Miranda July

Born 1974 in Barre, Vermont. Lives and works in Los Angeles.

July represents a new generation of American artists. Covering the fields as performance, sound art, interactive web-based art, promotional video, film directing, acting, and screenplay writing, July's work transgresses the boundaries between contemporary art and commercial media. She went on to write, direct, and act in her first feature film, Me and You and Everyone We Know (05) and won the Caméra d'Or at the Festival International du Film de Cannes.