Mia Pearlman has exhibited internationally in numerous galleries, non-profit spaces and museums, including the Museum of Arts and Design (NYC), the Renwick Gallery at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Goyang Aram Gallery (South Korea), the Manchester Art Gallery (UK), Morgan Lehman Gallery (NYC), and the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts (AL). Permanent public art installations include commissions for Liberty Mutual in Boston, the 80th Street A Train station for the MTA in Queens, New York, and for MGM Springfield in Massachusetts.

Her work has been featured in twenty-one books on contemporary art, and in both international and domestic press, including The New York Times, New York Magazine, The New Yorker, The New York Post, The Boston Globe, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Surface Design Journal, Sculpture Magazine, novum (Germany), Juliet Art Magazine (Italy), Machina (Poland), dpi (Taiwan) and Noblian (South Korea). Pearlman has also appeared on PBS Thirteen’s SundayArts, the Smithsonian Channel, Spain’s TV3, and NY1.

Pearlman has participated in many residency programs, including 224 Studio (NYC), Proyecto’Ace (Buenos Aires), Byrdcliffe (Woodstock, NY), the Lower East Side Printshop (NYC), and the Vermont Studio Center. In 2012 she was a Fellow at the Liguria Study Center in Bogliasco, Italy.

She received a 2011 Artist Grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the 2011 Robert Sterling Clark Visual Arts Space Award, which grants a free one-year studio space at The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation's Space Program, a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2008), a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant (2008) and an Established Artist Fellowship from UrbanGlass (2009).

Pearlman lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.