curriculum vitae pdf
about Miah Artola
Miah Artola
Artist
243 East 118th Street, #2
New York, NY 10035
917.386.3138
artoladigital@gmail.com
www.artoladigital.com
Selected One-Person Exhibitions
2021
The Man from Eritrea, EV Gallery
Motion-activated installation and paintings
2017
Sanctuary, Sanctuary at Sanctuary City, Governors Island
Artist-in-Residence; paintings and audio-activated installation
2016
Far Away, The Wild Project
Three-month installation featuring motion-activated dual projections and paintings
2015
I’m Not Telling You What To Do, But You Have To Do It, Silent Barn
Interactive installation (five-month duration)
2014
The Problem of Memory, HarvestWorks
Interactive audio-activated installation
Selected Group Exhibitions & Screenings
2025
Aqueous Memory Archive, Online permanent installation
Stories of Water, Stories in Water, Rock Paper Scissors Collective
Bodies, Mixed Poetics installation “no body,” Loisaida Inc.
2024
Screening, Phil Niblock Forever, Roulette Intermedia
UnionDocs Showcase, Word, Sound, Power
2023
Lucky (documentary short), Maysles Documentary Center
2022
Two-person installation, EVG Stream
2021
Poetry Without Boundaries, REEL/Poetry, El Caballo Ahogado
2020
Visual Composer, Pennies from Heaven, Parrish Art Museum
2019
Featured Artist, Screen Compositions: Kiryoku, Experimental Intermedia
2018
Visual Composer, Sound Traffic, Cornelia Street Café
2017
Governor’s Island New York Poetry Festival — three-week screening of Nicaraguan Poetry Films
Selected Artist, Landlines, OptoSonic Tea, Pioneer Works
2016
Screening of documentary Far Away, Anthology Film Archives
Large-scale video installation, The Great Beauty, Pier 59 Studios
2015
Live Visualist, Deer Run, Flamboyán Theater
Group Exhibition bird and wolf Goodbye Blue Monday
2014
Group Exhibition, Take a Moment, Fort Tilden / Studio 7
2013
Live Visuals, Blue Blue Blue, Museum of Natural History
Group Exhibition, Friend of the Night, PS1 MoMA
2012
Bodies in light Ear to Earth Festival, Issue Project Room
Additional Venues: Ramis Barquet Gallery; 303 Gallery; Galapagos Art Space; Clocktower Gallery
Press, Grants & Residencies
2026
Grant Recipient 2026 Recipient of The NYC Office for the Prevention of Hate Crimes (OPHC)
2025
Participant, Aqueous Memory Archive
2022
Grant Recipient, New York Foundation for the Arts (Sky)
Press: Featured Artist, Epicenter
2021
Grant Recipient, City Artist Corps (The Man from Eritrea)
2018
Artist 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
Teaching Experience
2018–Present
School of Visual Arts — Faculty Instructor
BFA Department: Film (Visual & Critical Studies); Photography & Video
2024
Instructor, Art Interventions
Bedford Hills Women’s Correctional Facility
2016–2017
Creative Art Works
Instruction in painting, drawing, design, editing, and documentary practices
2014–2015
Parsons School of Design
Course: Time: Composition
Editing & Post-Production
Artola Digital — Owner
2005–Present | New York, NY
Full-service post-production studio specializing in:
Concept and narrative development; color grading; audio mixing and repair
Software Expertise:
Adobe Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Max/MSP, Modul8, Adobe Audition
Selected Clients:
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 Studios; Pat Oleszko; American Opera Project; Queens Museum; Museum of Natural History; SXSW; Dance Theater Workshop
Affiliations & Producing
2023–Present
Conceived and produced Mixed Poetics performance and installation series
2015–2020
Co-Producer and Innovator, Ab Uno Pluribus
Monthly audiovisual performance series
2020–Present
CAFEMIN Refugee Center, Mexico City
2020
WANA Refugee Center, New York City
2013–2018
Member, La Esperanza, Granada, Nicaragua
2005–2020
Member, Miracle Garden, East Village, New York
Education
Pratt Institute
Fine Arts
The New School
M.A., Media Studies