Mira Dayal

Mira Dayal is an artist, writer, editor and educator based in Brooklyn. 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. Her current body of work is a series of “language objects”—sculptures that replicate and abstract tools and materials associated with the production and disassembly of language. Research for this project ranges from the ancient physical origins of written language to contemporary Large Language Models.

Dayal has held solo and two-person exhibitions at venues including Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; Spencer Brownstone Gallery, NYC; Kunstverein Dresden, Germany; Gymnasium, Brooklyn; Lubov, NYC; NARS Foundation, Brooklyn; and Abrons Arts Center, NYC. She has also participated in group exhibitions at the Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY; Feral File; Barnard College, NYC; Miriam, Brooklyn; lower_cavity, Holyoke, MA; Parent Company, Brooklyn; Apparatus Projects, Chicago, IL; Artspace New Haven, CT; OCHI, Los Angeles, CA; Hesse Flatow, NYC; NURTUREart, Brooklyn; and other spaces. She has participated in residencies at Ox-Bow, Art in General and A.I.R. Gallery. In addition to teaching at RISD, Dayal is currently on the faculty at the School of Visual Arts, Parsons and Barnard College.