Mira Hunter

Bio

Mira Hunter is a visual artist and a second-generation whirling dervish, an all-male 13Th century mystic tradition. She began her training at the age of 16 with her father. As a visual artist, she studied at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Yale University, and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, graduating with a MFA from Columbia University in 2013. She has performed at 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, and she was featured in David Michalek’s Slow Dance project that was exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 2008, and appeared in Fatih Akin’s award winning documentary Crossing The Bridge: The Sounds of Istanbul. 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 dorkbot NYC in 2011. She currently lives and works on the edge of the wilderness in Roberts Creek, British Columbia.