Na Mira works at the edges of perception. Using video, film, sculpture and text, Mira’s practice allows animism to denaturalize the historically produced apparatus of image making.
Exhibitions, screenings and performances include Institute of Contemporary Art and Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; The Kitchen, Participant Inc., Drawing Center and Company Gallery, New York; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson; Portland Institute of Contemporary Art; ArtSpace Sydney; Institute of Contemporary Art, London; Kunsthalle Zurich; Croy Nielsen, Vienna; Seoul Museum of Art, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, and Art Sonje Center, Seoul among others. Mira’s art has been presented in the Gwangju Biennale, Venice Biennale, Whitney Biennial, Performa Biennial and is in the public collections of Walker Art Center, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Whitney Museum of American Art. Awards and fellowships include Artadia, Rema Hort Mann Foundation, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, LACMA Byucksan Prize, Denniston Hill, and Rauschenberg Foundation. Mira holds an MFA in New Genres from UCLA and a BFA in Film, Video, New Media from School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Mira’s work is represented by Paul Soto Gallery and has been featured in Artforum, Art in America, Art Asia Pacific, Bomb, Flash Art, Frieze, Mousse and The New York Times. In 2022, Wendy’s Subway published the first collection of Mira’s writing, The Book of Na.
