Mira Dayal

Mira Dayal is an artist, writer, editor, and educator based in New York. Her studio work involves subtle, laborious applications of materials; critical reflections on changing technologies; and formal explorations of the limits and systems of language. Her work has been shown at Barnard College, Parent Company, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, Hesse Flatow, Gymnasium, Lubov, NURTUREart, NARS Foundation, and Abrons Art Center in New York, among others.

Dayal is currently on faculty at Barnard College and the School of Visual Arts, and has previously taught at Hunter College and the International Center of Photography. She recently edited, with Josephine Heston, Track changes: a handbook for art criticism, published by Paper Monument with significant support from Critical Minded. She also publishes the interdisciplinary collaborative artist publication prompt: with Nicole Kaack, and is the founder of the Journal of Art Criticism. She was previously Ideas Editor at Art in America, and an associate editor and regular contributor at Artforum.