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== Artistic practice and exhibitions ==

== Artistic practice and exhibitions ==

Beginning in 2018, Mira has a since ongoing video installation series titled ”Night Vision”.<ref name=”:2″>{{Cite web |last=Teets |first=Jennifer |date=29 March 2022 |title=A Kind of Science Friction: Na Mira |url=https://www.moussemagazine.it/magazine/na-mira-jennifer-teets-2022 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250324231451/https://www.moussemagazine.it/magazine/na-mira-jennifer-teets-2022/ |archive-date=24 March 2025 |access-date=1 April 2022 |website=Mousse Magazine |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Schneider |first=Tim |date=2019-06-13 |title=What Can We Learn About Art Fairs From Liste, Basel’s Platform for Emerging Talent? Here Are Four Lessons |url=https://news.artnet.com/market/four-lessons-liste-2019-1572766 |access-date=2022-04-02 |website=Artnet News |language=en-US |quote=Dylan Mira’s 밤시각 Night Vision (2019)}}</ref> The ”Night Vision” series started with a noted visual glitch when filming with an [[infrared]] camera in [[Jeju Island]] in South Korea, and the work features audio components.<ref name=”:2″ /><ref name=”:3″ /> Her ”Night Vision” work touches on topics such as [[Western esotericism|esotericism]], [[Korean shamanism]], [[feminism]], and personal family history.<ref name=”:3″ /><ref name=”:4″ />

Beginning in 2018, Mira has a since ongoing video installation series titled ”Night Vision”.<ref name=”:2″>{{Cite web |last=Teets |first=Jennifer |date=29 March 2022 |title=A Kind of Science Friction: Na Mira |url=https://www.moussemagazine.it/magazine/na-mira-jennifer-teets-2022 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250324231451/https://www.moussemagazine.it/magazine/na-mira-jennifer-teets-2022/ |archive-date=24 March 2025 |access-date=1 April 2022 |website=Mousse Magazine |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Schneider |first=Tim |date=13 |title=What Can We Learn About Art Fairs From Liste, Basel’s Platform for Emerging Talent? Here Are Four Lessons |url=https://news.artnet.com/market/four-lessons-liste-2019-1572766 |access-date=2022 |website=Artnet |language=en-US |quote=Dylan Mira’s 밤시각 Night Vision (2019)}}</ref> The ”Night Vision” series started with a noted visual glitch when filming with an [[infrared]] camera in [[Jeju Island]] in South Korea, and the work features audio components.<ref name=”:2″ /><ref name=”:3″ /> Her ”Night Vision” work touches on topics such as [[Western esotericism|esotericism]], [[Korean shamanism]], [[feminism]], and personal family history.<ref name=”:3″ /><ref name=”:4″ />

In January 2022, [[Fulcrum Arts]] hosted a conversation titled “Unfolding Dimensions” between Mira, Simon Leung, and [[Satyan Devadoss]], focused on an analysis of Mira’s research work in the archives of [[Theresa Hak Kyung Cha]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-01-21 |title=Unfolding Dimensions |url=https://www.fulcrumarts.org/unfolding-dimensions/ |access-date=2022-04-01 |website=Fulcrum Arts |language=en-US}}</ref>

In January 2022, [[Fulcrum Arts]] hosted a conversation titled “Unfolding Dimensions” between Mira, Simon Leung, and [[Satyan Devadoss]], focused on an analysis of Mira’s research work in the archives of [[Theresa Hak Kyung Cha]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-01-21 |title=Unfolding Dimensions |url=https://www.fulcrumarts.org/unfolding-dimensions/ |access-date=2022-04-01 |website=Fulcrum Arts |language=en-US}}</ref>

Revision as of 21:13, 9 November 2025

Visual artist and filmmaker

Na Mira (born 1982), also known as Dylan Mira,[1] is an American artist and educator, known for her installation art. She is based out of Los Angeles, California, “on Tongva, Gabrielino, Kizh, and Chumash lands.”[2]

Early life and education

Na Mira was born in 1982 in Lawrence, Kansas.[2] She grew up between the United States and East Asia, and is of Korean-American descent.[3][4]

Mira received a BFA degree in 2006 in Film, Video, New Media at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; and a MFA degree in 2013 in New Genres at the University of California, Los Angeles.[5][6]

Artistic practice and exhibitions

Beginning in 2018, Mira has a since ongoing video installation series titled Night Vision.[3][7] The Night Vision series started with a noted visual glitch when filming with an infrared camera in Jeju Island in South Korea, and the work features audio components.[3][4] Her Night Vision work touches on topics such as esotericism, Korean shamanism, feminism, and personal family history.[4][8]

In January 2022, Fulcrum Arts hosted a conversation titled “Unfolding Dimensions” between Mira, Simon Leung, and Satyan Devadoss, focused on an analysis of Mira’s research work in the archives of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha.[9]

In April 2022, Mira participated in a “multi-sensorial, durational performance” Eternal Spa, organized with QNA (collective) at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.[10]

Mira was selected to participate in the 2022 Whitney Biennial titled “Quiet as It’s Kept” curated by Adrienne Edwards and David Breslin.[8] Mira presented Night Vision (Red as never been), 2022, a video installation at the 2022 Whitney Biennial, a work in conversation with the work of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha.[11][12]

Mira is on the faculty at University of California, Riverside (UCR) in the Department of Art.[13]

References

  1. ^ “as if i was a thing i could do in the dark – Dylan Mira”. Oregon Contemporary. 2019. Archived from the original on 7 November 2025. Retrieved 2 April 2022.
  2. ^ a b Durón, Maximilíano (25 January 2022). “Taking the Title ‘Quiet as It’s Kept,’ 2022 Whitney Biennial Names 63 Participating Artists”. ARTnews. Archived from the original on 30 November 2024. Retrieved 1 April 2022.
  3. ^ a b c Teets, Jennifer (29 March 2022). “A Kind of Science Friction: Na Mira”. Mousse Magazine. Archived from the original on 24 March 2025. Retrieved 1 April 2022.
  4. ^ a b c Mitter, Siddhartha (23 March 2022). “From the Border, the Whitney Biennial Asks What American Art Can Be”. The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. ProQuest 2641773435. Archived from the original on 28 March 2024. Retrieved 2 April 2022.
  5. ^ “Na Mira: ‘Passages Paysages Passengers’“. The Kitchen OnScreen. 2021. Archived from the original on 27 May 2024. Retrieved 25 January 2022.
  6. ^ “Fulcrum Arts is Launching (soft) “Sequencing” Transmedia Publishing Platform in Late 2021″. Leonardo/ISAST. 4 November 2021. Archived from the original on 25 January 2022. Retrieved 25 January 2022.
  7. ^ Schneider, Tim (13 June 2019). “What Can We Learn About Art Fairs From Liste, Basel’s Platform for Emerging Talent? Here Are Four Lessons”. Artnet. Archived from the original on 9 November 2024. Retrieved 2 April 2022. Dylan Mira’s 밤시각 Night Vision (2019)
  8. ^ a b Mitter, Siddhartha (2022-01-25). “Whitney Biennial Picks 63 Artists to Take Stock of Now”. The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-01-25.
  9. ^ “Unfolding Dimensions”. Fulcrum Arts. 2022-01-21. Retrieved 2022-04-01.
  10. ^ “Eternal Spa”. www.moca.org. Retrieved 2022-04-01.
  11. ^ Greenberger, Alex (2022-03-29). “A Sharp, Understated Whitney Biennial Looks to the Past to Process the Grief of the Present”. ARTnews.com. Retrieved 2022-04-01.
  12. ^ “In Pictures: See Practically Every Artwork in the Highly Anticipated, Agenda-Setting 2022 Whitney Biennial”. Artnet News. 2022-03-30. Retrieved 2022-04-02.
  13. ^ “Na Mira – UCR | Department of Art”. Retrieved 2022-04-01.

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