MIRA HUNTER (née BURKE) is a visual artist and a second-generation whirling dervish, traditionally an all-male 13th century mystic practice. She began her training at the age of 16 with her father. As a visual artist, she studied at NSCAD and Yale, graduating with a BFA. She has performed at such acclaimed international events as the Montreux Jazz Festival, the London Forum, Istanbul’s Arena, Celebrate Brooklyn, and the Dubai International Film Festival. She has collaborated with Turkish born musician/producer Mercan Dede, the Modern Dance Company of Turkey, she was featured in David Michalek’s Slow Dance project that was exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 2008, she appeared in Fatih Akin's award winning documentary Crossing The Bridge: The Sounds of Istanbul and was one of the primary artists involved in the creation of the eco habitat Waterpod in 2009. Hunter’s sculptural installations often involve imagery captured using a bullet time camera ring she created with her husband Derek Junck Hunter, which they presented at Location One in New York for dorkbot NYC in 2011. She is currently pursuing her MFA at Columbia University. She was born in Vancouver Canada, studies Sufism under Sherif Baba Catalkaya and lives and works in New York City.
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04.13
>>Columbia bought a full page ad in Art Forum and a half page in Art in America for the 2013 Thesis Exhibition. Crazy, fancy school.
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04.13
>>The Columbia University Thesis Show install on the 3rd floor of The Fisher Landau Center for Art in Long Island City.
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04.13
>>My Columbia Prentis studio. Mine until June when I ship off to Skowhegan for 9 weeks. It has been a wonderful place to be this last year and I miss it already with its eccentric tiled ceiling and expansive view out over the Manhattanville construction project.
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