Aleksandra Mir

Place: Göteborg

Born: 1967

Biography:

Aleksandra Mir is a Swedish-American contemporary artist born in 1967. She is known for her large scale collaborative projects and her anthropological methods, involving rigorous archival research, oral history, and field work. Her work deals with travel, time, placehood, language, gender, identity, locality, nationality, globality, mobility, connectivity, performativity, representation, transition, translation, and transgression. She has exhibited at Kunsthaus Zurich (2006), Tate Modern, London (2014), Tate Liverpool (2017), Modern Art Oxford (2017), Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (2009), M – Museum Leuven (2013), Whitney Museum of American Art (2014), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (2007), MoMA, New York City (2012), YUZ Museum, Shanghai (2018), Whitney Biennial (2004), Biennale of Sydney (2002), Biennale di Venezia (2009), Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre (2015), Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong (2020), and Inhotim, Belo Horizonte (2021).