Karen Mirza (b. 1970) first studied painting at the Camberwell College of Art and continued through her MA in film and video at the Royal college of Art. Since graduating in 1997 she has created site specific and site conditioned works for galleries, public spaces and the cinema that foreground the sculptural qualities of projection and the architectonics of film and video.
Karen currently works on solo and collaborative projects utilising printmaking, photography and film to explore themes of ‘the imagination and the everyday’, ‘the psychoanalytical and the political’. Karen is the co-founder of the artist platform no.w.here and a transmediale Award 2010 nominee together with Brad Butler, no.w.here 's co-founder, for their film The Exception and the Rule.