Jill Magid (b. 1973, the United States) is a Brooklyn-based artist, writer, and performer. She graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and got her Master of Science in Visual Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge. She currently teaches at Cooper Union as an adjunct professor. Her work centers around the personal engagements with impersonal bureaucratic structures of power, like the police, secret services, CCTV, and forensic identification, that tend to objectify and homogenize the individual. Through intimate connections with the system, she looks for fallacies in their omniscient point of view, the way in which they store memory, their authority, their embedded position in society, their apparent intangibility, and their potential reversibility. Her work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at numerous institutions and venues: Yvon Lambert, Paris (2012); the Singapore Biennial (2011); the Berkeley Museum of Art, California (2011); The New Museum, New York (2010); the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2010); Museo Tamayo, Mexico City (2010); Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw (2010); Tate Modern, London (2009); Gagosian Gallery, New York (2007); Museum of Contemporary Arts, Taipei (2006) and the Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam (2005).