Aleksandra Mir

Born 1967 in Lubin, Poland, a citizen of Sweden and the United States, and based in London, the artist Aleksandra Mir has an international practice of thirty years, with over 370 exhibitions worldwide. Her most well-known project, First Woman on the Moon (1999), has been touring for over twenty years and is included in the collections of The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Tate Modern, London and Moderna Museet, Stockholm.

Public commissions and Exhibitions include Nasjonalgalleriet, Oslo, M - Museum Leuven, Kunsthaus Zürich, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent, The Power Plant, Toronto, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, MoMA, New York, Whitney Museum of Art, New York City, YUZ Museum, Shanghai, Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong, Inhotim Centro de Arte Contemporanea, Belo Horizonte, Bienal do Mercosul, Whitney Biennial, Biennale of Sydney and Biennale di Venezia.

She has received awards and grants from the Maria Bonnier Dahlin Foundation, Baloise Art Prize, Bryan Robertson Trust, Arts Council England, UK Space Agency, UK’s Science & Technology Facilities Council and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation.

Mir has lectured and taught at over 40 art schools and institutions: Royal College of Art, Slade School of Art, London, Glasgow School of Art, Bergen Academy of Art & Design, UDK, Berlin, Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, Staedelschule, Frankfurt am Main, School of Art, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Roski School of Fine Art, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Columbia School of Art and her alma mater, School of Visual Arts in New York.

She has published over twenty books about art under her imprint, the Retrospective Press:

https://aleksandramir.info/

Together with author Michele Robecchi, she is the publisher of the series Meet This Artist:

https://meet-this-artist.com