Jill Mulleady was born in Montevideo, Uruguay. She is Swiss-Uruguayan and is based between Los Angeles, Paris, and Buenos Aires. Mulleady works primarily in painting but often intervenes in the spaces where she exhibits, staging her works alongside films, sculptures, readymades, and architectural installations. Her practice explores themes of memory, transformation, and the power of history, shifting between close observations of everyday reality and highly elaborate, composed worlds.

Her paintings can be seen as allegories for the contemporary experience of the image as an interface: they do not merely represent a picture but serve as a means of mobilizing attention, bodies, and affects, connecting emotionally and physically in an increasingly virtualized space.

Selected solo & group exhibitions include: Art Institute of Chicago (2026), Moderna Musett (2026), Pompidou Metz (2025), Louvre Lenz (2025), Sant-Andreas de Scaphis, Rome (2025), Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin (2024), Gladstone Gallery, New York (2022); Le Consortium, Dijon (2021); Made in LA 2020, Hammer Museum & Huntington Library & Botanical Gardens, San Marino (2020), Whitney Museum of American Art (2020); Swiss Institute, New York (2019); Galerie Neu, Berlin (2018); Schloss, Oslo (2018); Kunsthalle Bern (2017); and Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples (2015). 
In 2019 Mulleady’s work was included in May You Live in Interesting Times at the 58th Venice Biennale.