Jil Guyon

Jil Guyon

Jil Guyon

Jil Guyon is an award-winning visual and performing artist based in New York. Her performance videos have been screened at Lincoln Center’s Dance on Camera Festival, Cinedanse Quebec, Fashion Art Toronto, and NOW New Music Festival, among others. Collaborative performance work includes appearances alongside Kiki Smith and Alvin Curran in Joan Jonas’ Variations on a Scene at The Wave Hill Dancescape in Riverdale, NY, and as a guest artist in Noemie Lafrance’s Agora II at the McCarren Park pool in Brooklyn. Guyon’s critically acclaimed multimedia theater piece At the Borders of Eternity, based on The Diary of Anne Frank, starred celebrated German actress Elfriede Irrall and was featured on ORF television (Austria). Guyon is a Lumiere prize (Canada) nominee; a recipient of the IndieFEST and Global Shorts Awards for Excellence in experimental film; winner of an Accolade Award in experimental film; and the recipient of the Magistrat der Stadt Wien Award (Austria). She holds an MFA in painting from Hunter College.