About

Mira Safura O’Brien is an American visual-artist based in Berlin since 2008. She received her BA from UCLA (2004) and her MFA from Yale (2008). Her work, including painting, installation, sculpture and performance, has been exhibited internationally; notably in New York, Los Angeles, Spain, Berlin, and Kassel as a side project of Documenta (13).  Solo-exhibitions have taken place at General Public (Berlin), Vierter Stock Galerie with support by a grant from the US Embassy (Berlin), and as a solo project at the historic Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz (Berlin). She was the Berlin Collective artist in residence at the APT Studios in Brooklyn, as well as artist in residence at CCA Andratx, Spain. She is the founder and instructor of the Berlin Drawing Room.