Biography

Mira Dayal is an artist, writer, and editor based in New York. She produces sculptures, drawings, installations, books, and interdisciplinary works that create and iterate larger systems of meaning. Her works often respond to a site’s architecture or history, involve subtle but laborious uses of everyday objects and materials, critically reflect on changing technologies, and expand the limits of language and image. Dayal has held solo and two-person exhibitions at Princeton University, NJ; Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York; Fuller Rosen Gallery, Philadelphia; Kunstverein Dresden, Germany; Gymnasium, Brooklyn; Lubov, New York; NARS Foundation, Brooklyn; and Abrons Art Center, New York. She has participated in group exhibitions at Van Abbehuis, Eindhoven, Netherlands; the Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY; Feral File; Barnard College, New York; Miriam Gallery + Bookstore, Brooklyn; lower_cavity, Holyoke, MA; Parent Company, Brooklyn; Apparatus Projects, Chicago; Artspace New Haven, CT; and other spaces. Her work has been supported by residencies at Fountainhead, Miami; the Steel Yard, Providence, RI; Ox-Bow, Saugatuck, MI; Art in General, New York; and A.I.R. Gallery at Governor's Island, NY. Dayal is also senior editor at Triple Canopy, co-editor of Track changes: a handbook for art criticism (Paper Monument, 2023), and co-publisher of the collaborative artist book series prompt:. She teaches at Barnard College and the School of Visual Arts.

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