Mariam Ghani is a Brooklyn-based artist who works in video, installation, new media, text, photography and public dialogue performance.
She is a Soros, NYFA, and Schloss Solitude Fellow, has been an artist in residence at LMCC, Eyebeam Atelier, and Smack Mellon, and has exhibited widely since 1999, including at the New York Video Festival, the Asia Society, the Liverpool Biennial, the Danish Film Institute, transmediale in Berlin, Futura in Prague, Smart Project Space in Amsterdam, Curtacinema in Rio, EMAP in Seoul, and the Brooklyn, Bronx and Queens Museums. Her recent projects include a commission for the inaugural exhibition at the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn, an interactive video installation prototyped at Eyebeam, a net art commission for Turbulence, texts for the Sarai Reader 05, Viralnet and Art in General, and interviews with RES, The Independent, and the BBC Persian World Service. She has a B.A. in Comparative Literature from NYU and an MFA from SVA, and teaches in the Department of Art, Music & Technology at the Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey.