Maria Niro is an artist, filmmaker and photographer who works with video, photography, and sound. She's completed over 40 short films with original sound, focusing on social issues such as the voiceless disenfranchised in "Amerika Reflect" (2010); war, technological innovation and mass destruction in "Glitch Telemetry" (2011); and collective consumption in "Torso" (2010), among others.

Niro's current project is a feature length documentary titled "Un-War!" which features artist Krzysztof Wodiczko and his thought provoking political urban-interventions. Wodiczko uses video projection and technology to transform public space into public stages so that testimony of society’s marginalized citizens can be heard.

Niro's films have screened and exhibited worldwide including at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, European Media Art Festival in Germany, Whitechapel Gallery UK, WNDX Festival in Canada, Anthology Film Archives, Exit Art Gallery, Millennium Film Workshop, Video DUMBO, Los Angeles Art Organization, Festival Internacional Del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano CUBA, The 7th and 8th Berlin International Directors Lounge, and many others. Select scenes from "Un-War" have been projected at museums and art centers across the world including DOX Center for Contemporary Art in Prague, Museum Sztuki, ?ód?, Poland, and at FACT, Liverpool during the Liverpool Biennial 2016.

Niro studied Film and Media Studies at The New School for Social Research/ New School University. She has served on the Board of Directors at The New American Cinema Group / The Film-makers' Cooperative in New York City. She lives and works in New York City.
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