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Mira Schor is one of the foremost feminist painters of the past fifty years. Operating in the nexus of language, painting, and feminist theory, Schor has continually imbued formalism with political urgency, and reminded viewers that written discourse and physical form are inherently linked. Her work has included major periods in which gendered narrative and representation of the body have been featured; in other periods the focus of her work has been representation of language in drawing and painting. She draws on multiple sources of imagery and art historical reference to inform her paintings. The central theme in recent work is the experience of living in a moment of incipient fascism, climate collapse, and accelerated time, set against the powerful pull of older notions of craft, and visual pleasure. Her imagery and surfaces are sometimes transgressive, yet often at the same time delicate, poetic, and private, embodying her richly dimensional thinking. Schor overlays imagery and language to reverse the elision of female agency, systems of power, control, and subversion. In today’s social climate of conservative backslide and the erasure of civil liberties, her legacy and current work are as important as ever. Mira Schor (b. 1950, New York, US) lives and works in New York City.
CV | Press | Exhibitions
Mira Schor, Tipping Point, Installation View at Lyles & King, New York, NY, January 8 - February 7, 2021
Mira Schor, Tipping Point, Installation View at Lyles & King, New York, NY, January 8 - February 7, 2021
Mira Schor, The Painter's Studio, 2020, Ink, acrylic, and gesso on tracing paper, 119 x 228 inches, 302.3 x 579.1 cm
Mira Schor, After the Party's Over, 2020, Oil on canvas, 111 x 228 inches, 281.9 x 579.1 cm
Mira Schor, Ten Masks, #9, 1977 (alternate view)
Mira Schor, Ten Masks, #9, 1977, Ink and Japan gold size on rice paper, 9.5 x 7.5 inches
Mira Schor, War Frieze VII: dada, 1992, Oil on 8 linen canvases, 12 x 16 inches (each), 12 x 128 inches (total), 30.5 x 40.6 cm (each), 30.5 x 325 cm (total)
Mira Schor, War Frieze V: pub(l)ic h/air, 1991-92, Oil on 8 linen canvases, 12 x 16 inches (each), 12 x 128 inches (total), 30.5 x 40.6 cm (each), 30.5 x 325 cm (total)
Mira Schor, Cunt; Curtain, 1993, Oil on linen, 16 x 20 inches
Mira Schor, Slit of Paint, 1994, Oil on canvas, 12 x 16 inches
Mira Schor, Drops of Blood, 1993, Oil on linen, 16 x 20 inches
Mira Schor in front of War Frieze in her studio at Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation, 1993 (photo: Sarah Wells)
Mira Schor, Portrait at Lyles & King, April 2018
Mira Schor, Empty Dress, Red Flower, 1974, Gouache on paper, 7.5 x 4.5 inches
Mira Schor, A Very Large Fragile Drama, 2019, Ink and gesso on yellow tracing paper, 90 x 118 inches, 228.6 x 299.7 cm
Mira Schor, Book of Pages, 1976, Mixed media on rice paper, 12 x 20 x 1 inches
Mira Schor, Dress Book, 1977, Mixed media on rice paper, 57 x 24 inches, Verso
Mira Schor, Skate Figure, May 4, 1987, Ink on paper, 6.5 x 4.5 inches
Mira Schor, Patriotism On the Blood of Women, 1989, Oil on canvas, 16 x 20 inches
Mira Schor, Strange Fruit, 1988, Oil on 21 canvases, 12 x 16 inches and 16 x 20 inches, Overall 112 x 53 inches
Mira Schor, Strange Fruit, 1988 (detail)
Mira Schor, Dicks or Impregnation of the Universe, 1988, Oil on 21 canvases, 12 x 16 inches and 16 x 20 inches, Overall 112 x 53 inches
Mira Schor, Dicks or Impregnation of the Universe, 1988 (detail)
Mira Schor, MA(me)MA, 1991, Oil on 12 canvases
Mira Schor, Area of Denial, 1991, Oil on linen, 16 x 20 inches
Mira Schor, Pardon Me Ms., 1989, Oil on 14 canvases, 40 x 112 inches
Mira Schor, Joy, 1994, Oil on linen, 12 x 16 inches
Mira Schor, Area of Denial II, 1993, Oil on linen, 16 x 20 inches each
Mira Schor, Area of Denial II, Installation View at Horodner Romley Gallery, New York, NY, 1993
Mira Schor, Flesh, 1997, Oil on linen, 12 x 16 inches
Mira Schor, Undue Burden, 1989, Oil on linen, 16 x 20 inches
Mira Schor, Red Rain Comma, 1993, Oil on linen, 16 x 20 inches
Mira Schor, Mirror in Flesh, 1994, Oil on linen, 12 x 16 inches
Mira Schor, Boy Meets Girl, 1993, Oil on linen, 12 x 16 inches
Mira Schor, Grey Snake, 1992, Oil on linen, 12 x 16 inches
Mira Schor, Sign 2005, Oil on linen, 12 x 16 inches
Mira Schor, Delicate Oops, 1997, Oil on linen, 12 x 16 inches
Mira Schor, Happy! Happy!, 2006, Ink and oil on gesso on linen, 12 x 16 inches
Mira Schor, Silence, 2006, Oil and ballpoint pen on linen, 24 x 26 inches
Mira Schor, Noo-koo-lar, 2005, Oil on linen, 18 x 25 inches
Mira Schor, Drawing (raw), 2002, Ink and rabbit skin glue on gesso on linen, 24 x 28 inches
Mira Schor, Portrait of My Brain, 2007, Oil on linen, 6 x 12 inches
Mira Schor, The Two Miras, 1973, Gouache on Arches paper (CalArts), 22 x 30 inches, 55.9 x 76.2 cm
Mira Schor, Feminist Art Program, Class Assignment: Self Image, c., 1972, (CalArts), 18 3/4 x 24 inches, 47.6 x 61 cm
Mira Schor, Are You a Feminist Artist?, 2015, Ink, acrylic, on gesso on linen, 12 x 16 inches
Mira Schor, The Space Where Painting Was, 2010, Ink, pen, and oil on white linen, 12 x 16 inches
Mira Schor, The Song of the Cardinal, 2011, Ink and oil on gesso on linen, 12 x 16 inches
Mira Schor, Three Periods, 2010, Oil and ink on gesso on linen, 14 x 18 inches
Mira Schor, "Power" Figure #11: Are You?, 2015, Ink, flashe, and gesso on tracing paper, 45 x 24 inches
Mira Schor, "Power" Figures, Installation View at Lyles & King, New York, NY, March 18 - April 26, 2016
Mira Schor, "Power" Figure #7: Still Too Young, Not Dead Enough, 2015, Pastel, ink, and gesso on tracing paper, 45 x 24 inches
Mira Schor, "Power" Figure #18: Are You A Feminist Artist? [red book], 2015, Ink and gesso on tracing paper, 45 x 24 inches
Mira Schor, "Power" Figure #19: Self Portrait with a book, 2015, Ink and acrylic on tracing paper, 45 x 24 inches