Aleksandra Mir

Aleksandra Mir was born in Lubin, Poland in 1967. Her Polish citizenship was revoked during the 1968 Polish political crisis, she holds dual Swedish-American citizenship. Mir grew up in Sweden, where she studied Media & Communications at the University of Gothenburg. She moved to the United States in 1989 to attend the School of Visual Arts in New York and studied cultural anthropology at the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research. She lived in Palermo, Sicily from 2005 to 2010 and is currently based in London.

Mir's work deals with travel, time, placehood, language, gender, identity, locality, nationality, globality, mobility, connectivity, performativity, representation, transition, translation and transgression. She is known for her large scale collaborative projects and for her anthropological methods, involving rigorous archival research, oral history and field work.

She has exhibited at Kunsthaus Zurich (2006), Tate Modern, London (2014), Tate Liverpool (2017), Modern Art Oxford (2017), Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (2009), M - Museum Leuven (2013), Whitney Museum of American Art (2014), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (2007), MoMA, New York City (2012), YUZ Museum, Shanghai (2018), Whitney Biennial (2004), Biennale of Sydney (2002), Biennale di Venezia (2009), and Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre (2015), Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong (2020), Inhotim, Minas Gerais (2021), Chengdu Biennale (2023) and Images Vevey (2024).

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