Artist Statement/ Biography

Miriam Parker is an interdisciplinary artist who uses movement, paint, video and installation to refine her understanding of existence and challenge beliefs about identity and the accepted systems we live under. Parker’s work lives in liminal spaces, activating installations through performance full of archetypal bodies. These figures inhabit new narratives and new conceptual and ethical dialogues with the audience: What is the truth of what we perceive? What is it to be looked at when you belong to a minority, to expose one’s body as an offering to the perception of estranged viewers? Parker uses her practice to find new freedom outside of institutional structures and languages, through collaborative creation with artists equally concerned with experimental performance and time-based practice.

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Miriam Parker (b. New York) is an interdisciplinary artist who uses movement, paint, video art and installation, collaborating with other artists equally concerned with social justice, experimental performance, and interdisciplinary creation. She has previously collaborated with Jo Wood-Brown, Christina Smiros and Merche Blasco, among others. Parker is a CBA Toulmin Co-Fellow ’21. She has performed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; PS1 MoMA, NY; Fridman Gallery, NY; at the Every Women Biennial, NY; Survey Dover Plains, NY; at Vision Festival through consecutive years; the Satellite Art Fair, in Miami, FL; Whitebox ArtCenter, NY; among others. She has had residences at École Normale Supérieure, Paris; FiveMyles Gallery, NY; and Center for Ballet and the Arts, NY.