MIAH ARTOLA
Artist, Editor, Educator, Producer
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Selected One-Woman Shows
- 2021 The Man from Eritrea EV Gallery. Motion-activated installation and paintings
- 2017 Sanctuary at Sanctuary City, Governor’s Island. Artist in Residence / Paintings and Audio-activated Installation
- 2016 Far Away: Installation, The Wild Project. 3-month Installation, Motion-activated dual projections, and paintings
- 2015 I’m Not Telling You What To Do, But You Have To Do It: Interactive installation, Silent Barn (5-month installation)
- 2014-The Problem of Memory HarvestWorks Interactive audio-activated installation
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Selected Group Shows
•2025 Aqueous Memory Archive
•2025 Group Show Stories of Water, Stories in Water, Rock Paper Scissors collective
•2025 Bodies, Mixed Poetics installation “no body” Loisaida Inc
•2024 Screening at Roulette Intermedia “Phil Niblock Forever”
•2024 Union Docs showcase “Word, Sound, Power”
•2023 Lucky documentary short at the Maysles Documentary Center
•2022 Two-person installation at EVG Stream
•2021 Poetry without Boundaries REEL/poetry El Caballo Ahogado
•2020 Visual composer for Parish Art Museum, Pennies from Heaven
•2019 Featured artist for Experimental Intermedia “Screen Compositions”, Kiryoku
•2018 Visual composer, Cornelia Street Cafe Sound Traffic
•2017 Governor’s Island New York Poetry Festival, 3-week screening of Nicaraguan Poetry Films
•2017 Selected artist for OptoSonic Tea, Landlines at Pioneer Works
•2016 Anthology Film Archives, Screening of documentary Far Away
•2016 Pier 59 Studios, 2016 Large Scale Video Installation “The Great Beauty”
•2015 Flamboyán Theater 2015, Live Visualist Deer Run
•2015 Goodbye Blue Monday Group Show, Friend of the Night
•2014 Ft Tildon/ Studio 7, Group Show, Paintings “Land and Sea”
•2013 Museum of Natural History, Live Visuals with Glowing Pictures Blue Blue Blue
•2012 Issue Project Room 2012, Ear to Earth Festival Bodies in Light
•Additional Selected Venues where work has been shown include Issue Project Room, Ramis Barquet Gallery, 303 Gallery, Loisaida Inc, Galapagos, Clocktower Gallery
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Producing
2023, 2024, 2025: Conceived of and produced Mixed Poetics showcases
2015- 2020: Co-producer and innovator of monthly AV event: Ab Uno Pluribus
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Editing
Artola Digital, Owner, 2005- present. New York, NY All post-production demands:
•Concept and Narrative Development, Color Grading, Audio Mixing —Software: Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve, MaxMSP, Modul 8, Audition, After Effects, Pro Tools
•Clients Include: Brooklyn Museum, DIA Chelsea, David Lee Roth, Phil Niblock, United Nations, Meredith Monk, Institute for Studies on Latin American Art, CCS Bard, Naeem Mohaiemen, Duston Spear, Pier 59, Pat Oleszko, The American Opera Project, Queens Museum, Museum of Natural History, SXSW, Dance Theater Workshop, HarperCollins
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Teaching
•2018- present: School of Visual Arts, Faculty Instructor, BFA Department in 3 Departments: Film: Visual Critical Studies; Photo&Video
•2024- Lead Instructor “Art Interventions” Bedford Women’s Correctional Facility
•2016-2017 Creative Art Works: Painting, Drawing, Design, Editing, and Documentary Workshops
•2014/15: Parsons “Time: Composition”
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Affiliations
2020-present: CAFEMIN refugee center; Ciudad de México
2020: Refugee Center in New York City- WANA
2013-2018: Member of La Esperanza; Granada, Nicaragua
2005-2020: Member Miracle Garden, East Village New York
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Press etc.
•2025 Participant Aqueous Memory Archive 2025
•2022: Grant: New York Foundation for the Arts; Sky.
•2022: Press: Featured Artist; Epicenter
•2021: Grant: City Artist Corp; The Man from Eritrea
•2018: Residency: Governors Island; Sanctuary City
•2017 Press: Creative Tech Week; Women in Creative Technology
•2014: Co-creator: APE (Audio Peak Etcher) VJ software
• 2013. Author: “Final Cut Pro for the Visual Mind”
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Education
Pratt Institute
The New School: MA (Media Studies)
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