of my Yashica and long bus rides around the country, includes drawings from my journal during those hours. Cover is a collage I made, a ripping open of the English-Pilipino dictionary. The special edition comes wrapped in a banana leaf collaboration print by myself & Samia Halaby, renowned Palestinian artist. Its available here, Dashwood Books on Bond St NYC, Arcana and Skylight Books in Los Angeles, &Tsutaya, Shibuya Tokyo! Press Release here by the lovely curator, Amanda Schmitt.
Video collaboration piece with Tyondai Braxton for his show with Philip Glass @ ATP (All Tomorrow's Party, NYC)