Mira Dayal
Biography
Mira Dayal is an artist, writer, and editor based in New York. She produces systems of sculptures that 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 push against the limits of language and image. Dayal has held solo and two-person exhibitions at venues including Fuller Rosen Gallery, Philadelphia; Princeton University, NJ; Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York; Kunstverein Dresden, Germany; Gymnasium, Brooklyn; Lubov, New York; NARS Foundation, Brooklyn; and Abrons Art Center, New York. She has participated in group exhibitions at the Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY; Feral File; Barnard College, New York; Miriam, Brooklyn; lower_cavity, Holyoke, MA; Parent Company, Brooklyn; Apparatus Projects, Chicago; Artspace New Haven, CT; OCHI, Los Angeles; Hesse Flatow, New York; NURTUREart, Brooklyn; and other spaces. She has participated in residencies at Ox-Bow, Art in General, and A.I.R. Gallery. Dayal is on faculty at Barnard College, Parsons School of Design, and the School of Visual Arts.
Exhibitions
2025
Steel Model of Paper Copy of Desk Top with Pencil Groove
2023
Front Room: Mira Dayal
2022
Not a Show
2022
Crucible
2021
...In that Empire, the Art of Cartography attained such Perfection that the map of a single Province occupied the entirety of a City, and the map of the Empire, the entirety of a Province...