Mira Goodman (b. 2001) is a painter and sculptor born in New York. She graduated from Brown University with an Honors degree in Visual Arts in May 2024. She has also studied at the Glasgow School of Art, the Rhode Island School of Design, and the Art Students League of New York. She has exhibited two solo shows at the List Art Center in Providence, RI including, Carrying around my Big Bluish Sky in October 2021, and her honors thesis exhibition, We will see us again in April 2024. She has been featured in nearly a dozen exhibitions including Brown University’s 42nd Annual Juried Student Exhibition at the Granoff Center for the Creative Arts (2022, 2024) and the Providence Art Club College Scholarship Exhibition at the Dodge House Gallery (2022, 2024). She was selected as an Artist Mentor at New Urban Arts in Providence, and was nominated to be a student leader in the Visual Arts Department Undergraduate Group (DUG) at Brown University. She won the 2024 Gilbert Stuart Award at Brown University which honors students that “exhibit innovative and unique perspectives”. 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
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Education
2024 Brown University, AB Visual Arts with Honors, Providence, RI
2023 Glasgow School of Art, Study Abroad Studio Art Program, Glasgow, UK (exchange student)
2018 Rhode Island School of Design Pre-College, Providence, RI
2017 - 2019 The Arts Students League of New York, NY
Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions
2024 We will see us again, Honors Thesis Exhibition, List Art Center, Providence, RI (solo)
2022 Pop-Up Exhibition, Brown-RISD Hillel, Providence, RI (two-person)
2021 Carrying Around my Big, Bluish Sky, List Art Center, Providence RI (solo)
Group Exhibitions
2024 Commencement Exhibition, List Art Center, Providence, RI
Nature’s Canvas, Azalea Arts Community, Juried by Katarina Bishop, Online gallery
Judaica 2024: Unravel, Entwine, Brown RISD Hillel, Providence, RI
Brown University’s 44th Annual Juried Student Exhibition, Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, Providence, RI
Providence Art Club College Scholarship Exhibition, Dodge House Gallery, Providence, RI
2023 Sharing is Embarrassing, New Urban Arts, Providence, RI
Hmm, Check it Out, List Art Center, Providence, RI
Advanced Painting Show, List Art Center, Providence, RI
Your Honor, I Have a Show to Get to, List Art Center, Providence, RI
Advanced Painting Show, RISD Illustration Studies Building Gallery, Providence, RI
2022 Providence Art Club College Scholarship Exhibition, Dodge House Gallery, Providence, RI
Brown University’s 42nd Annual Juried Student Exhibition, Juried by Wendy Edwards and Jordan Seaberry,
Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, Providence, RI
Awards
2024 The 2024 Gilbert Stuart Award, Brown University, Providence, RI
“This award honors students who exhibit innovative and unique perspectives, imaginative use of materials, or contextual arguments within their work”
Curatorial Projects
2022 Co-curator of Our Sensational, Dull Universe, List Art Center, Providence, RI
Artist Talks
2024 Judaica 2024: Unravel, Entwine Mini Artist Talk moderated by Deborah Forman, Brown RISD
Hillel, Providence, RI
Related Experience
2023 - 2024 Artist Mentor at New Urban Arts, Providence RI
Work with high school students from low-income areas in a free after-school youth program for educational development and advising in the arts
Organize and teach painting and drawing workshops to students ages 14-18
2023 - 2024 Undergraduate Group Leader in the Brown Visual Arts Department, Providence, RI
Selected by fellow students and faculty to represent the visual arts department, participate in course selection fairs, organize events and open studios, and connect with faculty and alumni
Lead tours and mentor prospective and first-year students
Press
2024 Charlie Usadi. What’s Spiritual is Us: A Conversation with Mira Goodman, Brown Art
Review Magazine, April 26.
Cavan Agatone. Mira Goodman ‘24 reflects on previous relationships in thesis exhibition, The Brown Daily
Herald, April 22.
2023 Mira Goodman. Held Together by Bookends Feature, The College Hill Independent, Ephemera. April 14.
2022 Aalia Jagwani. Providence Art Club displays works from Rhode Island College Students, The Brown Daily
Herald. February 13. (painting featured in cover photo)
Rachel Bernstein. Brown/RISD Hillel Fosters Jewish Connection Through Pop-up Art Exhibition, Hillel
International. May 12.