faculty
Mira Dayal

faculty
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. Dayal has held solo and two-person exhibitions at venues including 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 also 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 recently co-edited Track changes: a handbook for art criticism (Paper Monument, 2023), which was informed by Dayal's prior work as Ideas Editor at Art in America, associate editor and regular contributor at Artforum, and founding editor of the Journal of Art Criticism, as well as her writing over the past decade for numerous other magazines and publications. Dayal is on faculty at the School of Visual Arts, Parsons School of Design, and Barnard College.
Dayal recently co-edited Track changes: a handbook for art criticism (Paper Monument, 2023), which was informed by Dayal's prior work as Ideas Editor at Art in America, associate editor and regular contributor at Artforum, and founding editor of the Journal of Art Criticism, as well as her writing over the past decade for numerous other magazines and publications. Dayal is on faculty at the School of Visual Arts, Parsons School of Design, and Barnard College.