Na Mira

Incorporating film, video, mirrors, holographic materials, and radio transmitters, Na Mira’s interdisciplinary work investigates perception, technology, and power. In Mira’s Sugungga (Hello) (2024), two video channels are projected onto opposite sides of a sheet of holographic glass. One video channel tracks erratically across walls, trees, construction fences, shop signs, and glimpses of a city. Mira took this spiraling footage during a cab ride around the walled perimeter of the Yongsan (Dragon Hill) Garrison in Seoul, South Korea. Built by the Japanese army in the early 1900s and long a headquarters of the US Army, this military site was recently returned to the government. The other video channel, by contrast, revolves around a large outdoor sculpture of a rabbit, glimpsed within the garrison’s walls; the camera slowly traces the inflated object’s seams. Mira’s work collages these layered realities and histories onto glass while echoing the titular Korean allegory, Sugungga, in which a dragon king tries to cure his illness by luring a rabbit into his kingdom.

Na Mira was born in 1982 in Lawrence, Kansas. Incorporating film, video, mirrors, holographic materials, and radio transmitters, Mira’s interdisciplinary work investigates perception, technology, and power. Recent solo and two-person exhibitions include Doosan Art Center, Seoul (2024); Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson (2023); Paul Soto, Los Angeles (2023, 2019); Croy Nielsen, Vienna (2023); Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis (2022); Company Gallery, New York (2022); and The Kitchen, New York (2021). Recent group exhibitions include 19th MOMENTA Biennale d’art contemporain, Montreal (2025); Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (2025); 12th SITE Santa Fe International (2025); 15th Gwangju Biennale, South Korea (2024); Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2024); Kunsthalle Zurich (2024); Art Sonje Center, Seoul (2024, 2023); 60th Venice Biennale (2024); Blaffer Art Museum, University of Houston (2023); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2022); Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2022); Das Weisse Haus, Vienna (2022); ArtSpace, Sydney (2021); National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul (2020); La Casa Encendida, Madrid (2020); and the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (2019). Mira is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art at the University of California, Irvine. She earned a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2006), and an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles (2013).