Miriam Simun

Miriam Simun works at the intersection of ecology, technology and the body, spanning multiple formats including video, performance, installation, writing, and communal sensorial experiences.

Trained as a sociologist, Simun spends time in communities of experts, including biomedical engineers, carnivore conservationists, hunters, cephalopods, freedivers and breastfeeding mothers. Taking on the role of ‘artist-as-fieldworker,’ much of the process is rooted in research as lived experience, forefronting sensorial ways of listening, learning and knowing.

The resulting works are concerned with the collision of bodies (human and non-human) with rapidly evolving techno-ecosystems. If collision can be understood to be a form of disturbance (in the ecological sense), then in disturbance we move through damage to an opportunity for renewal. Simun’s work explores the role of sensorium in this renewal.

Simun’s work has been presented internationally, including the Gropius Bau (Berlin), the New Museum (New York), the Shanghai Himalayas Museum (Shanghai), MOMENTA Biennale de l'image (Montreal), The Contemporary (Baltimore), the Museum of Modern Art of Bogotá (Bogota), the Ronald Feldman Gallery (New York), the Museum of Fine Arts (Split), the Museum of Arts and Design (New York), the Bob Rauschenberg Gallery (New York), and the Beall Center for Art+Technology (California). Simun is a recipient of awards from Creative Capital, the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, the Joan Mitchell Foundation, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, as well as a 2022 La Becque Artist-in-Residence, and the recipient of the 2019 Gulbenkian /Carpintarias de São Lázaro International Artist Residency, the 2018 Visual Arts residency at the Headlands Center for the Arts, the 2016 Artist Residency with Art Omi in New Yοrk, the 2015 Food Justice Residency at the Santa Fe Art Institute, and the 2014 Art Professionals-In-Αthens Residency in GreeceArt Professionals in Athens residency in Greece.

Simun’s work has been recognized internationally in publications including the BBC, The New Yοrk Times, The New Yorker, CBC, MTV, Forbes, Art21 and ARTNews. Simun is a graduate of the MIT Media Lab, ITP at NYU Tisch School for the Arts and the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Miriam Simun is a participant of The School of Infinite Rehearsals of Οnassis AiR 2020-21 and of the Tailor-made Fellowships program 2022-23.