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BIO
Miriam Simun is a visual artist whose multidisciplinary practice uses science, somatics, scent and humor to create art works in various formats, for example - video, installation, painting, performance, and communal sensorial experiences. Recurring questions revolve around interspecies relations and non-human intelligence; the relationship of technological innovation to mythology and desire; the construction of knowledge and the violence of categories; and radical reimaginings of life under ecological crisis.
Trained as a sociologist, Simun takes on the role of ‘artist-as-fieldworker,’ conducting first-person research with diverse places and communities: from scientific laboratories to rewilded forests, from freedivers to human pollinators. This in-depth and corporeal research dictates the form of the final artworks.
Simun’s work has been presented internationally, including the New Museum (NYC, 2024), Gropius Bau (Berlin, 2020), Momenta Biennale (Montreal, 2021), New Museum (New York, 2017), Himalayas Museum (Shanghai, 2017), MIT List Center for Visual Art (Cambridge, 2022) and the Bogota Museum of Modern Art (Colombia, 2019). Simun is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including the Creative Capital Foundation grant, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation grant, Onassis Foundation fellowship, and Gulbenkian Foundation International Artist grant, among others. Recognized internationally in publications including the BBC, The New York Times, The New Yorker, CBC, MTV, Forbes, Flash Art International, Art21 and ARTNews, Simun's works are included in private collections and in the public collection of FRAC-Bretagne.
Simun holds degrees from the MIT Media Lab (Design Fiction group), NYU's ITP Program, the London School of Economics and Political Science, and is currently an artist-in-residence with the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and a fellow at Onassis Foundation’s ONX Studio.
SELECTED PRESS
Terry, Christa. “Miriam Simun On Technology in Art and Science as a Medium.” Observer
Lorenzo, Doreen. "Artist Miriam Simun on the power of experiential learning." Fast Company
Droitcour, Brian. “Why artists should learn how to use AI tools.” Art Basel News
Connelly, Phoebe. “The love bot has entered the gallery.” Washington Post
Wu, Jenny. “Microbes and Mushrooms Take a Star Turn in Bio Art Show at MIT.” Art in America
Foster, Jemma. “Interspecies Robot Sex.” Wild Alchemy Journal
Gaskin, Sam. “Spiders, Sperm, and Calvin Klein Obsession Co-exist in MIT Show ‘Symbionts’.” Ocula Magazine
Romero, Mariana Meneses. “Eating human cheese: The Lady Cheese Shop (est. 2011).” FEAST
Falls, Susan. White Gold: Stories of Breast Milk Sharing. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
Mannion, Jonelle. “A Wet Chemical Trace.” Degree Critical
Farley, Michael Anthony. “Today, Miriam Simun let’s us taste the future and it’s gross (mostly).” ArtFagCity
McCauley, Mary. “GhostFood provides food for thought about climate change.” Baltimore Sun
Davis, Ben. “What to Make of MAD’s Maker Biennial?” ARTNews
Tarpinian, Katherine. “I Took A Whiff of New York’s Most Endangered Scent,” VICE Creator’s Project
Twilley, Nicola. “Agalinis Acuta, Phantom Flower,” The New Yorker
Williams, Maxwell. “Agalinis Dreams,” GOOD Magazine
Alonso, Bogar. “A Future Without Your Favorite Foods,” Vice Creators Project
Blackmore, Willy. “GhostFood: Eating the Extinct Foods of the Future,” Yahoo News
Bush, Ian. “Artists Fend Off Food Extinction with Taste ‘Illusion,’” CBS Philly
Douka, Helen. “GhostFood: What is eaten after an ecological disaster,” Art Nouveau
Feature. “The Food Served in Olfactory called GhostFood,” Japan Times
Fuchs, Liliana. “GhostFood: A reflection on products threatened with Extinction,” Directo Al Paladar
Medina, Sammy. “How We’ll Eat After the Ecopocalypse,” Fast Company
Meier, Allison. “The Foods Forever Lost to Climate Change,” Hyperallergic
Robertson, Adi. “GhostFood” The Verge
Seward, Zach. “Meals from a climate change future,” NewsWorks WHYY Radio
Zimmerman, Jess. “GhostFood truck gives you a taste of life after climatepocalypse,” Grist
Mallouk, Elyse. “Species Being,” Landfill Quarterly
Remos, Ronaldo. “ModMTV: Sound Art,” MTV Brazil
Allen, Jonathan. “New Yorkers sample cheese made from human breast milk.” Reuters AP
Bielski, Zosia. “Human Cheese: Sustainable or Sick?,” The Globe and Mail
Camargo, David. “Interview with Artist Miriam Simun,” Colombian National Radio
Caruth, Nicole. “Out of the Mouth of Babes,” Art 21
Feature. “Interview with Artist Miriam Simun,” Sistema Brasileiro de Televisao
Feature. “Human Cheese, Please.” Metro New York
