Maria Niro is a New York City-based artist, and filmmaker and a member of New Day Films - a filmmaker owned and run distribution company providing social issue documentaries to educators since 1971. Her work crosses several disciplines: film, video, photography and sound. Her moving image work includes long form documentary, and experimental shorts. Her latest film The Art of Un-War (a NYSCA grant recipient) is a feature length documentary chronicling the life and political work of the internationally acclaimed artist Krzysztof Wodiczko.
Niro's films touch upon various social issues including war and trauma in The Art of Un-War (2021); voyeurism, surveillance and the camera in Station to Station (2020); political tension In an Alien Land (2018); war, technological innovation and mass destruction in Glitch Telemetry (2011); the voiceless disenfranchised in Amerika Reflect (2010); and collective consumption in Torso (2011), among others. Her video art films weave together found sound, images, and poems to create a collage of aural and visual prose. Blending poetic visuals and sounds with non-narrative forms in both her film and photography work, Niro also experiments using traditional narrative forms. To date, she's completed one feature length documentary and over 40 short films with original sound she's created, including video art shorts for Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts website.
Niro's films have screened and exhibited in galleries, museums and in theaters worldwide including the National Gallery of Art, Harvard Art Museums, Whitechapel Gallery, Microscope Gallery, Queens Museum, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Anthology Film Archives, Exit Art Gallery, and many others.
Her past work has been recognized and/or supported by the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New a York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) the Polish Cultural Institute NY, the Puffin Foundation, the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Seoul S Korea, and City Artists Corps Grant, among others.
Niro studied Film and Media Studies at The New School for Social Research/ New School University. She has served on the Board of Directors at The New American Cinema Group / The Film-makers' Cooperative in New York City. Currently she proudly serves on the advisory board of More Art, a nonprofit organization that supports collaborations between professional artists and communities to create public art and educational programs that inspire social justice. She lives and works in New York City.
Niro's films touch upon various social issues including war and trauma in The Art of Un-War (2021); voyeurism, surveillance and the camera in Station to Station (2020); political tension In an Alien Land (2018); war, technological innovation and mass destruction in Glitch Telemetry (2011); the voiceless disenfranchised in Amerika Reflect (2010); and collective consumption in Torso (2011), among others. Her video art films weave together found sound, images, and poems to create a collage of aural and visual prose. Blending poetic visuals and sounds with non-narrative forms in both her film and photography work, Niro also experiments using traditional narrative forms. To date, she's completed one feature length documentary and over 40 short films with original sound she's created, including video art shorts for Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts website.
Niro's films have screened and exhibited in galleries, museums and in theaters worldwide including the National Gallery of Art, Harvard Art Museums, Whitechapel Gallery, Microscope Gallery, Queens Museum, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Anthology Film Archives, Exit Art Gallery, and many others.
Her past work has been recognized and/or supported by the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New a York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) the Polish Cultural Institute NY, the Puffin Foundation, the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Seoul S Korea, and City Artists Corps Grant, among others.
Niro studied Film and Media Studies at The New School for Social Research/ New School University. She has served on the Board of Directors at The New American Cinema Group / The Film-makers' Cooperative in New York City. Currently she proudly serves on the advisory board of More Art, a nonprofit organization that supports collaborations between professional artists and communities to create public art and educational programs that inspire social justice. She lives and works in New York City.
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