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Bio

Mia Naja (b. 2001, Lebanon) is a Lebanese artist living and working between Paris and Beirut. She is currently completing her Master’s degree at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris and has completed an exchange semester at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.Rooted in a personal history shaped by displacement and war, Mia Naja’s practice explores archives, absence, and borders; not only as frontiers between countries, but as thresholds of the body. Working across performance, sculpture, and drawing, she investigates stratification through repetition and accumulation, developing processes that slow down time, allowing her to inhabit it, reclaim it, and trace how memory settles into matter.Originally trained in architecture at the American University of Beirut, she completed two years of study before her education was interrupted by the 2020 Beirut port explosion, an event that profoundly reshaped her relationship to space, objects, and the speed at which a world can collapse.