BIO
Mira Goodman is a painter working with mixed media born in New York and based in Madison, WI. She graduated from Brown University with an Honors degree in Visual Arts in May 2024. Her work has been featured in over a dozen group exhibitions and several solo exhibitions in New York, NY, Providence, RI, and Madison, WI. She won the 2024 Gilbert Stuart Award at Brown University and was selected to participate as an artist in residence at the Wassaic Project in 2025. Her work is primarily centered around the combined use of painting and sculpture, to express and understand the intangibility and ephemerality of her experiences.
Instagram: @miragoodman.art
Statement
I am melancholic - as a visitor in someone’s life might be, immediately upon entering their kitchen. Theirs is an impossible world of histories that I will never fully understand. Stories that are hidden in the horseshoes hung on the walls, the photographs of mountaintops taped to the refrigerator door, and the hand-made “worry dolls” lined up one by one on the windowsills. I fall in love with these fragments that make up a person. I am confronted with sadness knowing that people change, and that I can only truly catch a glimpse of them. To cope with my experience of constant nostalgia, I recreate these objects by hand to develop worlds in which my connections can be tactile and long lasting. I want to feel at home in my work to reimagine these spaces as if they were our kitchen, with our stories. When I paint tiny photographs and sculpt golf balls and cowboy boots, I am no longer a visitor.