Los Angeles-based painter Jill Mulleady was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Later she moved to Paris, where she studied theatre with Ariane Mnouchkine at the École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq. Turning her attention to painting, Mulleady attended the Chelsea College of Arts in London, graduating with an MFA in 2009. She focuses on creating realistic figurative works that vary in content—mystical, realistic, mythical, and historical, from fantastical surrealism to scenes of everyday life.