Javier Téllez

2024 Stepping Stone Grantee

Javier Téllez (b. Venezuela) is a New York based artist working in film, video and installation whose work brings peripheral communities and invisible situations to the fore of contemporary art addressing migration, disabilities and mental illness as marginalizing conditions. Téllez has one-person exhibitions at CARA, New York; Guggenheim Museum Bilbao; Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester; the San Francisco Art Institute; Kunsthaus Zürich; SMAK, Ghent; Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon; Aspen Art Museum; The Power Plant, Toronto; and the Bronx Museum of the Arts. He has participated in dOCUMENTA 13, Kassel; Sydney Biennial; and the Whitney Biennial, New York; Venice Biennale; and Yokohama Triennial. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1999, and in 2016 the Global Mental Health Award from Columbia University, New York.