Miah Artola

I am a Nicaraguan interdisciplinary artist working across painting, new media, documentary, and trans-media production. My practice explores overlooked personal narratives within political systems. I begin with text as a generative force that expands into visual, sonic, and participatory forms.

Far Away examined Nicaraguan politics through poetry, producing documentary shorts, poem-videos, paintings, and an interactive installation. This project featured Sergio Ramirez.

…and also with you was built from interviews with asylum seekers in Mexico City and Texas. The project included a web series, a large body of paintings, and an installation focused on three Central American women, and was supported by the New York Foundation for the Arts. Under the same project, The Man from Eritrea traced the journey of a lone Eritrean asylum seeker from Africa to Texas and received a City Corps Artist Grant.

I also work as a producer and curator. From 2015 to 2020, I co-founded Ab Uno Pluribus, a live series uniting VJs and musicians. Then Mixed Poetics, my ongoing initiative, transforms text into multi-genre expression. Its most recent iteration, Mixed Poetics: NOICE (No ICE), received a three-installment Project Grant from the New York City Commission on Human Rights.

I am currently developing We Imagine In Centuries, a work about spirits in Gaza.