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.
Three Critics will offer graduate students the opportunity to get inside the art critic's head and learn how writers think about the visual. Students will be exposed to a wide range of viewpoints and discourse on contemporary art issues as defined by the interests of three different, practicing critics. Each critic will become part of the RISD community for approximately one month, conducting 3 sessions on campus and one in New York or Boston. On-campus meetings will consist of lectures, reading and writing assignments, group critiques and one-on-one studio visits. Off-campus trips will include visits to museums, galleries and artist studios. Small groups of students will be expected to lead several classes. Outside coursework and full participation in class discussion required for successful completion.
