Miranda July (2002 Creative Capital Awardee) is an artist, filmmaker, and writer whose work engages intimacy, desire, loneliness, and social connection across film, literature, performance, and digital media. Major works include the participatory website Learning to Love You More (2000–2009) with artist Harrell Fletcher, the interactive sculpture Eleven Heavy Things for the 2009 Venice Biennale, and the feature films Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005)—recipient of the Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and the Caméra d’Or at Cannes—The Future (2011), and Kajillionaire (2020). July’s literary works include the story collection No One Belongs Here More Than You (Scribner, 2007) and the novels The First Bad Man (Scribner, 2015) and All Fours (Riverhead, 2024), a critically acclaimed bestseller celebrated for its exploration of desire, aging, and reinvention. Her work has been presented at the Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the 2002 and 2004 Whitney Biennials in New York, and was the subject of her first major museum retrospective, Miranda July: New Society, at Fondazione Prada, Milan, in 2024. She is a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow and was named one of Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in 2025.

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