Aleksandra Mir constructed a lunar landscape out of sand, erected an American flag on the highest peak, and declared herself 'The First Woman on the Moon.' The year before, in Norway, Mir teamed up with a local unemployment agency and showed a series of Hollywood disaster films, running them only during work hours, for the city's unemployed. In Denmark in 1996, she set up twenty six speakers in a town square and broadcast the sound of men whistling as women walked by. Earlier this year, she proposed the building of an exact-scale replica of Stonehenge, only a few miles from the original site. Unlike the first, 'Stonehenge II' offers full access to visitors-down to a 'Stonehenge' soccer team that uses the rocks as goalposts.

BIOGRAPHY

1970 Born in Lubin, Poland, Citizen of Sweden

Lives and works in New York

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2005

WELCOME Sometimes, Greengrassi Gallery, London

Aeropuerto, Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona

Baloise Art Prize: Aleksandra Mir - The Big Umbrella, SMAK, Ghent

The World from Above, Lisboa 20 Arte Contemporanea, Lisboa

Organized Movement', Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth

The Most Beautiful Thing Today, White Columns, NYC.

NEW DESIGNS: Birth, Death and Abortion, Andrew Roth Inc, New York

Love Stories, Fundacion NMAC, Montenmedio

Narvik Superstars, Kunst I Nordland, Narvik

2004

Living & Loving #2'The Biography of Zoe Stillpass, Frieze Art Fair, London

The Big Umbrella (New York), PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York

The Big Umbrella (Copenhagen/Dresden), Statements, Basel

The World from Above, greengrassi, London

Naming Tokyo (part III), ICA, Philadelphia

2003

Happy Holidays, The Wrong gallery, New York

The Big Umbrella (Paris), Jousse enterprise, Paris.

Naming Tokyo (part II), Swiss Institute, New York

Plane Landing, Compton Verney House Trust, Warwickshire

Welcome back to Earth, Kunsthalle St. Gallen, St Gallen.

HELLO Ringier, Ringier annual report, Zurich

Corporate Mentality, Lukas & Sternberg, New York

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2005

GuestRoom #2, Museum Heit Domein, Sittard

Organized Movement', Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York

Return To Space, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg

Encore, Istanbul Foundation for Cultural and Arts, Istanbul

A Lucky Strike: Kunst findet Stadt, GAK, Bremen

Bonds of Love, John Connelly Presents, New York

The Gesture. A Visual Library in Progress, Oxymoron, Athens; Quarter, Florence

Merit Badge, 445 Old State Road 82, Craryville

Publish and be Damned, Outpost gallery, Norfolk; LOT, Bristol; Display, Praha

Someone somewhere is furiously traveling towards you, La Casa Encendida, Madrid

Largo Alcance, Centro de Arte Santa Monica, Bracelona

Social Democracy Revisited, Apexart, New York

Post No Bills, White Columns, New York

Trade, White Columns, New York

Social Democracy Revisited', Apexart, New York

Monuments for the USA, CCAC Wattis Institute, San Francisco

Tea and video art, Locus, Athens

Aleksandra Mir birthday edition of the New York tabloid designed to "reclaim" her birthday, which falls on September 11. For Naming Tokyo, dozens of acquaintances inside and outside the art world pitched in with thematic lists of suggested street names--Italian swear words, Vivienne Westwood's couture collections, New York City drag queens--which were then published on a large handout map with a blank Tokyo city grid on one side and selected rechristenings on the other

Read Entire Article about USA Artist Aleksandra Mir paintings and artwork at The Saatchi-Gallery