Mariam Ghani

Title: Kabuli Containers #3
Media: Iris print on watercolor paper, mounted in galvanized aluminum shadow box
Date: 2003
Dimensions: 12 x 8 inches (mounted) – 7 x 5.5 inches (unmounted)
Edition: 1/15 (print) – 1/1 (mounted)

Artwork courtesy of the artist

Starting Bid: $300

Biography:
Mariam Ghani was born in New York in 1978 to an Afghan father and Lebanese mother, and in her practice as a media artist uses these multiple identities to position herself as a translator, revealing channels of communication between cultures that consider themselves foreign to each other by investigating places, people, moments and ideas that inhabit, embody, or create the border zones where those cultures intersect. She received her B.A. in Comparative Literature from NYU in 2000, where she was an Acton Scholar and National Merit Scholar, and her MFA in Photography & Related Media from the School of Visual Arts in 2002, where she received the Aaron Siskind Memorial Scholarship and the Soros New Americans Fellowship. Her work in video, installation and new media has been exhibited nationally and internationally since 1999, with recent and current projects including screenings at the Liverpool Biennial, Rooftop Films, Cinema East, the New York Video Festival, the Asia Society, the Boston Center for the Arts, Smart Project Space in Amsterdam, the 13a Mostra Curtacinema in Rio de Janeiro, and transmediale.03 in Berlin; site-specific installations at the Queens Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, White Box, Exit Art and the Bronx Museum of the Arts; net art commissions for PS122's artwurl and Turbulence.org; artist talks and lectures at Wesleyan, NYU, SVA, Hunter, Tufts, and Bennington; a collaboration in multidisciplinary performance with Michael Floyd & Emily Tepper; and residencies at Eyebeam Atelier, LMCC in the Woolworth Building, and the MFA Computer Arts department at SVA. She lives & works in Brooklyn.