Born in 1979. Lives and works in New York, NY.
EDUCATION
2009 M.F.A., Columbia University, School of the Arts, New York, NY
2001 B.A., Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
SOLO & DUO EXHIBITIONS
2023
See-Thru Palm, Dio Horia, Athens, Greece
2022
Madonna Undone, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2021
Psychic Nerve, Chapter NY, New York, NY
2020
Frieze LA, presentation with Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Supple As The Supplicant, in collaboration with Chapter NY, Galería Agustina Ferreyra, Mexico City, Mexico
2019
Herfugue, JOAN, Los Angeles, CA
Sawblade To The Sun, Galerie Hussenot, Paris, France
2018
Self Seed, Lumber Room, Portland, OR
High Hell, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2017
Call NOW, Chapter NY, New York, NY
2016
FUTURE WOMAN // Remake Me, YUZ Museum, Shanghai, China
BODYWORK, presentation with Night Gallery at Art Basel Hong Kong, Hong Kong
2015
Want Position // Red, Galerie Hussenot, Paris, France
Frieze London, presentation with Night Gallery, London, UK
Yes, Chapter NY, New York, NY
Is She Is She Psychic, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2014
Bodyrite, with Sarah Peters, Asya Geisberg Gallery, New York, NY
OK WORMHOLE, with Amelia Saddington, Know More Games, Brooklyn, NY
2013
Bodytonic, Kansas Gallery, New York, NY
Mira Dancy & Alice Shaw, Artadia Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY
2012
No Eyes For Irma, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Afterglow, curated by Night Gallery, Acquavella, Palm Beach, FL
2023
SP—Arte, presentation with Night Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil
2022
Somatic Markings, Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY
After Hope, Dio Horia, Athens, Greece
Bode Projects, Berlin, Germany
2021
3.0, Chapter NY, New York, NY
Therefore I am, Spurs Gallery, Beijing, China
Sunburst, Various Small Fires, Seoul, Korea
2020
Majeure Force, Part One, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Paper, Chapter NY, New York, NY
Mira Dancy, France-Lise McGurn, and Claire Woods, Simon Lee Gallery, New York, NY
2018
Frieze London, presentation with Night Gallery, London, UK
Art-o-rama, presentation with Night Gallery, Marseille, France
Cooper Cole, Terribly Vulnerable and Terribly Hard, curated by Ashton Cooper, Toronto, Canada
2017
Monica de Cardenas, Reinventing the Figure, Zuoz, Switzerland.
Tripoli Gallery, Summer Trip, curated by Katherine Bernhardt, Southampton, NY.
Drawing Island, The Journal Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Mira Dancy, Jane Freilicher, Daniel Heidkamp, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY
2016
Human Condition, Former Metropolitan Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
Wacking the Piñata, LTD, Los Angeles, CA
RheoGrande, Anonymous Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico
Surrreal, König Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Untitled Body Parts, Simone Subal Gallery, New York, NY
2015
No Man’s Land, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL, and National Museum of Women in the Arts,
Washington, D.C.
Unrealism, organized by Jeffrey Deitch and Larry Gagosian, Miami, FL Artsy Projects, Nautilus
South Beach, Miami Beach, FL
Greater New York, MoMA PS1, New York, NY
Let’s Get Figurative, Nicelle Beauchene, New York, NY
F.B.I., Arturo Bandini, Los Angeles, CA
Feed the Meter, curated by Wallace Whitney, Bernard Ceysson Galerie, Luxembourg
2014
Don’t Look Now, organized by 247365, Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, NY
Rumpus Room, David Shelton Gallery, Houston, TX
Hot House, organized by BlackRock, Know More Games, and Night Gallery, New York, NY
The Metropolitan Art Center, curated by The Suzanne Geiss Company, Beirut, Lebanon
Particular Pictures, curated by Emily Ludwig Shaffer & Joshua Abelow, The Suzanne Geiss Company, New York, NY
Feeling Human, Bleecker Street Arts Club, New York, NY
2013
SPLAZITCH!, Side Effects Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Snail Salon, curated by Adrianne Rubenstein, Regina Rex, Brooklyn, NY Nacket Gläubigen : Be Leaf Me, Infernoesque, Berlin, Germany
Mira Dancy, Summer Wheat, Jessica Williams, Thierry Goldberg Gallery, New York, NY
2012
Invagination: Write To Life, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Christian Sampson/Mira Dancy/Sasha Braunig, Bull and Ram, Brooklyn, NY Sauna>sauna, New York, NY
It’s a Process: Cassavetes-style Star Search & Comeback Chat Action Episode with Special Guest: Mira Dancy and Debo Eilers, Primetime, Brooklyn, NY
Hot German Painting, Hans Eisler Nail Salon, Brooklyn, NY
2011
Invagination / A Seagull Presents Woman to Woman, New York, NY
Tidepool: MADAM performance, Sara Metzler Gallery, New York, NY
2010
Collective Show, Participant Inc, New York, NY
Madam presents Accessorx, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Das Heilmittel; Night Gallery at Economy, Frankfurt, Germany
Acts Are For Actors, SouthFirst, Brooklyn, NY
Visionary/Visions are Scary, French Neon Pop-Up Space, Brooklyn, NY
Private Life, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Invagination: The Death of Hamster, New York, NY
New Mirrors, Exit Art, New York, NY
2009
ABCyz, Silvershed Gallery, New York, NY
Whitney’s Biennial, Cream Projects, Brooklyn, NY
Jennifer Sullivan’s It’s a Process: Garage Sale, Heist Gallery, New York, NY
WRONG: A Program of Word and Image, Eighth Veil, Los Angeles, CA
COLLECTIONS
The Whitney Museum, New York, NY
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, CA
The Columbus Museum, Columbus, OH
The YUZ Museum, China
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2009
Toby Fund Award
2008
D’Arcy Hayman Scholarship Award, Columbia University
2001
John Bard Award, Bard College
2000
Ellen Battell Stoeckel Fellowship, Yale University School of Art
1999
Suzanne Clements Zimmer Prize, Bard College
EXHIBITION PUBLICATIONS
2022
Madonna Undone, published by Night Gallery, Los Angeles, 2022.
2016
Future Woman, text by Ashton Cooper, catalogue published by YUZ Museum, Shanghai, 2016.
2015
NO MAN’S LAND, text by Anna Stothart and Tami Katz-Freiman, published by Rubell Family
Collection, Miami, 2015.
2009
After Stanley Donen, ed. Jibade-Khalil Huffman, published by Eighth Veil/Paper Chase Press,
Los Angeles, 2009.
2007
Popular Hallucinations for the Home, text by Karen Davidson, produced by Mass Gallery and
Refraction Arts, 2007.
2005
Re:Generation / 35th Anniversary of the Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series, catalogue
published by Douglass College and Rutgers University Libraries, 2005.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2022
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2021
Roberta Smith, “The Best Art Shows of 2021 Were in Galleries,” The New York Times, December 7
Rachel Small, “Mira Dancy – Psychic Nerve,” The Guide.Art, November 18
Kaylie Felsberg and Beatrice Sapsford, “Mira Dancy’s Work Featured for Artsy’s 10 In-Demand Works This Week,” Artsy, August 26
2020
Hilarie M. Sheets, “Artist Mira Dancy and Night Gallery’s Davida Nemeroff Talk a Decade of
Collaboration,” Galerie, July 15
Caroline Goldstein, "9 Megawatt Gallery Shows to Check Out During Armory Week, From Kara
Walker’s Drawings to Julian Schnabel’s Latest Works," artnet news, March 3
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Artnet News, February 3
2019
Cat Kron, “Mira Dancy at JOAN,” Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles, October 30
Alina Cohen, “These Women Artists are Transforming Gallery Walls with Incredible Murals,” Artsy.net, February 19
2017
Alina Cohen, “Mira Dancy,” Art in America, August 22
Margaret Carrigan, “Polychromatic Clairvoyance”, Blouin Modern Painters, May
Emily McDermott, “10 Female Artists To Watch”, Elle, May 9
2016
Ariela Gittlen, “Mira Dancy”, Elephant, issue 28
Sam Korman, “Mira Dancy”, cura, issue 21
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2015
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October 15
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Results”, ArtNews, October 9
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Dancy’s Yes”, New York Times, June 25
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Elephant magazine, June 18
Pictures at an Exhibition “Mira Dancy ‘Yes,’” Artnews.com, June 15
Natasha Stagg, “Post Woman,” Kaleidoscope, Winter
Andrew Berardini, “Mira Dancy,” Artforum Critc’s Pick, January
2014
Paige K. Bradley, “Mira Dancy and Sarah Peters,” Artforum Critic’s Pick, November Sharon Butler,
“Quick Study,” Two Coats of Paint, November 7
Scott Indrisek, “5 Must-See Gallery Shows in New York,” Blouin ArtInfo, October 30
Kit Franco, “As A Body” at Cooper Cole Gallery, POVarts, August 25
Kari Adelaide, “Feeling Human at Bleeker Street Arts Club,” Huffington Post, March
2013
Critic’s Pick, “Mira Dancy, Bodytonic,” Time Out New York, July 24
Jason Stopa, “Whitehot Watch,” Whitehot Magazine, July Caris Reid, “Look,” Dossier Journal, May 11
Karen Rosenberg, “NADA NYC Art Fair at Basketball City,” New York Times, May 10
Karen Rosenberg, “A Roving Art Fair Finds a Home Court Advantage”, The New York Times, May 4
2012
Alexis Johnson, “Paint the Town,” LA Confidential, September
2011
Herb Tam, “Painting in 2030,” Mind Spray, September
2010
FRV Magazine, “Art,” Summer Caris Reid, “Look,” Dossier Journal, May
Sharon Butler, “New Mirrors: Painting in a Transparent World,” The Brooklyn Rail, February