Miah Artola
Interdisciplinary Artist
243 East 118th Street #2, New York, NY 10035 • 917.386.3138 • artoladigital@gmail.com • www.artoladigital.com
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
School of Visual Arts — Faculty Instructor 2018–Present
BFA Department: Film (Visual & Critical Studies); Photography & Video
Art Interventions, Bedford Hills Women’s Correctional Facility — Instructor 2024
Creative Art Works 2016–2017
Instruction in painting, drawing, design, editing, and documentary practices
Parsons School of Design 2014–2015
Course: Time: Composition
EDITING & POST-PRODUCTION
Artola Digital — Owner 2005–Present | New York, NY
Full-service post-production studio: concept and narrative development, color grading, audio mixing and repair
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; CCS Bard; Naeem Mohaiemen; Duston Spear; Pier 59 Studios; Pat Oleszko; American Opera Project; Queens Museum; Museum of Natural History; SXSW
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 The Man from Eritrea
EV Gallery — Motion-activated installation and paintings
2018 Sanctuary at Sanctuary City
Governors Island, Artist-in-Residence — Paintings and audio-activated installation
2016 Far Away
The Wild Project — Three-month installation, 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 Native Lens festival screening “Sky”; NoICE Show at MISE-EN-PLACE, Producer
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 — NYC Office for the Prevention of Hate Crimes (OPHC)
2025 Participant, Aqueous Memory Archive
2022 Grant Recipient, New York Foundation for the Arts (Sky) • 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
AFFILIATIONS & PRODUCING
2026 Mixed Poetics NOICE at MISE-EN-PLACE
2023–Present Conceived and produced Mixed Poetics performance and installation series
2020–Present CAFEMIN Refugee Center, Mexico City
2015–2020 Co-Producer and Innovator, Ab Uno Pluribus — Monthly audiovisual performance series
2020 WANA Refugee Center, New York City
2013–2018 Member, La Esperanza, Granada, Nicaragua
2005–2020 Member, Miracle Garden, East Village, New York
EDUCATION
The New School M.A., Media Studies
Pratt Institute Fine Arts