Aleksandra Mir
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Aleksandra Mir (b.1967, Lubin, Poland) is an artist based in New York City and Palermo, Sicily.
Mir, a Swedish citizen, studied Communication and Media Studies at Schillerska/Gothenburg University (1986-1987) and attained her BFA in Media Arts (1992) from the School of Visual Arts in New York before completing her post graduate work in Cultural Anthropology from the New School for Social Research in New York in 1996.[1]
Mir's work is not traditional; she often works outdoors on novel media. For example, she once transformed a Dutch beach into a lunar surface and declared herself the ‘first woman on the moon’. She has also published biographies of 'ordinary’ people and staged a nine-to-five cinema, showing disaster films for the unemployed.
Mir has presented her work at a number of international shows and has held solo exhibitions at galleries and museums including the Institute of Contemporary Art in London and the PS1 Contemporary Art Center in New York[2]