Artist & Editor CV
Miah Artola creates interactive installations that combine her paintings and drawings with new media.
She has shown her work nationally and internationally in venues such as The Dome at PS1/MoMA, Queen’s Museum, Museum of Natural History, ARCO Madrid, Andrew Roth Gallery, L Cafe, Galapagos. She is co-inventor of APE (Audio Peak Etcher), a software which generates sound responsive visuals.
Miah’s themes center around indigenous displacement, land rights, animal representation, and poetry.
Miah is the founder of Artola Digital, a post production company. Clients include: Meredith Monk/ House Foundation, United Nations DP, David Lee Roth, BMI, Brooklyn Museum, SxSW Conferences & Festivals
She is a faculty instructor at School of Visual Arts.
Long term works:
- Miah is of Nicaraguan descent and is in her 6th year of creating a multi-platform project on its poetry and politics. She also staged (with Mercades Gallego and Alessandra Zeka) a highly successful fundraiser for the victims of the 2018 uprising/repression in Nicaragua.
- From January 2014- January 2019, Miah co- produced a monthly AV event, “ab uno pluribus” in New York City which showcased new music and live visuals
- Miah is a long term supporter of La Esperanza Granada

CV:
Miah Artola
Artist/ Editor/ Educator
184 East 3rd Street, New York, NY 10009 artoladigital@gmail.com artoladigital.com 917.386.3138
EDITING
ARTOLA DIGITAL Video Editor, Owner 2005- present. New York, NY
- All Post Production demands, Concept and Narrative Development, Color Grading, Large Scale Installation
- Software: Final Cut Pro 7, Premiere Pro, MaxMSP, InDesign, Modul 8, Pro-tools, After Effects, Photoshop, Davinci Resolve.
- CLIENTS INCLUDE: Meredith Monk/ House Foundation, United Nations, David Lee Roth, BMI, Pat Oleszko, Phil Niblock/ EI, Glassnote Records, Andrzej Krakowski, Dance Movement Workshop, HGTV, HarperCollins, Joachim Pissarro, Duston Spear, Karin Schneider, Chashama, Brooklyn Museum, SxSW Conferences & Festivals, Manoj Bavisk, Pier 59, Cage Gallery, Roosevelt House, Stadium Red IMDb
TEACHING
- 2018 – present: Faculty Instructor at School of Visual Arts. BFA Film and Animation Department and CE instructor with Visual & Critical Studies: Video Editing, New Media, created Music Video DIY course and Cinematic Installation course
- 2016-2017 Drawing, Design, Editing and Documentary Workshops with Creative Art Works
- 2014/15: Parsons “Time: Composition” (Teaching Assistant)
- Private lessons/groups
- Author “Final Cut Pro for the Visual Mind”
INVENTIONS Software Co-creator: APE (Audio Peak Etcher)
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS by year
- 2019 Visual composer for Experimental Intermedia “Screen Compositions”
- 2018 Live visuals The Cornelia Street Cafe with Hitomi Honda and Laura Ortman
- 2017 Governor’s Island 2 week screening of Nicaraguan Poetry Films with the New York Poetry Festival
- 2017 Selected artist for OptoSonic Tea’s 10-year Anniversary at Pioneer Works Large Scale Video
- 2016 Anthology Film Archives, Screening of “Far Away”
- 2016 Pier 59 Studios, 2016 Large Scale Video Installation
- 2015 Flamboyán Theater 2015, Live Visualist
- 2015 Dixon Place 2015, Screening of “Past”
- 2014 Ft Tildon/ Studio 7, 2013 Group Show, Paintings
- 2013 Museum of Natural History 2012, Live Visuals with Glowing Pictures
- 2012 Issue Project Room 2012, Live visuals for Ear to Earth Festival
- 2011PS1 MOMA 2007, Live visuals with SHARE international
- 2010 Parker’s Box Gallery 2006, video installation
- Additional Selected Venues where work has been shown (before 2010): Ramis Barquet Gallery, Galapagos, Clocktower Gallery, Andrew Roth Gallery, 303 Gallery, ARCOmadrid (in Madrid Spain), Contemporary Arts Center (in New Orleans)
PRESS: See #31 in Women in Creative Technology
RECENT SOLO SHOWS
- “Sanctuary at Sanctuary City” Governor’s Island. October 2017 Artist in Resident with Public Works Foundation/ Paintings and Interactive (Audio activated) installation on Refugees
- “Far Away, Installation” The Wild Project. December 2016: Two month installation Motion activated duel projections of video, drawings and paintings based on Pablo Antonio Cuandra”s poem “The Drowned Horse”
- “The Problem of Memory” Harvestworks May 2014: Interactive audio activated installation
- “I’m Not Telling you what to do, but you have to do it” Silent Barn Dec. 2013-March 2014: Motion activated braille light show
EDUCATION
- Pratt Institute
- The New School; MA
AFFILIATIONS
- 2018-present: Faculty member of SVA
- 2018-present: Studio artist with Chashama
- 2013—2019: Co-producer and innovator of monthly AV event: “Ab Uno Pluribus”
- 2015-present: supporter of La Esperanza Granada
- 2007—present: member of “The Miracle Garden” community garden
- 2005- 2012: member of Share
- 1999 —present: member of ASCAP (songwriting)
- 1993-1995: Co-founder of 6-9 Gallery, Albuquerque NM
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184 East 3rd Street, New York, NY 10009 artoladigital@gmail.com artoladigital.com 917.386.3138