Mariam Ghani is an artist, writer, and filmmaker. Her work looks at places and moments where social, political, and cultural structures take on visible forms. Long-term collaborations include the experimental archive Index of the Disappeared, with Chitra Ganesh, and the video series Performed Places, with choreographer Erin Kelly and composer Qasim Naqvi. Solo and collaborative exhibitions include the Indianapolis Museum of Art (2017), the Queens Museum of Art (2016), the Saint Louis Art Museum (2015), the Rogaland Kunstsenter (2014), and the Gatchina Museum (2013). Notable group exhibitions include the Asian Art Biennial (2017), the Dhaka Art Summit (2016), the Guggenheim Museum (2016), the Secession in Vienna (2015), the CCCB in Barcelona (2014), dOCUMENTA 13 in Kassel and Kabul (2012), the WKV in Stuttgart (2012, 2010), and the Sharjah Biennial (2011, 2009). Notable screenings include the Rotterdam Film Festival, CPH:DOX, the Liverpool Biennial, the National Gallery in DC, and the Met Breuer and MoMA in New York. Recent texts have been published in Foreign Policy, Ibraaz, Triple Canopy, and the readers Assuming Boycott, Critical Writing Ensembles, Dissonant Archives, Utopian Pulse, and Social Medium: Artists Writing 2000-2015. Ghani also teaches and lectures internationally and has received a number of awards, grants and fellowships, most recently from Art Matters, Creative Capital, Yale Law and the Center for Constitutional Rights.