Eduardo Gil is a Caracas, Venezuela-born, Brooklyn-based multimedia artist whose work encompasses sculpture, video, sound, text, found objects, installation and mysticism.

Gil uses various media to create poetic spaces of observation, criticism, or purposeful experience for the viewer where different ways of being, acting, perceiving, or thinking seep, and sometimes, flood, in, to bind others into a discovered simultaneity of pro-social thought and feeling, which he hopes will stir the empathy for the viewer to participate in wider social discourses. Art is also the vessel through with Gil explores the ambiguities of language and experience to reflect upon memory, history, politics, community, and social practices where identity sheds its conventional role as a stable, unidirectional resting point and becomes multi-directional, fluid, in flux.

In Gil’s constructed allegories and nominal commentaries language occupies a central space—as a reflection on memory, community practices, or history without kowtow to authority or doctrine, but sprung from the experience of common citizens, or more often, the dispossessed. His works seek to give voice and expression to what has been silenced, hidden, or veiled by the prevailing culture—the human drama constantly clashing against modernity and its promise. Sometimes, for pure enjoyment, Gil’s pieces incorporate tennis, literature, and music in various combinations.

His works include Flosser, Shanty Town, Spitball, Readings of Saliva, Sweat and Tears, Atlas of Bolivar, Teleprompter, and Muscle Memory. These he considers testimonies, places of enunciation, at times, objects of grief (sometimes tattooed bones, sometimes tear- or urine-stained pillows) in which fragments of the world reflect on memory, community, and collective practices that further reflect on the societal effects on or artifacts of human expression.

Over the last decade, Gil has participated in five solo shows—in New York, Caracas, Madrid, Mexico City, and Santiago—and fifteen+ group exhibitions—in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens, Miami, Caracas, Sao Paulo, Paris, Santiago, Montevideo (Uruguay), Barcelona, Madrid, Vienna, Buenos Aires, and Scottsdale. Gil is also an infrequent but respected international lecturer on multimedia art. His exhibitions have been covered by the New York Times, Art Forum, Hyperallergic, Art in America, and The Village Voice. His work resides in collections in the US and South America. He holds an M.S. in Civil Engineering from Metropolitan University, Caracas, Venezuela.