Daniel Mirer is a photographer born in Brooklyn, New York City and currently living in San Francisco. He received his MFA in Photography from the California Institute of the Arts. Mirer has participated in prestigious emerging artist programs including: the Whitney Museum of American Art, Independent Study Program and the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Artists in the Marketplace. In 2002, Mirer received the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for photography.
His series ArchitorSpace examines architecture and its interior spaces, emphasising the unease and claustrophobia often experienced in enclosed public environments. Mirer’s captured spaces are deeply liminal, junctures between rooms and corridors, areas of non-activity or with no determined use. The locations within the images architecturally reveal no history, identity or specific functionality, yet have become so common in post-industrial society.
Mirer’s ongoing series Indifferent West explores the myths and misconceptions surrounding Western America, depicting motifs of the Wild West located within the contemporary everyday landscape. Through this project Mirer uncovers the kitsch, romantic views of the American Frontier, shooting the wide-open spaces, idyllic scenery and sparsely-populated wilderness that makes up the bulk of the region.
In creating his artwork Mirer travels to major cities across the United States, Europe and Central America. He is a frequent artist in residence and lecturer at institutions including Regional Central American and Caribbean Contemporary Art Forum in Tegucigalpa, Honduras and Tampere Polytechnic School of Art and Media in Tampere, Finland.
Mirer’s work is included in many key collections, including: Special Collections of the Library of University of Leiden, Southeast Museum of Photography, Dallas Museum of Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas Contemporary Art Museum, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Worcester Art Museum, Fidelity Investments and Ohio State University.
