BIO
Mira Goodman is a mixed-media painter born in New York and living between New York and Guatemala. She received an honors AB in Visual Arts from Brown University in 2024. She also studied at the Glasgow School of Art, the Rhode Island School of Design, and the Art Students League of New York. She’s had exhibitions in Providence, RI, Madison WI, and New York, NY, including at All St Gallery (NY) and Imaginary Factory (WI). She was an artist in residence at Wassaic Project, Monson Arts, and Art Farm Nebraska (upcoming). She won the 2024 Gilbert Stuart Award at Brown University and was featured in the 38th Annual Northern National Art Competition in Rhinelander, WI. She has also been featured in publications like the College Hill Independent, the Brown Daily Herald, the Capital Times, and the Vassar Review.
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 and 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.