Mariam Ghani is an artist, writer, and filmmaker who works at the intersections of language, loss, migration, memory, and history. Her short and feature films, public projects, and multidisciplinary installations have been presented worldwide, notably in Times Square and LaGuardia Airport; the Tate Modern, Guggenheim, MoMA, Smithsonian, and Metropolitan Museums; Documenta 13 and the Liverpool, Lahore, Yinchuan, and Sharjah Biennials; the Berlinale, Rotterdam, CPH:DOX, SFFILM, DOC NYC, Jih.lava, BlackStar, and Ann Arbor film festivals; theatrically and streaming on Ovid, Criterion and Docuseek. Ghani was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in Film/Video in 2023 and will be working on a new film funded by the Graham Foundation in 2025.
While at MacDowell, Ghani completed a new cut of her feature film Dis-Ease, which premiered at the Tate Modern in 2024 and will go into wider distribution in fall 2025. She also worked on the multi-channel edit of Like a Phantom Near or Far (An Occasional Figure Moving), based on a performance commissioned by the Smithsonian American Art Museum in 2024. She made drawings and prints and drafted most of a book collecting 23 years of writing and visual work about Afghanistan.
