NEW YORK, NY.- Olney Gleason announced the representation of artist, writer, and filmmaker Jill Magid (b. 1973). The artist’s first solo exhibition at the gallery, Notice of a Citizen, will open at 509 West 27th Street on June 11, 2026, anticipating the release of her career-spanning monograph, With Full Consent, (September 2026; Creative Time and Dancing Foxes Press).

Considering the ambiguous relationship between a citizen and the presidency through a series of sculptures, neon works, and drawings, Notice of a Citizen draws on the forms, language, and objects that structure public appearances in the White House Rose Garden – historically referred to as “the people’s garden.”

Magid’s practice interrogates structures of power on an intimate level. Working across sculpture, installation, performance, text, and moving image, Magid forms long-term relationships with governmental and corporate systems – among them police departments, intelligence agencies, surveillance networks, and restricted archives – following their rules of engagement to the letter. Her work explores the emotional, philosophical, and legal tensions that exist between institutions and individual agency, often taking the form of a love story between artist and bureaucracy. Magid has trained as a spy, a police officer, and a journalist in Afghanistan; her 2008 commission by the Dutch Secret Service resulted in the Dutch government's confiscation of her work from Tate Modern in 2010. Her long-term investigation into the contested archive of Mexican architect Luis Barragán, which culminated in her first feature film The Proposal (2018), examines authorship, copyright, and national heritage through an act of negotiation. Among Magid’s public artworks is Tender (2020), commissioned by Creative Time, which facilitated the dispersal of 120,000 newly-minted pennies, edge-engraved by the artist, into the U.S. economy.

From April 27 to June 16, 2026, Magid presents Pooler Room at Mister Fahrenheit, New York, a site-responsive exhibition that layers the histories of the White House press pool and the gallery’s former life as a swimming pool. The artist is also included in the group show Body Fragments at The Power Station, Dallas, Texas from April 19 to June 21, 2026.

Jill Magid (b. 1973) lives and works in New York. Her work is held in the collections of the Centre Pompidou, Paris; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Fundación Jumex, Mexico City; and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, among others. She has staged solo exhibitions at institutions including Tate Modern, London; Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth; The Renaissance Society, Chicago; Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Her first feature documentary, The Proposal, premiered at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival. Her awards include a Netherland-American Foundation Fulbright Grant, the 2017 Calder Prize, a 2020 Creative Time Artist Commission, a 2021 Via Art Fund Grant, and a 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship. She received a BFA from Cornell University and an MS in Visual Studies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Magid is represented by Olney Gleason, New York, and LABOR, Mexico City.