MIAH ARTOLA
Interdisciplinary Artist. Editor
243 East 118th Street #2, New York, NY 10035
917.386.3138 • artoladigital@gmail.com • artoladigital.com
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
- 2018–Present School of Visual Arts, New York, NY Faculty Instructor | Departments: BFA Film, Visual & Critical Studies,Photography & Video
- 2024 Art Interventions, Bedford Hills Women’s Correctional Facility Instructor
- 2016–2017 Creative Art Works, New York, NY Instructor | Instruction in painting, drawing, design, editing, and documentary practices.
- 2014–2015 Parsons School of Design, New York, NY Instructor | Course: Time: Composition
EDITING & POST-PRODUCTION
Artola Digital, New York, NY Owner / Editor / Post-Production Specialist | 2005–Present Full-service post-production studio specializing in concept and narrative development, editing, color grading, audio mixing, and sound restoration.
Software: 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 (ISLAA) • CCS Bard • Naeem Mohaiemen • Duston Spear • Pier 59 Studios • Pat Oleszko • American Opera Project •Better Homes and Gardens• Kathy Brew • Queens Museum • American Museum of Natural History • SXSW• Dance Theater Workshop
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021The Man from Eritrea
EV Gallery—Motion-activated installation and paintings
2018 Sanctuary at Sanctuary City
Governors Island Artist Residency—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
2026
- Sky, Native Lens Festival (screening)
- NOICE at MISE-EN-PLACE (Producer)
- NOICE at Emily Harvey Foundation (Participant and Producer)
- Vision Festival 2026, Arts for Art, visual participant for two shows at Abrons Arts Center
2025
- Aqueous Memory Archive (online permanent installation)
- Stories of Water, Stories four paintings at Rock Paper Scissors Collective, Oakland CA
- no body, Mixed Poetics installation, Loisaida Inc. NYC
2024
- Phil Niblock Forever, Roulette Intermedium (screening)
- UnionDocs Showcase: Word, Sound, Power
2023
- Lucky (documentary short), Maysles Documentary Center
2022
- Stream Two-person installation, EVG NYC
2021
- Poetry Without Boundaries, REEL/Poetry screening: 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
- New York Poetry Festival, Governors Island — three-week screening of Nicaraguan Poetry Films
- Selected Artist, Landlines, OptoSonic Tea, Pioneer Works
2016
- Screening of Far Away, Anthology Film Archives
- Large-scale video installation, The Great Beauty, Pier 59 Studios
2015
- Live Visualist, Deer Run, Flamboyán Theater
- Wolf, Goodbye Blue Monday
2014
- Take a Moment, Fort Tilden / Studio 7
2013
- Live Visuals, Blue Blue Blue, American Museum of Natural History
- Friend of the Night, MoMA PS1
2012
- Bodies in Light, Ear to Earth Festival, Issue Project Room
Additional Venues:
303 Gallery • Clocktower Gallery • Galapagos Art Space • Ramis Barquet Gallery
SELECTED GRANTS & MISCELLANEOUS
2026 Residency: ARTS 14C
2026 Recipient of The NYC Office for the Prevention of Hate Crimes (OPHC) and the NYC Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) Community Project Grant for NOICE (NoICE)
2025 Permeant Participant, Aqueous Memory Archive
2022 Grant Recipient, NYFA —NYC Women’s Fund for Media, Music and Theatre — Sky
Featured Artist: Epicenter
2021 Grant Recipient, City Artist Corps — The Man from Eritrea
2018 Artist Residency, Governors Island — Sanctuary City
2017 Featured in Creative Tech Week: Brilliant Women in Creative Technology
2014 Co-Creator, APE (Audio Peak Etcher) VJ Software
2013 Author, Final Cut Pro for the Visual Mind
AFFILIATIONS & PRODUCING
2026 Producer, NOICE
2023–Present Founder and Producer, Mixed Poetics—Interdisciplinary performance and installation series
2020–Present Volunteer and Collaborator, CAFEMIN Refugee Center, Mexico City
2020 Volunteer and Collaborator, WANA Refugee Center, New York City
2015–2020 Co-Producer and Innovator, Ab Uno Pluribus Monthly audiovisual performance series
2013–2018 Member, La Esperanza, Granada, Nicaragua
2005–2020 Member, Miracle Garden, East Village, New York
EDUCATION
The New School M.A
Pratt Institute