In 1985, she graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at the Warsaw University of Technology. She worked at the Office for the Preservation of Historical Monuments. Alongside her work as an architect, she practised drawing, easel painting and watercolour. In 1987, she emigrated to Canada. In Montreal, she took up a job in architectural offices - she was employed at Szulim-Rubin Design from 1987 to 1992. She also worked as a computer graphic designer. From 1992 to 1994, she studied painting at Concordia University with professors Adrian Norwid, John Fox and Tom Hopkins. She held her first solo exhibition, with the support of Adrian Norwid, at the French Consulate in Montreal in 1999.

In 2006, the artist participated in the IX Biennial of Illustrations and Graphic Design at Villa Poniatowski in Rome, as well as in the 2007 Biennial of Illustrators in Naples and 2008 in Venice. Since 2006, a collaboration with the Associazione Culturale TEATRIO in Venice dates, in which the artist participated in the exhibitions: The Fabulous Coloured Pencils in the World in 2008. (Rome-Naples-Venice) and Cannonball Lady in 2010. (Venice). In 2006, she began working with Le Centre de Creativite - Gezu in Montreal. The artist founded Young Artists Publishing, a publishing house of children's books co-created by children.

At the Bureau of Art Exhibitions in Krosno, in 2007. Mira Reiss had her first painting exhibition in Poland. In 2010, in London, at Gallery Red Gate, she participated in the exhibition 'Art 2'. In 2014, the artist presented her work in the group exhibition 'Perceptions and Vibrations' at Galerie d'Arts Contemporains in Montreal. In 2016/2017, at the same gallery, she participated with twenty Polish artists working in Canada in the exhibition 'Polish Artists in Canada', organised by curator Katarzyna Szrodt. In 2017, she participated in the exhibition of Polish artists in Ottawa, 'Poland: For Canada with Love', on the occasion of Canada's 150th anniversary, and took part in the group exhibition 'Polish Art in the Eyes of the World', of Polish artists affiliated with the Polish Artists Association in Canada (PAAC), organised at the Polish Centre in Jolicoeur/Montreal. In November 2019. Mira Reiss organised an exhibition by the Polish group PAAC - 'Hybrid Identity' - at the l'Entrepot Lachine cultural centre in Montreal.

The artist creates oils on canvas and likes to mix techniques using watercolour or drawing in her paintings. Mira Reiss's paintings are narrative, colourful and tell grotesque stories on the borderline between dream and reality. The protagonists of her paintings are characters from the circus, children's games, dreams and fantasies. The artist uses deformation, playing at creating surreal worlds, more interesting than reality. She draws on her childhood, on her experiences, on her reflections on life and on literature. Related to her is the work of Marc Chagall, Balthus, Kees van Dongen. Illustrativity enriches this painting, makes it interesting and mysterious at the same time, and shows the infinite possibilities of figurativeness.

Solo exhibitions: Endless Journey, Gallery ART, Montreal, 2004; Erotic Fairy Tales, Malbork Gallery, Montreal, 2007; From Architecture to Painting, BWA, Krosno, 2007; Beyond, Malbork Gallery, 2008.

Work in catalogue
Mira Reiss-Arnaud, 'La dance de la vie' (The Dance of Life), 2013, oil on canvas, 92 x 150 cm. Mira Reiss's painting is populated by figures on the borderline between java, daydreams and the circus. Frozen in poses and gestures: a dancing couple, an acrobat, children, a man with an umbrella, a princess, they are the protagonists of some grotesque narrative of mystery and colour. The artist's fantasy seems to have no limits, she combines strange human types, deforms silhouettes, plays with symbols, reaches into the world of our associations and allows any interpretation of the artist's vision.